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Sc Come Home; the Beans are Burning. .

Last Sunday morning family living
in the suburbs of the city went to
suburban church, leaving a little girl
about seven years of age and a boy
about twelve years of age in charge OF
the house. The church was situated
Int a short distance from the house.
The family were to have beans for din
ner. and these were left In a vessel on
the stove to cook. The little girl while
plaving, suddenly began to smell the
odor of burnt beans, upon which she
rushed out of the house over into the
church where the pastor was gravely
and earnestly preaching the profound
word of God. The first person Of the
family the little girl espied was youDe
lady cousin, and to her in loud voice
which startled the assemblage consider
ably. she cried, "Come home, comt
home, the beans are burning, and i'm
nediateiy rushed out again The Rs-
tonishment was great, and all the solem-
nitv of The preacher as well as of the
congregation disappeared beneath a
broad smile at the righteousness of the
matter. louisville Co'frieT-Jo'iT5aaL.
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NUMBER "a.
FAMINE IN ASIA MIN0R
Five ThOusaRd stareo 90 Death ia on
nFs4rIrf

/ Five Thousand StarFc 90 Death ia On,
/ District.
/ Hev. DR.. CLARK Of the American Board
/ of Foreign Missions has received a let
ter from the Rev. J. q. Barrows, OF
/ Cesarea, dated July 10, IL which be
I gfTss some thrilling details of the ter
rible famine ROW prevailing in that re
| glon, MIR. Burrows writes
While az Yodegat, which is eighty on
ninety miles north of us noticed raw
ages of the famine, which is very Sc
we're, and also beYond and toward An
goria, many villages are entirely de-
serted. In some only one or two, three
or four families, or parts of families,
remain. In the district of SungaTte,
which is beyond YOdegai, and in which
city there is a Protestant church. as
many as 1000 persons have died of star
vatiOn. But the horrors of this famine
are indescribable. Many people have
subsisted on grass for weeks and then
died. Beggars have aooked TO the
cities and there many Of them have
died because they could not get NOR
SCI OF bread. Old men, mothers with
babes at their breasts, young children,
boys and girls, are all half naked, beg
ging and crying. Dying bodies have
lain IN the streets one, two, and even
three or four days, before burial, and
the dogs have feasted on them. Many
of our Protestant communities and
families have suffered greatly.
At Sungarte some of the brethren
have sold house, shop, household fur
niture, everything. and now must beg
or starve, and perhaps both. In one
village there was one Protestant family.
The father mOtber and all the cbfI5rer,
but two have died of starvation. In
the village of Ingierlie there was
pleasant little Protestant community.
several of whom were members of the
church, with a preacher residing with
them, but they were poor. This
preacher went TO Yodegat and pur-
chased -four, becoming responsible for
the pay himself, and so kept a live six
families. Now, unless the preacher
can be paid, his creditors win take
everything from him.
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wsy fl shioh to sit, stand, walk, and
but one formula TO be observed in the
duties of life. In this country the
speaker had observed the utraost free
dom in these regards, and Americans
taking their habits with them to China
greatly shocked the sensibilities of that
nation. For instance, they would speak
to the ladies and hand things tc then
deeds which we're gross insults in their
eyes. Then they would hold converse
tion with people Of the lower classes.
which effectually debarrad them from
intercourse with the upper circles of
society.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27
THE FORsAKEN.

