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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
Blesssd Bachelor.

Bachelors are styled by men who
have put their foot into it as the
only half-perfected beings, cheer
less vagabonds, but half a pair of
scissors, and many other like
things; while on the other hand, the
bachelors extol their state as one
of perfect bliss. Most men get
married in order that they may
have some one to darn their stock
ings, sew buttons on their shirts
and trot their babies-that they
may have somebody, as a married
man once sale, to pull off their
boots when they are little balmy.
These fellows are always talking of
the loneliness of bachelors. Who is
petted to death by ladies who have
daughters, invited to tea and eve
ming parties, and told to drop in
when it is convenient The bache-
lor! Who strews flowers on the
married mans grave? His widow?
Not q bit of it? She pulls down
the tombstone that six weeks
grief has set up in her heart, and
gets married again-she does !
Who has wood to split, house-hunt-
ing and marketing to do, the young
ones to wash, and the servants to
look after? The married man! He
that marries does well; but he that
marries not does better.-Ex.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

The cold. We chatted and laughed
and all went well until we were half
way there and a rabbit jumped
across the road. The horse shied,
over went the sleigh and out we
tumbled. The bandbox rolled down
the hill, Ben's valise and bundle
or two lodged against the brush
fence and the buffalo robes and /
went on the crust after the bandbox.
Ben stuck to the reins and soon
stopped the horse, but when the
things were gathered and we were
seated in the sleigh we were nearly
frozen. Ben said we would soon
get warm, and I remember he told
me his hands and feet were begin
ming to burn, and as if in dream l
heard him say:
Wake up! wake upl you must
not go to sleep; you will freeze if
you do Then he said: What shall
1 do? she is freezingr
'sHe shook me and told me to
stamp my feet and rub my hands,
and 1 thought l did, and it seems
to me that was getting warm and
tried to ask him why he whipped
the herse so, but he laughed so loud
he couldn't hear me, and then |
feared we should be tipped over
again; and when the horse stopped
at the hotel it seemed as though we
were all smashed to pieces. For
hours I had no sense Of feeling, and
the next day when the doctor came
he said 1 had rheumatic fever, so
they sent for my father. r.ss..Oh! ]! l was
so afraid he would not come. He
did, however, and forgave me, al
though 1 did not deserve it. He
remained with me all the time for
weeks. L Twas very sick and suffered
eXcruclating pains, that is why my
hands and feet are so crippled. l
learned to love and appreciate my
dear father. then knew for the
first time that he was worried and
harrassed with business troubles,
and that he could be kind and gentle
as a woman, and had 1 obeyed him
1 should not be an old cripple to
day."
"Auntie," said Edith, 81 have no
desire to go to the party, and here
after will try and be more gentle,
| and more obedient.-Golden Rule.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
Tennessee ON cine First Map.

Arrowsmith, in his map of Ten
nessee, of 1904, shows our state
thus: The length and breadth OF
the state appears about as now,
The territory west of the Tennessee
river is laid down as the Chickasaw
country. Memphis is the Chicka-
saw Bluff. The Hatchie, Forked
Deer. Obion, Reele Foot and Chick
asaw Rivers are marked. Not a
town in West Tennessee. The
great basin of Middle Tennessee is
laid down with its rim of highlands
with accuracy. South of this is
Cherokee county. The territory
embraced in the basin is called the
Nero district and embraced Tennes-
see, Davidson and Sumner counties
Tennessee county extended from
about Clarksyille to nearsthe Ten
nessee river. Davidson from Ken
lucky line extending south as fal
as Giles, bounded by Sumner on
the east. Sumner has about itt
present west boundary, which wal
south to the lower part Of the stat
and then north east, taking in Bed
ford, Coffee, FentTess and all the ter
ritory skirting the Cumberland
naountains. 1t was big count,
then, but a dozen have been mad
out of it. -.
East Tennessee was the Washing
ton district, and embraced tn
counties Of Sullivan, Sewer, HsW
kins, Washington and Greene
Most of the rivers are laid down
as are Knoxville, Jonesboro an
Maryville.
Lookout Mountain is located, 8
is Nickajack.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
Garden discusses the subject as

