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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30

hear him go on about itl reslly
believe he's perfectly bound up in
it. This scarf is the Cook scarf.
All the girls wear them and we
uamed them after him just on &C
count of the interest be takes Ia
differentiation"
"What is it, anyway"
"Thls Is null trimmed with
Languedoc lace"
81 don't mean that-that."
"Oh! differentiation arn't it
sweet It's got something to do
with species. It's the way you tell
ut src- e-cthe- so vou'll
know which is becoming. And we
learn all about ascidians, too. They
are the divinest things. Pm abso-
lutely enraptured with ascidians.
If / only had an ascidian Of my
own, l wouldn't ask anything else
in the world"
"What do they look like, dearp
did you ever see oneT' asked the
Brooklyn girl, deeply interested.
"Oh, no; nobody ever saw one
except Mr.. Emerson, but they are
something like an oyster with a
recticule hung on its belt. / think
they are just heavenly"
"Do you learn anything else be-
sides all theseT"
"Oh, yes we learn all aboat COM
mon philosophy and logic and
those common things like meta
physics, but the girls don't care
anything about those. We are just
in ecstasies over differentiation and
molecules and Mr.. Cook and proto-
plssms and ascidians, and Mr.. EN-
erson aud 1 really don't see why
they put in those vulgar branches.
If anybody beside Mr.. Cook and
Mr.. Emerson had done it we
should have told him to his face
that he was terribly, awfully mean
And the Brookly girl went to bed
that night in the dumps because
fortune had not vouchsafed for her
the advantages enjoyed by heI
friend, while the Boston girl dream.
ed of seeing an ascidian chasing Q
moleCule over a differentiated back
fence with a club for telling pro
toplasm that his youngest sister
had so many freckles on her nose
that they made her cock-eyed.-
| BROOKLYN Eagle.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30
Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child

Is it best, asks Boston mother,
in letter to the Detroit Free Press,
to move the things out Of reach
when we tell the little ones they
must not touch them, or compel
them to let them alone while within
reach2 The latter seems the only
way TO me to teach obedience. i
have seen parents tell their little
ones, while at the table, that they
must not touch such q thing, and
ther move the article out Of reach I;
then the little one would reach
and pull the table cover until they
got hold of the desired article, and
when taken away from them they
would scream, and the mother
would have to take tho child away
from the table How much better,
it seems to me, would it have been
to let the article remain within
reach; then IL the child touches 1t
after being told that it must not,
tiugle the fingers with a little
switch. This you will rot have to
do but few times; child will not
put his finger in the fire when he
finds IL burns. Widowed when my
little boy was only one and half
years old, / felt that a double rc-
sponsibility rested upon me 10 rails
ing him for usefulness and 10 meet
ali the temptations Of this life. Sew
eral times have 1 had TO punish
him hard, for he was a stubborn
child and wanted to have his own
way, and after had brought him
to submit to my will 1 have gone
away and wept myself. Aud to-
day as l look upon my noble boy,
now nineteen years old, without a
single bad habit and with a strong
love for mother and home, / am
thankful that had strength TO do
my duty.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30
Induced to Chew.

