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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-03
The Season AZ saratora-


The temptations at Saratoga are man
| fold, for the jewelry is as magnificent
as the other articles of dress. Here is
another true story A railroad king
was with bis wife at Tifany's store in
| IN New York. An immense opal at
tracted her eye. The stone was not set,
but she remarked that it was the most
beautiful she ever saw. She passed on,
| and her husband inquired the price Of
| the stone and was told that 1t was worth
seven thousand dollars. "DOn't You
think, he then asked, ''that it would
make a beautiful brooch, set around
with diamonds ?" The salesman
thought it would. So o1r prince told
him to make drawing of design, and
he would call again, which he did, and
approved of the design. Then Prince
Railroad (the road Is not yet built that
he represents) suggested that a neck
lace of opals, with diamonds and ear
rings, would be handsome, and cor
respond with the brooch. Another
drawing was made, and Madame
Railroad has set of opals and dia-
monds that her generous husband paid
S27, 600 for and gave her as a sur
prise. At a recent ball she wore emer-
aids and diamonds of almost the same
value. Ah ! if every one only had such
rich, generous husbands
But here is really 9 sad sight What
can induce a woman, whe is five feet
four in height and ten feet around, to
dress In a black velvet, with lace
polonaise and earrings of diamonds as
big as platter, paradiHg her fat and
tnery among people who laugh at her
misfOrtunes Z? 1t is true that a woman
who weighs four hundred pounds could
- Il, -, =
such a place as Saratoga, but there
must be some way of not being so con-
spicuous., Why can't such q woman
understand that inery detracts more
than it adorns such a figures The fat
women of Saratoga are the greatest
dressers. No doubt, they live such
idle, lazy lives that everything goes to
flesh, until they look as though they
were gorged with money, and it was in
hicting upon them some evils that were
beyond their cor Srol.
See that gentlemen who has Just drop
ped into a vacant seat beside an attrac-
tive lady. How he f1irts With what
zest he seems to utter his compliments.
She appears somewhat embarrassed, for
he lightly and jcyously tells her that
his wife and three children are spend
ing the summer in Europe, and that he
is enjoying his liberty for the first time
in six years. He is positively young
and happy, now that the burden of fam
lily cares are removed. Another gentle
man candidly acknowledges that every
summer be gives himself two weeks at
Saratoga without a single member of
his family; that he finds it absolutely
necessary for the equilibrium of life.
All these hundreds of well-dressed PeO-
pie sway about and you learn that the
women and children who wear the most
fnery are the wives and daughters of
hotel proprietors. These proprietors
all grow rich, for, when asked why they
do not return to the prices that existed
before the war, the reply is, "Why
should we when our houses are filed
all the time at five dollars a day ?"-
Cor Courier, Journal
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-03
Why the South Failed.

In his address at the late commence
ment of the University of Georgia
Gen. John B. Gordon incidentally made
the following allusion to the war. and
the failure of the southern cause. He
said:
I" And Just here I am tempted to
break the thread of nv argument to
make remark which I think ought to
be made in this connection. It Is this /.
That their civilization and these institu-
tions, whatever may be said of their
evils, we're also the s0urees from which
sprung the matchless prowess and self
sacrifice exhibited by the south in the
late war. And as I have introduced
this subject, let me add also that I
mean no mimic regret when 1 deplore
the efforts to pl, ce the responsibility of
our failure at the door of this or that
man, or upon this or that cause. The
truth Is, we have failed because it was
impossible to succeed; and if, with all
the experience of both sides, we had
the war to fight over again, we should
accomplish no more; nor has any other
race, under like circumstances, ever ac-
complished so much in the past, nor
can ever accomplish so much in the fu-
ture. What is it yod oIght to have
done that was left undone? You did
all that human hands could accomplish.
human intellect suggest, human skill
devise, or human hearts endure. And
you yielded at last only to overwheIm-
ing calamities, to crushing impossible
ties, to the DEGREES of a destiny as in
exorable as death-to resist which you
brought public and private economy,
public and private devotedness and
unitedness, skill, intellect, courage, will,
energy, sacrifices, prayers, churches,
states, manhood and Womanhood; en-
during suffering, struggling with a
faith, heroism and martial spirit un-
exampled in history and lustrous in de-
feat.
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No Ear For Music.