This poem, written by Stella - M. -.
Anna Lewis) at the age Of fourteen Poe I1stel
.ethe most beautiful ballad Of the Kind ete va
ten We have read it, +" he remarked - , ever writ
twenty times, and always with fncrs.sI ,IoIs thar
ton" And on the strength Of this oDiTtc, IN lfa
puut.it.l We re-
II hath been said, for all who die
There is a tear;
Some Some pining' p bleeding heart to sighI
But in that hour Of pain and dread
Who will draw near
Around my humble couch and sbed
One farewell tear?
who'd watch hfe's last departing raw
In deep despair,
And soothe my spirit on it's xav
With holy prayer7
What Ls,5,l monrnsr ne round my bier Will come,
And follow me to roy long home.
Solemn and sloyg7
when lying on my clayey bed.
In icy sleep
Who there, Jy pure affection led.
Wil com e and weep;
by the Pale moen implant the rose
JpoP my breast,
10 I'D II cheer my dark repose
% lowly rest2
Could but know, when am sleeping
Low in the ground,
fDne faithful heart would there be keepIpg
Watch all night round.
As If some gem lay shrined beneath
That sod's cold gloom,
Twould mitigate the panRs Of death
And Light the tomb.
Yes in that hour, II could feel
From halls Of glee
And Boauty's presence one would steal
In secerCy
And come and sit and weep by me
In nights deep noon,
Oh would ask Of memory
No other boon.
But sh a lonelier fate is mine.
deeper woe
soon must go;
Drawn round me r,,. ,,.1. -. - 80.
In dark SPIT Va ""i'e'
20 seep t9rl ugh deaths long, dreamless pipbt
Lone am. forgot. ''isu''
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Business Sfnee the Pnnis.


One of the most marked effects of the
/ panic in the country has been the re-
markable decrease in the CONSUMPTION
of foreign goods. According to the
last returns of the bureau of statistics.
the imports for the ten months ending
April 30, as compared with the same
ten months the year before, are as fol-
lows-the valuation in gold:
1873 A. 1872 8.
Merchandise. s479, ,769, ,679 S58s, o66, $40
Specie. --........ 25, 5S4, ,697 1850 sos
Thus the imports of merchandise are
S68, 237, 222 less for the ten months end
ing April, 1874, than for the correspond
ing months ending April, 1873. The
imports of specie on the other hand are
Sc, ,974, 189 larger, leaving the reduction
S6l, 263, O33. There were in warehouse
on April 30, 1879, goods valued at SIT,
646, ,579 on April 80, 1874, $50, ,475, ,974.
These figures represent the amount of
imported goods, not the values con-
sumed. To obtain this we must remeu-
Der that there were IN warehouse ON
April 80, 1873, imported goods to the
value of SIT, ,646, $40. On April 80, 1874.
the goods in warehouse were valued at
$2S, ,475. .974. It thus appears that the
amount of imports consumed In the ten
months ending April 80, 1874, was $685.
940, 284, while for the ten months end
ing 1878 it was $598, $50, ,9OS. Fully
500, OOO, 900, therefore, represent the
amount of economy in imports alone
consequent on the panic.
Our reports for the same period were:
1884 1929
Domestic S479 775 10 s22O 765 5ll
Foreign merchandise....... 1898, ,28l 13,41s 200
Total merchandise. s4sS, ,46s 6s1 1892, ,I83 500
The export of specie, domestic and
foreign, was S44, 184, SGT for 1874, and
$73, ,379, ,426 for 1872 3, making the total
exports in the one instance S537, ,6s3, ,55S. |
and in the other $5O7, ,562, ,946. These
figures show that we have exported in
specie and goods $50, 09O, ,612 more dur |
ing the ten months ending April, 1874, |
than during the ten months ending |
April, 1873. The New York Daily |
Bulletin thinks that these figures are
an evidence of economy on the part of |
the American people. We wish we
could look upon it in the same light.
To us they are evidence rather of poy-
erty. We imported 800, 900, 900 less.
simply because we had nothing to give
n exchange scr that 800, 900, 900 worth
If goods. And, if we exported more
)y over $50, 900, 900, while our importa-
ions not only did not increase. but de-
reased, it is because we have been
argely in debt to foreign countries and
lad to pay it in exports. On neither
act have we any reason to congratulate
urselves.-C Chicago Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27

SPEAKING about races and racers,
what a terrible amount of interest is
evinced of late years by the ladies who
visit Saratoga in the success of their
favorite horses. Formerly they limited
their debts to pair, or, perhaps, a box
of kid gloves. Nowadays, however,
they purchase their French pool ticket
lust as carelessly-ss the greatest gamb-
Ter, whose living depends upop his fa-
vorite coming first. Last season I re-
member we'll seeing a very hansome
widow lady drive out each race day IN
company with o grass widower, and
taking her position on the grand stand,
select her horse, and then send "Old
Baldy" down to the polished to buy
her one or more tickets.-iSGrGs0gd
letter
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27

