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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-06

A marriage has other uses than those
OF perpetuating the race. In this great
city there are thousands of refined,
high-strung, Intelligent, appreciative,
but lone, desolate souls, for whom it
would be an earthly paradise to rest
ever so little in the shade of a really
peaceful household. But such peace
must be genuine. 1t must not be any
patched-up affair-any show of affection
between husband and wife before the
guests face and snarl behind his back.
It's Just this lack of harmony between
husband and wife that makes so many
households as a tomb to visit. It's a
bad sign when the wife's friends are
hustled out of the husbands presence
into another room. It's a bad sign
when the husbands visitors are not the
wite's visitors, and Utce UerSd. It's a
bad sign if matters which interest the
wife do not interest the husband, and
Uice versa. It's bad sign when the
lord of the manor looks down from his
lofty elevation and speaks with a sneer,
more or less subdued, of the "triviali-
ties of fashion," and deems it beneath
him to assist her in choosing a dress
mean partnership in everything, or
there's a social desert for one party or
the other to travel over pretty often.
We are talking of married life as we
have seen it in the houses OF great and
little men in the houses of judges and
generals, of lawyers and politicians,
among whom also both great and little
men are to be found.-I Graphic.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-06
ATrue Cause for Regret.

1t makes the heart of every philan-
thropist sad to see so many worthless
patent medicines pulled and advertised
for the cure of chronic diseases. Usual
ly the remedy is some vile cathartic
compound or alcoholic preparation,
combined with buchu, turpentine or
other severe diuretic that affords the in
valid only temporary relief, but which
has no lasting effect, and in truth even
tually brings on complication of dis
eases arising from state of wornout
and exhausted digestive and urinary or
gans that nothing but death can relieve.
Invalids should trust more TO nature for
their recovery. A gentle medicinal
tonic that stimulates enfeebled digestion
and strengthens every part of the system
by its soothing and refreshing effects on
both mind and body, is natures truest
and best assistant. Such remedy Is
Browns Iron Bitters, medicine sur
passing the sale of all other remedies
whenever its merits become known, for
it acts in such perfect harmony with the
laws of life and health, that all pulmo-
nary, urinary and digestive troubles are
prevented and permanently cured by
its timely use. 1t contains no alcohol,
and will not blacken the teeth. Physi-
clans and ministers endorse and recon-
mend il.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-06
Rescued from Death.

The following statement OF VIM. j.
Coughlin, of Somerville, Mass, is so re-
markable that we beg to ask for it the
attention of our readers. He says: "In
the fall of 1876 was soken with vio-
lent bleeding Of the lungs followed by a
severe cough. / soon began to lose my
appetite and flesh. l was so weak at one
time that could noe leave my be-. In
the summer of 1877 was admitted to
the city hospital. While there the doc
tors said had hole in my lett lung as
big as a half dollar. / expended over a
hundred dollars in doctors and medi-
cines. l was so far gone at one time a
report went around that | was dead. /
gave up hope, but friend told me OF
DR.. WIN HALLS BALSAM FOR
THE LUNGS. laughed at my friends,
thinking that my case was incurable,
but got bottle to satisfy them, when
to my surprise and qualification, COM
menced to feel better. My hope, once
dead, began TO revive, and to-day l feel
in better spirits than L Rave the past
three years.
Il write this hoping you will publish
it, so that every one afflicted with dis
eased lungs will be induced to take DIR.
WIN. HALLS BALSAM FOR THE
LUNGS, and be convinced that CON
SUMPTION CAN BE CURED. have
taken two bottles and can positively say
that il has done more good than all the
other medicines / have taken since my
sickness. My cough has almost entire
ly disappeared and l shall soon be able
to go to work. Sold by druggists.
apr7-eOW-lY
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-06
Makinr Monav.