Our neighbor, Chubb, had not much
of an ear for music, but he spent a con-
siderable sum in having his daughter
taught how to hammer the piano, and
he is proud of her accomplishments.
He was talking with us over the fence
the other day when a series of dreadful
sounds came from his piano through
the open window. Presently Chubb
remarked "D'you hear that, Adeler
Just listen to that, Will you? That's
what call music"
Then there were a few additional
bangs on the instrument, a flourish OF
two, and then more discordant thump-
%splendid, isn't it p said Chubb.
Mary James Dustin the music right
out of that machine, you observe.
Them's the Strauss waltzes, believe,
she's raslin' with now. Just listen"
We remarked that from the energy
displayed Mary Jane seemed at least
really in earnest. But whether she was
treating Mr.. Strauss exactly right was
an open question.
''I don't know nothin, about music,
Adeler," observed Chubb, "but can
tell the real thing when hear it, and l
can sit and hear Mary Jane play them
waltzes and the Maiden's Prayer, I'M
til it makes me cry like a child.
We asserted that if she played these
compositions as she was doing now, it
would make anybody cry. A deaf mute
would shed tears.
''Listen to that now, will yOu?' ex-
claimed Chubb, as a wild tumult of
sound came from the parlor. isn't it
nice ? If I didn't know it was Mary
Jane a tearin' around among them
waltzes, I'd think it was one of those
fellows who played at the concert. Let's
go over and hear her."
We entered the house and sought the
parlor. Mary Jane was nowhere to be
found, but, to the infinite disgust of
Chubb, there was a red-haired man,
with fists as big as a loaf of bread, TIM
ina q piano
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-03
Sex in EducatIon.

. IL seems to us that DR.. CLARK very
nearly put the whole matter in a nut
shell when, in his paper read at Detroit
recently, he spoke of the ''Sex-in- -Edu-
cation" question as follows ''The only
difference between the sexes is sex but
this difference is radical and fundamen-
tai, differences of organization, that ex-
tend from the lowest to the highest
forms of life. Progress is impossible
without accepting and and respecting
differences of sex. That it is physiolo-
gically possible to diminish It, by an
education arranged for that end, no
Psychologist. can doubt nor can it be
doubted that identical methods of edu-
eating the sexes, such as prevail in
many of our schools, tend that way.
One result of a school system animated
by such methods is to make very poor
kind of men out of women and q very
poor kind of women out of men. For
tunate for the republic if no illustra-
lions of the truth of this remark could
be found withthin its borders. The
best quality, noblest power, and SUI
preme beauty of the two sexes, grow
out of their dissimilarity, not out of
their identity."
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Custer,s Gold Discoveries.

1t is possible that the report of gold
discoveries by Gen. Clusters command
may presently stimulate a new gold fe-
yer among the adventurous classes. of
the west. They need to bear in mind
two or three things. First of all, as
Mr.. Greeley used to put it, statistics
demonstrate that, on the average, more
money has been made in proportion to
those engaged in the work by men dig
ging potatoes than by men digging
gold. Then the country is covered by
Indian claims, and although these are
not likely to stand against determined
invasion of gold diggers, they are pret-
ty Ger tain to be wiped out only in a
good deal of blood. Old gold miners
have less faith now in surface diggings,
and it must be remembered that only
surface diggings will be possible in the
new region for some time to come.
And, finally, it is fortunate that the
new Eldorado appears to be attractive
for other reasons than because of its
gold. If the emigrants Will only take
plows as well as picks, the country viii
be the better off for their movement. -.
Mean York T5-ib7Egae
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How Sllver-PIate Ware is Made.

