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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07

aroused that people sometimes fol-
lowed him on foot for sixty miles
merely to hear him preach. They
sat and listened unwearied until
two o'clock in the morning, regard
less of the weather, and unprotected
save by the open heavens.
Whltefield was full
ly conscious of his histrionic pow
ers, and cultivated them wit b an
assiduIty which would have done
credit to a disciple of Colvent
Garden or Drury Lane. 1t was not
difficult for these who heard him
often to distinguish between SER
mons which he preached for the irst
time and those which he repeated
before; and both Garrick and
Foote declare that he never reached
his greatest perfection until he had
preached a sermon forty times.
then Every sentence that was pow
erlesS had been pruned of, every
gesture that did not speak to the
eye was omitted, and the great
preacher stood before his vast au-
diences with the impersonation of q
divine power, armed with the wrath
of Jehovah, or clothed with the
meekness of the Son of Man.
While preaching
to congregation of sailors in New
York, he compared the state of the
sinner to a ship about to be lost at
sea. How the waves arise and
dash against the shipr exclaimed
he. The air fs dark, the tempest
ragesl Our masts are gone, the
ship is on her beams endl What
nextP-'The long boat! Take 4 to
long boatP shouted the sailors
naively, springing to their feet.
On another occasion, while ad-
dressing a congregation among
whom were many learned and aris-
tocratic hearers, so powerfully did
he expose the peril of the sinner
by describing a blind old man, de-
serted by his dog, and CROPPING
along with his cane, unconscious
ly drawing nearer and nearer TO o
frightful abyss, that, just as he had
brought him to its brink, the ele-
CANT and polished Lord Chester
field, forgetting the presence he
was in, exclaimed aloud My God,
he is gomez u Internal. Review.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07

1t was their first night aboard
the steamer. cat last" he said
tenderly, eve are all alone, out upon
the deep waters Of the dark blue
sea, and your heart will always beat
for me as it has beat in the pastH"
"My hearts all right, she answered
languidly, "but my stomach feels
awful"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07

The weekly press of the state, in
cluding such sheets as the Athens
Post. Murfreesboro News, Pulaski
CITIZEN. Columbia Herald, Lebanon
Herald, Gallatin Examiner, Paris
Intelligencer and many others we
do not recall at this writing, is
mainly in the hands of men devoted
to the publishing business, men OF
moderation, good sense and per
sonal pride sufficient to place them
high in the regard of our citi-
zens.-GChattanooga Daily Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07

He was bachelor, had travelled
extensively, and could speak any
language, dead or alive; but when
he returned home the other day,
and talked to his sisters baby, and,
when it cried and was pacified by its
mother, saying: "Did his naughty
wauty uncle wurcle come honey
womey aud scarey warey my little
putsey wutsey," he just leaned over
the back of the chair and wept.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-07-07

Strawberry short cake at church
festival Is charming stuff to eat. 1t
is such exci.ing fun to see who gets
the strawberry.
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THE CITIZEN.

0bee S.rsheas,corl.erort or the square. L P-stAirs
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
swo Dollars par Annum, always IN Advance
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In. III 1Ls
Corresponding Secretary for the
Fellows of the "Outer Temple" ="
Poverty Row, Franklin, Tenn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02
Selettea 2oetrp.
THRILLING VERSES.

