The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-12-19

AND USEFUL INFORM ALTON.
Social Culture.

1t has been the fashion to com
plain of the dreary isolation of
dwellers in rural localities. But
the complaints have been made
most frequently by those who are
entire strangers to the matters
upon which they write so freely
Country folks are in general so full
ly occupied with affairs that they
have no time to discover how lone
some they really are. So far as
this is concerned we think it a mis-
fortune. We are too busy. We
work too hard. We take few or no
holidays. We read and think too
little, and do not spend sufficient
time in social culture. There is no
reason why those who pillow the soil
and "whose talk is of bullocks,
shoulu not experience the refine
Inents which are the result OF for
NAL social life. la business, at bar
gains, in pursuit of dollars, no man
is seen at his best. He Is thorny,
spiny, with his back up as a porcu-
pine might be at his business. Let
one doff his working clothes and
enter room full of his neighbors
men, women. young men and
maidens-and he is a man of an
other kind He naturally falls into
The ways of an intuitive kindness,
which is really the truest polite
ness; the doing to his companion
what he would that he should do to
him. He ''lets himself OUT to
please, and, after an evening spent
in social converse, he retires with |
many rough corners and asperities |
toned down. For a few days the |
influence remains. 1t would be
permanent if it could be rein forced |
now and then, and the good results
would be most agreeable and useful. |
There is no difficulty in bringing
these good influences to bear. Two |
or three persons, with energy and |
some magnetism about them, can |
put them in motion with case
Now is the time to begin the effort.
A book club is one excellent means
to effect it. A mutual improvement
association is another. They are |
quite enough for a beginning. Let
a dozen persons, more or less, each
name a book or magazine and sub
scribe the money to purchase them.
Each of these books is made to 90
the rounds of the members; so that
for the price of one book each
has the reading of several,
and, at the ed, may possess this
book permanently; or, the books
may be sold and the money applied
to the purchase of new ones.
Many Of our farms are being
dreadfully maltreated--a absolutely
robbed and starved to death. Some
Of the existing societies for the en-
of horse trots, side
shows and jim-crackG, would do
we'll to reorganize as Societies for
,he Prevention of Abuse to Farm
Lands. Even in the old States,
where we ought to know better, we
are stintlng the land or fuzzing
with so-called chemical fertilizers
Of which we know nothing. Where
We make one load of manure now,
we ought to make at least three.
December is the best month Of all
n which to help to do this. These
are some of the multitude of ways:
The cattle are to be stabbed at an
early hour. The liquid waste is as
for the manure as the solid
portions; Eand yet on seven eighths
If the farms it is nearly all lost. 1t
ian be saved by storing supply of
muck or common loan under the
stable where the oxen and the COWS
md the horses are to stand. and
putting fresh coating upon the pile
1ften enough to keep it free from
ioul odors: or better yet-ior few
men can be trusted to manage a
barn basement-make a shed or
pit for the compost, and convey the
liquids away from the stable by
suitable drains, which should be
provided in every decent barn. One
hundred loads of saturated earth
will be worth next May, to any far
ner one hundred and fifty dollars,
putting it at the least. Now is the
lime to put the absorbants where
hey will do the most good. One
other thing: Leaves of the forest
ire wasted when they should be
saved. They make most excellent
bedding, and most excellent ma {
lure; and a few of the coming No
ycmber days given to transporting
hem from the woods where they
ire not wanted, to the barn where
hey are, will pay.-[Golden Rule.
American trotting horses are in
demand in England. The farmers I
nv for them A Hamnshire far ,