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Pay Of Authors,

The majority of authors and wri-
tcrs of every kind are VIGOROUSLY
poor, but if anybody prints a para
graph that any one of them has re-
ceived $4,000, $4,000, or even $780,
600 for a book of an ordinary sort,
the paragraph is reproduced every
where, and quite generally believed.
The latest story of this kind going
the rounds is that Harriet Beecher
Stowe made 100000 by "Uncle
Toms Cabin" Why not put the
amount at 100000? One set of
figures is not more improbable than
the other, and very much wider of
the truth. Mrs. Stowe has never
got. over $4,000 to $4,000, say
those in a position to be informed,
from her great anti slavery novel,
although likely it has sold more
largely in the time following
its first publication than any work
since the invention of printing.
George Eliot has been repeatedly
credited with fabulous sums for
her novels. She has been most
handsomely paid, albeit her pay
has been increased by gossip from
five to tenfold. Dickens would
have left an estate worth millions
if one 1.-THE of the pen-earnings he
has been charged with could have
been substantiated. Tennyson,
princely as his compensation has
been, has been treated niggardly by
his publishers, compared with the
reports circulated concerning it.
Victor Hugo's earnings-and some
of his publishers have delt so liber-
ally with the poet that they lost
heavily by him-have been so ex-
agerated that, were they correct, he
would be one of the richest citizens
of France. Taine, Renan, Dumas,
Feuillet, Angler, Auerbach, Spiel
hagen, Collins, Reade, Longfellow,
Emerson, Lowell, Holmes, if public
rumor might be trusted, would be
rolling in wealth. But it is not Of
the eminent poets, novelists, phil
osophers, and historians alone that
these tales are narrated. Authors
of merely respectable talent and
quite mediocre capacity have thou
sands accorded to them where they
have not received hundreds, or per
haps nothing at.all. Book making
is very profitable compared with
what it once was; but still, it is, for
the most part the reverse of lucra-
tive. The great majority of books
do not get out of their first edition
usually 1000 copies-and they
that are reckoned as fair successes
seldom yield to the authors more
than $1,000. The man or woman
who derives $4,000 or $1,000 from
work is exceptional; and they
who render themselves independent
by writing are the black swans of
of literature. TIE highest financial
aim of most writer's is To live by
their calling; and how many Of
them fail
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

The proposition that tho Govern.
ment shall purchase Camp Chase,
where so many dead Confederate
prisoners ie buried, and care for
the graves there has, the New York
Times candidly tells US, aroused the
deepest ire Of leading Northern Re.
publicans, who donounco the propo-
sition as "a piece Of Cancellation"
about on a par with Hayes south
ern policy. The Times is not so yio-
lent as these, and suggests that there
ought 20 be peace with dead Con
federates. There Is no need fight
ing them longer. IL thinks that as
the owners OF the land no Camp
Chase, where the prisoncrs were
buried, are extremely anxious ~
pillow it up, "a mere act Of justice 20
them" should make the Govern
ment purchase this mighty grave
ward
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04
a Remarkable ResuIt.

1t makes no difference how many
Physicians, or how much medicine you
have tried, IL Is now an established fact
that German Syrup is the only remedy
which has given complete satisfaction in
severe cases OF Lung Diseases. IL Is true
there are yet thousands of persons whs
are predisposed to Throat and Lung Az
fections, Consumption, HemOrrhages,
Asthma, Severe Colds settled on the
Breast, Pneumonia, Whooping Cough,
&c, who have no personal knowledge
sold last year without one complaint
Lacey, and all druggists in America.
iun21-e0w-ly-l
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Q E1 ID
DO the Yoters of Gnes Connl

