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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
Purity of Speech.

One of the highest characteristics
OF manhood is purity of speech.
Nothing viii send mans influence
and reputation so far below par
more speedily than improper con-
versation. An obscene story, fill
thy joke, a questionable word or
GESTURE, a sentence that would make
a pure woman blush in public or
private, in select or mixed company
is burning shame and scandal to
man. An obscene story is next to
observations; a filthy deed. He
who has impure lips and INDUCES In
impure speech, be he divine, or bish
op. is disgracer and corrupter of
the morals of the young. Clean
lips are essential The people
watch the words of one another.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
The Mothers Bedroom in the
Older Time

What pleasant places our moth
ers' bedrooms used to be! In the
old time American formal and pre-
tentious ways of living-with the
diningroom in the basement, and
on the principal floor the grave yard
parlor, in which none OF the orna-
ments could be touched, nor the
chairs and sofas sat upon-it was
good that there was one room I'D the
house where domestic feeling was
allowed q chance to root itself at
ease where the sun had leave to enter
and stretch himself upon the carpet;
where the seats were comfortable,
and lolling with book delightful
room where the soft blooming
fragrant flowers of the homely moth
erwort took the place of the testy
''touch me not" that grew 50 prim
and profuse in the handsome room
below
Up to this room, that with its
open fire and slipshod neatness
seemed always sunny, even on dull
days, ran the children "holne from
school, and stormed the maternal
citadel for luncheon. Then out
came the precious tin box, much
dearer to the hungry children than
any "safe" with its metaphorical
tin, and whose crisp inscription,
CAKE" had been improved by a
youthful adept at acrostics, into
"Can a kitten eat?" and the mildly
delicious seed-cake it contained hav-
ing been dealt out in generous
hunks %, expressive vocabulary
of childhoodD, the pleasant, do !
nothing, MONDAY hour was slipped
along the rosary of time. No par
lor, however free to let its luxuries
or simple elegance be enjoyed; no
nursery even, made to play in and |
sensibly kept rid of things that
might be hurt: no living room, with
it's furniture and fittings meant to
be used-can take the place, think,
of the mothers bedroom" which |
still exists, l hope, as of old, in
many and many home. 1t would |
be a pity such an sold shoe" of a |
room should ever be given up, for, |
in our undomestic American life,
unless the mother consent to make
an early Christian of herself, and
have, for few hours of the day, at
least, call things in common" she
will find herself knowing as little
of her children as their father does
and in America it is a common ex-
perience that it is a very wise child
indeed who has more than a speak
ing acquaintance with his own
fo tn or Scribrer
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
A Partisan Tradeswoman.
Macmillan,s Magazine.


There she sat, day after day, with
the heavy leather bound books and
ledgers before her, always busy and
never hurried; with a gracious smile
for every customer, and a vigilant
eye for all the shopmen. In the
summer, when the Rue St. Denis
was hot and sitting; in the winter,
when the ever opening door sent
in cold draughts of wind, there she
sat. One would like to think that
in the evening there was some re
taxation, but as every account
sent in by that house was in her
handwriting we fear there was of
ten evening work as well. After a
time little girl took a seat beside
her within the sanctuary of brass
wire netting and played with her
doll or did some bit of childish
needlework under the mothers eye
The doll soon made room for states
and copy books; but still the child
was there and gave her mother COM
paay. In time she took her place
now and then at the heavy books
by way of initiation into the mys
teries, while her mother worked by
her side. Years went by, and Ma
dame M was still there; her
smile was as gracious and unfailing,
but it was less varied and more
conventional; in a word, her youth
was gone, utterly passed away be-
hind that commercial cage of brass
wire. The other day, looking into
the shop, we noticed that there was
a new master. But the mistress
was not new; the child, the girl, the
woman, whose whole life had been
spent there, now reigned in her
mothers stead. The shop, her dol,
herself, had been handed over to-
gether to same purchaser. "Her
father and mother had RETIRED" she
said. "They live in the country
now," she added, not without a
touch of pride.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
Why They Often Fail.