Some people can hardly make living,
and some lay up money. Why is il
Into a village of few hundred inhabi-
tants young man came and was em-
plOyed as clerk in a store; he lived
there fifty years and laid up ,O0O.-
Other men worked as hard, but did not
lay up money.
Near the village was large and beau
tiful farm The owner of it had it from
his father. He did not drink or gam
BILE, and yet he could not make living,
and so borrowed money, and to secure
it gave a mortgage on the farm. In a
few years the farm was sold and he was
obliged to move away. A Scotchman
with but little money and large fam
lily passed by and saw the house was
vacant and struck bargain with the
owner. He began to work, to save and
pay, and IN ten or twelve years he was
the entire owner. Then he went on and
laid up money, and now is rich man.
The art of making money is one that
should be carefully studied. IfyOu take
a dollar and lend it out at 6 per cent.
interest, it will double itself in l6 years.
If you take a dollar and buy something
with it, a0d then sell that at profit, and
keep on doing so, you increase your cap
ital. These three ways are the feunda-
ton ways of money making. All bus
iness is in one of these three FORMS
Those who succeed the best are those
who know the most about what they do.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-06

LONDON, September 23.-The Lancet
discussing the case of President Gar
field, says: "The bullet did not wound
any vital part in its path, and had the
sinuOus wound it made closed up, al
would have been well, but the wound
did not heal, because its walls were
bruised, and so injured that primary
union was impossible. The retention
of pent up and putrid matter in the
wound almost insured the absorption Of
septic poison and death. 1t may be re-
garded as an open question how faI
successful an attempt to render the
wound antiseptic might have been, II
would be unjust to blame the surgeons
and it is a matter of congratulatien that
they were not led away by a vulgar
scare to extract the bullet, which had
done no harm since it once reached its
resting place near the pancreas, and
its extraction per Sc would not have in
fluenced at all the subsequent course oi
the case
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-06
Origin Of THE Sweet Bye-and-Bye."

There is a story that the popular
hymn, "The Sweet Bye-and-BJe," was
the work of two men while intoxicated
Joseph 2. Webster, who composed the
music, died several years ago. DR.. S.
T. Bennett, author of the verses, lives
in Richmond, Ill. He says that the
charge of intoxication is untrue, though
Webster was free drinker. The two
wrote a hymn book in 1874, and "The
Sweet Bye-and Bye" was one of the
pieces jointly produced for it. The sug-
gestion came from chance remark by
Webster, who was habitually despond-
ent, that all would be well "bye-and-
bye" Bennett at once made the
rhymes, and Webster brought the mu-
sic out of fiddle, which was his custom
ary aid in composition. The hymn
book had its day and is forgotten; but
this one tune is put into every new pub
licatiOn of the kind, and has sale OF
ten thousand copies a year in sheet
form. DR.. Bennett says that he and
Webster were not orthodox christians
when the hymn was written, and that
he is now even less a believer.
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Skepticism as a Science.

