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RohespIerra,s Execution. i.

As they went along throngs
crowded about the cart to see the
fallen tyrant, and the gendsrmes
pointed him out with their swords.
He was pursued by the howhng
mob, who had formerly yelled as
fiercely at his victims, and now
charged him with the blood of them
all. Troops of women, who had
danced at the death of those that
be had sent to the scaffold, now
danced the Carmagnole round the
cart as it passed before the house
of Duplaix, where he had lived.
A woman, breaking from the crowd,
rushed to him, exclsiming, "Mur-
derer of my kindred, your agony
fills me with transport! Descend to
perdition, pursued by the curses of
every mother in Francsw When
they reached the place of execution
Robespierre was first shown to the
people, then laid down on the scaf-
fold with the bloody and nearly
deard bodies of his brother and
Henriot. The batch consisted Of
twenty one, and Robespierre was
executed last of all. When he was
raised up to be led to the guillotine
he presented moet ghsstly figure
his sky blue coat covered with blood
and dirt, his stockings slipped
down about his heels, his face
livid as death, and tied up ia u
bandage, The executioner took
the away, and let the jaw fall.
He gave yell, which struck every
heart with horror, and the next
moment was put under the ak.
Samson held up the hldeous head
to the people, who shouted with
delight, and then went away sing
ing. One poor man, as he gazed
on that head, said, "Yes, Robes
pierre, you said true-there is u
GodV
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Soureas Of Failu re.

A very small percentage of the whole
numb ber of persons who engage in mer-
camille or manufacturing business
achieve permanent success. Such, at
least, is the showing made by the most
reliable statistics attainable on the sub
iect. 1t is not an astonishing result
when one considers the utter neglect or
ignorance manifested in many cases of
the means most obviously necessary to
the establishment of a paying business.
Among these essential conditions, one
which seems so plain as not TO need
proof or enforcement, is that mer-
chant or manufacturer should know
whether his BUSINESS is a paying or
losing one. And yet there are thou
sands of men engaged in these pursuits
in this country who can not tell from
day to day, from week to week, nor
even from year TO year, until the shock
of ruin opens their eyes, whether they
are piling up profits or losses, or how
much OF either.
AS long as they can pay their expen-
ses and meet their obligations at matu-
rity, although they may be constantly
sapping their original capital, they in
duige the belief that everything is as 1t
should be. There is no monthly bal
ance, no quarterly or even yearly inven-
tory, no comparison from time 70 tlule
by which it may be ascertained whether
the progress OF the business is upward
or downward. We have before Us in an
exchange = striking instance OF this
sublime but fatal recklessness. A mill
ing firm began business in the fall with
the most encouraging prospect. The
margin OF profit was good throughout
the winter, and the mill ran night and
day; but when spring came they found
that they had boon barely paying ex-
penses. so unaccountable result as
this set them TO diligently searching for
the cause and it stood revealed at last
i'm leak in a shutter through which
they had been blowing wheat into the
tail-race together with the smut dust,
ali winter long. Through this unsus-
pected leak all the profits they might
and should have made had run out; bat
it would have been not only susI ect'sd
but discovered and stopped If at the end
of the first month an examination had
been made of the state of the business
the purchases, the sales, the amount on
hand at the beginning and end of tie
month, and the sum paid for operating
expenses or drawn out by the pro-
prietors. These matters being care
fully recorded from day to day--a very
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The Stars and Bars,

The first Confederate flag that was
ever unfurled, says a southern writer,
was hoisted upon the capitol building
at Montgomery, Ala, by Judge Alex
ander B. Clitherall, of that city, un-
der the following circumstances: Judge
Clitherall, at the same time, being one
of the senators OF the provisional con
gress, was well advised OF the action Of
the committee having this matter in
hand, OF which committee William +.
Miles of South Carolina WAS chairman.
OF course such an important matter as
the selection of q national emblem did
not fail 10 interest ali whO were in any
wise connected with the revelation.
Judge Clitheran belonged to the class
OF interested ones who desired that the
Dag should in no wise differ from the
stars and stripes, but that we should
claim ''in our fathers house" a right 10
the emblem of constitutions liberty
which had been made glorious by
southern as well as by northern valor.
He watched the proceedings of the
committee with great interest, and, as
soon as their report was made, went to
work with others 70 defeat the recon-
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Face-Hair.

In the BritIsh-aavg officers and
men may wear ali the face hair
they can grow, but ia the army,
except on foreign service, beards
are tabooed. In most Of the CONT
mental armies similar restrictions
are in force, but in Belgium they
are more liberal, and during the
present month tue minister OF war
has issued a general order TO the
effect that, inasmuch as he hears
that in some cases boards have
been prohibited, he must remind
all commanding officers that, by a
ministerial decision OF 1870, all
men in the army may wear their
face hair Just as they please. In
France walters are vigorously pro-
hibited frcm wearing a mustache,
and the same rule attains 10 lead
ing restaurants in New York. A
gentleman lately got young man a
place in one Of these establishments,
but, though very anxious to go, he
loved his mustach better than lucre,
and declined the place.
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Dinner Table Chat.

