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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
Wheat and Physical vigor.


Nothing is more sure in the chenais-
try of life than that great-eaters are
the great thinkers, or that the phospho-
rus which wheat contains, in the outer
kernel, Immediately beneath the husk.
is the feeder Of brains, and the material
substance which provokes to thought.
study, reason, and all the forms of ner-
vous energy. There are physiolooists
who attribute the remarkable success of
states like Ohio, Indiana and Illinois to
the bounty and perfection of the wheat
crop, and the intellectual stimulus, or
rather food, which it affords the brain.
Certainly no commonwealth in the
world has evineed q higher sense of law
and order, or more rapid developed a
social system which has hardly an equal
in'the world. The constitution Of In
diana, for instance, the. very center of
the wheat zone, is beyond comparison
the best in the Union, and produces the
highest results in our civilization.
There is a southern wheat belt, which
includes Australia in part, south Africa,
New Zealand, and part of South
America, where a civilization equal to
that of the central north of the United
States is growing up.
But the full value of wheat as a civil
ger viii never be fully realized uLti
wheat-meal takes the place of bolteC
flour, and the people learn to max,
bread without yeast or risings. Coco
bread is emphatically the staff o
life; !" but the commercial article is tn,
way to dyspepsia and premature death
Science of Health.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
AGRICULTURAL.
Profitable Farming

Phere axe too many men who put
their all into single venture, and if
that fail are utterly used up. There is
perhaps no business wherein s'two
strings TO ones bow" are so important
as in farming. Other pursuits have
certain rules which have been founded
on experience, and which the shrewd
man of business can take advantage OF
with an almost assured certainty Of
success. But we can not do this. We
can not tell what viii happen to our
crops. Sometimes it will be oyer-drv.
sometimes over-wet sometimes we are
plagued with swarms OF insects: at
other times we are afflicted with bIiohts
and mOlds. Against none of these
things do we ever get the slightest hint.
But we have dwelt on this recently, IN
speaking of the value of diversifying
our products. .Trouble never strikes
everything alike Some will succeed.
But, Independently of all this, the young
farmer should never be cast down by
misfortune. 1t is here where SO many
1all. We knew one, once, who had
made by city work some $1,000. He
had originally been brought up on a
farm, and had always made up his mind tc
return to it as soon as he had accumula,
ted enough to warrant him in making q
start. But he put away two thousand
dollars, and invested only six in the
farm and stock. 1t 30 happened that
the next two years found HIM in terri.
BILE losses; but they brought expert
ence, and he fell back on his small re
serve, and this, with his new experiene.
gave him new and good start. 1t Il
notyo long ago, but he now considers
himself worth about twenty-five thou,
sand dollars, and is one of Che most ar
dent advocates of the proposition tina
farming viii pay.-Germartou0a Teze
gyy.0qlb
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

Test OF THINKING. test of real,
vigorous thinking, the thinking which
ascertains truths instead of dreaming
dreams, is successful application to
practice. Where that purpose does not
exist to give defniniteness, precision
and ineligible meaning to thought, it
generates nothing better than the mys-
tical metaphysics of the Pythagoreans or
the Vedas. With respect to practical
improvement, the case is still more ev-
ident. The character which improves
human life is that which struggles with
natural powers and tendencies, or that
which gives way to them. The self,
beneftting qualities are all on the side
of the active and vigorous character
John Stuart AIiLE.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
king of the blood.

For DRoPsY.-Case-I was attacked with
abdominal dropsy four years ago. I took
medicine from five different doctors I APP
piled to the sixth, but he declined attempting
my case, saying he thought me past remedy.
Another thought lie might help me if I would
be tapped, INT was so weak l thought could
not bear it. I then saw your King OF the
Blood advertised. My son said he would send
to you for it, and did so. When I began to
take it could not lie down or sit mp straight !;
by wearing bandage 1 was able to walk lit
tie. 1 had not put on my stockings for some
months. Persons who visited me thought 1
could not live any length Of time. I very
soon felt that your medicine was helping me,
and by the time 1 had used the second bottle
1 could put on my stockings, and began to feel
comfortable. In two months the water was all
gone, and 1 was living skeleton but my
appetite was good, and began to gain flesh,
and now look as well as ever did and feel
quite well. SARAH PENTZ,
LutheTsburgh, CIearield Co., Penn.
Write for circulars to D. Ransom, Son d Co.,
Buffalo N Y
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
Latest Treatment Of Cholera.