A writer in the Popular Science
MONTHLY, taking for his text the swind-
| ling Savings Bank for W omen recently
exposed in Boston, undertakes to show
that children ought to be brought up as
skeptics, in order to guard them against
the liability to be imposed upon in after
life through having acquired credu-
lous habit of mind. They should be
| taught, he insists, to doubt and disbe-
lieVe, rather than to take things on
trust. He argues that every babe in the
land should be an animated interroga-
ton point, and when his questions are
| answered he should be taught not to be-
lieve the answers without absolute
proof. No such thing as taking any
thing for granted should be encouraged.
AS the boy or girl grows up the rule
should be diligently impressed to believe
| in nothing that cannot be seen and ham
| died. A distrust of the reports of the
senses, which sometimes deceive, should
moreover be inculcated. Probability
should cease to be regarded as an ade-
| quate guide of life, and only certainties
should in any case be tolerated. 1t
should, of course, be taught that no
risks of any kind should be ever run, for
these imply departure from what is
positively sure. No mans simple word
should under any circumstances be Ia
ken so long as it is possible that he may
be lying, and no confidence should be
reposed in any body if there is the slight
est chance that he may betray it.
To this argument the Philadelphia
Record replies:
The great majority of sensible men
and women will not be likely to recOg-
nize the urgency of the Popular Science
Monthly mans idea. That thorough
and sincere acceptance of the teachings
of the church, miracles and all, units
men for business is not borne out by ex-
perience. There is no need of bringing
up generation of skeptics in order to
try an experiment. We have quite a
sprinkling of skeptics now. With the
exception OF Colonel Ingersoll, however,
who sells his infidelity in lectures, they
exhibit no marked superiority of apti-
tude for worldly success. In the prac-
tical affairs of life the undevout do not
appear as a general thing to have any
advantage over the believer. OrthO-
doxy has its full share of good things in
this world, not to speak of its pleasant
expectations for the world to come
The erratic and unkempt crank of soci-
ETY., on the contrary, is for the most
part free-thinker.
Ii eccleSlaSClcal authority Is 10 De us
carded as basis of belief, and if faith
is to be turned out OF doors, why not go
step further and preach crusade
against benevolence? Kind-hearted-
ness continually exposes its possessor to
imposition. Amiability has led many a
man and many more women to ruin
Goodness of disposition in all its forms
is repeatedly abused. Magnanimity,
truthfulness, honesty, courage-all the
noblest qualities of our humanity-are
often sources of peril and disaster. In
spite of these facts, however, few par
ents are likely to teach their children to
be skeptical, unkind, untruthful, dis
honest and cowardly.
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Plain Words By a Preacher.

Robert Collyer, preaching upon the
president, said: There is one lesson,
and it is the lesson of the sacredness OF
the chief magistrate and of life. This
is not land of peace; it is a nation OF
armed men. The farmer has revolver
in his bed room, and the merest boy on
the slightest provOcation pulls out his
pistol. Two hundred years have proved
that in civil life, at least, the Quaker is
right. No Quaker ever shoots, and no
Quaker ever is shot. There should be
general disarmament, and we should
guard the sale of pistols as we guard the
sale of poisons. 1t is the brutality that
comes from the possession of weapons
that does the harm. Again, we should
make the life of our presidents as sa-
cred as the life of queen or emperor.
The fact that we have elected him pres
ident should clothe him with all the sa-
credness that a great nation could give
him. If the wretch had carried out his
intent, l know Just what would have
happened. Ministers would have told
him II he accepted their plan of saliva
tion he would go straight TO heaven, and
it would have gone out to the world that
he was walking in paradise while his face
was blackening on the scaffold. Such
proceedings are libel on religion and
on common sense. GAS a man soweth,
so shall he reap" That is good scrip
ture and L believe it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-06

Bliss has skunk into bitter obscurity
We abused him when he was making a
new wound with his rubber punch
down towards the lilac fossa, and then
we praised him when his new wound
sent forth laudable pus. The aphorism
is demonstrated both ways-Ignorance
is bliss, and Bliss is ignorant! Mans
wisdom at best is lit for swine's food
and foolish things are often chosen to
cOnfound the wise-when they are toe
cOnfounded wise. Bliss had the first
gouge and he said the ball went down
Courtesy" would not permit the other
doctors to even examine TO see whether
he was mistaken or not. The "code o.
ethics" required them to accept Bliss
diagnosis nolens uolens. 1t killed the
president, to-be-sure, but the "code'
suffered no violence.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-06

Mr.. Walter F. McCune, of Pittsburg,
Pa, writes: "My age is 2S years. 1 was
born with an excellent constitution, but
at the age OF 10, having just finished my
collegiate education, L fell into habits OF
dissipation. After six years of fast liv-
ing L felt my constitution broken down.
l put myself under the care of one of our
best physicians. His treatment seemed
to do me no good. Finally he said at
best could live but few years, that
my bowels, kidneys and lungs were all
threatened with consumption and were
fast wasting away in certain decay.
tried everything advertised, hoping to
gain relief. Finally driited into a state
of melancholy and hopeless despair, suf-
fering excruciatingly from dyspepsia
short breath, and urinary catarrh. A
year ago 1 saw Browns Iron Bitters ad-
vertised. l used them, and they acted
like charm. soon began to enjoy
dreamless slumber-and now / feel my
self man once more, and have gained
"a pounds since using the remedy. i
feel very strong, and can hold out 40
pound weight. Browns Iron Bitters
saved nv lite"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-06