Boston Bulletin: 81 am mashed on
you," said the potato to the vegetable
dish. "But you were stuck with the
fork" said the dish, "before you were
spoony on me.". t'Give US a rest"
said the knife; ''don't you see the salad
dressing ?" "You are a sly, sir, with
your cutting remarks" observed the
napkin "see how red the lobster is"
"What a little wiper the napkin is"
murmured the asparagus. "You are
not well bred, although you are brought
up On toast" said the tablecloth.
"What a damask cheek you have"
sputtered the vinegar; "it's sour opin-
ion you will be spotted pretty soon."
"Aren't you a little off your beet9"
asked the salt. "Saline old fellow"
cried the mustard. 81 suppose you
think you are smart" said the pepper,
the cruet, sweetly, ''if you fellows are
going to season each other in this
Style" Here the bread loafed in with
the crusty remark that he would "be
buttered' if he ever get into such COM
pany. "You can't get ahead of u.s."
said the cabbage. "What is going to
turnip next?" said the cauliflower; 81
believe you are all drunk. l know the
beef is corned." "Sit on him and we
will have peas,p shouted the beans. 81
can't" said the caulifiower "I haYe just
had boil" "He is dished, by gravy !"
cried the butter boat. 81 am accus-
toned to jars" said the olive, "but as a
child of the dessert 1 advise you 10
cheese it." The champagne had just
murmured to the glass, "I'll pop, my
dear, as sooD as one of these coarse fell
lows out of the way" when the dinner
I'LL Il GV -.
self now, and everything will be laid on
the table"
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e Sahara Gone Tool

Will iconoclastic rage never sub
side? Once the points
OF r supposed Great American
Desert were switched into the com
prehension OF school children. but
the circulars of railway companies
land agents turned them 20 naught,
and now an African missionary,
born in America, is claiming that
the alleged desert of Sahara is not
much of a sand heap after all. but,
on the contrary, a country In the
main so fertile that elephants exist
there in great numbers aud that tho
stories about the aridity Of the
great tract of land between the
Mediterranean nations aud the
Equator we're started BY Arabs who
prefer 10 always be able 70 get up a
corner in ivory when the market
happens 10 be strong. II Sahara,
too, is gone, what is LEFT that Is
worth believing? II history is q
mere mass oftradition, aud geOgTa-
ply a pack Of lies by pretended
travellers, what are school children
TO study?
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mendation OF Chairman Miles and his
committee. This effort, however, was
fruitless. The report of the committee
was adopted by q large majority. As
soon as the vote of the provisional con-
gress was taken, Judge Clitherall seized
the design, as executed, of the adopted
flag, and which was before the con-
gress accompanying the report Of the
committee, and finding his way to the
roof of the capitol building, gave to the
embrace of warm southern breeze the
banner whose subsequent glory was
to live throughout time in the annals of
warfare
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A Bang-up Obituary.

Jem Bangs, we stait, has do
ceased. He departed this life last
Monday. He went 4th wfthoat any
struggle, and such 10 life. Tu.day
we are as pepper grass-mighty
smart-tu-norrow We are cut down
like a cowcumber OF the ground.
Jem KEEP a Mise store, which his
wife now owns. His waters was
numerous TO behold Many things
were bought at this growcerY, and
we are happy TO state to the admir-
in world that he never cheated,
speshully in the wait of mackrel,
which were nice and smelt sweet,
and his surviving wife is now the
Same wa. We never knew him TO
put sand in his sugar, though he
mad big sand bar In front Of his
house; nor water in his lickers,
though the Ohio passed his dore.
Peace to his remGnes. He leaves
one wife, nine children, one COW,
fore horses, a growcer's store, aud
other quadrupeds to mourn his loss
but 10 the language Of the poit,
his loss is there eternal gain
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For acastlnc the Weather.

