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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03
Educated Men

In the great city of New York,
and other cities, men of fine educa-
ton find it bitterly hard to keep
themselves in bread and butter.
While skilled workman can al
ways command good wages, those
who are willing to do anything
which means that they know how
to do little or nothing-have no
chance at all, there are a hundred
applicants for every vacancy. "No
small number of the searchers for
Places says a reporter who has ex-
amined the subject, are native
Americans. With neither trade
nor profession, they are forced to
take whatever offers-and nothing
offers. Many of them are educated
men, who can conjugate a Greek
verb without difficulty. But Greek
verbs, however ornamental, are poor
stocks in trade. A thorough CLASH
cal education, however desirable it
may be, is Of little use in the en-
ployment market unless backed by
some useful practical knowledge.
College graduates are standing on
every corner looking for work. If
any person should desire to ride up
Broadway in coach drawn by a
score of accomplished collegians,
he would have no trouble in en-
ploying them, even if he offered them
no more than their board. A man
who chad pawned his clothes to pay
for his advertisement" advertises
that he wants work of any kind
where he can earn his bread. What
a sad story the pathethic appeal
tells of that hope deferred which
the heart sick.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03
Stock Breeders Sale.

The success of the Giles County
Stock Breeders Association is now
already assured, hut it must be
made a bigger thing that it may
attract larger crowds from dis
lance. The display of fine stock at
Thursdays sale is a good adver-
tisement of the organization and
guarantees the attendance of q
greater number of buyers at the
next sale. And that is what the
managers of the association are
striving to do, to let outsiders know
that they may come to these sales
and find any kind Of stock they
want to buy. OF course men who
deal in stock are not going to travel
any great distance unless they know
that they will have a chance at a
large variety of blooded animals,
but when they know that they can
come here and get them for their
value they are sure to come. The
association ought and does feel en-
couraged by their last effort, for
taking into consideration the fact
that it is comparatively new thing,
this having been the second sale,
they did remarkably well. We can
but express our qualification at
what has already been accomplished,
especially when there are grander
prospective results so easy to be
attained. At first it may some
times occur, as upon the last occa-
sion, that some of the stock will
not bring quite its full value, but
such will not be the case when
these sales shall have grown to the
Importance which by proper man
agement and perseverance they are
destined to assume. Stock sells
for what it is worth at Lexington
KY, and wherever else stock mel
are assembled at these sales, and a:
Capt. Kidd tried to impress hi!
hearers the other day, our advan
tages are inferior to no other plac,
in the stock-raising region. Tn
Stock Breeders Association if prop
erly encouraged by our people, will
be a great and permanent blessing
to them. All honor to the ener
getic and enterprizing leaders in tn
movement. The CITIZEN wishe
them good speed, and, as heretofore
will do all in its power to aid them
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03
Farm and Home.
German Millet.

On land adapted to its growth
there is no forage crop more profit
able to the farmer than German
millet. It's yield is immense, pro
ducing on an average soil, with or
binary seasons, from three to five
tons per acre When cut at the
proper stage and we'll cured, stock
of all kinds are fond of it,preferring
generally to any other hay. Its
superior fattening qualities are
chief among its recommendations
Two crops can be grown in sin
gle season, or crop Of millet Sc
cured after the wheat, rye, or oat
harvest. Objection is sometimes
made that it is hard crop on land,
but such is not the experience of
those who have given it a fair test.
Three things are essential to q
good crop, in addition to the re-
quirements of a favorable soil, viz:
First, the land must be thoroughly
prepared; second, sound seed; and
third, a favorable season. In pre-
pairing the land it should be thor
oughly plowed and well pulverized.
The seed sown should have been
grown especially for the purpose,
and not gathered from a broadcast
crop. The proper way to raise the
seed is to SOW thickly in drill, eigh-
teen inches to two feet apart, and
work one or two times with the cul-
tivator. On a rich soil the yield of
good seed thus treated is immense.
Seed, when good, present a very
uniform appearance in size. The
season requires a moderate amount
of moisture in the beginning. fol
lowed by one or two gentle showers.
Seed should never be sown when
the ground is too dry. River and
creek bottoms, and low, fat places,
are best adapted to this crop. Seed
may be sown as early as the frost is
out of the land up to as late as the
1st Of August. With Il favorable
season it does well after the wheat
crop has been harvested. The
time for moving depends upon the
uses for which it is intended; if fo1
feeding the horse, it should be cut
when in the flower, and for mules,
cattle or sheep, when in the dough
state. There is no hay crop that
stands the weather so well if care
fully ricked or stacked, and when
harvested it leaves the land in ex-
cellent condition for any other crop.
! Every farmer who has land suited
to its growth should raise more OF
less of it. With a favorable season
crop VIII mature in forty to fifty
days from time of seeding. The
amount of seed to the acre depends
upon the character of the land and
the uses for which it is to be ap-
piled. If for horses, a bushel of
seed to the acre is best, but if for
cattle, half bushel to three pecks
is abundant. The seed should be
covered very lightly, and, when con
venient, followed with the roller.
1t will pay to put miIlet ON poor
land Southern Cultivator
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03