The circumstances which induced the wri
ting of the following touching and thrilling
lines are as follows: A young lady in New
York was in the habit of writing for the Phil
adelphia Ledger on the subject of Temper
ance. Her writing was so full of pathos, and
evinced such deep emotion of soul, that a
friend of hers accused her of being maniac
on the subject of Temperance-whereupon
she wrote the following lines
Go feel what have felt,
Go bear what have borne
Sink meath the blow father dealt,
And the cold worlds proud scorn;
Then suffer on from year to year
Thy sole relief the scorching tear.
Go knee as 1 have knelt,
Implore, beseech and pray
Strive the beSotted heart to melt
The downward course TO stay;
BE dashed with bitter curse aside,
Your prayers burlesqued, your tears denied.
Go weep as have wept,
Ger loved fathers fall
See every promised blessing swept
Youth s sweetness turned to gall
Life's fading flowers strewed all the way,
That brought me up to woman's day.
Go see what have seen,
Behold the strong man bowed
With gnashing teeth lips bathed in blood,
And cold and livd brow;
Go catch his withered glance and see,
There mirrored his soui's misery.
Go to my mothers side,
And her crushed bosom cheer;
Thine own deep anguish hide;
Wipe from her cheek the bitter tear;
Mark her worn frame and withered brow;
The grey that streaks her dark hair now;
With fading frame and trembling limbs;
And trace the ruin back to him
Whose plighted faith, in early youth,
Promised eternal love and truth,
But who foresworn, hath yielded up,
That promise to the cursed cup;
And led her down, through love and light,
And all that made her prospect bright
And chained her there" mid want and strife,
That lowly thing, drunkard's wife
And stampd on childhood's brow so mild,
That with'ring blight, that drunkards child.
Go hear, and feel, and see and know,
All that my soul hath felt and known,
Then look upon the wine cups glow,
See if it's beauty can atone
Think if its flavor you will try,
When all proclaim "ts drink and die!'
Tell me hate the bowl,
Hate is feeble word;
7 tonthe-abhor-my ue,y soul
With strong disgust is Stiar'd,
When see, or hear or tell,
Of the dark beverage of hell
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02
THE END OF MY MONKEY.

1 haven't any monkey now, and don't
care what becomes of me. His loss was an
awful blow, and l never expec. to recover
from it. I am crushed boy, and when the
old folks find what their conduct has done to
me, they will wish they had done differently.
1t was on Tuesday that got the monkey,
and by Thursday everybody began to treat
him coldly. 1t began with my littlest sister
Jocko took her doll away, and climbed up to
the top of the door with it, where he sat and
pulled it to pieces, and tried its clothes on,
only they wouldn't fit him, while sister, who
is but little girl, stood and howled as if she
was being killed. This made mother begin
to dislike the monkey, and she said that if his
conduct was such, he couldn't stay in her
house. l call this unkind, for the monkey
was invited into the house, and I've been told
we must bear with visitors.
A little while afterward, while mother was
talking to Susan on the front piazza, she heard
the sewing machine up stairs, and said, "Well,
I never! That cook has the impudence to be
sewing on my machine without ever asking
leave"
So she ran up stairs, and found that Jocko
was working the machine like mad. He'd
taken Sues night. gown and fathers black
coat and lot of stockings, and showed them
all under the needle, and was sewing them all
together. Mother boxed his ears, and then
she and Sue sat down and worked all the NOR
ming, trying to unsew the things with the scis-
sors.
They had to give it up after while, and
the things are sewed together yet, like man
and wife, which no man can put asunder.
All this made my mother more cool toward
the monkey than ever, and | heard her call
him nasty little beast
The next day was Sunday, and as Sue was
sitting in the hall waiting for mother to 60 to
church with her, Jocko gets up on her chair,
and pulls the feathers out of her bonnet. He
thought he was doing right, for he had seen
the cook pulling the feathers of the chickens,
but Sue called him dreadful names, and said
that when father came home, either she or
that monkey would leave the house.
Father came home early Monday, and
seemed quite pleased with the monkey. He
said it was an interesting study, and he told
Susan that he hoped that she would be
contentcd with fewer beaux, now that there
was monkey constantly in the house In a
little while father eau ght Jocko lathering
himself with the mucilage brush, and with a
kitchen knife all ready to shave himself He
Just laughed at the monkey, and told me to
take good care Of him, and not let him hurt
himself. Of course, was dreadfully pleased
to find that father liked Jocko, and l knew it
was because he was a man, and had more
sense than girls But was only deceivlng
myself and leaning on broken reed That
very evening, when father went into his study
after supper, he found Jocko on his desk.
He had torn all his papers to pieces, except a
splendid new map, and that he was covering
with ink, and making believe that he was wri-
ting Presidents message about the Panama
Canal. Father was just raging He took
Jocko by the scrutf of the neck, locked him
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

saT A New York fruit dealer, who has just
returned from an extended tour in the peach
districts of Delaware and Maryland, reports
the outlook to be hopeless. He says he was
prepared to hear that the severe winter had
done some damage, but had no idea that the
whole crop was ruined, not only for this year,
but for some years to come. The cold has been
more severe there this winter than any time
for the last forty years. He says he made
personal examination Of the trees and found
them blighted.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