The Burlington Hawkeye says
that it is easy enough to predict the
weather if you only follow the right
rules. Here are some of them: An
tensely blue sky indicates tenn
porary absence of clouds. Under
other circumstances, again, an in
tensely blew sky indicates tornado.
When the sun rises behind a bank
of clouds, and the clouds hang low
all around the horizon, and all over
the sky, and the air feels damp, and
there is fine drlzzling mist blow
ing, the indications are there will
be rain somewhere in the United
States or Canada. When it begins S
to thunder, look out for lightning.
To see the head of the family feel
ing in his right-hsnd pocket, then
in his left-hsnd pocket, then in all
his vest pockets, then in his hip
pocket, then in his coat pockets,
and then whistliDg at the ceiling,
indicates mo change" If he sud
denly stops whistling at the ceiling
and expands his face into a broad
grimace of delight, it means ''un-
expected change" If the corn
husks are very thick, the wiEter
will be colder than the summer. il
the corn husks are very thin, the
summer will be warmer than the
winter. II the corn husks are
neither too thin nor too thick, the
summer will be warm and the winter
will be cold. Ii the weather
prophet predicts rainy season, and
1t happens to rain away out in
Calaveras county, and is dry as a
bone all over the rest of America,
this rain must be set down to the
credit OF the weather breeder, ana
all the dry time counts for nothing.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-08-25

The prophecy that the world will
come to an end in November is get
tingto be less and less appalling. NJ en-
are gradually coming to the conclu-
sion that the thing had about as
well wind up, unless it rains-and
that quickly and copiously. If the
comets are doing this mischief it is
not likely to cease soon. The new
one that promises to be the bright
est in many years will not be visi
BILE to the naked eye until the Goth,
and then it will come within 81
100000 miles of US. What its in
fiuence will he at its nearest point
is startling to imagine, if we accord
to it any power at all. We would
advise people not to stop aC laying
in coal and provisions to last until
November, for the schedule might
change, and if the comets are frus-
trated in their efforts to annihilate
US, there is no telling what kind of
a winter their anger may give US.
In the meantime it is interesting to
study the remarkable condolences
in Mother Shipton's verses and this
ancient philosophers predictions.
Everything else they prophesied
has been woven into history as
nicely as If their predictions were
inexorable DEGREES. Unless the
new version Intervenes, however,
to change the purposes of Omnipo
tence, 1.-THE end cometh when no
man knoweth"-or words to that
effect, and hence we advise farmers
to SOW turnips like rip.
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simple and easy thing to do-ten min
utes' calculation at the end of the
month would have told the whole
story. And the truth in such cases is
worth taking trouble to find out. TThere
is no bliss IL ignorance in matters of
this kind, unless to man so singularly
constituted that he can sleep in peace
with the shadow of possible Bankruptcy
resting upon his pillow.
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Wounded: "Livel / guess he
lived. Why you couldn't kill that
teller il he was as full of holes as a
skinner. He'd just go 70 work
and breathe through the holes,
that's what he'd do" and having
thus ventilated his knowledge OF
the vitality OF a veteran of the Mex
ican war, job Shuttle moFped the
perspiration from his brow and
strolled OF to the next grocery 10
astonish another cracker barrel au-
dience.
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Anybody knowing of a small boy
who would not run seven blocks for a
chance to ride half block with his
stomach across the edge of grocery
wagon tail board will please bring him
TO this office and receive the reward in
tended originally for the man who
should bring in new comet tied up in
an old paper.
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Tanner,s New scheme.

DR.. Tanner, the great faslsr, is
drawing up propositions TO the
medical faculty OF New York TO fast
three months. He stated 20 a re-
porter that be can fast nine
ty-fve days II fed on electricity,
the air in his room 70 be charged
with q strong current. This being
positive. he can obtain q negative
element from the disintegration OF
his tissue. tie 10 now fattening for
a fast, as plenty OF adipose is neces-
sary.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-08-25

When a six-dollars a week city clerk
straddles his nose with pair of eye
glasses, spends weeks salary for
diamond pin and goes cut into the
country to astonish the natives, he is
doubtless surprised to find that he is
not so much of curiosity as hand or
gan monkey in a calico overcoat.
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In Chancery at Pulaski.
AUGUST RULES, 1881.
Mary A. Spivey ct al, comp't, vs.. George
Spiyey et Al defendants.

Mary A. SpiveY ct al, eomP't, vs. George c.
Spiyoy ct al, defendants.
| N this cause It appearing to the satisfaction
OF the CloIS and Master from an affidavit
70 the bill that tho deiendauts, W A. Os-
born and q. u. Wilson are uon-residents of
the State Of Tennessee, so that the ordinary
process OF this court cannot bo served on
them.
On motion it is therefore ordered that pub
hcation be made for four weeks in succession
in the Pulaski Citizen, a newspaper publish
cd in the town OF Pulaski, in said State re-
Quiring tho said defandsnts 70 be and appear
on the first day of the next term of the Chan
Gerry court TO DO hold for the county of Giles,
a. the court house in Pulaski, on the Srd
Monday in September next, 1t being return
day for process in said court, and answer
SomplainAnt's bill, OF the same will be taken
Tor confessed as TO them and set fJr hearing
exparte.
augls 40 J. b. STACY, c. cS NJ.
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Rig your grindstone so that you
can turn it yourself, and not be
obliged to have another to turn it
for you. II can be fixed to run by
foot power, so that the person
grinding can turn as well as not;
and it is necessary to let two men
leave the hay field TO do the work
that.one can do? When it isIfne hay
weather time should be economized
as much as possible.
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rounded by and glittering with all
the gorgeous pomp and regal splen-
dor that wealth can buy over the
bier of some diamond-decked mon
arch.
"Only brakeman killedr'
But over his mangled remains
the sun will shine just as brightly,
the birds will sing as sweetly, the
dew and grass will rest as lightly,
and his sleep will be just as long
and sweet, as though his was the
grave Of Gould or q Vanderbilt.
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Drouths in the Past.

