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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
BOYS and Farming.

Farmers sons upon arriving ct & GER
tain age oftan become dissatisfied with
their vocation. In New England the
majority of the boys leave the farm st
the age OF eighteen or twenty. Why is
this ? Perhaps the most potent reason
is aversion to hard wsrk or a mistaken
idea of its ignominy. One reason why
bows leave the farm in the west lies in
the fact that so many farms are so iso-
lated that neighbofs are few and far
between. The boy who tolls day after
day in the field mingles very little in
society. He longs for associates and
neighborly influences.
Many farmers are so absorbed in
work and profit as to care very little for
outward appearances. viii illustrate
a case 1t was rickety-looking place;
the buildings had been long out of re-
pair. The barn and its aocompani-
ments were close by the house. A big
hay-stack occupied a prominent posi-
ton, with which the winds and unruly
members of the barn yard had raised
sad havoc. Near by was the hog-pen,
whose aroma was anything bat pleasant
to the sense. The intervening ground
was scattered profusely with old logs,
carts and wagons. What wonder is It
that the boy gets tired of such slovenly
farming as that, and that the familiar
scenes of home are not attractive?
AS he grows mp into manhood he re-
solves to get into some genteel business.
'' Farming will do very well for the old
folks but I've had enough of It; III
go to the city and seek my fortune"
He sees the well-dressed clerk at the
counter. Visions of wealth fill his
mind as he views the stately columns
that industry has founded. "Tll be a
merchant I" he says TO himself. A stu
alton is secured with salary of two or
three hundred dollars a year; he may
in time be promoted but his chances
of suco ss are small. Where one mer-
chant succeeds, thirty become bank
rupts.
Boys, keep out of the city /; it is over
crowded already. Seek employment
elsewhere. Farmers, besutify your
homes strive to make them so attract
i've that your boys will be reluctant to
leave. Provide library for your fam
lily, and teach the boys to farm by the
Ory as well as by practice. Don't com
plain of hard times and the uncertainty
OF crops, but tell them of the nobility
of agriculture as life-calling, its indie
pendence over all other employments,
and without which no branch of indus
try could flourish. Rise up, then, ye
sturdy sons of the soil. Buckle on
thine armor," and cause the barren
waste to glow with fruitfulness.-" In
Gle Ned an Western RltFGJ.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
How to Raise Hogs.

A Missouri correspondent of the
Rural World makes some very sensible
statements in the matter of raising
hogs. We have in the United States
over forty million people who, taken as
a whole, are large consumers of hog
meat while foreign nations demand
and receive our bacon aud picked pork
by the hundred million pounds. Eu-
rope contains over three hundred mil
lion inhabitants, who present a very
inviting market for our best meats; and
their cheap, economical production is
branch of useful knowledge which we
desire to cultivate. This Missouri hog
raiser says, 'the secret OF making pork
production profitable is TO have hcgs
do their own work as far as possible.
In this remark he is quite right, and
he has a movable fence which sur
rounds small part of a field in corn,
oats or peas, where hogs gather their
daily grub with no labor on the part of
the farmer. The fence is moved as oc-
casion requires.
The article concludes In these sugges-
tive words
They pick and eat the corn to suit
their own notions, just as they want it.
They will save you the trouble of
gathering the corn and feeding it to
them. They will never suffer from
hunger. They eat and fill themselves
and lie down, and when again hungry,
they appease their hunger and take
another snooze. Early spring pigs,
treated to the grass and corn-felds
in this way, viii, by December, weigh
from three hundred to three hun
and fifty pounds each, and not cost
FIVE dollars per head, particularly
if they are some thrifty, fast-grow-
ing. easily-fattening breed, like the
English Berkshire-the most profit
able. healthful and thrifty breed of
hogs in existence. I would like to
hear other farmers on the best system
of making pork raising profitable.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
IF WE KNEW.