BABYs Bow LEGs.-These need not cause
anxiety in all cases, if the child is healthy,
and has good, nourishing food and pure air
the two great essentials probably Of making
pure blood-it will probably outgrow its
bow legs naturally enough as its strength in.
creases. Rubbing the legs with your hand
in the morning may help to strengthen and
straighten them. If the case is pretty bad,
the two legs may be bound together with
comfortable bandages during sleep, rubbing
them we'll before and after binding them.
If the child is still quite young, it may be
kept from standing on its feet for few
months, giving nature time to straighten the
crookedness while the limbs are growing
stronger. A carriage and high chair are
helps towards carrying out this plan. All
things that have been mentioned as curative
agencies may we'll be used as preventives.
A healthy child, with wholesome food, and
pure air to breathe, if kept from standing
and walking while too young and weak, will
not have bow legs. Scrofulous children are
more likely to suffer in this way, and those
that are very feshy. Don't take pride in
your fat baby. Excess of fat is really dis.
ease instead of sign of health. Fatten
your pigs as much you fancy, but do not de-.
liberately fatten your children. Give them
plenty of good growing food, and they will be
plump enough for symmetry and not too
heavy for comfortable activity. 1t is no
wonder that the little legs bend under the
heavy weight of some of the fat little toddlers.
Such children should not be encouraged to
stand or walk until they have grown strong
enough to do so of their own accord, and then
should not be allowed to walk loo much.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

aa| The editor of the New York Corner
Stone (Masonic) s. R. Beckner, was recently
cured of severe attack of diphtheria by
keeping his throat wrapped in woolen
cloth we'll saturated with kerosene-another
cloth was placed over it. 1t soon makes the
throat feel as though it were "on fire." He
was cured in few days. The disease left the
interior and came out, locating on the out
side of the throat, at first in great Jumps.
These all being carefully guarded, disappear
ed without trouble
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

n@- A true bill: $50 that's the grand jury,
is it ?" asked the man from the suburbs, after
eagerly scanning the forms and features of
the twenty -four individuals in the box-one
man with unkepr sandy locks, another with
an aroma of sentimental seediness brooding
over him, third with look of benign vacui-
ty irradiating his countenance, and others
indicating different stages of wretchedness
and misery. "Well, sir, if you've got any
common everyday jurymen about here,
guess don't care to look at them."-Boston
Transcript.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

for three weeks. Accuracy and finish, not
speed, are their aim, as they intend the plates
to be of permanent service. Their lowest
price will be fifty cents.-Phikldelphia Times.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

in the closet, and sent him away by express
the next morning to man in the city, with
orders to sell him. ...
The expressman afterward told Mr.. Tray
ers that the monkey pretty nearly killed eve
rybody on the train, for he got hold of the
signal cord and pulled it, and the engineer
thought it was the conductor, and stopped the
train, and another train, just behind it, came
within an inch of running into it and smash.
ing it to pieces. Jocko did the same thing
three times before they found out what was
the matter, and tied him up so that he could
not reach the cord. O, he was just beauti.
full! But shall never see him again, and
Mr.. Travers says that it's all right, and that
I'm monkey enough for one house. That's
because Sue has been saying things against
the monkey to him but never mind.
First, my dog went, and now my monkey
has gone. 1t seems as if everything that is
beautiful must disappear. Very likely shall
60 next, and when I am gone, let them find
the dog and the monkey, and bury US togeth-
er-Jimmy Broaon in Harper's Young People.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

