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An Ingenius Scheme.

A Louisville paper tells of the
shrewd manner in which two peanut
venders took the advantage of the
curiosity inherent to mankind thus;
A man stepped out in the street
in front of the hotel, and began to
look at one of the fourth story win
dows with an opera glass. A man
coming out of the hotel observed
him, walked out into the street to
see what was the matter. Then u
policeman meandered leisurely up,
shaded his eyes with his band, and
eyed the window intently. Three
or four clerks from the adjoining
stores Sided out and joined the knot
in the street. A man with load of
peanuts drove alongside and halted.
Pedestrians stopped, inquired what
it was, and directed their attention
to the mysterious window.
By this time the small boys were
reinforcing the group from every
direction; the crowd almost blocked
the way; windows across the street
were thrown up; curious faces peered
out, subdued murmur arose and
the people swayed to and fro.-
Everybody wanted to know what
was the matter, and somebody start
ed the rumor that the clerk of the
hotel had laid wager that he could
walk from the window and roll n |
el-barrow on a rope to be |
stretched across the street. The |
man with the opera glass gazed fix
edly at the window, intermitting
now and then to wipe his glass with
his handkerchief.
The crowd began to get restless.
The man with the peanuts had sold
cut his stock. The man with the
opera glass jumped into-the wagon
and took seat beside his partner.
The twain looked around and smiled
bowed their thanks for the liberal
and the man with the op
era glass, content with the sale his
partner o. the peanuts had made,
had the impudence to arise and offer
his opera glass to the highest bidder.
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Was It Death?

One frequently hears, nowadays,
of the injection of medicines into
the veins, by means of a hypoder-
mic syringe, as one of the new fash
ioned modes of cure. My own ex-
perience in the matter, limited as it
is, may be useful as a warning both
to physicians and sufferers, and it
may be interesting, first, because it
is real; secondly, as we must all die
some time or other, suppose most
of US wonder now and then how it
will feel. Now, if what i went
through with was not death, it was
at least so near it that as far as
physical sensation went it was prac-
tically the same thug.
/ had been i'll for some time, suf
fering from frequent returns of Sc
we're pains, which the doctors
thought might be rheumatic, or
might be neuralgia, or might be
something else. At any rate, they
could not hit upon the medicines
either to relieve these pains or to
prevent their recurrence. Mean
time, while they were experiment
ing, / was getting weak and thin /;
so it was determined TO try and
ease me Of my misery, if even only
for a time, in hopes that nature
would gather a little strength, and
perhaps succeed in doing what the
doctors had failed in-curing me.
had a great objection to taking
opium on account of its well-known
injurious effects, and / had borne a
great deal Of pain rather than take
it. The doctors, however, over
came my objections by assuring me
that the injection of morphine un-
der the skin was not attended with
the same injury to the constitution,
and was usually more efficacious in
cases like mine than any other way
of taking the drug. Accordingly l
was furnished with a very small
syringe, which would bold just the
right dose, to the end of which was
sharp-pointed gold tube
about the size OF sailors needle.
A small bottle of morphine was
also provided, and promised faith
fully to use it according to direc-
tions on the return of severe pain.
NV medical attendant was very
anxious to try 1t then and there
himself, but as at the time Of his
visit L was enjoying an interval OF
ease, l would not consent TO this,
feeling confident-as, indeed, he
himself did-ot my capacity to ad-
minister it, and being without any
as to the result.
That night, before going to bed,
several twinges which had been at
me for an hour or more gave IN
mistakAble warning Of another
night Of sleepless torment, unless Il
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-07-10

of New England, which takes such
a large proportion of Southern cot
ton, certainly have no reason to
adopt the policy of hate and es-
arrangement insisted on by the Rad
ical leaders. The Boston Journal,
after quoting Whitthorne's state
ment, says;
''These figures appeal with spe-
cial force to our Massachusetts
merchants and manufacturers, and
afford a most powerful argument
against any and all attempts to per-
petuate sectional animosity and re-
kindlIng the. old political strife.
Before emancipation, those who
made any such suggestions were de-
nounced as pro-slavery men, dough-
faces ahd the like. That day is
past and gone. nor have we any dis.
position to fight over again the old
battles of anti slavery times. Now
such imputatIons have no founda-
ton. 1t is not only rightful, but
imperative, on all who desire thrift
and prosperity to teturn to New
England to urge the indictments of
an enlightened self-interest upon
our section. Massachusetts has
more at stake to-day in the pros
perity of the South and in the cul-
tivation of fraternal relations than
any other State. The drift of busi-
ness westward of US is tending to
insulate New England. Our com
merce has off, and we must necessa-
ril rely on our trade and manufac-
lures to maintain our former condi-
tion and prestige. We must retain
our hold ON the Southern markets,
and ought to have new ones. 1t is
the height of folly to think these
possible unless there is a reforma-
tion among our dominant politi-
clans. This is not to be looked for |
The great need of our day and con
dition is to place men in positions
of power and influence who under |
stand fully our business relations,
and who will make them a speciality |
for study and improvement. The |
sooner this is learned the better.
But it ought not to be a dormant |
sentiment"
We doubt not these prevail |
among the rejecting business men
of New Englend. They want trade;
they want Southern trade. And |
the Republican politicians of that
region insist the South must be de
stroyed; that she must uot be al |
lowed to have prosperity. 1t is a
question of peace and business. 1t
is a Question of the pocket with the
New England people.
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Southern Newspapers.