To the Voters Of Giles County.
FELLOW CITIZENS -
have this day announced myself Ia
your county paper, as Candidate for
recollection 20 the Office Of Chancellor Of
this Division. II affords me unfcigncd
pleasure % have this opportunity ofox-
pressing my gratitude 70 you for your
kind support In the past; and y would
be a source Of still greater gratitude and
qualification 20 meet with your hearty
support once more, and only oncg. 10
would give me assurance OF yohf appro-
batlon and endorsement OF my past Of
forts % serve you Ia my o0iokal capacity.
To the best Of my ability / have endeay-
ored % do my duty and wherein have
erred land IL 4 bat human o. err,) tho
error has been Of the head and not OF tho
heart. For the work that has been ac-
complained, during my term, i refer J GA
70 the records Of the Court. IL will bo
impossible for me 10 canvass tho several
counties, or any Of them, for the reason
that my official duties are now upon me,
and VIII 80 continue, until very short
time before Tho election. Ia View %
this, 1 feel assured, you viii readily eN-
cuso me, as Il u q matter or much more
importance 10 the public, ~ the Courts
sheuld be regularly held, -haD that
shoulI canvass for reelection. The
couseauerce g., must mainly rely On
the assistance AMI efforts Of my friends
throughout the county. My compcu-
tors are worthy and honorable gentle
men and should you honor either o.
them with the position, shall bow
submisslyely 10 The will Of tho people,
and retire with the consciousness Of
having endeayered 10 discharge, With
fidelity, the high trust cofnmittcd 20
fobal-d w. 5. FLEMING
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

A very extraordinary card from
Geo. p. Rowell d Co., of New York,
lis circulated among publishers and
business men. They offer to insert
an advertisement gratis in 1000
newspapers, provided they are paid
the publishers, rates for %, which
are catalogued. On the same plan,
"a different State lists are offered,
all Of which contain the leading pa
pers. We can only deprecate the
impecunIosity of Outside" and 9th
er similar patrons that enables this
Rowell MONOPOLY to array itself
against the honest labor Of the
legitimate craft. We are very sure
the Morristown Gazette is not re-
corded in Rowell's catalogue of pau
pers to his monopoly.-[Mo
town Gazette. Good And you
may bet your last dollar that the PU-
LAsKI CITIZEN is not on 1t either.
1t is shameful.
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Growing Old.

How strangely our ideas of grow
ing old change as we get on in life.
To the girl in her teens the ripper
maiden of % seems quite aged.
Twenty two thinks 35 an IAN old
thing" Thirty five breads 40, but
congratulates herself thaC there may
still remain some ground to be pos
sessed in the fifteen years before
the half-century is attained. But
30 does not by any means give up
the battle of lite. 1t feels middle
aged and vigorous and thinks old
age long way in the future. Six
ty remembers those who have done
great things at three score; and one
doubts if Parr, when he was married
at 40, had at all begun to feel him
self an old man.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

We are panied to learn of the
suspension from ministerial duties
of the Rev. w H. Bates, of the
Southern Methodist Church, Knox
vile. This publication is astound-
ing, but the integrity and standing
of the investigating committee, wLo
make the verdict, is sufficient guar
antee that an immortality has been
perpetrated by HIM that deserves
punishment, and the Southern
Methodist Church is not a Puritani-
cal plymouth organization to white
wash priest or layman.- Morris
town Gazette,
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An Acquisition

Since its virtues have been utilized by
DIR. Tabler as permanent cure for Piles
the Buckeye now so abundant in our
native forests, has become of almost as
much Importance in the medical world
as Cinchena, or Peruvian bark, of South
America. Fortunately the medical pro-
perties are in the fruit, and not the bark
hence the trees will not be destroyed,
but will stand many years to yield an
supply, and we may regard
Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment as a
permanent remedy Price 80 cts. bot
tie. For sale by Sumpter & Lacey.
dncR-eOW-lV-l
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ANOTHER WONDERFUL CAVE.
SURPRISING in Extent and Grandeur
the Mammoth Cave.
Discovery Of Mummies Who Have
Lain There For Centuries.