Jokes OF THE DRUGGIsT.-Drug clerks
will have their little joke, especially where no
one is harmed, says prominent New York
druggist Woe be to the fellow who comes
in and asks for love powder, or the stuff to
make moustaches or beard grow. Love pow
der is one Of the few things that is different
in every store that have clerked in. Some.
times it is plain powdered sugar, sometimes
epson salts, sometimes flax seed meal, and
now and then it is ginger or charcoal. We
generally pick up the handiest thing that is
lying around. No thoroughbred clerk viii
decline to supply a want of that kind, espe
cially if he enjoys joke. Customers of this
kind are always simpletons, and they 60 away
happy with anything you give them. We
general make them swear on a pile of alma
macs that they will never divul ge the secret,
under penalty of their going to the peniten-
tary. Having taken the oath, all you have
to do is to tie up anything that is lying
around, and they are contented. / have fire.
quently given them a good dose Of tartar
emetic. If that don't produce love, don't
know what will. have never known one Of
them to come for second dose, so it must do
the business. When fellows come around
after "beard grower" we give them box of
some waste ointment Anything at all in
the shape of grease satisfies them, and they
depart with look of mingled contentment
and guilt. One day an old gentleman asked
me to make up hair dye according to for
mula which he handed me, which did. In
an hour he returned with his whiskers, which
were formerly snow white, Of a deep black
bue. The next morning he again came back.
But what change! His hair and beard
were bright carmine He was wild. He
charged me with playing joke on him. But
soon convinced him had not done so. The
only way he could get out Of the scrape was
to go to barber shop and have his hair and
beard dyed black with nitrate of silver dye,
which always gives kind of rusty appear
ance to anything it is applied to.
nar A careful observer of Ohio politics pre-.
diets that the temperance ticket will poll
$4,000 votes in that State next autumn, in
stead of 10000, which is the usual number.
The increase will be due to the dillatory &C.
tion of the last Legislature upon the temper
| ance question.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

s9 Two patients in an Iowa insane asylum,
man and woman, escaped by means Of a
rope ladder one night lately, saddled horses
in the stable, rode twenty miles to clergy.
man, and by him were married, nothing in
their manner at that time indicating that
they were not sane. They continued their
Journey until the afternoon, when each be.
came convinced that the other was demented
and applied for protection.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

nG The Herald stands solitary and alone
among the leading New York papers in sup
porting ex-senator Conkling. The Herald is
dubbed by one Of the others, tour esteemed
Contemporary"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

na% A company of New York capitalists is
preparing to tunnel Broadway, Fourth ave-
nue. and other streets, for the purpose of build
ing system Of underground railroads to
facilitate rapid transit between the east
ern and western shores of Manhattan Island.
The main stem will extend from the Battery
to Fifty.ninth street, and thence under the
Boulevard or upper Broadway as far as may
be desired, and there will be several branches.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

n6~ Friends of the administration say that it
has been determined to have an administra-
tion party, pure and simple, not only in New
York, but in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illi.
nois, and ali other States where it has been
the custom for Senatorial bosses to run the
machine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

p9" An authority on dentistry stated, in a
recent lecture, that the first knowledge of den
tai surgery was brought to this country by
person who accompanied the French troops
here during the Revolution. The first dentist
was established in 1888. George Washington's
false teeth were retained in the mouth by
spiral springs In 1889 there were 300 den
lists in the country in 1912, 1000; to-day,
$4,000.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

pa| The especial correspondent Of the London
Times thinks that the number Of persons kill
ed by the Chic earthquake does not greatly,
if at all, exceed 1000, and that this is posi-
bly, too large. In the southern half of the
island, scarcely house remains in hablta'
BILE condition, so that a population of nearly
$4,000 persons is camping out in the open
air. Throughout the northern portion OF the
island, the repeated shocks wrenched the
houses and frightened the inmates without
doing them any serious bodily harm, except
in a very few instances.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02
BROOKLYN BRIDGE AND ITS BUILDER.