The process by which silver-plated
goods are made is a rather curious one.
and quite different from any the unin-
ltiated are led to suppose. Let us fol-
low the process of makinga teapot, for
instance A fiat piece of Britannia-
which is the basis for most plated goods
circular in form and about the size of a
common 0inner-plate, is fastened upon
lathe next a wooden form or mould,
and the lathe is set in motion. The
workman with the requisite tools presses
upon this revolving disc and shapes il
over the wooden block, giving it the re-
quisite Orm. The body of the teapot
is thus " turned off " in a moment or
two. The top is turned off in the same
way, also the lid, and at the proper time
they are put together. The legs,
handles, and whatever other ornaments
of solid nature are to be added, are
generally cast IN moulds and fastened
upon the pots by wOrkmen skilled in
that line.
If the pot is to be engraved or chased
1T will be necessary to hammer upon its
surface, and, as the metal is soft and
yielding, the pot must in some way be
made solid. This is done by filing the
vessel with hot pitch, and allowing it to
cool, when the whole mass is as flint al
most, and will bear any amount of bang
ing. The engraving and chasing finish
ed, the pot is hung upside down on the
top of the tank of pitch, and the heat
soon empties it of It's contents. It is
then placed in solutions of turpentire
and soda respectively, and all traces of
the pitch are removed.
From here it goes TO the polishing,
and then to the /" bathroom" ," where the
silver is added to the surface. The
great requisite in silver-plating is a
clear and smooth surface. Without
this the work would he very unsatisfac-
tory. In order to attain this, each piece
is thoroughly polished, and then thor
Oughly boiled in a strong solution of
potash and riused in clean cold water
before going into the bath of silver, in
which it remains a sufficient length of
time to obtain the coating required,
and is again thoroughly cleansed.
Another polisher gets it next, and by
means of a revolving brush of copper
wire takes off the heavy white appear
ance which the silver bath leaves, inter
stices of the engraved or chased parts.
The burnisher handles it next, and
with q steel instrument about one
eighth of an inch thick, shaped like
trOwel but smaller, by constant attrition
DIlhBS 4AbO OI4B1bAC56 bu6 uO" uuAt-
looking body, furnishing such portions
as are intended to be acted upon. The
remaining processes are those of finish
ing and packing, mainly.
The girls who are employed as burn
ishers work by the piece and get the
same compensation as men for the same
class of work. They earn from 81 to
$15 per week, according to capacity.
All work except the heaviest and odd
ly shaped, like large walters, etc, are
made by the lathe and pressure process
we have described, but the heavy work
is "struck up" with a dross, much as
jewelry is.
The process is a very interesting one,
and can be thoroughly understood only
by personal inspection.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-03
The Slave Trade OF the Nile.

In 1870 or 1871 Sir Samuel Baker, the
well-known English traveller and ex-
plorer. entered the service of the khe-
dive of Egypt for the period of three
years, at salary of $50, 900 per annum.
He was ordered to suppress the slave
trade of the White Nile and to re-es-
tablish the government of the Egyptian
viceroy in the Nile basin of Central
Africa. His expedition to that country
was partially successful. he reclaimed
much territory, which was added TO the
dominions of the khedive, and. he cap
tured many slavers and restored their
victims to liberty.
But notwithstanding his glowing and
self-cOngratulatory accounts of brilliant
victories, it may we'll be doubted
whether Sir Samuel Baker succeeded IN
seriously crippling the slave traffic. 1t
is true that he had great deal to stFug-
gle against. The feeling of the Egyp
tian people is strongly in favor of the
continuance of the slave trade, which is
regarded by them as a domestic Reces-
sity and as a source of commercial pro-
fit. Nor was the suppression of the
traffic the main object IN view with the
khedive.
Sin Samuel Baker has very recently
written a letter expressing his surprise
that Abou Saood, the great slave hunter
of the White Nle-to whom he at
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-03
The sourh Sea Island.