The Prairie Farmer says rough.
scurvy or scaly legs on fowls are
caused by a minute insect that bur
rows under the scales. This dis
ease is contagious, and when the
mother hens are afflicted the chicks
are almost sure to catch it. Look
to the mother hens, and if you no
tice any unnatural roughness on the
legs and feet, attend to it at once.
There are several remedies that are
good, but the one thing that is safe,
cheap, easily applied, always at
hand, and a sure cure, is coal oil.
Battle the feet and legs thoroughly,
taking care that the oil penetrates
beneath the scales, and repeat the
operation every day until the scales
begin to drop OFF; then rub on lard
or sweet oil.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03
LADIES' COLUMN.
Wealth in Small Economics.

How much will Tennessee make
this year by drying fruit for market?
Peaches will be ripening in a few
days, and if the idle of the state
could be induced to go to work and
dry the spare fruit it would bring in
money enough to relieve the wants
Of thousands.
The American may not fall into
the hands of all that class of Deo-
pie who might better their condi-
ton by drying fruit, but it will fall
into the hands of merchants all over
the state, and now if every mer-
chant in this state would set him
self about stimulating the country
people to dry fruit, two things
could be done. Thousands and
thousands of poor people might
supply themselves with necessaries
with their dried fruit, and it would
add to the trade of the country mer-
chants so as to enable them to
catch up. A leading wholesale
merchant informed us, yesterday
that owing that owing to the short
crop, last year, the wholesale mer
chants were carrying large debts,
much larger than usual for the
country merchants.
On almost every farm in Tennes
see, and indeed about every cabin,
there are fruit trees, and this year
they are loaded down. We have
made but little out of our fruit in
the past. The people of other
states utilize everything. We have
never learned it, but is it not time
we were learning?
In all countries and among all
people, the very poor people depend
upon others to do their thinking.
In all communities there are lead
ing men, generally a merchant OF
man engaged in some business that
brings him in contact with the
masses. Such man always has it
in his power to be of great service
to the unthinking and imprOvident,
by advising them, making sug-
gestions, etc.
Now II all our country merchants
would set about stimulating the
country people to get to work, and
all who are idle and complain they
have nothing to do, induce them to
dry all the fruit on the place, in
calculable good for them and for the
country might be done.
In some portions of the United
States many poor people are max
ing a living by picking and dryin g
black berries.
If our present crop was taken
care of, together with the wheat
crop, the people would be well off
in the way of spare change in q few
months, and our merchants would
all be fiourishing.
Let our country merchants put
out little circulars, saying to the
country people they will buy all the
dried fruit they will bring in, and
then take it from them as it comes
in and ship it to their Wholesale
houses to pay debts or buy goods.
1t will always be cash. American.
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Condition Of Epypt.

Egypt owes a bonded debt of
$500, 100000. with an annual inter
est of $50. 100000. 1t is impossi
bic for a purely agricultural ooun-
try Of less than one-third the size of
Georgia to pay this. We say less
than one-third the size, for while
the whole area, including desert and
Jungle, is 6S times larger than
Georgia. the habitable, tillable pOr-
ton is less than 10000 square miles.
These bonds are held principally by
the French and English. In ad-
dition to this nearly every impor
tant office in this country is filed
by a Frenchman or Englishman-
They have entire control of the Gus
tom house, the railroads, the tele-
graph and the public works. To
rid Egypt Of the foreign debt and
the foreign Office holders is the orr
gin of Arab Bey and his party.
His cry of Egypt for the Egyp-
tians" met with a sympathetic re-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03
A Shrinka1e.

"Why, Moses Hockheimer, on the
next block, sells suits like these foI
$14," said a resident of Oliver street
to a Chatham street dealer the other
day.
"Yaas, my tear trent, know all
about dot, and 1 dells you Wy he
sells dem so scheap. Dey schrinks
-schrinks like der deyfel! Shust
Won trop of water and oop dey goes.
You know dot pig Shin Jones, tel
carpenter? Veil, he buys a suit OF
Hockheimer last week unit goes on a
spree. He vas trunk dree tags.
Fiery night he scleep ON ter side
walk, unit efery night it rain. Dem
CLOSE schrunk a voot efery dime.
Der fourt night de beltce run him
in"
"For being drunk, eh?"
"For indecent exposure, my
frent-dem CLOSE vos bretty much
all gone. New York Telegram.
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Paving for IncomnetencY.