II never '-ied to chez ,oh..oo
Dut once" remarked the Rev. Mr.
bedWeii. 81 snail never forget the
circumstance" eS' 'No
TEL us about it." remarka5 .
young lady. whc. - few momeot ha-
lore, mad beer baptized by the reve-
rend gentleman.
4 was verr small boy at the
Time, and was a great fayorite of
Danlel' a colored man. owned bv
my father. / used to 90 out TO
Dan's cabin at night and listen TO
MS ghost stories uatil 1 was afraid
70 cross the yard to the big house.
one night when the wind scattered
the snoWfiakes aronnd the old cab
IN, ana while several large sweet
potatoes roasted in the fire, 1 sat
with old Daniel. No one who has
Oeen raised among colored people
can forget the fun of sitting around
the cabin fire. The old splnning-
wheel, the hamper. baskets in the
corner, the red bedstead, and the
dug-out cradle, all come back and
defy the influence of glowing furni-
ture and soft rugs. Dan was strik-
lngly communicative on the night
in question. We had killed hogs
that day, and the truth is, old Dan
had been drinking.
"Tom," remarked the old man,
yer don't chaW terbarker. does
yer2"
"No, sir"
"Dat's a pity. A boy who
doesn't chaw terbarker will never
be man. 1 will bet yer can't spit
ober dat backlog. Try it,"
81 tried. and failed signally."
"Dar now. DOsn yer know dat
q boy what can't spit never will be
a man2 Haben' yer eber noticed
how a man will spitP'
Eyes, sir,
"Wall wouldn't yer like to place
yersef on de record, an learn ter
spit like white manr'
Yes sir.'
"Wall, heah, take dis" and he
cut piece of tobacco from a large
twist.
"Smack dat in yer mout an
chaw while der taters is roastin'. )"
1 obeyed, and in a few moments
could spit like a man."
"Come down on hit savage" he
said. Hit hard. Watch me, and
he chewed vigorously. The fire
grew excessively warm. l looked
around, and the hamper baskets
seemed be tumbling over each
other.
"Doan spit hit out. Hit savage,
Chaw hard. De victory is in sight.
Is yer sickY'
No, sir, but-but- i had eaten
a hearty supper, but within three
minutes from the time / threw out
the tobacco l was as empty as one
OF the hamper basket, and as linn
ber as the spinningwheel band
Dan spread a blanket on the floor
and as / dozed off TO sleep. l heard
, him blowing the ashes from the
potatoes. / never have taken an
other chew Little Rock Gazette
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30
A Broken Train.

AS a train was approaching
Cleveland it parted in the middle,
and the bell rope snapped of like q
thread, the end of it striking an old
lady on her bonnet. "Whnt is the
matter2" she exclaimed. "Oh, the
trains broke in two" replied a gen.
tleman who sat in the next scat.
81 should say so" the old lady said f,
looking at the broken bell cord,
"Did they s'pose a trihing string
like that would hold the train TO-
getherT
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30

Henry Ward Beecher having SAID
lately, that the people of the south
would get along better if they would
mind their own business and let
politics alone, the Clarksville To
oacco Leaf adds that the Reverend
Mr.. BeecheT would get along better
&c he would mind his own business
and let other mems wives alone
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30

At a printers festival, lately,
the following toast was offered :
"Woman-SecoLd only to the press
IN the dissemination of the news
The ladies are yet undecided wheth
to regard this as compliment OF
otherwise.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30

An exchange says that sup in
New Hampshire you can, for $1.5O,
purchase a barrel of cider with a
yellow dog thrown in" Yes, but
hang it, who wants barrel of cider
iT'o ~hioh n yellow do@ has heen
tbrOwnY
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30

The count stands thus: Hancock.
I56; Garfield, pa; necessary to a
choice. lS5. Had New York gone
democratic Hancock would have
had 100 votes as agaips: Garfield s
us.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30
al MinnesOta Story.

Minnesotas Eli Perkins: One aw-
full cold night-colder than two OF
the coolest nights consolidated--a
hunter named Hosking built an ex-
ira big fire in his log cabin to keep
warm, and he kept a-piliDg on the
wood until the shanty was all
ablaze, and when a few persons liv-
in around there saw the light an
run to his assistance, they saw Hos
kins a-settin' in the midst of the
flames a-shiverin' and a-rubbin' OF
his hands as though he couldn't
get warm; and when the shanty was
all burned to ashes they found him
in the ruins, a.settin' on q big hick
ory log, frozen to death.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30

To CLEAN BLACK CASHMERE
Place the dress or goods in a strong
borsx water, made lukewarm; let 1t
remain in soak all night, then take
out and hang on line to drip, and
when nearly dry press of. Do not
rinse or wiring.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30

My son, deal with men who advertise
You will never lose by it.-[ Ben. Frank
lin.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30