Few moro absorbing pages will be
found in the annals of travel and dis
covery than those which relate to the
distant archipelagoes of the South
Pacific. Brilliant in coloring and re-
plete with dramatic incident, they offer
exciting visions of wild adventure to
the ardent boy and fascinating studies
20 the grown man. From the first
chapter to the last they are packed with
stories of the exploits of brave explor-
ers, the cOnquests of heroes of youth
full idolatry, the patient labors of scien-
lists, Bnd the vicissitudes of an advano-
ing civilization. The Outrages of the
infamous "labOr" trade recently
brought to light gives them & still
greater interest from q humanitarian
point of view, and it would not be easy
to write about them without being en-
pertaining. Comprised in several dis
tinct groups scattered across the wide
southern ocean, the islands are popu-
lated by diverse races, and in formation
and vegetation are also varied. IN
some the women are perfect nymphs,
with soft brown compilations, wavy
black tresses, and as delicate forms as
sculptor ever initiated In marble. They
have musical voices, amiable manners,
and sharp minds while the men are
muscular fellows, Of friendly and cour-
ageous dispositions. In others the men
and women alike are black, dEawfed,
ignorant, and ferocious, with beastly
customs and manners. The land of one
! is a fruitful paradise, and of the other
lava bed. But whether intelligent or
savage, nearly all the islanders have
been blessed with a soil that yields
without tillage, and encourages gener-
osity, Incidence, and sweetness of
temper. Most have submitted to the
emoilient influence Of the missionary,
and of those who have not it is only fair
to say that they are less inherently
cruel than resentful of the wrongs they
have suffered for century at the hands
of white traders. Both sides are guilty
of atrocities but robbed, kidnapped,
and enslaYed, the savage has too often
wreaked his vengeance upon the first
European he has encountered, without
discriminating between enemy and
friend. We read Of q village inhabited
only by widows and orphans, the men
having been carried away by slavers,
and on the next page of a massacre Of
whites. From this division of crime
obstacles are met with in infiicting pun
ishments, and it is not an easy matter
to decide whether the savages have not
been melted to their acts in the spirit Of
retaliation. It viii be observed that
the consequential problem is not with
out resemblance to our own Indian
question.-HGrpeT' Magazine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-03
A New EldoradO. a New Florida

Thus exclaims the Tribune's special
correspondent concerning the region OF
the Black hills, in whose heart the Gus
ter expedition were encamped on August
8. near the south fork of the Cheyenne
river. The expedition started, July 15,
from Prospect valley, Dakota, moved
mn the Little Missouri, and thence, as
the valley was destitute of grass, to the
valley of La Bell FOurche, where grass,
water and wood were abundant. They
frisked around among the outlying
ranges of hills for few days, finding q
remarkably fine country there; ascend
ed en- route a prominent peak in WyOfn-
ing called Inyan Kara, 6, 600 feet high,
and at last, striking due east, passed
the Black hills into a valley whose
equal" " says Custer, "I have never
SEEN" Their march, that first day, was
amid flowers of rare and varied color
and perfume, numbering l25 species,
many of them unciassifed- This was
named " Floral valley" and they fol-
lowed it to the top Of the western ridge
of the Black hills, On the 30th ult.
the expedition camPed near Harney's
peak. which Gen. Custer and the en-
gineCrs ascended and found to be the
highest peak in the range. This /" sa-
cred country" Of the Sioux is described
as one of the most beautiful and fertile
sections OF the United States, 50 that
this correspondent is moved to say that
that he knows no spot where nature has
done 50 much to prepare homes for
husbandmen. But, more exciting and
appetizing than these promised sgricul-
tural riches, gold is there. The surface
pans out wealthily in particles Of gold
Like q pin-head, and veins Of 8 bearing
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-09-03
The TelOcipede Express.

Velocipedes are becoming an institu-
tion In Paris for forwarding messages
from the exchange CbOurse) to the cen
tral telegraph Office, Rue de Grenelle.
Thefates charged by velocemen" are
two shillings. The run there and back,
including delivery of messages, takes
twenty-five minutes for a distance of
three miles, $3.50 yards. It is contem
plated by some spectators to establish
a public company. When Marshal Ba-
zaine's trial was going on, velocipedes
were used for conveying messages from
Versailles for the Moniteur, one of the
Partisan papers. The single run was
charged a pound sterling, and accom-
plished in forty-fve minutes for a dis
tanee of twelve and a half miles, at a
quicker rate than the railway trains.
But the road descends all the way, Yer
sailles being on a higher level than
Paris, and the railway Is circuitOus
stOppages are also very frequent on the
ffnp
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A statesman and a PickpOeket.