There is universal taffy -plastering
going on with the newspapers upon
Arthur. A few weeks since and he
was a third-rate ward politician and
secondhand pOll-pimp. Now, they dc
say, his words are the essence of wis
dom and his only two state papers-his
acceptance six months ago and his in
augural Thursday--were admirably con-
ceived, abounding in sense and fair
promises. And more than that, they
say he will make magnificent execu-
tive and be man of his own individual
back bone, vertebre and all. Individ-
uality is good. The only public per-
formance he has ever been caught in
was down at Albany, when he swung
on to COnkling's coat tail for his dear,
sweet life for fear he would get lost.
individuality is good. But your tatfy
is so badly spoiled that every one who
reads iL is mortified.
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Dr.. Leftwich in Birmingham.

The Alabama Christian Advocate
publishes entire DIR. Leftwieh's memo
rial sermon, delivered at Birmingham,
last week, and commends it very
highly. 1t also says that he did some
very effective preaching there, and thus
eulogises him: "He possesses special
gifts for evangelistic work. His ser
mons are well adapted, and are deliv-
cred with remarkable power. He ad-
dresses the enlightened judgment and
presses the claims of the gospel directly
upon the consciences OF men. His ar
guments are convincing, his illustra-
tiOns are instructive and forcible, and
his incidents are apt AMI thrilling.
"The congregations are large, and
earnest attention and great seriousness
are manifest, we hope that a great re-
vival may result from these services"
The sermon is worth being utilized as
a text for party and political reform all
over the country and its tone is already
the inspiration at the south. 1t could
be made productive of untold good to
the country if the papers all over the
south would publish It and then incul-
cate its teachings.
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An Old Maids Life.
IN ONE CHAPTER.

SWEET 16.-Builds castles and dwelli
on love in a cottage.
1S.--Joins an archery club. Affects
intellectual repasts, such as "reading
clubs" Dances every set and rejects
all love proposals
I9.-Drops love in a cottage and
thinks of brown stone or pressed
brick front.
2O-2l-22-Modesty begins to take its
departure. Abhors simplicity.
23.-Laces tighter and wishes to
marry tor rank-a colonel, congress
man or senator would do.
24-25- 5-26.-Astonished not a little al
remaining single. "Why don't the men
propose ?"
27-2S-29.-Takes the lead in eharsdes
and tableaux. Begins to tease her pa
about the springs. Subscribes to Sunday
Courier-JOurnal for society news. Uses
cosmetics glaringly.
30-3l-32-33.--Would mind q wid-
over IL not too old. willing to man
age charades and tableaux, but won't
take prominent part. Begins to turn
charitable and hunt out the poor. Joins
the church.
S4-35-36.-As a general thing despises
men. They are ALL so silly, but, OF
course, there are exceptions TO all
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-10-06

The Commercial Travellers Associa-
ton of the United States opened con-
vention n day or two ago in st. Louis,
Mo. There is an army OF some 10000
men engaged in drumming this coun-
try from one end to the other, annually.
They spend, for travelling on railroads
and steamboats, somewhat more than
$4,000, 900 per year. The object of the
convention is to secure cheaper rates of
fare on the railroads, and, also, to OBJ
tain the privilege of carrying sample
trunks and baggage, weighing 300
pounds, free of charge. Mr.. Geo. c..
Webster, jr., who is chairman of the
railroad committee of the national body,
will press the matter before the mana
gers of the railroads of the entire repub-
lie
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rules Elected president of the chill