Boston Herald: "One of the most
hopeful signs of tie times in the
south is the growing independence
of the newspaper press. 1t is safe
to say that a handsome majority of
the southern newspapers, including
nearly all of any strength or infu-
ence, are today manfully and effect
Ually laboring in behalf of justice,
moderation and patriotism. They
denounced the blatherskites, oppose
repudiation, demand justice between
the races, and in every way seek to
promote good government. These
papers are seldom quoted in the Re
publican organs, which prefer to
present as southern sentiment the
vaporing of the narrowest ond bit
terest Bourbon sheets, like the Oko-
Iona States. The independence OF
the newspaper press in the south is
the best evidence of the growth of
independence in thought and polIt-
ical action
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agogue to mislead you In this State
debt question, and pull you down in
the mire with himself by his soph-
istry to aid in stamping your State
with dishonor. We fear to trust
our future to one that could be so
reckless of right to vote the ere
jected" ticket. Let the compromise
offered US be accepted, that the
stranger, with his capital, may feel
safe to come among us and build up
our waste places, and the steam be
seen rising from factories, and the
click of industry be heard in our sol
itude, and the hands now idle find en-
ployment in working up our own ma
terial. Let US pay the debt, that the
mantling blush may not crimson our
brows as the .faHm of repudiation;
that we he not ashamed among
strangers to own our State, and that
our consciences may rest in peace,
and our garments be free from
the stencil of reputation.
EsTELLE VEHSE.
gsTbo Hills -
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Decision.

1t will not do in this fast age to
be continually halting between two
opinions, or trying to sit on two
stools. This standing on the brink
of danger, poverty, and shlvering
about chances and risks, will not
do. Methusalah might have done
so without much risk of letting op
portunities slip, but just now. while
many are standing idle, don't wait
for the waters to be troubled, but
stir them yourself, and if you stop,
even then, to doubt some one may
step in ahead of you. Perhaps the
opening just now may not fill your
ideas of Importance or remunera
tion, but, ten to one, few months
from now you may sigh in vain for
these same opportunities, now re-
fused.
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A Sad Case.

About two weeks ago, as the
overland train was passing Chey-
enne, the attention of the passen-
gers was attracted by the lamenta-
tion of a poor Irish immigrant
whose berth had been robbed du-
ring the night, and every penny of
his scanty savings stolen, and
whose family would therefore arrive
beggars in a strange land. The
charitable passengers at once began
a subscription, which finally amount
ed to something over $3.50. When
the money had been handed the
poor sufferer, a pious, plausible
looking man dressed in black and
adorned with a white cravat, drew
him aside at one of the stopping
places, and said:
My poor man, l am really sorry
for you. Your sad case touches me
deeply. l am myself well provided
with this worlds goods, however,
and will give you $3.50 more. Here
is $500 gold note. Give me the
$3.50 you have, and keep the rest.
Nav heaven bless your
The poor Irishman did as re-
quested, with many blessings on
the generous stranger, who insisted
that his gift should not be made
known. When the passengers
reached this side of the bay the pi-
Gus looking philanthropist was no.
where to be found, he having evi-
dently gotten off at Oakland, for
reasons of his own.
The next morning the immigrant
repaired to a bank to get this note
changed, The teller picked mp
this bill and began narrowly exam
lining it.
"There-there is nothing wrong
with the bill, is there?"
TNow the clever reader has seen
all along what is going to happen.
He has read lots of just such Incl
dents as this. 1t is the same old
old story. Wen, well see about
t5at.
Nothing in the world is the mat
ter with it," said the teller quietly,
and he handed the man fifty tens.
That ended it, San francisco
News Letter.
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"The Hills. "
A HUNDRED YEARS FROM NOW.