It is generally believed that tie first
and most necessary thing in an attack
of cholera is to check the movements Of
the bowels which are the usual evidences
of the disease. In treaties on modern
medicine, IN the current number of the
North American Review, this matter Of
proceeding is shown to be radically
wrong. It is now known that cholera
is a poison, absorbed in the blood
through inhalation or through food or
water. A blood disease is thus pro
duced, the particles of poison rapidly
multiplying themselves, and the copious
discharges are the efforts of nature
to throw off the poisonous matter
which has infected the system. For
merly it was the practice of physicians
to check the profuse huxes by opium,
astringents and stimulants. This prac-
tice was so general that, when DR..
George johnson first introduced the
new and present theory to the Medico-
Chirurgieal society of London, In 1866,
It was received with the utmost dis
favor. A heated controversy ensued,
but the result was that Sir Thomas
Watson, the president of the society, was
finally convinced, adopted the opinions
of DIR. johnson, and announced that the
new treatment of the disease had beer
| fully established by reason and expe
rience. The new practice is to faclli
tate, though not to excite, the discargei
| from the mucous surface, and thu
eliminate the poison from the system
This treatment readily commends itsel
TO the reason. If the discharges has
ten the collapse, then the collapse should
be the more sudden whenever the dis
charges are more than usually copious
The fact is that patients come out of tn
collapse while evacuations are going on
but that a cessation of the discharges il
fatal sign. Experience has also de
monstrated that the most dangerou
attacks, and those that most quickl,
4 prove fatal, are in cases where there ar
no discharges. In cholera time, it /
usual in every case of suspected eholer
to commence a home treatment Will
waiting for the physician, and thi
home treatment is usually Just the re
verse Of what it ought to be.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
Why clover Improves the Soil

Professor Vockler thus explains the
action of clover increasing the fertility
of soil t--.-
"All who are perfectly acquainted
with the subject must have seen that
the best crops of wheat are produced
by being proceeded by crops of clover
grown for seed. I have come to the
conclusion that the very best prepare
ton, the best manure, is a good crop of
clover. A vast amount of mineral
manure is brought within reach of the
corn crop which otherwise would re-
main in locked-up condition in all the
soil. The clover plants take nitrogen
from the atmosphere, and manufacture
it into their own substance, which on
decomposition of the clover roots and
leaves produces abundance of ammonia.
In reality the growing of clover is
equivalent, to a great extent, to manur-
ing with Peruvian gusno.
Take, for instance, red clover, the
best of all green manures. The great
English chemist, Prof. Way, of the
royal agricultural college at Cirencester,
made a perfect analysis of dry red
clover, and found every one hundred
parts to contain as follows
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
The Habit of Reading