What did it mean? His very
words 20 Jennie the night beforel
Mr.. Fernleigh listened in black
amazement What could it meant
Had the girl been fooling9
Young ladies'" drawing himself
ur stifflY, 81 am happy to see you
are enjoying rather unintelligILle
Ike. If Miss Vaughan is not in /
will make my adieux."
"Oh, you want Jennie?" asked
Bel. Here, WillT and in tumbled
Will this time in his true char
! acl-C. 81
Throwing himself in the startled
gentleman's arms, he murmured-
Horace, here is your own little
Jennie! Why are you so silent
love? Speak, if but one word, to
your own darlingp and he stran-
gled him in bear-like hug.
The truth flashed like lightning
across Horace Fernleigh's mind,
The girls had thrown themselves in
to chairs and were shriekIng with
laughter. Will still held him in
his BEARS embrace, pouring words
of love into his unwilling ears. He
had been tricked, duped, fooled out
rageously; but there was no helE
for it.
With a frantic struggle he re
leased himself from Wills encirlire g
arms, and bounded through the hal
into he street, the girls shrieks al q
Willis despairing Farewell, my
Ownl" ringing in his ears.
BY morning the whole villagt
would know of his disgrace. Ht
left that afternoon for parts un
known, for the time being t least
cured of his propensity for ,lirtIng
The girls had had their Isvenge
and it was doubly sweet.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30

at once. BY st. Patrick, isn't that
him coming in at the gate?'
Tiny few to the window.
at is indeed! Willie, why aren't
you dressed now, so that you coald
begin your siege at once"
BELL, go down at once and enter
tain the gentleman until your cous
in from Devonshire comes down"
commanded Will; sand mind you
encourage him to make all the love
he can; and you stay here and
dress me-"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30

n believe he has made love to
every girl IN the village" cried
n. Belle Rathbourne. "It's per-
SS fectly scandalousp
"He told me last night that 1 vas
,he sweetest girl he ever met" said
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05
Hints for Celery Growers.

p. r. Quinn in American Garden
Market gardeners who grow celery
for profit, and whose methods it is
safe to follow, always raise this veg.
etable as second crop. The ground
is heavily manured in the spring with
composted yard manure, and then
planted with early cabbages, onions,
or beets. These crops are harvested
early in July, and the ground is then
plowed Immediately and made fine
and mellow with n smoothing harrow.
Then the celery is planted and kept
scrupulously clean from grass and
weeds, and under ordinary circum-
stances full crop is obtained by the
close Of the season.
The old fashioned method OF dig
ging trenches TO plant celery in, is
numbered among things of the past.
1t is only put in practice now by
some antiquated men who style them
selves gardeners. The method is la
borious, expensive and materially re-
tards the growth of the plants.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05

an experience of nearly ten years.
For wagons we use the castor oil
pure and simple, and unrefned. For
the farm machinery of all descrip.
tions, "whether the bearings be large
or small, whether the motion be fast
or Slow" we add to the castor oil
proportion Of common coal oil,
which is greater or less as the bear
ings are large or small, the motion
fast or slow, and the weather hot or
cold. In comparison with a halfdoz-
en- other lubricators which we have
been induced to try, this proves most
satisfactory.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05

THE beneficial effects of mulching
are very evident to every one who has
practiced it, but the why's and where
fores of it we have never seen salts
factorily explained. In another col
umn of this number we quote from
the Tribune IA synopsis of a very
interesting paper on the Science Of
Mrlching, from the pen of Mr.. w.
w. Newman.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05
Attention TO Fruit Trees.


Prom the Country Gentlemen.
There are q few operations, small
in themselves, which are often over
looked in summer, the neglect of
which results in positive harm. Trees
which were recently set out, and are
making their first growth in the or
chard this year, should have the soil
kept clean and mellow about them
for a few feet on each side. Their sue
cess and thrifty growth depend large
ly on this care. When the hot, dry
days Of midsummer make their ap-
pearance, newly set cherry trees are
greatly benefited, and often saved
from destruction, by copious mulch
ing. Where gratis have been set oil
young or old trees, examine them and
rub Off all shoots springing up below
the gratis.
The present is the best time to re-
move suckers from the trunks of Or
chard trces-Dot by cutting them
away and leaving stumps which will
send up new suckers, but by pulling
them off with brisk jerk downwards.
setting the foot first on them If they
are strong. If low down, remove the
earth about the tree. A gouge and
mallet may be needed for large suck
ers. BY timely rubbing off young
supernumerary shoots on young or
chard trees, the tops may be brought
into good shape without the necessity
Of heavy pruning in future. Regis
ter newly set trees in book before
the labels or names are lost.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05
Agricultural Books and Reports.