Garden discusses the subject as
follows:
Which is the best breed of sheep2
Is it the Cotswolds, with their no
BILE presence, great antiquity,
thorough pedigree, their health,
hardness, longevity, and heavy
carcasses, their prolificacy or good
nursing qualities. Is it the Leices-
ters, with finer bone, greater re-
finement of carcass, fleece and
points, aptitude to fat, good wool,
neat outline, desirable fiber, length
of staple and profitable limbs2 Is it
the Southdowns, medium size, ex-
treme hardness, adaptation to hill
pastures, grand symmetry, une-
qualled mutton, early maturity,
tough constitution and productive
ness in breeding, coupled with sure
ty of raising2 Is it the Merino,
with their swollen form, fine wool,
hardihood, fine fleece, impervious,
Epelt like covering, their remarkable
[fecundity, and good motherhoodf
La 1T any of these, OT some Fixed
grade of these, or is it each and ALP
BY fixed grades or crosses We mean
such breeds as Oxfordshire, Hamp
shire, Lincolnshire downs, etc. Is il
some one, or all of these2 We con-
tend that it is all. No one breed is
best for all climates and conditions;
no one breed is equally adapted to
mountain pastures and to plains.
Each is best where it thieves the
best.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
Imprisonment for Debt.

Imprisonment for debt is still not
uncommon in England, though
man can not be locked up for not
paying his bills so easily as he
might have been some years ago.
Judges frequently order debtors,
against whom their creditors make
out cases, to pay in monthly install
ments, and one who fails to do so
regularly, month by month, until he
has made good the uttermost far
thing, may be committed for con-
tempt of court. No one owing less
than $3.50 can take advantage of the
bankrupt laws, so that small debtors
frequently have hard time Of It.
Men have sometimes been sent to
Jail for contempt in not making the
decreed monthly payments, who not
only had. and could earn nothing,
but were actually receiving parish
relief Some members :of parlia-
ment have set about instituting
reform in this business.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
New Uses for the Cott on crop.

Mr.. Edward Atkinson has found
a new element of value in the cotton
crop, and one which promises to ma
terially advance the prosperity OF
southern farmers. 1t appears that
for each bale of lint there are l,5O0
pounds of stems, which are very rich
in phosphates of lime and potash.
When ground or mixed with ensl-
lage or cotton seed meal (Which is
too rich for fodder in large quantl-
ties), the stem and mixture makes .
superior cattle food, rich in all the
elements needed for the production
of milk, meat and bone. 1t is be
lieved that this utilization of the
cotton stems will greatly facilitate
the raising of stock, by furnishing
substitute for grain which now has
to be brought from the West.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
Providing for pauehtsrs.

The way of happiness and com
fort for single middleaged women
would be much easier If a different
method was pursued by parents to
ward their daughters while they
are still young. Nothing, of course
can recompense a woman for the
loss in her life of the love of hus-
band and children, but there is no
reason why, added to this bitter
ness, she should always have the
humiliation of dependence. Half
the terrors of a single life a wo-
man lie in the fact that she will
never have a home of her own but
must remain dependent on father
and brothers; the one too many In
the household; the beneficiary on
suferance in the family, though she
work twice as much as the actual
members. A father naturally sets
his boy on his own feet at coming
of age, but as naturally keeps his
daughter dependent on himself. 1t
is a pleasure, perhaps, to him to
give her gowns and pin money at
so as when she was 8. He does
not reflect that she hasithe longing,
equally natural TO every man and
woman, to take her own place in
the world, to be rooted plant, not
a parasite. The difficulty is easily
solved. If the father is wealthy, let
him settle absolutely upon his
daughter, when she is Of marrying
age, the amount he would have Civ
en- her as a dover, instead Of doing
out the the interest as constant
gifts; if he is a poor man, let
him give her some trade or occu-
patton by which she can earn her
own money. This course would
obyiote the mercenary necessity OF
marriage which rises night and day
before the pennilesss, dependent
woman.-TThe Housekeeper.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
An Experimental Drunk.