q have no time to read, is the COM
mon complaint, and especially Of women,
whose loccupationsares such as topreVent
continuous book perusaL They seem
to think, because they cannot devote as
much attention to books as they are COM
PEELED to devote to their avoeations, that
they cannot read anything. Bht this is
q great mistake. 1t isn't the books we
finish alta sitting which always do us the
most good. Those, we devour in the
odd moments, half dozen pages at a
time, often. gives us more satisfaction,
and we are more thoroughly digested
than those we make a particular effort
to read. The men who have made their
mark in the world have generally been
the men who have in boyhood formed
the habit Of reading at every available
moment, whether for five minutes or FIVE
hours.
1t is the habit Of reading rather than
the time at our command that helps rs
on the road to learning. Many Of the
most cultivated persons, whose names
have been famous as students, have
given only two or three hours a day to
their books. If we make use Of spare
minutes IN the midst of our work,
and read little, if but a page or para
graph, we shall find our brains quick
ened and our toll lightened by Just 20
much increased satisfaction as the book
gives us. Nothing helps along the mo-
notonous daily round so much as fresh
and striking thoughts, to be considered
while our hands are busy. A new idea
from a new volume is like oil which re-
duces the friction of the machinery Of
life. What we remember from brief
glimpses into books often serves as 4
stimulus to action, and becomes one Of
the most precious deposits in the trea.
sury of our recollection. All knowledge
is made up of small parts, which would
seem insignificant in themselves, but
which, taken together, are valuable wea.
pons for the mind and substantial armol
for the soul. "Read anything continu
ously," says DIR. johnson, "and yoU
will be learned" The odd minutes
which we are inclined TO waste, if carful
ly availed of for instruction, will, in the
long run, make golden hours and colder
days that we shall be ever thankful for
/ ,SeribneT's. EtE' ..EF ~
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

No MORE HEROES. deadly vege-
table alkaloids such as mercury, strych-
nine, and prussic acid cannot cure dis
ease or produce any but the most
disastrous results. Perhaps no event
has occurred of late years which is so
we'll calculated to disabuse the public
mind of belief in the efficacy of min
eral poisons and bleeding as the dis
covery of DR.. Walker of California, of
certain medicinal herbs, whose healing
principles he has extracted and COM
bined in the form of Vinegar Bitters.
The cures wrought by it seem marvel
GUS. Its action is mild and agreeable,
but at the same time rapid and effectual,
and being animpeded by the presence
of alcohol or fermented liquor of any
description, is attended with results
hitherto unachieved by any remedial
agent. The cures of bilious complaints,
malarious fever, dyspepsia, rheumatism,
scrofula, and all diseases arising from
impurities of the blood, attest the para
mount excellence of this medicine, and
! justify us in recommending it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
Clothes on Fire.

Three persons out of four would rush
right up to the burning individual and
begin to paw with their hands without
any defnate aim. 1t is useless to tell
the victim to do this or that, or to call
for water. In fact, it is generally best
not to say word, but to Bieze a blanket
or any wooden fabric, if none is at hand
take any wooden material, hold the cor
ners as far apart as you can, stretch
them out higher than your head, and
running boldly to the person, make a
motion of clasping in the arms, mostly
about the shoulders. This instantly
smothers the fire and saves the face.
The next instant throw the person on
the floor. This is an additional safety
to the face and breath, and any rem
nant of flame can be put out more lei
surely.
The next instant immerse the bur n
part in cold water, and all pain will
cease with the rapidity of lightning.
Next get some -four, remove from the
water, and cover the burnt parts with
an inch in thickness of -four if posi-
BILE put thepatient in bed, and do all that
is possible to soothe until the physician
arrives. Let the flour remain until il
falls off itself, when a beautiful new
skin is found. Unless the burns are
deep, no other applications are needed
The dry flour for burns is the most re
liable remedy ever proposed, and the
information Ought to be impaired to all
The principal of its action is, that
like the water, it causes instant and
perfect relief from pain by totally exclu
ding the air from the injured parts
| Scie1ltiffc american.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
GROWING Glover too Coarse

1t is sometimes objected of clover
that it is too coarse as feed, this being
the case where it is grown on strong
ground, making large stalk. This
can be remedied by sowing thick, and
thus getting a fine stemmed crop, and
shorter sin~length, the stalks varying
from fifteen TO twenty-five inches, &C
eordihg to the quality of the land, the
season, and weather plaster has been
used but the point is to SOW thick,
from ten to twelve quarts per acre,
evenly scattered on mellow soil and
brushed in if sown with spring grain.
This forms a close growth, and must be
cut before it lodges much, and this is
generally the time Of towering. Else
if lodged badly, and permitted to re-
main for some time, it viii partially rot
and lose some of its quality as feed.
But harvested in time and well cured,
there will be no deterioration of the
high value which this plant has OBJ
tanned among our best dairymen. Three
tons per acre may be thus realized and
if the season is a good one, the amount
may be doubled by two cuttings, and
clover should always be cut twice, eaef
time at the Eblossoming period. The
medium clover is earlier and finer stem
med than the large kind, and less apt t
lodge, and always permits of two cut
tings. On poor land clover may b
grown successfully, improving the land
But it may be raised on the richest 0
land with the most gratifying results
only get it close so as to have it fin
stemmed, and cut in time.-Ohi
] Err1ller
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
Fish and Tea as Food.