Young men often fail to get on
in the world because they neglect
small opportunities. Not being
faithful in little things, they are
not promoted to the charge of great
er things.
A young man who gets subord
mate situation sometimes thinks it
is not necessary for him to give ii
much attention. He will wait till
he gets a place of responsibility,
and then he will show people what
he can do. This is a very great
mistake. Whatever his situation
may be, he should master it in all
its details, and perform all its duties
faithfully.
The habit of doing his work
thoroughly and concientiously is
what is most likely to enable a
young man to make his way. With
this habit, person with only ordi-
nary ability will outstrip one of
greater talents who is in the habit
of sighting subordinate matters.
But after all, the mere adoption,
by young man, of this great, es-
sential rule of success, shows him
to be possessed of superior abilities.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
A New Remedy for Rats.

Almost every farmer is troubled
with rats, either at his barn or his
house. A correspondent of the
Practical Farmer gives the follow
ing, which he calls the German
plan, and recommends it after sew
eral years trial, as safe and sue
cessful: Mix calcined plaster, such
as plasterers use to make "hard fin
ish" on walls, one-third of the plas-
ter with two-thirds corn meal; mix
dry, and place it where it will keep
dry, under stable floors for in
stance; the action of the mixture as
soon as it comes in contact with the
moisture of the stomach, is this:
The plaster sets, becomes stone,
and death to the rat is the sure re-
suit, and should the pigs, cats, or
dogs, eat the rats no trouble ensues,
as the plaster is already set. Poul-
try readily grind it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
Singular Property of Tomato
Leaves.

planted peach orchard, writes
NJ. Siroy, of the society of Horticul-
ture. Valparaiso, and the trees grew
well and strongly. I hey had but
just commenced to bud when they
were invaded by the curculio (pul-
gon), which insects were followed,
as frequently happens, by ants.
Having cut some tomatoes, the idea
occurred to me that by placing some
of the leaves around the trunks and
branches of the peach trees l might
preserve them from the rays of The
sun, which was very powerful. My
surprise was great upon the follow
ing day to find the trees entirely
free from their enemies, not one re-
naming except here and their where
a curled leaf prevented the tomato
from exercising its influence. These
leaves 1 carefully unrolled, placing
upon them fresh ones from the to
mato vine, with the result of ban
ishing the last insect and enabling
the trees to grow with luxuriance.
Wishing to carry still further my
experiment, l stepped in water
some fresh leaves of the tomato
and sprinkled with this infusion
over other plants, roses and oranges.
In two days these were also free
from the innumerable insects which
covered them, and felt sure that
had / used the same means with my
melon patch 1 should have met
with the same result. 1 therefore
deem it a duty owe to the society
of Horticulture to make known this
singular and useful property of the
tomato leaves, which 1 discovered
by the merest accident.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
LADIES COLUMN.
HARoL1NE HAROLD, EDITOR.

Our education makes us emil
nently selfish We fight for our
selves; we cut the best slices out of
the joint at club dinners for our
selves, and light our pipes and say
we won't go out; we prefer our
selves and our ease. The greatest
good that comes to a man from
woman's society is, that he has to
think for somebody beside himself.
Remember, if a house is pleasant,
to be in favor with the women is
the great, vital point. Don't turn
up your nose, because you are only
asked to come in the evening, while
others are invited to dine. Agree
able acquaintances are made as well
in the drawing room as in the din
ing-room. Go to tea brisk and good
Be determined to be
pleased. Talk to dowager. Take
a hand at whist. If you know
song, sing it like a man. Never
sulk about dancing-so you will
get on and become one of a circle.
. Thockordy
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
Signs of a Prosperous Farmer.


Herald: When you see his barn
larger than his house, it shows that
he will have larger profits and small
Affections.
When you see him driving his
work, instead of his work driving
him, it shows that he will never be
driven fom his good resolutions,
and that he will certainly work his
way to prosperity.
When you always see IN his wood
house sufficiency for three month s
or more, it shows that he will be
more than q ninety-days' wonder in
farming operations, and that he is
not sleeping in his house after q
drunken frolic.
When he has house separate
from the main building, purposely
for ashes, and an iron or tin vessel
to transport them, shows that he
never built his house to be a fun
eral pile for his family, and perhaps
himself.
When his sled is housed in sum-
mer, and his farming implements
covered both in winter and summer,
it plainly shows that he will have a
good house over his head in the
Summer of early life, and in the
winter of old age.
When his cattle are properly
sheltered and fed in winter, it is
evidence that he is acting accord
ing to Scripture, which says a
''mercitul man is merciful to his
beast"
When he is seen subscribing for
a newspaper, and paving in advance,
it shows that he is speaking like a
book respecting the latest improve
ments in agriculture, and that he
never gets his walking papers to
the land of poverty.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
Bee Raising.