If we knew the woe and heart-aehe,
Waiting for us down the road,
If our lips could taste the wormWood,
II our backs could feel the load,
Would we waste one day in wishing
For time that neier can BET
Would we wait With such impahencs
For our ships to come from seal
If We knew the baby fingers
Pressed against the window-pane
Would be cold and stiff tomorrow
Never trouble US again
Would the bright eyes Of our darling
Catch the froWn upon our brow
Would the print Of rosy fingers
Vex US then as they do now?
Ah these little ics-cold fingers,
How they point our memories back
To the hasty words and actions
Strewu along our backward track.
How these little hands remind US,
As in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns-but roses
For our reaping by and by.
Strange, we never prize the music
Till the gweet-voiced bird has hOWn;
Strange. that we should slight the yiolets
Till the lovely flowers are gone;
Strange, that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem half so fair
As when winters snowy pinions
Shake their white down in the air
Lips, from which the seal OF silence
None but God can roll away
Never blOseomed in such beauty
as adorns the mouth Of day;
And sweet words that freight our memory
With their beautiful perfume,
Come to us in sgeeter accents
Through the portals OF the tomb.
Let us gather up the sunbeams
Lying all around our path;
Let us keep the wheat and roses,
Casting out the thorns and chat;
Let Us ind our sweetest comfort
In the blessings of to-day,
With patient hand removing
All the briars from our way.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

NUMBER is.
The Past Winter.
Increased Death Rate In Europe and
Anlerica-Oid CaOsumpttves swept on
and New Ones Made.

Increased Death Rate In Europe and
AnlerIca-Oid CaUsunptIves swept on
and New Ones Made.
The past winter has been a phenome-
nal one, and such a one as the best in
formed meteorologists do not expect to
see again for twenty years.
Everywhere, from Shreveport, La,
to Stockholm, in northern Europe, a
sudden increase in the death rate marks
the continuance, and follows IN the
wake of the winter of 1ST4-5. DR..
Elisha Harris, registrar of vital statis-
tics fer this CITY, in speaking of the
past winter, both in this and other cities
from which he receives weekly returns
of deaths, said "The mortality has
been fearful in every section on account
of the great changes from the normal
state of the weather. The only winter
which at all compares with It is that OF
1856. The past season has been es-
peciallv heavy in deaths from pneumo-
mia and other pulmonary diseases. The
weather has been very cold, and also
saturated with moisture at all times.
While the thermometer did not indicate
any specially low temperature, the skin
and mucous membranes of the lungs,
throat and other passages suffered on
account of the humidity of the atmos-
phere. In orr own city the total per
centage of deaths viii be from 10 to 10
per cent. additional, and in the special
classes of disases most fatal the ratio
has been doubled. Fever cases have
been very rare. Typhoid has been al
most matter of chance. In diphtheria
the mortality has assumed thevirulence
of an epidemic. Our reports from Ed
inburgh, Glasgow, London, Liverpool,
Dublin, Vienna, and Hamburg, all
show that this particular class of dis
ease has been specially fatal there. |
Paris has been more fortunate owing TO |
the admirable sanitary regulations in
force there. The greatest percentage |
of fatal cases outside of those of chill |
dren are of persons over sixty years of
age and those who have been hard |
drinkers. 1 do not mean drunkRrds |
alone, but those who have been in the |
habit OF taking strong liquors, and they |
are not poor people alone. In these |
persons the mucous membrane of the |
throat is weakened and cannot resist |
the double assault Of cold atmosphere |
heavily laden with moisture. The ef- |
feets of this winter have not stopped |
yet, by any means. should estimate
that about as many as have already
succumbed will date their death sick
ness from colds contracted during the
recent cold spell. For the next fifteen
years consumption will carry of persons
whose lungs first showed the germs of
tuDercular deposits this past wiRter.
That is a serious side of the question,
and physicians are carefully considering
now what should be done, and how to
take precautions against these sequences
of the cold. People who have colds
should get rid OF them as speedily as
and ' geiting their whole system in
sound health. IN Y World.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
The Philosonhv of PIav.