GLASGOW JUNCTION, KY, June %
Another wonderful cave has recent
ly been discovered near this town.
1t has already been explored for a
distance of % miles in one dIrec-
ton called the Long Route. and l6
miles in another called the Short
Route. The avenues are very wide.
A span of horses can easily be driv-
en- through for a distance of IL
miles. Three rivers which are wide
and very deep, are encountered on
the long route. One of them is
navigable for IA miles until the pas
sage becomes too narrow to admit
boat. This forms the third, or
river route, which has been explored
in a boat. The cave is wonderful
beyond description, and far sur
passes in grandeur the Mammoth
Cave or any other cave ever dlscov-
cred. Several mummified remains
have been discovered in one of the
large rooms. They were reposing
In stone collins rudely constructed,
and from appearances may have
been In this cave Tor centuries.
They present every appearance of
the Egyptian mummies. Great ex-
citement prevails over this very i'm
portant discovery. Mr.. E. Mont
more, of Chestnut street, Louisville,
KY, purchased three of the mum
mics and has them now in his pos
session. Maj. George M. Proctor,
of Glasgow Junction, KY, pur-
chased the remainder of the mum
mics from the owner of the cave,
whose name is Thos. Kelly. He is
or rather was few days ago a very
poor man, struggling to make
payment on a farm of twenty-four
acres. Upon which by mere acct
dent the entrance to the wonderful
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

The wise policy of our Govern
ment in selling lis public lands at
nominal prices and giving them
away to actual settlers, is a species
of generosity that pays enormously
in TIE end, besides bringing COM
fort and happiness to thousands of
families, rapidly increasing the pop
ulation, and nurtuFing patriotism
which insures the perpetuity OF Re
publican institutions. The United
States are now far in advance of
any other country in agricultural
products. Look at the proof, as
compiled from official sources
Thus, tue corn crop increased from
76S.320000 bushels in 1867 to
1,340, 100000 in 1877, or nearly a
hundred per cent. in a single de
cade. The hog crop, which may be
said to be a product of the corn
crop, reached the enormous total
for the year ending with last month
of 9.04S, 500 head, an increase OF
rising n hundred per cent. during
the last ten years. The yield OF
wheat for the past year was 800
600, 600 bushels. or $4,000, 600 more
than was ever before produced. De
Quoting the amount necessary for
home consumption and seed, up
ward of 100000 bushels is left
for export. In almost all other
farm products there has been near
ly a corresponding increase.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04
What is Portaline2

This question is thus briefly and truth
fully answered. Portaline, or Tabler's
Vegetable Liver Powder, derives its
name from the fact that il regulates
those portals Of the body through which
the most dangerous diseases make their
entrance into the human system. Sim
pie roots and herbs, for which we are in
debted 10 bountiful nature, have been
scientifically combined, and presented
as a cure TO all suffering with Constipa-
ton, Billiousness, Dyspepsia, and all dis
90 cents a package. For sale by G.. a.
Pope s. Co. janlo-eow-y-l
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

AS a sample of the manner in
which our boys are affected by what
they read in those modern abomina-
tions-dime novels, weekly story
papers, eto-the following may well
be taken; Two boys in New York,
whose brains were full of all sorts
of nonsense, forged checks upon
their employers for $4,000, and
started for the Barbados. On the
way out they tried TO get the sailors
to mutiny, hoist the black flag, and
start of on piratical cruise, but
the sailors only laughed at them,
and when they arrived at the end of
their voyage they were arrested and
taken home. The other case was
that of three Detroit boys, fourteen
years old, who armed themselves
heavily with revolvers and knives
and started for the West. They
went about fifty miles, when two of
them were run over and killed on
the railroad, and the other one was
only too glad TO come home.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