rules" Elected president of the chill
dren's aid society.
37-3s-39.-Allows boys of eighteen or
twenty years to take her to prayer
meeting, as intellectually defies all
considerations of age"
4OTo 45.-WOuld accept preacher OF
her own denomination without respon-
sibilities. Takes a large interest in the
Sunday school, and in cats and canary
birds.
45 TO 50.-Sees no harm in a little
more rouge--partieularl at night.
"Scraggy, fretful and Desperate" A
preacher with half dozen responsible
ities-all boys--she would not object to.
so TO 55.-Thanks heaven she was
never married. All men are brutes.
More rouge. Terribly startled by a re-
mark from her widowed pastor that sit
is the duty of all christians to marry"
More startled next day to hear of the
good fortune of "that horrid old maid -
Miss Ships, who is to marry her pastor.
Makes her will, and cuts off all her rel
atives by leaving her entire fortune TO
the heather -GCourier-JOurnal
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Eaual all Respects.

There is a disposition to indulge in
laudable gush by many OF the newspa-
pers south over our late national be-
reavement. This would suit the case
admirably, if it did not have a mixture
of fawning. The general tone of these
articles is a half admission that the
south is not even entitled to be sorry
and that we are allowed to jrop tear
now only by sufferance and forbear-
ance at the north. AS we before point
ed out "a la American), the living, active
population at the south is composed
very largely of men who have come upon
the scene since the war, whose skirts
are free from the odor of treason and
who cannot be held even remotely re-
sponsible for the rebellion. They are of
the same stock and if they had been of
age they doubtless would have been
rebels; but they were not, and they
stand to-day clearly entitled to the very
fullest benefits under the government.
and are capable of conceiving and maxi
ing manifest the purest principles of
patriotism. That is not all. The very
men who marched under the stars and
bars laid down their arms with clear,
explicit guarantee of reinstatement to
their former status under the govern
ment. That is not all. By acts of un-
impeachable loyalty and protestations
that have developed into deeds of patri-
otism, these men have all won their
way back into the fold. That is not all.
Under the stern letter of the law we all
stand equal. If, therefore, the southern
press would assume an air in keeping
with the condition of affairs, it would
more Ger ;ainly insure perpetuation of
that peaceful condition into which we
seem about to be brought by an act
of God, and which the north now kind
ly acknowledges.
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Brave Tom Webb.

The following extract is taken from
the history of Co. H." First Tennessee
Regiment, written by S. X. Watkins,
and published in the Columbia Herald !:
AS soon as the order was given to
march, we saw poor Tom Webb lying
on the battlefield, shot through the
head, his blood and brains smeariDg his
face and clothes, and he still alive. He
was as brave and noble a man as our
Heavenly Father in His infinite wisdom
ever made. Everybodg loved him. He
was universal faVorite of the company
and regiment; was brave and generous
and ever anxious to take some other
mans place when there was any skir-
mishing or fighting to be done. We
did not wish TO leave the poor fellow in
that condition, and A. S, Horsley, John
L. Tucker, Tennessee Thompson and
myself got litter and carried him on
our shoulders through that liYe-long
night back TO Chickamauga station.
The next morning DIR. J. E. Dixon, of
Deshler's brigade, passed by and told
us that it would be useless for us to car
ry him any farther, that it was utterly
impossible for him ever to recover. The
yankees were then advancing and firing
upon us. What could we do? We
could not carry him any farther and we
could not bury him, for he was still
alive. To leave him where he was we
though. best. We took hold of his
hand, bent over him and pressed our
lips to his, all four of US. We kissed
him goodbye and left him to the tender
mercies of the advancing yankees in
whose hands he would be in a lew mo-
ments time. No doubt they laughed
and jeered at the dying rebel. 1t mat
ters not what they did, poor Tom
Webb's spirit, before the sun went down,
was with God and His holy angels. He
had given his all to his country. Oh,
how we missed him. 1t seemed that
the very spirit and life of Company ii
had died with the death of good, noble
and brave Tom Webb.
l thank God l am no infidel, and l
feel and believe that l will again see
Tom Webb. just as sure and certain,
reader, as your are now reading these
lines, L will meet him up yonder; l
L I will
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