Bees are as useful as chickens,
and as easily raised. They afford
US a luxurious food, healthy, and
might be cheap. Bees need little
feeding, little expense and attention.
They want only a comfortable home,
covered from the storm and sun,
and protected from the marauding
miller. They will make their own
living, and do considerable towards
the living of the farmer. Not many
swarms can be kept prosperously in
one place, but every farmer may
raise honey for home use and a lit
tie to spare. Every gardener, ev-
cry villager might do it. A single
swarm of bees, well attended to,
will soon produce as many swarms
as can be successfully kept in one
place. All that bees make is clear
gain. They get their treasure from
the flowers. We should have bees
enough in the country to have one
always slipping at every flower. The
flower is all the time producing
honey. The bee should be all the
time gathering it. If VIC had bee
all the time at every flower, honey
enough would be procured to sup
ply the world. 1t is a means of
health, wealth and pleasure. Let
bees be cultivated; let every farmer
have them. They are as useful as
cows, and far less troublesome. A
little attention will soon teach one
to manage them.
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Teaching the Baby.

You must take your baby just
where he is now, not much more
than a little animal, and educate
his physical nature, so rapidly de-
veloping. For instance, he has just
reached the climbing age; every
chair and stool is a worry to you,
and pair of stairs is a terror.
Now show him how to get up and
down the stairs, how to place his
feet In climbing up into chairs.
Let him tumble little; it will only
make him more careful. 1t is but
a foretaste of the hard schooling
which experience gives us all our
lives. Better little fall with you
close by to stop it at the right
place, than a great one when you
are "off guard" some day. IRE
member that too when he is in his
teens.) But beg of you, if you
want to see him grow up active,
strong limbed and agile, do not keep
his white dresses too clean, nor tie
his sashes after the present uncom-
Portable fashion, so that he isn't
conscious of any legs above his
knees. Then, let him feed himself.
He'll make miserable mess of it at
first, hut protect him with bib and
tin tray, and he'll soon teach his
spoon the way to his mouth. Let
him burn his fingers a little some
day when the stove is not very hot;
he won't touch it when it would be
dangerous.-.Scri6ner.
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The youngster being required to
write a composition upon some por-
ton of the human body, selected
that which unites the head to the
body, and expounded as follows /;
"a throat is convenient to have,
especially to roosters and ministers.
The Former eats corn, and crows
with it; the latter breaches through
his'n, and then ties it up. This is
pretty much all can think of about
necks."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
DIR. c. McLANE's
PILLS.

/ These Pills are not recommended as
"a remedy for all the ills that flesh is
heir to-" but in affections of the Liver,
and in all Bilious Complaints, Dyspepsia
and Sick Headache, or diseases of that
character, they stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better eathartic can be used pre-
paratory to, or after taking Quinine
As a simple purgative they are un
equaled.
BEWARE or INVITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated
Each box has a red wax seal on thu,
lid, with the impression DR.. McLANE's
LIVER Pills.
Each wrapper bears the signatures of
C. MeLASE and FLEMING Bros.
. Sold by all respectable druggists and
country storekespers generally.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
The Granger.
For the Citizen.l