A st. Louis preacher, never hav-
ing tasted whisky, bought half
gallon of it to study its effects, in
order the better to describe them
in the temperance sermon he was
preparing. To avoid publicity and
accidents he locked himself in his
study and threw the key out of the
window. In less than an hour he
was singing and dancing instead of
writing; about A o'clock in the af
ternoon he climbed out of the win
dow and slid down the lightning
rod, fell into swill barrel, kissed a
woman in the street, got licked by
two men at different times, broke a
window, stole a dog, sassed po-
iceman and got run in. The
Judge socked it to him most awful
ly-thirty days-but his church
forgave him and took him back on
his solemnly promising that he
would hereafter discuss the tenn
perance question from purely the
oretical standpoint.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
A Barrel of Diamonds.

The question as to where all the
diamonds in this country come from
is very pertinent one. l verify be-
lieve that at Cape May, Long
Branch, Newport and Saratoga, l
have seen this season enough dia-
monds to fill a barrel. 1t is a rare
exception to meet a woman who
has not diamonds somewhere on
her person, and the majority have
them distributed wherever it is pos
sible to find q lodgingplace. 1
not be surprised if their next move
is to bore holes in their noses to
stick them in. The young lady at
Long Branch who expressed so
much disgust to me because some
man was indulging profrsely in dia-
monds, probably considers it is in
entire good taste for her own sex to
do the same, but it is not most GER
tainly. to the extent to which some
of them carry it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

"why don't you send your chill
dren to school, Iker asked the
superintendent of public instruction
of an old colored man. "Wall, boss
rs tried dat school business, and i
won't work" ''How's thatT' "Wali,
YOU see, my sons been studyn'
irithmetic furr some time, and tothei
day / axed him what de couty seal
OBJ Africa, and he couldn't tell me
When a boy studys 'rithmetic fre'
years and can't finger out sich 8
simple question, ! thinks dat it'
time fur him ter quit Now he's
study'u 'stronomy in n brick-yark.
"A rkansaa Traveller.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
Progress of Trotting Horses.

The progress that the trotting
horse has made in this country and
abroad, says the New York Spirit,
is very remarkable. Year by year
the numbers of breeders and owners
increase, until we find that in the
past month the state of Kentucky
alone sold 100000 worth of trotting
stock, and the statistics of the state
fairs show the interest in this class
of horses is constantly growing
For example, from a table pre-
pared by a Chicago daily of the ex-
hibits at the Illinois fairs for four
years past, we CLEAN that the road
ster and trotter leads all other
classes, and that, in 1880 such
horses comprised 5S per cent. of all
the entries of the various breeds ex-
hibited. The Norman and French
draft, 10 per cent; the Clydesdale
and English draft, II per cent; the
thoroughbred, IL per cent; against
the following percentage three years
previous, namely, 1877: Roadsters,
As; French, %; thoroughbred, % !;
and Clydesdale, ETC., 8.
The advance of trotting and fast
roadster interests, in the estimation
of rovers of the sport, and the public
generally, cannot be denied. In
these days, men like General Grant,
Governor Stanford, VIM. H. Wander
bilt, Robert Bonner, Charles Crocker
and j. w. Mackay, of California;
the Messrs. Rockefeller, of Cleve-
land; G. j. Hamilton, and the Jewett
Brothers of Buffalo, and the recent
very strong addition, Commodore
N. w. Kitson, together with such
large breeders as A. j. Alexander,
General Withers and Charles Back
man, have elevated and strengthened
the trotting-horse cause, some by
public racing of their stock, others
by private patronage as purchasers
at large prices.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
Brother Gardeners Rules.