A WRITER who has firted with tho wo-
men of Paraguay says "Only imag
inc yourself about TO salute the red
lips of a magnificent little Hebe, ar
rayed in satin and flashing with dia-
mOnds. as she puts you back With one
delicate hand, while with the other she
draws forth from her mouth brownish-
black roll OF tobacco quite two inches
long, looking like a monster grub, and
then, depositing the sayory Iozepge on
the brim of your sombrero, puts mp
her face and is ready for a salute. How
ever, one soon gets used to this in Par
aguay, where you are. per force of Gus
tom, obliged to kiss every lady you are
introduced To-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27

A FEW days since, at the Royal italian
opera, Covent Garden, London, at the
end of the opera, when amid hurricane
of applause, Mile. Albani, the Albany
-, a gentleman in the grand tier
threw a bouquet and box at the prima
Donna the latter of which unluekilly
sirnck stIT her with considerable force IN
the centre of the forehead. The author
Of Cli1 this calamity was observed to throw
mn his arms with gesture ot despair
when he saw the lady place her i'.ii,'S te
"n her forehead and instantly retire TO
her private room, where some simple
reJnedies ,,S we're applied with good effect.
Perhsps it should be added that the
rsstoration was a little assisted by the
discovery that the guilty box, when g9
opened, contained a tiara ot spfenolu
diamonds.
PARLEY and surrender SIGNIFY the
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27
The Mormon Girls.


The following is from Capt. Codman's
recent work on the Mormons. 1t is the
story of Utah teamster, and shows
that the Mormon girls have some Pecu-
liarities of taste on tho marriage ques-
ton.
4 never tried to get married but once,
he said, and that was to a Mormon gal
Hp here TO Logan. She was Just about
the slickest little critter ever you sec.
Fust time 7 come across her was where
her folks and ] camped one night right
about here. / followed on her trail
pretty close for six months, and thought
I was going to trap her sure. She
wanted me TO be 3 Mormon. j WASH {
pertickleT about that, for didn't like to
Join any church. never did belong to
a church nor an engine company in the
States. However, I told her finally, as
she crowded me, that I'd swaller Brig
ham, tabernacle and all, for the love Of
her. So We got things about fixed, and
if she hadn't gone too far must have
been a bishop by this time. But she
had an old maid sister, ami she wanted
me 20 marry that Susan Jane, too
that burned, dried mp, Susan Jane
Emmy, says /, can't and won't.
So I sot my foet down, and there's
where we split. You see the old man
was kind Of Eiekly, and just as sure a.
I'd agreed to take Susan Jane wien ne
died would have had to marry the old
woman too. I haint hunted after a
wife sence.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27
A Saratoga Bellies Rig.


Here is a picture Of the belle of Sara
tOga as she looks to-day Hair scol-
loped in front and braided down behind
in one straight braid ten inches long,
which hanging from the hat looks like
the handle of a dipper. Hat on back
of the head, with narrow brimed turned
up and down and sidewise, and skewed
and twisted around as If it had been
run over by locomotive. Face yeiled
well with tulle, which il also muffied
around the neck SO that the chin rests
on it, and the head looks like hen on
a nest OF down. Dress black on
grenadine, short enough not 10 touch
the floor, straight down ia front, but
long behind, and pulled back over the
hips. No hoops, and the bottom Of the
dress so narrow that the young lady
cannot take long steps.
How does she walk?
She don't walk she wiggies along as
men do in a sack race. This dress shows
the form beautiful, and is a great inn
provement ON the old flowing skirt
Young ladies are now standing perfectly
erect. Their chests are expanded and
shoulders are thrown back. The shoes
worn are the only part of the toilet sub
jeet TO criticism. These are narrow,
high-heeled bunion makers. They cause
the young lady 10 limp, and they must
also be the cause of a great deal of pro
family when the young lady is left alone.
The parasol is a big black or blue OF
brown umbrella, bordered with lace.
Fans are ordinary, and more for nee
than ornament. Hair is worn natural
and as yet no young ladies here appear
ed with safEron-cOlOred locks. Beauty
| Is not of the Lydia Thompson school,
/ and only the de1ai-HaOa0le dye, paint OF
powder. Gloves are from three to six.
| buttoned. No lockets, neck chains OF
watch chains are worn the jeWelry be-
ing rings, plain pin and a chateline
braid or oxidized silver chain hanging
from the belt, to which is suspended
oxidized smelling bottles, pocketbook,
or anything else which fancy may
attach.
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II Is asserted that, for fall goods,
browns viii take the lead. 1t is tint
which makes tbe complexion appear
finer. whiter and clearer than any other
color. and is selected by both blondes
and brunettes. Combinations Of purple
and grey are also predieted-the grey
being rough IN texture, and the purple
OF silk or poplin. Blues, too, from the
deep navy 60 the clear Marie Louise
will be popular.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27