For the Citizen.l
Mr.. EDITOR We are glad to see
grange column in your truly ex-
cellent paper, and regard its intro
duction as step in the right direc.
ton. We trust it will prove per-
manent improvement in one of the
best county papers published in the
State. Many a farmer and patron
will turn to it with hopeful expec-
fancy, for to them it will be full of
interest, and it will give additional
warmth to the welcome the CITIZEN
already receives in the rural dis
tricts. No paper is more accepta-
bic to the masses than spicy, pro
gressive county paper. Ii has fine
opportunity for moulding and edu-
eating public opinion, and when
this is improved in an effort to en-
terrain, instruct, and enlighten its
lCAOClSs anu W tluN IAASS VIC haSS
rial interests of the county, it is
worthy the highest encouragement
and the most liberal patronage.
The CITIZEN only needed grange
column to fill out the measure of
its usefulness and insure its well
come amongst all classes.
The grange is a farmers move
ment, organized in the interest OF
agriculture and the farmer, and In
directly the whole country, wars
against no other interest, and claims
in its dealings with the world, only
the rights and privileges freely ac-
corded to all individuals and csrpo-
rations. The patron, realizing such
to be its character and objects, is at
a loss to understand why every
newspaper in the State, devoted to
its interests and the development of
it's industries, should not give it q
friendly support or a word of en-
couragement.
Its purposes are published to the
world. If its objects be sinister,
and its influences prejudicial to the
general interests, the press should
denounce and expose it. But if
calculated to promote the interests
of those engaged in the cultivation
of the soil, and other forms of rural
husbandry, and to elevate and adj
vance their great industry, the press
should aid and encourage it, for an
enlightened and prosperous agricul-
ture reflects itself in every depart
ment of business, and an intelligent
discharge of the highest duties of
citizenship is essential to the per-
lection and permanency of good
We congratulate the CITIZEN on
its advance step, and If allowed,
would suggest that special grange
notices be placed at the head of its
grange column.
In conclusion, we think that
when the personal friends of the
CITIZEN. and the grangers unite in
according to it the highest excel
lence and usefulness, its prosperity
is assured. PATRON.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19

ORANGE JELLY CAKE.-Juice and
rind of two oranges thickened with
powdered sugar; stir in a half
pound package of dessicated cocoa
nut, leaving just enough to sprinkle
on the top layer; four eggs, half a
cup butter, two cups of sugar, one
cup of milk, and -four (enough to
make the batter, in which has been
well mixed one teaspoonful of ba-
king powder. Bake as for jelly cake,
spreading the dry cocoanut on the
top layer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
The Telephone Must Have
Limits.

The telephone, the London Spec
tator hopes, can not be set at work
without the consent of the victim.
1t says that ''if we are liable, with
out our own concurrence, to be
suddenly made a party to one or
more of the silly conversations, or
auditor of one or more of the mad
dening tunes, which are always 60
ing on in what Carlyle calls "this
washed-out nineteenth century of
ours, should soon be ready for
lunatic asylum. Fancy suddenly
having your ears opened to all the
silly babble of this muddle headed
and very chattering world"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1877-04-19
Boy Love.

Of ali the love affairs in the world,
none can supass the true love of a
big boy for his mother. / do not
mean merely a dutiful Affection
mean love, which makes a boy gal
liant and courteous to his mother,
saying to everybody that he is fair
ly in love with her. Next to the
love of husband nothing SO crowns
a woman's life with honor as this
second love, this devotion of son
to her. l never knew a boy to
turn OUT bad who began by "fall-
ing in love" with his mother. That
boy is true knight, and will love
his wife as much in the sere-
leaved autumn as he did in the dai
sled spring-time.
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SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.

THE countenance is pale and leaden
L colored, with occasional 1ushes, o,
a circumscribed spot on one or boil
cheeks; the eyes become dull the pupil:
dilate an azure semicirCle runs along
the lower eye-lid the nose is irritated
swells, and sometimes bleeds; swell
ing of the upper lip; occasional head
ache, with humming or throbbing OF
the ears an unusual secretion of saliva
Shiny or ftirred tongue breath very
foul, particularly in the morning; APP
petite variable, sometimes voracious
with a gnawing sensation ofthe stomach,
at others, entirely gone; feeting pains
in the stomach 4; occasional nausea ano
vomiting; violent pains throughout the
abdomen; bowels irregular, at times
costive stools Shiny; not unfrequently
tinged with blood belly swollen and
hard urine turbid respiration occa
,ionally difficult, and accompanied by
hiccough; cough sometimes dry and
convulsive; uneasy and disturbed sleep,
with grinding of the teeth temper
variable, but generally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR.. c. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE
Will certainly effect cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepa.
ration, net capable of doing tie Slglle1
FsiH,y to tie mast fender iztanf.
The genuine DR.. McLANE's VERMI-
FUGE bears the signatures of c. McLANE
and FLEMING Bros. on the wrapper.
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Harper's Weekly.
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Notices of tie Press.

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