A recent writer says that games are
good in proportion to the measure in
which they exercise and reward the
skill, vigor, pluck and judgment of the
player with continuous certainty. Skill
is cognate with schooling. Games of
skill not only take much learning, but
from them much is learned. Though
the natural man, and still more the
natural boy, has a disbate for what he
is pleased to call "dry science, none
the less does he delight most, from his
youth upwards, in such games as show
him natural laws in action. Skill in his
games, or unusual quickness in acquir-
ing skill, implies that a boy observes
with more than common attention the
phenomena his game exhibits, and has
the faculty of codifying to himself
USUALLY in some unutterRble digest)
the laws which govern its motions. We
often underrate the reasoning powers of
children, because, in their ignorance of
terms, they are too hopeless of being
able to explain themselves even to make
the attempt. To Judge of a boys fac
ulties we should watch what he does,
not ask him questions, under the vain
impression that, without having been
crammed for the purpose, he Will be
able to give an articulate account of the
knowledge that is in him. And we shall
Judge with much more certainty when
there is no doubt as TO the earnest use
of his full ability, because he is striv-
ing for victory in his favorite game.
We are not in the least desirous of ad.
vocating play to the detriment of work;
nor of muscularizing Christianity at
the peril of our young Christians grow
ing mere muscle-men. Boys should
work as mnch as their strength will
allow without damage to their health.
But when they play, the more perfect
the game the more effectual and rapid
will be the recreative stimulus to blood
and brain. For, as Aristotle says, "the
boy being unable to work at long
stretches must play in order to work
with a will" 4"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
Be Careful What You FIN Up With.

A boy returned from school, one day,
with a report that his scholarship had
fallen below the usual average. "Well,
said his father, you've fallen behind,
this month, have you ?" eyes, sir"
"How did that happen ?" "Don't
know, SIR" The father knew, if his
son did not. He had observed a num-
Der of cheap novels scattered about the
house, but he had not thought it worth
while to say anything until fitting op-
portunity should offer itself. A basket
of apples stood upon the floor, and
he said: Empty those apples, and
take the basket and bring it to me half
full of chips. And now" he continued,
"put those apples back into the bas-
ket." When half the apples were re-
placed, the son said '' Father, they
roll of, 1 can't put in any more" 'Put
them in, tell you" "But, father,
can't put them in, tell you" Put
them in | No, of course you can't put
them in. Do you expect to fill basket
half full Of chips and then fill it with
apples2 You said you didn't know how
you fell behind at school, and will
tell you. Your mind is like that basket;
it will not hold more than so much, and
here you have been the past month
filling it up with rubbish-worthless,
cheap novels" The boy turned on his
heel, and whistled, and said &" Whew
see the point -
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
A Little Mixed.

A shock-headed youth went into
Morris music store Saturday after
noon, and softly scratching the shin
of one leg with the foot of the other,
asked if Mr.. Morris had the new
songs.
FCertainly," said that gentleman,
Stepping spryly back Of the counter /;
(which one do you wish ?"
"Have you got that air piece called
called" here the young man paus-
ed and stared wildly about the store,
and then suddenly added" called
Gray Hairs in the Butter.
"What's that ?" said Mr.. Morris,
rubbing his hands in painful abstrac-
tion."
"Gray Hairs in the Butter, replied
the young man, changing legs.
q Perhaps" kindly suggested gen
tleman, who has boarded for twelve
years, 'sour young friend means "Sil-
yer Threads Among the Gold"
That's it, by gum !" shouted the
young man in a burst of pleasure.
Mr.. Morris had it.
-Gen Custar saws il takes an Indian
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
The rapid destruction of SEQ