THEY have now found an old finger
ring with General Lafayette" engraved
on Il, and the nezt congress should
make an appropriation.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-08-27

p,RUEY and surrender signify the
10 thing where virtue is concerned.
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Tx two hundred and fifty sulphur
mines in Sicily are fast being exhausted
and Il is estimated by the Italian gov
ernment officers that in from fiftY 10
sixty years there viii be no available
sulphur left on the island. The meth
ods of working the ore are 30 defective
that although it contains from fifteen tc
forty per cent. os pure sulphur, only
fourteen per cent. is actually obtained
The prediction that iron pyrite will al.
timately replace sulphur for many pur
poses is likely to be verified
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-06-04
Heating Sick-Rooms.

When the entire dwelling is heathed by
furnace or by steam, it will probably be
unnecessary to have other means of warm
ing the sick-room but the fireplace should
be always open and kept ready for a wood
or coal fire, whenever the patient shall ex-
press desire for one. The fre-places are
excellent ventilating fues eTen without a
fire, but are nearly perfect when supplied
with wood fire, the brisk blaze of which
creates a strong ascending current, and
continually carries off the ever accumu-
lating exhalations Of the sick-room.
If there is no fire place, window open
a short distance from the bottom, in the
room in which the patient is lying, and one
let down from the top in the other large
room, with the door open between the two,
will form an effectual draught during any
but the warm days of summer, and will not
be to strong for the most delicate patient
who is protected from the direct draught
by the high-hcad board Of the bed
In cold weather the window opened at
the bottom will often be sufficient On
very cold days We may trust to an entire
change Of air several times a day, effected
by raising all the windows for a few
moments at time, during which the
patient must be thoroughly protected by
extra blankets, and shawl about the head.
If stoves are the only means of heating
apartments, a perpetual burner (coal)
may be used in one room to keep both at
an even temperature, during day and night,
but the sleeping room should be provided
with wood stoves the brisk blaze in this
answering to some extent the purpose of a
fire in an open fireplace.
Many lives have been cut short by
exaggerated notions in regard to fresh air.
Air must be pure, but it should also be
warm. To effect this there should be day
and night steady but gentle heat in the
room of an invalid, accompanied by an
equally steady and gentle current of fresh
air
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-06-04
A Strange Remedy.

| \ correspondent who has visited the
South Sea Islands, writes to the Boston
Medical Times that a notion prevails there
that the headache, neuralgia, and other
| cerebral diseases proceed from crack in
the head or pressure of the skull on the
brain. The remedy is to lay open the sclap
with piece of glass until a hole is made
into the skull down to the dura mater about
the size OF crown piece. Sometimes this
scraping operation will be even to the pia
matter, by an unskilful surgeon, or from
the mpatience of the friends, and death is
the consequence. In the best of heads,
about one-half of those who undergo the
operation die from it, yet this barbarous
custom, from superstition and fashion has
been So prevalent, that very few of
the male adults are without this hole in
the Uranium, or shave a shingle loose" to
use an Australian phrase. 1t is said that
sometimes an attempt is made to cover the
membranes of the Uranium so exposed by
placing piece of cocoanut shell under the
scaly. For this purpose they select very
hard and durable piece of shell, from which
they scrape the softer parts and grind quite
smooth, and put this as a plate between the
scalp and the skull. Formerly the trep-
hine was simply sharks tooth now a
piece of glass is found more suitable or less
Objectionable (if we may even so qualify
the act). The part of the Uranium general
ly so selected is that where the cOronal sagittal
sutures unite, or little above it, upon the
supposition that there the fracture exists.
This bone-scraping remedy is likewise en-
ployed in cases of rheumatism in old peo-
pie The cuticle is incised longitudinally,
and the centre Of the ulna or tibia laid bare,
then the surface of the bone scraped with
glass until large portion of the external
lamina is removed.
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A Good Sized Family.