We have received from Prof. q. c.
Caldwell, Director, the first annual Report
Of the Cornell University Experiment Sta
tion. 1t Is neatly printed pamphlet Of
1873 pages, most Of which are filled with
matter of great value TO farming interests.
Some 30 pages are occupied by DR.. james
Law (than whom there IL no better author
ity) with Observations on the Lung
Plague Of Cattle" The chronological
and Horticultural Reports Of Prof. Bar
nard and Lazenby, and the Field Expert
ments with Crops, by Prof Roberts, are
particularly interesting to the practical
farmer.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05
Plant on Fresh Ground.

\ correspondent of the Nem Eng
land Farmer, contributes a bit Of ex-
pcrience which it would be well to
cut out, and paste il our hats for ref
erence At next springs planting:
While visiting Mr.. Thompson, Of Hop.
kinton, We were shown line through
the beet field on one side of which
the plants stood thick and even. while
on the other the beet plants were very
scattering. while in between was anoth.
er crop which had come up later. This
difference WAS all caused 10y delay in
planting the latter portion after the
ground was prepared. The planting was
commenced on Saturday, and all the
seed planted that day came up WELL but
the remainder put in Monday morn.
ing. after the soil had been exposed TO
twelve hours of scorching sunshine.
which dried the surface down as low as
the seeds were planted, came up very
irregularly the majoriiy only appearing
after "a shower that came subsequently,.
The same effect must have been noticed
in thousands OF gardens where the seeds
planted early, and at the time of prep.
aration, came up well, but when those
put in later, in hills or drills, previously
prepared, have utterly failed.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05
Jumping at Conclusions.

Prom the Rural Seu Yorker.
How easy it is 10 arrive at wrong
conclusions. There are two fields OF
corn near us, both upon sod. Upon
one a tablespoonful of bone-phosphate
was used in the hill. Upon the other,
farm manure. The first is far ahead
of the other, and the farmer concludes
that the difference is owing to the
superiority of the phosphate over the
manure. In this season of drought
we have had no rain to penetrate
three inches below the surface. No
doubt the farm manure, which re-
mains in heated masses in the hills,
has exerted an injurious effect upon
the growing corn, while the table
spoonful of phosphate has exerted no
effect of any kind. Had tablespoon
full of plaster or sand been placed in
the hill, probably the effect would
have been precisely the same. But
the farmer has determined TO use A
tablespoonful of phosphate in the hill
for his corn crop hereafter.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05
Lubricators for Farm Wagons and Ma
ohinery.

A correspondent of the Tribune
writes to that paper as follows:
A few weeks ago you quoted a
recommend of castor oil as ,cagon
grease. Are you sure that was good
adviceH Is not castor oil too glutin-
Gus; does 1t not coon get gummy and
sticky, therefore cease TO lubricate or
enable the wheel TO turn easilyY Do
you think there Is machinist in the
country who uses castor oil as lu-
bricator on any machine, whether
the bearings be large or small, wheth.
er the motion be fast or slowH Please
give us another article on q good lu-
bricator for wagons:
Most farm wagons are now made
with iron spindles and boxes, and for
these, as for all farm machinery, we
believe that castor oil Is the best lu-
bricator, and this belief is based upon
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05
When to Sell Wheat.