One day Edward Fox went with his
brother, Charles James Fox, to witness
the first balloon ascent made in Eng
land. There was a great crowd, and
Fox detected a pickpocket attempting to
relieve him of his watch. "My friend, ="
said he, "you have chosen an occupa-
tion which viii he your ruin at last. |"
The thief burst into tears, and ex-
claimed: go, Mr.. Fox, forgive me,
and let me go. have been driven 10
this by necessity alone my wife and
children are starvingi" Fox compass
sionately gave him a guinea, and he
went away with blessings on his lips.
Soon after, Fox, wishing to know what
time it was, found his watch missing.
" Good God 70 he exclaimed, my watch
is gone ~ Eyes" answered his brother,
"I know it is saw your friend take
it" g Saw him take it and made no
attempt to stop himl" Really" said
the general, 'Fyou and he appeared to
be on such good terms with each other
that I did not like to interfere. -
IyOIu9-,F
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A Mashoe PastIme.

The Austin Reveille is guilty Of the
following: "a number Of grass-widow-
ers and bachelors Of this CITY have
formed a bean association, and weekly
festivals are hsld at the residence Of
the various members. The last festival
was held at the house of a gentleman
whose better half is absent in CalifOr-
MIA, John Denis officiating. at the con-
clusion OF the festival the tea-kettle lay
on the bed in the best bedroom, the
pot IN which the beans we're cooked lay
on its sice on the parlOr carpet, the
knives, forks, and spoons, were distrib-
nted among the spittOOnB IN the sitting
room, the bsby's CRIB was covered with
dirty tin plates, and the sewing machine
was disfgured With chunks Of dough,
splashes Of bean soup, and the skins Of
Chile peppers. Since the organization
of their society there has been an effort
to elect dish-Washer. but each gentle
man nominated has declined the honor
on the plea Of other and more important
business. The organization is known
rs the Free and Independent Grass
WidoWer's Bean-esting league"
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Dexter EcIipsed.

Bonner is not much of a horseman,
after all. His fastest specimen of
equine feetness, Dexter, is now sur
passed in trotting record by half q
dozen animals. The magic Maid, with
her mile in 2:I49 the American Girl,
with time but a little slower Red
Cloud, who has just circled the track
in 2:17, and Lulu, who was spun around
the course in 2:16f, are all so many
nanps of envy in the soul of Bonner.
The day has flown in which any one
man could hope to secure for his private
stable the best trotting stock of the
country. It has been a red-letter sea
son in the history of American racing.
Horses of known swiftness have
eclipsed their previous records, while
animals hitherto obscure, as in the case
of Lulu and Lucille Golddust, have
dashed down the most astonishing n8-
ures. GA two-forty gait, once the
symbol of supreme fieetness, has be-
come a mere turtle pace.
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tributes much of his trouble on the ex.
pedition-shOuld have been appointed
by the khedive to be the right hand
man of Col. Gordon, Sir Samnel's sue
cessor in the present expedition. Ac.
cOrding to this letter, Abou Saood is a
most unmitigated rascal. He is the SON
in law of the head of a Cairo firm of
slave hunters, Agad & Co., and every
year he leads an armed force of 9, 500
cutthroats on a slave hunt from Khar-
toum In the SOudan. He massacres.
plumbers, and burns through the inse-
rlor, and kidnaps the ", men and chill
dren TO sell them into slaverv
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Beside the dead judge there was
another carried from that room insen-
slble. 1t was the son, the inheritor of
the Judges wealth and of Mangrove
hall l''
Shadows were creeping down Anem-
one vale as my friend finished the man
uscript.
' have no doubt R. S. is the uncle
OF the weird sisters of the Redwood
mansion" he added. There is a dilap-
idated headstone In it. Johns church
yard bearing this inscription erich.
ard Stepley, obit October 10, 1871, while
recruiting his health at st. Thomas.
West Indies, @tat thiriy-eight years"
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Natural WOnders Of MyomIng.

In the northwestern corner of the
territory of Wyoming is located one of
the most beautiful lakes on this conti-
nent, if not IN the world. Adjacent to
it are the sources Of four maiesticrivers,
the Yellowstone, flowing into the Mis-
souri, at distance of J, 300 miles; the
Missouri itself, which finds its way to
the gulf through the Father of Waters;
the Columbia, which, passing through
the most remarkable canyon IN the
world, discharges its waters into the
Gulf of Californis. Grouped around
this lake, and in the midst of this Wa
ter-shed, is perhaps the grandest dis
play of cataracts, hot springs, geysers,
mud volcanoes, and natural architec-
tural beauties anywhere to be found on
the face Of the globe.