Honor yer fader and yer mudder
but doan't lend de ole man any
money onless you have good secu
rity. Come down literally to erect
churches; but if you have any
brick to sell ask the contractor full
price. Do your dooty by orphan
asylums, but don't board any or
phans for less than three dollars a
week. Love your naybur as thy
self, but see dat he returns your
shovel and rake and spade in good
order or make him pay de retail
price. Be honest, but doan't let a
grocer imagine dat you buy quart
box of strawberries expectin' to get
ober pint an a half. Obey de
law, but doan't clean out yer alley
onless yer naybur does. Be seen
often, at church, but doan't git argy
dadde preacherknows the aige OBJ de
world an area of heaben any better
dan lots of odder folks. Support
de cause of eddecation, and yit re
member dat some of our biggest
fools am people who have beer
stuffed full of it.-Free Press.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

There are various breeds of poul-
try which, for single and special
purposes may exceed the Plymouth
Rocks, yet as a general purpose
fowl, where profit is desired, there
is no better, nor is there likely to
be. The farmer and fancier alike
are loud in their praise, for they
seem to ''fill the bill' exactly. They
are from medium to large in size,
have plump, well-rounded bodies,
and fit for table use at almost any
age. They are hardy, good layers
of large eggs, and the eggs are uni
formly fertile. They make good,
careful mothers, and are as free
from disease as any other breed
known. One feature which makes
them especially desirable for south
ern breeders and farmers, is that
they feather up so quickly, when
very young, and are thus secure
against the fierce rays of the sun at
this stage of their growth Farm
& Home
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
Rast Brood Of Shaep.

We are often asked by those who
are contemplating the purchase Of
a few coed sheep TO raise a flock
from-which is the best breed OF
sheep. That is one of the question
that has not yet been settled in the
west--if it has in any section Of the
country. A writer in the Farm and
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

There is q real basis for the high
prices of pedigree stock, whether
sheep, cows or horses. IL may
seem absurd 10 pay 5000 for a ram
that weighs little more than 100
pounds but il the progeny Of this
ram will shear s 10 10 pounds Of
wool while common sheep average
5 or pounds, with the sHDlo cost of
keeping, the use Of the pedigree
sheep as a breeder will pay heavy
interest on much more than his In
creased price. 1t iS not every
farmer who can breed fSncy stock
with profit, but there is none VINO
cannot improve his herds by the
use Of the best male parentage.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

There are published on the globe
"a, ,274 newspapers and periodicals.,
with A total circulation 0f 100, ,0OO-
600 copies. Europe leads with 10
557 Journals; next follows North
America, with ~, 400; Asia has 575 (;
Australia, 661, South Amer
lea, 609; and Africa, 132. Ofthcse
periodicals, 16, 500 are printed In the
English language. 1900 in German,
$3.50 in French, and then come
l 600 in Spanish. There are 4,O10
dailies; Is, ,274 are published three
times or once 4 week, and s,bOS ap-
pear less frequently.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14
a Convenient Table.

Much of the informa tion con-
tained in the following is SO fire.
quently wanted by business men
that the paragraph might be cut out
and pasted in your wallet.
Measure 209 feet on each side,
and you will have a square acre
within an inch. An acre contains
4,S4O square yards. A square mile
contains $40 acres, A miles is
$3.50 feet, or 1,760 yards in length.
A,.Sabbath days journey isl, $50 yds.
days journey is 338 miles. A GU
bit is 2 feet. A great cubit is IL
feet. A hand, horse measure, is 4
inches. A palm is 3 inches. A
span is log inches. A pace is 3
feet. A barrel of flour weighs 196
pounds. A barrel Of pork weighs
200 pounds. A barrel of rice
weighs 600 pounds A barrel OF
powder weighs % pounds. A fir
kin of butter weighs 65 pounds. A
tab of butter weighs S4 pounds.
The following are sold by weight
and bushel: Wheat, beans and
clover seed, so pounds per bushel,
corn, rye, and flax-seed, Sc pounds
per bushel; buckwheat, 40 pounds
per bushel; barley, As pounds per
bushel; oats, 80 pounds per bushel
bran, 3S pounds per bushel; timo
thy seed, As pounds per bushel.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