John Hepner, of Reading, Penn, claims
to be the father of forty-one children by
three wives. The Eagle says: '"He was
born in 1915, and twenty-five years after
ward-1S40-he married his first wife in
Germany. They lived happily together for
eight years, when she died. During that
time they were blessed with seventeen we'll
formed children hence, at the age of thir-
ty-three Mr.. Hepner found himself the
father of quite an extensive family. The
little ones came on earth as follows: Two
pairs of twins, four sets of triplets, and one
at single birth, seventeen in ALL The chill
dren OF this marriage are now all dead. Mr.
Hcpner remained widower but short time,
for in less than year after he married an
other fair daughter of Germany. He was
made the happy father Of another child in the
month of February, 1850 On the Christmas
following, in the same year, another was born
unto him. Then they were blessed with
twins five times in succession, and subse-
quently three more children at single birth
were born unto them, making fifteen in all.
His second wife and himself lived together
nine years and then she died By the two
marriages Mr.. Hepner at the age of forty
two, had become the father of thirty-two
children, of whom only two are now living
Twenty years ago Mr.. Hepner and his Sc
cond wife came to this country. He was
then thirty nine years of age Three years
afterward his wife died Mr.. Hepner, not
desiring to live in strange land entirely
alone, selected third wife in 1853. They
are still living happily together, and dur
ing the sixteen years of their married life
nine children have been born unto them,
each by single birth, making forty-one in
all. His third wife was widow with one
child when they married. Hence forty
two children have called him father OF
the third set of children only three are liv-
ing, making five living in all, together with
the extra one belonging to his third wife y
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We All Have Faults.

lie who boasts of being perfect is perfect
in his folly l have been good deal up
and down in the world, and / never did see
either perfect horse or perfect man, and
L never shall until two Sundays come to-
gether. You can not get white -four out of
coal sack, nor perfection out of human
nature he who looks for it had better look
for sugar in the sea- The old saving is.
'Lifeless, faultless" OF dead men we
should say nothing but good, but as for the
living, they are all tarred more or less with
the black brush, and half an eye can see it.
Every head has a soft place in it, and every
heart has its black drop. Every rose has
its prickles, and every day it's night. Even
the sun shows spots, and the skies are
darkened with clouds. Nobody is so wise
but he has folly enough to stock stall at
Vanity Fair. Where I could not see the
fools cap, | have neverless heard the bells
jingle. As there is no sunshine without
some shadows, so all human good is mixed
up with more or less of evil even poorlaw
guardians have their little failings, and par
ish beadles are not wholly of heavenly ma
ture' The best wine has its lees. All
mems faults are not written on their fore
heads, and it's quite as well they are not,
or hats would need wide brims yet as sure
as eggs are eggs, faults of some kind nestle
in every mans BOSOM There's no telling
when mans faults may show themselves,
for hares pop out of ditch just when you
are not looking for them. A horse that is
weak in the knees may not stumble for a
mile or two, but it is in him, and the rider
had better hold him up well. The tabby
cat is not tapping milk just now, but leave
the dairy door open, and we will see if she
is not as bad a thief as the kitten. There's
fire in the flint, cool as it looks wait till
the steel gets a knock at it, and you will
see. Every body can read that riddle, but
it is not every body that will remember to
keep his gunpowder out of the way of the
candle