The rapid destruction Of sea il
the northern seas has given rise to fe-rs
regarding the continuation Of the spe-
cies. and measures of protection are
being discussed It is proposed by the
Peterhead sealers and sailors to apply
the principles of the game law to these
creatures, and thus, by mutual consent,
to unite upon q ciOee season, during
which It shall be unlawful to Kill them
the papers have been presented to par
lament, and the measure viii be urged
with al due zeal and earnessness. OF
course, such a measure 70 be elective,
should be international IN character
and It is to be hoped that tbOse in our
own country who have q special interest
in the preservation of the seal VIII rem
der ali efficient aid toward advancing
the wise provisions Of the Law.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

think intended for us alone, than 3
pair of Juno-like eyes, or 81 lips that
seem on roses fed" that bewitches
our heart and lays us low at the feet
of her whom we afterward marry
AfTfbe70
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
K xLooKE y

The penoi1 marks you see around this
paragraph thusl mean that your sab
scriptioEa is out Or bnpsisl and thai
you are requested % pay -up-at-on
We would take great pleasure IN extend.
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone VIII pay expenses, and
We are forced to adhere to strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such
course, and renew yOly s1lbscription
without delay. We solieit y0uz iaxors
81 We enter no new names on our
bsoks without the money II, adv9fce-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

Coz. o. A. MACK, in charge of the
national cemeteries, viii leave Wash
ington next week to inspect the new
head-stones recently erected in the ma
tional cemeteries ct New Orleans, Ba-
ton Rouge, Natchez, Vicksburg, Browns
vile and Port Hudson. The contract
ors for the new head-stones are pushing
forward as rapidly as possible. In the
cemetery at New Orleans about 1900
have been put up, at Baton Rouge 2, 900;
at Natchez 8, 1000; at Vicksburg 5000;
at Brownsville 1900; and at Port Hud-
son 8, 100. There are about s, 900 more
to be erected at Vicksburg.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

The senatorial excursion to Mexico
is abandoned. Advices from Washing.
ton are that fear of the yellow fever
and the illness of Mrs. Morton are
among the causes alleged for the change
of front.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

Mr.. JAMES LICK, in giving his reasons
for revoking his deed of trust, stated to
a reporter of the San Francisco Chroni-
Gle that a strong inducement was the
torture he suffered from the agents of
benevolent societies to which he had
not made benefaetions. They were
continually at his bedside importuning
him to amend the deed so as to include
them. Another reason was an evil
dent determination on the part of his
relatives TO test the validity of the deed
in the courts. A nephew had already
brought suit for $40, 1000 for services
which he claimed to have rendered.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

PROFESSOR TIcE, the meteorologist,
states that from the 9TH of June next
until about the middle of July viii be
a season of high electric tension in the
atmosphere, many and severe thunder,
storms, possibly heavy rainfalls and
cyclones, such as water-spouts and tor
nadoes. Again, in October like con-
dition of the weather will occur. The
professor maintains that the equinox
of Venus will produce these disturb
ances, and that they may be looked for
either twenty or twenty-five days pre-
ceding that event.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

THE total coinage for March amounted
to S3, $50, $50. OF this amount 50, ,ss1, :
$50 was in double eagles $50, 200 in
trade dollars $313,5OO in quarters /;
S343, ,02O in dimes $3.50, 10 in subsidi-
nrv coinage.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

Smooth it over as we may; stow it
away ia the farthermost Eesess of
cave OF gloom hurl curses upon the
tongue that tells as 50, and the fact stan
remains that there are fifteen hundred
thoroughly organized baseball clubs
in the United States..f
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

COUNT MALvARIA, of Italy, has in
vented an earthquake indicator to give
warning of coming shocks The instant
that trembling of the earth occurs
the mechanism fires off gun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

play. Even workingmen pinned the
purple blossoms to their coats, much to
the horror of the radical republicans.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
TIMELY TOPICS.