You can get the RURAL SUN, publish
ed at Nashville, and the CITIZEN for 1915
per annum. The SUN is the best Agri-
cultural and Live Stock journal publish
ed in the South or Southwest, We get
it in exchange every week, and do not
hesitate to make this endorsement. AS
for the CITIZEN, we refer to our long list
of subscribers as a test of its merits.-
Send us SO rs and have both sent to
you. apr25-ly
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04
The Tale Of the Terrible Fire.
l viii tell you the tale of the terrible fire;
1t springs from the earth-it is dreadful an,

win tell you the tale of the terrible fire;
1t springs from the earth-it is dreadful and
dire.
In the dark
Wintry sky,
See the spark
Upward fly;
See it grow
In its frame
See it glow
Into flame.
See it burning and blazing
See it spring into life
With a vigor amazing
How it longs for the strife
Hear the noise and the rattle
How it swells, how it grows,
Like the crash ola battle,
Like the clash of the foesl
See it rushing and rising and roaring,
See it trying to touch a tall star;
1t seems in the sky to be soaring
Like a flag of fierce flame from affair
See it turning and burning and braving-
See it streaming and cleaning and redl
All! the smoke in the air now is waving
Like winding sheet of dull lead.
Hear it laugh with wild glee at each futile
endeavor
To quench or to quell its exhuberant force.
1t is flaming and free and fantastic forever;
1t delights and exults with no pang of
I6UlOIs0,
With no pain bCt with passion-mad pas
sion--it qUivers
With its pennant of scarlet, the bloodiest
hue,
With It's cleaning streams and roaring rivers,
1t dares to do all things that flame dares to
do.
How it darts, how it dances and dashes,
AS though it had taken for aim,
To reduce all the world into ashes
And to fling all the stars into fame!
1t Is glittering and glowing and glaring-
And raging it rings its own knell;
1t is showing its wonderful daring
1t is turning the sky into he'll!
How it lazily fingers
With its swell and its fall;
With its fiery fingers
Weirdly waving pail;
With its horrible Misses,
Like the wind in a storm;
With its clustering kisses,
On face and on forml
OF its fl shes
Bereft,
Only ashes
Are left;
Till its cries
Tell its doom
And it dies
In the gloom.
/ thave told you the tale of the terrible fire;
1t has sung its last note to the luminous Tyre
1t has sung its last song, it has breathed its
last breath,
1t has lived without life, it has died without
death.
Appleton's Journal for July.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

In various parts of the country
on Friday of last week there were
six men executed according to law
for murder, whilst the sentences of
four others who were to have been
hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, were
committed by President Hayes.
During the week two men were
hanged by Judge Lynch.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

The attention of-our readers in
the country is called to the increas-
ing demand for dried fruits. Large
shipments ofdried apples and peach
es are made to Europe from this
country, and the foreign demand is
increasing. 1t would pehaps be
profitable to those who have or
chards to- dry quantities of their
fruit this season. Those who pro-
vide themselves with improved dry
ing apparatus make the business
nav
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04
LooKt

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scription is out or unpaid, and that you
are requested to pay up at once. We
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will way our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere 10 a strict cash
rule. We hope you will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity Of such a
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
IL We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

The auditor of public accounts of
Virginia has received returns from
all counties and cities of that State
using the Moffett whisky register
from the date Of their being put in
operation up to April 3Cth. These
returns indicate that the total yield
of revenues from the sale of whisky,
taxes, ETC., will foot up for the year
$500, Ala, as against $262,195 here
tofore reported as the amount as
sessed on liquor in every form for
the years 1S76-77'
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Please Take it Back. F"
By julius S. scHLoss.

Yen kissed me at the gate last night,
And mother heard the smack
She says its naughty to do so.
SO please TO takelt back.
I cannot see what harm there is,
In such thing, can you!
But mother seems 50 very wrOth,
Please take it oack, now do.
1t seems to me quite natural
For lips TO meet that way,
But mother says its very wrong,
So take it back pray.
And come 20 think Of il, Pm sure
That several times twas done,
So now to make it right be sure
To take back every one.
l would not have you think its me,
do not care mite,
But mothers so particular,
Please take them back to night,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04
There is Better Way to Enjoy Life