In using eggs as food there is
danger of forgetting how useful
they are. 1t is safe to say that
more than one-half of all the mil
lions of eggs which are consumed
every year in this country, are used
in cakes, puddings, custards, cream
and confections. How much real
good do these do2 DR.. Holbrook
saws: About one-third of the
weight Of an egg is solid nutriment.
This is more than can be said OF
meat. There are no bones and
tough pieces that must be laid
aside. Practically an egg is ami
NAL food, and yet there is none OF
the disagreeable work of the butch.
er necessary to obtain it."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

A Washington special of Monday
last to the Cincinnati Gazette says:
There is good authority to state
that the White House will have a
mistress next winter. President
Arthur is undoubtedly engaged,
and the marriage will take place
early in the fall. The name OF the
lady is for the present state Sc
cret. The engagement was made
last spring, and the lady has, this
summer, at different watering
places, been the recipient of the
choicest flowers from the Whit
House Conservatives.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

The old mari sighed as he took
the golden-ha'ired, laughing boy up
on his lap, aIld smoothing his shin
ing tresses, said: All! how much l
should like to feel like child again.
Little Jollny ceased his laughter,
and gazing soberly up into his grand
fatsner's face said: "Then why don't
you get mamma to spank you!
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

Sheep will lose their wool in the
second year that they are on this
island. No matter where they are
brought from, they will become as
woolless as goats. Lambs dropped
here will retain wool just about the
same length of time, when their
woolly coats become nothing else
but a soft, short hair, like in every
respect to that of a goat. We
knew before that there were wool
less sheep, but did not think that
an importation Of any kind to a
strictly tropic cline would result as
aboYe.-G Kew West Democrat.
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peveIopment Of the sOutI,.

London Times: The develop
ment of the western states-or
speaking more generally, OF the
states of the Mississippi VALLEYS
the dominant fact in the higher pol
itics of the American union. But
its effects have to a certain extent
been forecasted. A more signifi-
cant point in the statistics OF the
congressional representation 10 the
evidence of the revival of the south.
OF the thirteen southern states, not
one loses n representative In the
new apportionment, and only four
are stationary. At the close Of the
civil war few would have predicted
that in the present political rear
anoenent, while Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont hare to
submit each to q reduction OF their
representation in Congress, Virgin
ia, North Carolina, South Carolina
and Georgia receive an increase. 1t
is not by any means so surprising
that the southwestern states should
make substantial gains, for these,
and especially Texas, were to a
great extent, unsettled at the data
of the war, and their vast natural
resources were certain TO be stimu-
lated and opened to external enter
prise on the restoration sof peace
The older states of the south, how
ever, we're supposed to be altogeth
er dependent on the system of slay
cry for their prosperity and politi
| cal Importance. The disasters Of
the confederacy were believed alike
by northerners and southerners, By
| American and foreign observers, Z
have given fatal blow to the 50
cial center OF the secession. With
in the past ten years this has beer
triumphantly disproved, and th'
| fact is placed in evidence by the re
adjustment Of the federal represen
tation. "
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

The first locomotive built in this
country was constructed by Peter
Cooper, and was run on the Baltl-
more d. Ohio from Baltimore to Eli
colts Mills, Md, in the spring OF
1880.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

Women preponderate in the last
cambridge University Higher Lo-
cal Examination Lists" This is
partly attributable to the fact that
the scholarships and prizes offered
in connection with the examination
are confined to women. The syndi-
cate gives gratuit.ies of twenty
five dollars each tr the five women
highest in the list, who are prepar-
ing for the prof ,ssion of tuition.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

America produces more nails,
more pumps, more agricultural ma
chinery, more street rails, more 10
comotives, more cars than all the
rest Of the world put together.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

A St. Louis ost-Dispatch re-
porter has found a man who Is will
inc TO swear that Arab Pasha Is q
full -bloodcd Irishman, that he Is an
escaped convict and that his name
is O'Barry.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-09-14

"CHEEK" is an page weekly literary,
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Rubbing the horse morning and
noon with handful of smartweed
will prevent the flies from troubling
him during the day.
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