The London Times sharply contro-
verts the assertion made by DIR. Edward
Smith to the British association, that
fish is rather relish than food, and CON
tains little more nutriment than water.
AS opposed to this statement, the inves-
legations OF M. Payen are sited, who
proves that the flesh of fish on the av-
erRge does not contain more water than
fresh beef, and has as much solid sub
stance as the latter. For instance, the
flesh of salmon contains 1910 per cent
of water, and 24297 per cent. solid sub
stances, while beef (muscle) contains
1888 per cent. water, and 2412 per
cent. solid substances. The flesh of her
ring contains still less water than that
of salmon, and even fat fish are as rich
in heterogeneous substances as the best
wheaton flour, weight for weight. An
other statement made by DIR. Smith,
that the amount of nutriment contained
in an ounce of tea is infinitesimal, is met
with the assertion that, while tea is nc
"nutriment" in the ordinary sense, tn,
individual who takes tea after his meals
feels, without being able to define it
that tea has favorable effect upon Ger
tain highly important functions in hi
body, that digestion is accelerated arc
facilitated, and his brain-work benefite,
thereby. Though not nutriment, tea i
thus alleged to possess really highe
value, in medical properties of . pecu
liar kind. I.... 81
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

The experiment of planting pine seed
on the waste lands of Estham, Mass, is
reported to be complete success. A
thousand acres of land are now covered
with thrifty pines from seed sOwn. The
land thus covered, but for this protec-
ton, would have been a waste tract of
shifting sand. As a consequence, too,
game has been increased, and quail,
ployer and other birds are plentiful,
while foxes are by no means scarce.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

To PREVENT COW sucking herself a
correspondent of the Western Rural
took girth and fasteneda piece of cloth
two feet square to the girth, the cloth
pleated so as to fit the udder; then fas-
ten two strips of stout cloth to the two
back corners, letting them pass back !;
bring the straps up, passing on both
sides of the tail, and fasten to girth on
the cows back. The bag must come
we'll up on either side of the udder, and
the girth should have buckle on either
side of the COW. The girth is better if
it have rubber cloth in it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

LIMITATION TO JOURNALISM IN Russia.
It seems that there are countries where
the public cannot with IMMUNITY be
treated to every royal or imperial re-
mark uttered within hearing of re-
porter. The editor of Russian Jour
nal has lately been brought before a
court of justice for printing, without
leave from the proper authority, four
words addressed by the czar to the
Khirgistan envoy, Mahommed Sultan.
They we're: "Ah you speak Russian. -
It was urged in defense of the editor
that the prohibition to print without
leave from the minister of the imperial
court only applied to such words as
conveyed an intimation of the sove-
reign's will, whereas, this was a simple
expression of goodwill, and that the
complaint had not been preferred by the
minister, but only by the committee OF
the censors of the press. These pleas
were not, however, accepted, and the
publication of the interesting little
item had to be atoned for by fine an6
| ten days imprisonment.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
Az observant ladY saws she vas neve

AN observant lady says she was never
so much inclined to laugh in church as
on recent Sunday, when, walking
down the broad aisle after service, she
saw that every woman ahead of her was
using her left hand in arranging that
portion of her dress adjoining her back,
and before she was aware of it found
herself similarly employed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

WHY is it that so many men are
troubled with brain disease of late %
asked a gentleman. "In this tele-
graphic, high-pressure age" replied a
friend, "there are a. great many more
things to occupy ones attention than
there were twenty years ago, but the
brains amt any bigger now than then.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