In question of so much import
ance the experience and observation
Of the individual farmer NAV not
always prove to be the best possible
guide. Indeed it is quite possible
that the carefully kept records of
those who are in position to know
the fluctuations of the markets from
day to day and week to week, may
bring the farmer to conclusions quite
opposite to those he would deduce
from his own experience. The Onon-
daga Farmers Club, which is one of
the few live, practical clubs Of the
country, lately invited Mr.. +. VI.
Gibson, commercial editor of the
Syracuse Journal, to read them u
paper upon the statistics Of the wheat
trade, and the Tribune summarizes
the paper SO far as it relates to this
branch of the subject as follows:
The statement OF prices by months is
instructive, showing that the highest
rate prevails in May, when the crop
prospects OF the year are as yet uncer.
tain. II indicates that condition Of
incertilude is more favorable TO specu.
lation than the most Encouraging reali.
-. -. -. q
prices; then July. hy which time the
pouring in OF new grain makes the
prices of August the lowest OF the year.
The rate then slowly rises through Sep.
tember, October and December. Then
the closing of avigation and the raising
of railroad ireights dcpress prices below
the October level. but in February they
rally TO an equality with the quotations
Of July. Farmers would do we'll to note
these facts, and sell before the setting
in of winter, unless they can afford TO
wait till spring and get the benefit of
highest prices. But there are coniin.
gencies-war in Europe, wheat cor.
ners" made by home speculators, and
minor causes OF ditference-that may
change the average course OF the mar.
ke,. To hold means loss of interest,
danger from heating in elevators and
from mice and insects in granaries. Ii
is a question that should be wisely con.
sidered by the farmer in view of his
own immediate wants and the risks of
the future. As rule, il is generally
safer to sell when the crop is ready for
the market. unless there is a glut and
prices exceptionally low.
Upon this same subject we find, in
the current number of the -Americdn
Farmer, n tabular statement of the
average price paid per month for the
past fifteen years, at a prominent
mill in Maryland. twill be seen by
this table that the lowest price during
the year is in the months just follow
ing harvest-August and September
and that the highest, by l3 cents
per bushel, is in the month of April.
Whether this gain of something more
than seven per cent. in price is not
more than offset by the loss OF inter-
est, shrinkage, saltage, and risk of
destruction by fire, is a question for
each farmer to decide for himself,
but we are very much inclined to
agree with Mr.. Gibson when he says
that "as a rule, it is safer to sell when
the crop is ready for market, unless
there is glut, and prices are excep-
tionally low"
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05
The Science Of hulching.

Mr.. W. W. Newman, in paper re-
Gently read before the Onondaga
Farmers Club, grants that there is
some foundation for the common be-
lief that soil covered by boards,
stones, or a mulch of any kind is
mellowed and fertilized, even though
nothing can be derived, except in the
last case, from the covering material.
The explanation of the effect produc-
ed he finds, first, in the fact that the
ground is kept moist and porous, no
hard crust being formed on the sur
face by the sun and beating rains /;
and, secondly that ants, worms and
other smaller animals live and burrow
and die under such covering, pulver-
izing the soil and fertilizing it with
their excrements and their bodies.
MIR. Newman supposes also that the
difference in temperature caused by
the mulch may have something to do
with the enriching changes that 90
on beneath it, but for this supposition
We find no foundation. Indeed, We
may almost be satisfied with the first
reason. Every arabic soil contains
an immense quantity of plant food
that is not in fit condition for the use
Of vegetation, but must first suffer
certain chemical changes by which it
is converted from ;nsoluble TO soluble
forms, or from compounds that are
less acceptable to the plant. Such
changes cannot 60 on at.all in a very
dry soil, and they will go on most
RAPIDLY in a moist rather than tcet
soil.
One of the most important of these
unavailable constituents of plant food
is the nitrogen of vegetable and ami
NAL residues. BY oxidation in a
damp soil with free access of air
through its porous surface, this nit
rogen passes, to greater or less ex-
tent, into the form of nitrates, spe-
cially valuable for plant food. 1t has
been recently shown that this nitrifi-
cation. as it is called, is brought
about by the agency of minute living
organisms, and that they work better
in the dark than in the light hence
in n soil under a covering of any
kind that excludes light and prevents
evaporation, but does net exclude
the air, the conditions are most favor.
able for this exceedingly important
chemical change. Nitrates are easi-
ly leached out of a soil by percolat-
ing water; under a stone or board
this teaching will not take place as
readily as in an uncovered soil there
fore we are inclined to believe that
soil which has thus been protected
during several weeks of warm wealth
er will be found to be richer in nj.
trates than soil close by it but un-
protected, and that herein lies the
chief reason Of the enriching Of the
soil under such circumstances.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05

The local crop reports attest this
season, as in former years, the advan-
tage of drilling wheat-in the quick.
er start, more vigorous growth, ex-
emption from injuries by frost and
flood, and an earlier harvest. Rarely
Is an exception noted to the economy
and safety of drilling in preference
to broadcasting, at least In the win
ter wheat region. Thepractice Is not
go common in the districts where
spring wheat is grown.
Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-08-05

KNOW of no plant that is able to
compete with winter rye in growing
fodder during the month of April and
early part Of May. ! know of moth
ing in the months of May and June
able to grow as much good fodder as
grass land in good condition. For
the months of July and August corn
is our grand fodder producing plant,
For September and October know
OF nothing equal 70 harley.