ANOTHER suit has been entered
against Boss Tweed, this time for the
little matter of 50. 600 -OOn.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

THE interior department. is advised
that the Sioux Indians will take 81, ,OOO,
600 and relinquish their title to their
lands in the Black hills. A delegati on
of these Indians will shortly visit
Washington.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

Gen. Custar says it takes an Indian
four minutes to scalp victim.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22
rAcTs AND FANuEEs.

BABY- siis-4s fl7F
They called him tiddy iclle sing gC-z q
And soothing syrups they did bring
To stem the rising squal.
In vain they sought for secret pin,
And gave him peppermint and gin
Yet louder did he hawl.
Beneath his petticoats his feet.
Like little mice Who pussy meet,
Did twist and twirl about;
And, oh he reared In such a way
No costard seller blithe and gay
Gives half 90 loud shout.
His tears an instant cease to flow
Anon he wildly saueals. as though
Some flea had bit him badly
Poor pa. he rises I'D in re.
Strong sggument DOES him inspire
Things end for baby sadly.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

NoTEs Of the denomination of S5 of
the Traders, First National, Third
National and Merchants National
banks, of Chicago, are being redeemed
rapidly, owing TO the existence of well
executed counterfeits of that denomina-
ton on these banks.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

COMMISSIONER WATTS, of the Agri-
cultural Bureau, claims to have been
prospecting the country in some unex-
planned manner, and says he has every
reason to think that the crops this year
Will be unusually fine. He is at pres
ent engaged in investigating a new
process of milling spring wheat, from
which he expects great results in the
shape of increasing the quantity and
quality of the -four.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

IT is estimated by Pennsylvania coal
meu that the miners will be starved
into submission by the first of July.
They have the Philadelphia and Read
ing coal and iron company to fight, a
concern which has a cool S133, 900, 600
invested in the business.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

IT seems that Bonapartists in Paris
are bold enough TO wear the imperial
symbol, the purple violet. On the I6th
of March, the florists of Paris sold all
their stocks of this emblematic flower,
because it was an anniversary of the
birth of Prince Louis Napoleon. The
adherents Of his family wore lunches
of violets in their button holes, the
ladies making the most formidable dis
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

THE coinage of silver, for fractional
resumption is now progressing rapidly,
and it is thought the two and a half
million of bullion on hand will be
worked up by the middle of June, when
the redemption of shinplasters will
haOin
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

MEXICO is making efforts to raise
coffee, and the state of Colima has ex-
empted from taxes for the next ten
years all young plantations, besides
offering a premium of $500 to the
planter who first harvests 500 quintaIs
Of the aromatic berry.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

THE United States treasury at Wash
ington now holds $3.50, ,619, 600 in United
States bonds TO secure national bank
circulation, and Sl6, 3O2, 200 to secure
public deposit. The national bank
circulation outstanding amounts to
S349, ,659,27 of which S2,9S9, 500 are
notes issued to gold banks. Adding
the greenbacks outstanding-s 1869, 229.- =
OOO-we have a paper circulation of
S72s, ,SSS, ,376.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-04-22

THE California people thought they
had succeeded in getting rid of the
banditti when Tiburcio vasquez was
hung, but that monster threw his man.
tie over an accomplished desperate
named Chavez, who inaugurated his
career the other day by attacking vii
Iage with his men, and stealing every
thing that could be found. Chavez
frequents the stage routes in California,
aud has inspired terror by his bold acts.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-09-02

For a long while our relations with the
Mexican authorities have boon delicate be-
cause Of the depredations q Mexican MAJ
RAIDERS On the Texas frontier. and bow they
are likely 20 be- further complicated by tho
occurrence Of similar outragcs In new
place. our san Francisco despatch re-
counted yesterday the adventures ola Mr.
Castillo. who went from Tuscon. In Arizona,
over the frontier into sonora On a commercial
journey, and who was only saved from sum
mary execution by tho timely arrival Of a
ransom Of twenty thousand dollars This
is a new feature in our frontier life. Adven-