A SCIENTIFIC writer has recently col
lected group of facts illustrative of
the effect OF oscillation on powerful
bodies when not frequently broken by
vibration. In crossing large suspension
bridges it is esteemed necessary that
professions should break step in order
to insure safety and it is told, in Illus
tration, that when the first suspension
bridge was building IN England, i'd
der offered to demolish it with his I'D
die. Striking one note after another,
he eventually hit the vibrating note, or
fundamental tone, and threw the struc-
ture into extraordinary vibrations.
Only recently bridge went down in
France under the tread of q regiment
of infantry who neglected to break step
ON entering it. Three hundred persons
were drowned. The experiment of
breaking tumbler or other small
glass vessel, by frequent repetitions of
some particular note of the human
voice, belongs to the same class of phe-
noHneua
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

AN occasional dose of DR.. Pierce's
Pleasant Purgative Pellets stimulates the
stomach and bowels, restores the appetite and
invigorates the system Hence it is often adj
yantageous where no serious arrangement
exists. One who feels tolerably well often
finds that dose of these pellets, from their
cleansing and renovating effects upon the di-
gestive apparatus, makes him feel decidedly
better. Twenty-Five cents, by druggists 651
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14


THE FOUNDATION OF FRIENDSHIP. -
In the matter of friendship, I have OBJ
served that disappointment arises chief
~, not from liking our friends too well,
or thinking of them too highly but
rather from an over estimate of their
liking for and opinion of us, and that
if we guard ourselves with sufficient
scrupulousness of care from error in
this direction, and can be content, and
even happy, to give more affection than
we receive--ean make just comparison
of circumstances, and be severely accu-
rate in drawing differences, and never
let self-love blind our eyes-then think
we may manage to get through life with
consistency and oonstancy, unembit-
tered by that misanthrophy which
springs from revulsion of feeling. The
moral is, that if we would build on a
sure foundation of friendship, we must
1--we our friends for their sakes rather
than for our own Charlotte Bronte.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

FoR loss of appetite, dyspepsia, indigestion,
depression of spirits and general debility,
III their various forms, FERRo-PHosPoRATED
ELIXIR of CAIIsAYA, made by OAswELL, HAz-
ARD & Co.. New York. and sold by all druggists,
is the best tonic. AS a stimulant tonic for pa
TENTS recovering from fever or other sickness,
it has no equal. If taken during the season it
prevents fever and sgue and other intermit-
tent feyers-C Com.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

Duty DoNE.-It has come to pass,
aad rightly too, that public opinion
considers the duty of no man with a
family really done before he has in
sured his life for its protection. Life
insurance meets a public want as uni
versal and exacting as that which Is met
by fire insurance. The demand, too, is
for low rates, financial strength, liberal
policies and prudent management, and
we believe that on the whole list of
companies in the field, there is none
which perhaps so fully comes up to all
these requirements as the National Life
Insurance Company of the United States
of America, headquarters at Philadel-
phia, E A Rollins, president, Jay
Cooke, chairman finance committee.
This company wants an agent every
where, and our advice is, write it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

All, articles we think that are packed
and sold Full Weight should have the
patronage of consumers, also of dealers.
We are glad to notice in the article of
SOAP that Proctor & CANNES EXTRA
OLIVE Soar is always packed actual
weight.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14

A GOOD INVESTMENT. persons
having money to invest, whether much or lit
tie, desire to place it where it will be secure
as well as profitable to them. There is no more
profitable Investment than an endowment
policy in a good life insurance company. OF
these, one of the Oldest and most reliable, is
the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Philadelphia, a company of twenty-six years
standing and one in which the insured will be
certain to secure his policy at the lowest posi-
BILE rates, as all of the surplus premiums are
returned each year to the insured. For policies
| or agencies, address J. W. Iredell, Jr., super
| intendent of agencies, No. 70 West Sd street,
! Cincinnati, o., or the home ofice.-COHl-