The following figures show the years
in which protracted droughts occurred
and the number of days they lasted:
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Only a brakeman killed r'
Fading Avav.

Any one who would try to make
the task of getting out of a parlor
more difficult than it is must ex-
pect to be criticised.
In "Lothair" Disraeli max es one
Of his characters say that no one
should ever say "good-by," but in
departing should fade away like q
summer cloud. That is sweet, isn't
it2 and practical too. Imagine a
man who weighs 23o pounds when
be is ''right thin" trying TO fade out
of a morning call like sumner
cloud. He would fade, wouldn't
he2 Especially if he happened TO
collide with a rocking-chair as he
was fading.
Or, think of a man trying to
"fade" out of a psrlor like a sum
mer cloud, with his hostess mean
est poodle swapping at his legs.
Just think how be would "fade."
And fancy young man "fading''
away in the evening, when he
wanted To get out of the hall before
pa could reach the front porch, and
the chilling tones of his footsteps
already crunching on the gravel. -
Norristown Herald.
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Deliberate Suicide of a Horse


Some few days ago Mr.. l. E.
Aldridge saw an old horse belong
ing to Mr.. Saunders come out OF
the barn and stand few mOments
as if looking out upon the river.
The animal returned into the barn.
and in few moments came out
again, went deliberately 70 the river,
waded into the cove that is inclosed
by the Hudson River raiLroad,
swan through the cuivert under the
railroad track into the main river,
and thence continued TO swim out
into the stream. A man employed
on the piledriver near bv saw the
horse, went after him in a small
boat, and brought him ashore. But
on reaching shallow water the ami
NAL persisteutly refused to come ON
dry land. He laid down in the
water, floundered about, and appAr-
emily made every effort to keep hla
head under, as if determined TO
drown hsmself; and finally he did
drown, in water not deep enough TO
cover his body as he lay down, and
where he could only drown by max
ing a determined effort to do so.-
Fishkill Journal.
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Dreaming of Home.

81 am not 'up to- anything just now,
it's so intolerably hot. Don't you
want to immigrate? / hate Texas-am
nearly crazy to get back home.
Dreamed of meeting you in New York
last night"
The above was an anonymous note in
a well-known handwriting upon the
margin of Texas paper that came to
US the other day. What world of
meaning in it! "Home, sweet home ~
means Middle Tennessee. Everywhere
they go, from Maine to the gulf and
from the tar hills to the glittering
strand, the testimony is universal, that
there is no place like Middle Tennessee.
1t seems dark to US now, in the midst
of devastation and drouth, but even
now we are better off than some locali-
tiles whose best condition is not equal
to our worst. The people will not be-
lieve it until they try it to their sorrow,
but everybody who has investigated,
all the facts, figures and statistics prove
that Middle Tennessee, taken all In all,
is the most favored spot in America
and Giles county is the garden spot!
You doubt it, do you? Yes, and you'll
try some other country and when you
have spent your substance you'll be
glad to walk back like the prodigal. A
wagon loaded with a family was on its
way to Texas from Middle Tennessee.
To avoid answering questions, the
sturdy yeoman had painted on the wag-
ON cover, "To Texas or Bust" And
he cracked his whip, whistling, and
gaily sped his way. In few months
the wagon came trundling slowly back
the once sleek horses now veritable
skeletons, the children sallow and emA-
ciated, the man dropping and detected,
and painted over the old inscription in
plain characters was, "Busted, by Cad ~
That tells the tale
Fellow-citizens, stay at home! Wan
derers, return!
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"rommy, did you hear your
mother call your Course / didP
Then why don't you go to her at
oEceT' "Well, yer see she's nerv-
Gus, and it'd shock her awful e
should 60 too suddenL"
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One of the Concord philosophers
fishes the following out of the pro-
found depths of the sea of thought:
mo individuality is without a per
sonality, and no personality exists
or objectivates itself but as lndivid-
uaIIty; and this is the last analysis
OF soul form" Aud the person
who announces this startling truth
goes by the common name OF Jones
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"At Adrianople the Turkish rev.
enue officers have been detected in
a gigantic system OF fraud on the
government" Sometimes the ca
ble news reads almost.exactly like g
telegram from Washing ton.
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THE CITIZEN.

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