There Is Better way to Enjoy Life
Than to quietly suffer the miseries result
ing from Dyspepsia. IfyOu are distress
ed with headache, nervousness, low
spirits, wakefulness, palpitation of the
heart, costiveness, liver complaint, pain
in the stomach. bad taste ia the mouth,
Heartburn, etc, seek that comforting
relief that always comes from useing
Parker's Ginger Tonic, and you will be
astonished at your renewed capacity to
enjoy life when freed from pain and suf-
fering. Protect also your little ones
from Cholera Infantum, and yourself
and family from sudden attacks of Collie,
Cramps, Dysentery, er Cholera Morbus,
by keeping this superb corrective and
invigorant always Al hand. buy a 81 90
bottle from your druggist, Sumpter s.
Stanley or q sample bottle at Is cts, and
test its merits. ialy4-3m-eow-l
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

"Heli and Damnation" is the title
of book recently written and pub
lished by q preacher in Chicago
That is the book we called for when
we heard the Grand Commission
had decided to count Louisiana for
HaYca.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

Chicago TimeS Winnie Ream's
marriage will not, it is announced
withdraw her from the artistic
world. 1t ought not, at any rate,
to hinder her from moulding the
human form ia a very skillful and
life like manner.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

The Burlington Hawkeyo is Re.
publican, but it will sometimes talk
out in meetin. For instance
"The first man TO name Hayes for
President has crawled into a dark
and lonely hole and pulled the hole
ia after him."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

The Confederate Powder Mills
chimney at Augusta, Georgia, which
lowered aloft over the Government
powder-works there during the late
war, is 10 be preserved as an endur-
ing monument OF the sanguinary
struggle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

Rochester Democrat and Chroni-
Gle: "Clarkson n. Potter went to
New Orleans with the first investi-
cation committee. The New Or
leans Times says he seemed indif-
ferent to the whole affair, his chief
anxiety being to dodge trouble and
have his necktie correct And
now John Sherman and several
other fellows are deuced sorry they
didn't kill time with an anxiety of
the same sort Courier-J ournal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

We do not approve Of an easy
unscating Of Presidents This
would indeed be Mexicanization.
If Mr. Hayes could be removed
simply by renewing the discussion
of the Electoral question, and Mr..
Tilden put in his place, there is no
certainty that IN attempt would not
then soon be made 10 remove Mr..
Tlldon, if he displeased leading pol
iticians. The country needs 20 feel
that a decision decides.--l Vicks-
burg Herald.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

A young buck of the soap luck
order, accOsted a Yankee as follows:
/ say, fellow, some individuals take
me for a Frenchman, and some take
me for an Etalyean-now, what do
you think | ann think you are a
COMPOUNDED fool, replied Jonathan.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

"Rally workingmenn to the sup
port Of the Democratic ticket, be-
cause seventeen years OF Radical
Republican misrule has only brought
ruin and desolation to your homes
and firesides.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

Falstaff asked, whats honor"
That's easy. Any woman who sits
behind another in church, can tell
what's on her in ten minutes. Amt
it so, ladiesF'
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

Congress passed an act increas-
ing the pensions of all soldiers and
sailors who have lost, while in SER
vice, either both hands, both eyes
or both feet, to so per month.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

/Subscribers out Of the State
/mnsf renew promptly when their
time is out as indicated by the \
date following their names, or
when marked. Be sure 60 sendl
20 cents for postage.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

Courier Journal: The Indianap-
oils journal says; "Every tax
payer in Indiana will have to con-
tribute his share toward paying the
$4,000 appropriated for the Potter
committe." And the Journal
should have added that every tax
payer in Indiana will have to con-
tribute his share toward paying the
$4,000 taken from the Treasury to
be used in an attempt to cover the
villainous Republican frauds by
which the "grand old party" stole
the electoral votes of Florida and
Louisiana for Hayes.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

1t is a good rule never TO forget
the kindly deeds which others do to
you, and never remember those you
do for them.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

Edison's phonograph can whistle,
sing, howl and jaw, but il can't
throw n stone at yowling cat on
the back fence, or kick a chrome
agent OF the front stoop. There is
lots of room for improvement.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-07-04

He sot him down on the steps
that had been newly painted
and when he riz to travel home
That gal of his-she tainted.