Roebling was the greatest bridge builder
in the world. He started the making of wire
cordage in Ameri... and built suspension
bridges to carry the aqueducts of canals across
rivers, and engineered the Pennsylvania rail.
road across the mountains.
The Brooklyn bridge, between towers, is
1886 feet long. Behind the towers there are
$40 feet each side, back to the anchorage.
The whole length of the bridge and approach
es is 5000 feet. 1t is one of the widest bridg-
es in the world, eighty.fve feet, with prone
made thirteen feet wide, two railroad tracks
and four carriage and horse.car tracks. 1t
is 1876 feet in the centre above the water
The rock on which the towers rest is about
ninety feet below the surface of the water on
the New York side, and half that depth on
the Brooklyn side, the most stupendous thing
about the structure. Each tower is 1874 feet
long by fifty-sx wide, and at the top these
dimensions are reduced to l2O feet by forty,
or the size of very large house. Each tow.
er is 268 feet above high water. 1t is 1886
feet from the beginning of the causeway on
Chatham street out to the anchorage on the
New York shore. The architect of the bridge
received his death wound almost at its incep'
ton, standing on the upper framework of Full
ton ferry slip as boat came in and threw its
weight against the piles, which yielded and
crushed his foot. AS if the spirit of the old
ferry, about to be supplanted, had revenged
itself on the innovator! They buried Roeb-
ling in that summer of 1869 at Trenton, N.
j., near the spot where poor John Fitch, the
matchmaker, eighty.two years before, had
started the steamboat. But Roeblings true
monument is the Brooklyn bridge towers, and
between them in the nerves and tendons,
trembling like weaver's web, plies the shut.
tie of his soul. You can hear his own
words, if you are reverent, calling to the ships
and steamers beneath: ut will be the great.
est engineering work of the continent, and
the greatest bridge in existence. Its towers
will be national monuments! 1t will for.
ever testify to the energy, enterprise and
wealth of the great communities it over
hangs" Upon the portal of the bridge they
might also inscribe his motto: 81 have no
fear of honest difference of opinion, it is only
cavillers that dread."-Neo York Tribune.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

PAPER PLATEs.-The latest application
of paper is the adoption of paper plates by
some of the great restaurants and cafes in
Berlin. The innovation was first introduced
during the summer of last year by the ad:
venturous Landlord of much.frequented
open.air restaurant. Every customer who
ordered bread and butter, rolls, cakes, buns,
or similar articles, had them served to him
upon little paper plate, made of light pa
pier mache, adorned with pretty border in
relief, and having at the first G lance great
similarity to porcelain. Guests, walters and
host were all pleased with the novelty it
saved the walters many deduction from their
wages on account of breakages, which the
deftest and cleverest can scarcely avoid when
he handles hundreds Of pieces of crockery
during single afternoon and evening. The
paper plates we're so cheap that the landlord
did not care to assert his ownership over
them, and his customers we're allowed to car
ry them away, like the pretty serviettes OF
thin paper used in so many restaurants in
Holland. There was also a considerable
saving of the time lost, and the chance OF
accident incurred, in the cleansing OF earthen-
ware pottery. The success Of the experiment
has been 80 marked that the new species OF
plates is likely to be introduced into great
number of restaurants.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

nas- The New York Senate has passed bill
regulating the sale of oleomargarine. 1t pro.
vides that all kinds of oleomargarine shall
be stamped Limitation butter" that when
sold at retail label shall bear the same
words, and that restaurant keepers who serve
oleomargarine shall display show cards an
nouncing the fact The bill had previously
passed the Assembly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

pa~ The ''star" routes are so named because
they have been designated in the records of
the department by three stars, which repre-
sented the words "celerity, certainty and se.'
curity." Attention has recently been directed
to the resemblance between this combination
of words and that other group more widely
known, "addition, division and silence"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-06-02

b0' Professor J. W. Price, of the Atlanta
University, is fnll-blooded negro: He late
ly returned from visit to Virginia with
handsome young white wife. After a few
days the bride left him, and took refuge with
a neighbor. She said that she had no recol-
lection of marrying Price, or of coming with
him to Atlanta that she was Isabella Hill,
the possessor of $4,000; that miscegnation
was utterly repugnant to her, and she could
only have taken black husband while tenn
porariy insane. Price maintains that she is
an octoroon, but says that he has no desire to
hold her to the marriage against her will,
and now has no doubt of her occasional in
sanity.