The surging sea of human life forever onward
rolls,
And bears to the eternal shore its daily
freight of souls;
Though 'bravely sails our boat to-day, pale
death sits at the brow,
And few shall know we ever lived a hundred
years from now.
o mighty human brotherhood why fiercely
war and strive,
While Gods great world has ample space for
everything alIves
Broad fields, uncultured and unclaimed, are
waiting for the plow
OF progress that shall make them bloom a
hundred years from now.
Why should we try so earnestly in life's
short, narrow span,
On golden stairs to climb so high above our
brother manl
Why blindly at an earthly shrine in slavish
homage bow!
Our gold will rlst, ourselves be dust, hun
dred years from nowl
Why prize so much the worlds applause?
Why dread so much it's blame?
heeting echo is its voice of censHre or of
fame;
The praise that thrills the heart, the scorn
that dyes with shame the brow,
viii be as long forgotten dreams a hundred
years from now.
Opatient hearts, that meekly bear your weary
load of wrong!
. earnest hearts, that bravely dare, and,
striving, grow moro stTongI
Press on till perfect peace is won; you'll
never dream of how
You struggled DER life's thorny road 9 hun
dred years from now.
Grand, lofty souls, who live and toll that
freedom, right and truth
Alone may rule the universe, fer you is end
less youth;
When mid the blest with God you rest, the
grateful hands shall bow
Above your clay in rev'rent love q hundred
years from now.
Earth's empires rise and fall, o Time! like
breakers on thy shore;
They rush upon thy rocks of doom, 90 down,
and are no more:
The starry wilderness of worlds that gem
nights radiant brow
VIII light the skies for other eyes a hundred
years from now.
Our Father, to whose sleepless eyes the past
and future stand
An open page, like babes we cling to Thy
protecting hand;
Change, sorrow, death are naught to us if
we may safely bow
Reneath the shadow of thy throne a hun
dred years from now.
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Whitthorne's Potent Figures,

Courier Journal: The recent state
ment of Representative Whitthorne,
of Tennessee, relative to the pro
duction of the Southern States, pre-
sents facts which the Republicans
can not refute, and which give the
lie to their reiterated stories of
massacres of the negroes and their
constant persecution by the South
ern planters.
Everybody with a grain of intelli-
gence knows that in region given
over to assassination, persecution
and wholesale massacre of the la
boring population, the peaceful pur-
suit of agricultural employments
must be impossible. 1t is shown,
however, that the production of
cotton has increased over G,000, 900
bales and the area under cul
tivation has doubled since 1871;
that cattle and swine have increased
3.OOO,O00 from 1869 to 1878; that
not less than $2OO,O00,00O worth of
Southern products enter into the
purchase of merchandise and manu-
factured of New England, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania;
that the Southern railroads earn
100000 year; that population
and man anufactures have greatly in
creased; that the farm laborer in
the South is paid more than the
same class in the North. These
are well substantiated facts. They
do not coincide with the malicious
and slanderous Republican asseve-
ration that the South is given over
to idleness, persecution, massacre
and general deviltry- Yet Republi-
can politicians, among the people
who derive great benefits from the
results of Southern enterprise and
diligence, are to-day doing all they
can to injure the Southern people
and place them among les races
maudits.
The business men and manu:ac-
turers Of the North, and especially
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[4l Many persons say "I haven't got
the Consumption" when asked to cure
their Coughs with Shiloh's Consump-
ton cure. Do they not know that
coughs lead to Consumption, and
remedy that will cure consumption will
certainly and surely cure a cough or
any lung or throat trouble? We know
it will cure when all others fail, and
our faith in it is so positive that we will
refund the price paid if you receive no
benefit. Is not this fair proposition
Price 10cts., scots. and $1.0O per bottle.
For lame Chest, Back or Side, use Shi-
lOh's Porous Plaster. Price 25cts. For
sale by Sumpter Sc Stanley, Corner Drug
Store. feb13eow-1y-1
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An ample bedding of fresh staw
will do much to induce tired horse
to lie down and rest. Clean groom
ing, and an occasional washing will
also greatly encourage restfulness
and improve the appetite and health.
Overlooking is not judicious, and
will not restore flesh lost by hard
work and want of comfortable rest.
To prevent gals the harness should
be washed and kept soft with castor
oil. If vermin attack the harness, a
little powdered aloes rubbed in with
the oil, will keep them away from
the leather.
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The State Debt.

What assurance have the men
who oppose the settlement of the
State debt that they will be able
hereafter to do better? Having OBJ
tanned all they have sought, upon
what ground do they seek for more
than they demanded in the pasti
They are actually preparing in the
future to pay more, and one asssur-
ance of it is that this proposition
has actually divided their own fore
es. A large number who went with
them upon grounds which seemed
good to them will not 60 further.
These men are now supporting this
proposition. Are they in condition
to obtain better terms in the future,
or if terms are to be forced, to en-
force better terms when, with their
party united, they have been barely
able, after long struggle and un-
der the most favorable circumstan-
ces, to obtain the present terms of
settlement? We submit it to the
candid judgment of the people
whether part of party will be
able to do more than the entire par
ty could do. The division is al
ready apparent. A large number
of low tax men are supporting this
proposition, consistently, because it
is all they have contended tor. With
but few exceptions the low tax
newspapers are supporting 1t and
there is nothing to indicate any
ground for expecting that those
who now in consistently oppose their
own terms will be able to secure
more favorable terms. On the con-
trary everything points to the result
we have predicted as likely to fol-
low the failure of this proposition
not Immediately, but certainly.
OF course, the failure of this propo-
sition will for the present put an
end to the agitation. The creditors
will calmly resist and bIde their
time, but they will not wait long.
Those of them who do not expect to
be bought ous, or who are willing
to wait are not in favor of the set
tlement, and to them in justice must
be added others who paid a large
price for their bonds on an invest
ment, and who are justly and natu-
rally indignant at the loss they are
about to sustain. The larger part,
however, are willing to receipt this
now. When it fails
they will use every means TO obtain
better terms. Warned by the his
tory of other States, the people of
Tennessee will be blind not to close
at once with this proposition. If
it Is not accepted the creditors will
obtain more; they will never get
less. 1t would be better for them
now to take this than to endure de-
lay and costs, lawsuits, and the ex-
pense of keeping up a contest in
courts and Legislatures. The le- !
gitimate and ordinary expense of a |
long contest and the delay, make it |
better for them now to accept the |
terms offered. If this plan fails
they remain idle or stop the con
test while our politics will be filed |
again with this interminable, en-
barrassing question, to the exclu-
sion, in the future as in the past, of
all other interests. To those who
are openly opposing, we do not
speak. They will not change. The
people, however, are surely not
blind enough to follow a course
which promises in every aspect,
nothing but evil American.
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Gardening is regularly and prac-
tically taught in more than 10000
primary schools in France. Every
school house has its garden, and
teachers must be not only good
gardeners, but qualified to teach
horticulture or they cannot pass
examination.
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Don't Put It in the Papers.

Cincinnati Saturday Night: "For
heavens sakel don't let it get into
the papers," is the first cry of q
person caught in a mean scrape.
Keep it out of the papers and it is
all right. No matter how contemp-
tible- or dishonest the position may
be, or how much reason the often
ders may have for the shame, re-
morse and contrition, if the circum-
stance can be kept from the "cor-
morants Of the press" as the peo-
pie who have good reason to be
afraid of newspaper reporters some
times call them, he is tranquil and
happy. We are no champion of
that extreme hcence of the press
that is displayed, but we have no
ticed that the ones who cry out the
loudest against newspaper disclos-
ures are generally those whose own
lives and acts would not bear close
inspection. People who live clean,
lives lave little TO
fear from newspapers.
The only people who really enjoy
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John B. Cough got his start in
life by first being a drunkard. If
he had kept sober and attended to
his business, he might have been a
variety comic singer all his life, get
ting So per night, where he now gets
$3.50.
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No More Hog Cholera.

DIR. Salmon's Specific insures healthy
hogs and a profitable return for the
corn fed to them. Be sure Co read his
advertisement elsewhere. 1t is cheap.
Leave your order and use it as a pre-
ventive. 1t is also a most powerful pro-
phylactic and disinfectant for your Gel
lars, sinks and cesspools. Price only %
cents per fb in 10 and 20 fb cans. If
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Says the Detroit Free Press:
"The press of the South-daily and
weekly-never had the strenth and
enterprise of to day, and to this
fact must be credit } much of the
renewed prosperit hisible in al
most every Southern town and city.
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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. Wo
would take great pleasure in extending
credit to our friends and patrons, but
cash alone will yay our expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to n strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such q
course, and renew your su scription
without delay. We solicit your favor.
tE- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance.
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Professor Mayer, lecturing on
the suicidal mania, said that every
one in his audience had at some
time contemplated suicide, and
there was no denial.
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Young man, get married. Where
would you now be,you doublejoint-
ed idiot, if your old daddy had re-
mained bachelor all the days of
his life?
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''I like the CITIZEN, but am not able
to pay for it." Then get us five new
subscribers at 50 each and we will SEM
it to you free.
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To let yourself down to any
mans level is easy enough, but to
get back to where you came from
and not tear your trowsers is pure
business.
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The heart is truly a monster
beater. 1t jumps about $4,000, 900
times during the year, and if warmed
up little will add on few more
millions.
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[6l. "HACKMETACK," a popular
and fragrant perfume. Sold by Sump-
ter & Stanley, Corner Drug Store.
febI3eoW-1y-1
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Please don't fail to send us the
\postage on your paper If you live
out of Giles county-at the rate\
Of 20 cents & year.
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The only people who really enjoy
bad health are the doctors.