The doctors to whom Guiteau's
pistol and inspiration have given
puff of national celebrity such as
they never could have won through
the exercise of their professional
skill are now denouncing the senate
for declining to pay more than SOP,
900 for their incompetency. They
had charge of Garfield wound, but
did not know within fourteen inches
where the bullet actually was until
they found it in the washhowl
They did not know within a foot
where the wound was They never
once dressed the actual wound at ali
but dressed pus-burrow and n
cauteriZation of their own IN its
place. There was not a solitary
surgeon connected with the Garfield
wound case who did not disgrace
the profession by his inconpetency.
This is the opinion OF the London
Lancet, and OF the medical men OF
the country generally. While it
may he true that the wound was in
durable, yet in the medical judg-
ment OF the country it is not true
that its actual location was not dis
coverable. On the contrary, the
best medical critics, including the
editors OF the Lancet, expressed the
opinion during the progress Of the
case that the cavity which the
physicians in charge were probing
was a pus-b urrow, and indicated the
true course of the ball At a distance
Of 5000 miles from the patient with
an accuracy that was not only un-
dreamed of by the persons in charge
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03
That's Just Me,

Many years ago into a wholes ale
grocery store in this city walked 9
tall, muscular man, evidently fire sh
conner from some backwoods town
in Maine or New Hampshire. Ac-
costing the first person he met, who
happened to be the merchant him
self, he asked:
"You don't want to hire a man in
your store, do you?"
"Well" said the merchant, 81
don't know. What can you doY'
"DoP' said the man, 81 rather
guess 1 can turn my hand to al
most anything. What do you
want done?"
swell, if l was to hire n man, it
would be one that could lift well, a
strong, why fellow; one, for in
stance, that could lift Il sack of cot
fee like that yonder, and carry it
across the floor and never lay it
down"
There, now, cap'n," said the
countryman, that's just me. 1 can
lift anything 1 can hitch to. You
can't suit me better. What will
you give q man that suits your
III tell YOU" said the merchant,
"If you shoulder that sack of coffee
and carry it across the store twice
and never lay it down L will hire
you tor one year at one hundred
dollars n month"
Ozone" said the stranger.
By this time every clerk in the
store had gathered around and was
waiting to join in the laugh against
the man, who threw the sack across
his shoulder with perfect ease, and
carrying it twice across the floor,
went to a large hook which was fas-
tened to the wall and hung it up,
then turned to the merchant and
said:
"There, now, it may hang there
till doomsday, l shall never lay it
down. What shall go about, mis-
ter. just give me plenty to do and
one hundred dollars n month and
it's all right"
The clerks broke into a laugh,
and the merchant, discounted yet
satisfied, kept his agreement, and
to-day the green country is the
senior partner in the firm and worth
n million dollars.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03
When to Sell.

Germantown Telegraph: Without
assuming TO know more than others
when the farmer should get rid OF
his crops, and whether it is better
to hold on to them awaiting a rise
to what they are at any time selling
at, our idea has been to sell as soon
as the crops are ready for the mar
ket. for the best price that can be
obtained for them. We think it is
even strange that there should be
any one who is asked for advice
would hesitate moment what an
swer to make, for there is no doubt
in the world, that, as a general
rule, the man who turns his money
around the quickest, makes money
the fastest in the long run, and this
is as true in farming as in any 9th
er pursuit. Once in a while one
makes more money by holding on:
and in theory it seems best to hold
on. There are always large num-
Der who must sell as soon as their
crops are ready. They have to sell
for any price they can get, in order
to meet accounts long since due.
This rushing in of crops has ten
dency, or ought to have, in making
low prices. But this is only thee
retical. 1t is found by experience
that in commercial phrase these an
ticipations are always discounted y
Experience shows that there is
very rarely any greater stock in the
grain trade that finds its way into
market than is about in fair de
mand. The only chance to make
money by holding on is when one
has the means at hand to control
large lots, and thus in a measure
be able to control his own prices
this happens so rarely that it is q
consideration the average farmer
has nothing to do with.
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Why he was Employed.

81 say sir, do you want to hire a
boy, sir?" said bright-looking little
fellow, as he stepped into business
office. "What can you do, sir?" was
the respondent inquiry. 81 can tell
the truth, SIR" was the bright reply.
Don't want you, my little man; my
business can't stand truth-telling. "
"Better take the boy" said by
stander. 81 know him. When he
says he can tell the truth he lies
like blazes. He can't do it, nor his
father before him couldn't either"
Boy engaged on modern business
principles-New Haven Register.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03

While crimes are of great fire
quency it is by no means evident
that the world is growing worse or
that our civilization is retrograding.
The triumph of the better clement
in Iowa en- the 9th over the great
vice of the age is proof that the
masses are right on all great ques
lions of morals as we'll as politics.
On the 9th the people of Iowa
voted on the following amendment
of the state constitution: ono per
son shall manufacture for sale, or
sell or keep for sale as a beverage
any Intoxicating liquors whatever,
including ale, wine, and beer The
general assembly shall by law pre-
scribe regulations for the enforce
ment of the prohibition herein con
tanned, and shall hereby provide
suitable penalties for the violation
of the provisions thereof" The
amendment was adopted by major
ity of 10000. The proposal to sub
NIT such an amendment to the PEG
pie was first made by the republi-
cans of the state at their conven-
ton in 1879. 1t at once met with
general favor, as both parties were
eager to have the temperance ques
tion removed from politics. There
has been no partisanship in its adj
vocacy during the past few months
in which it has been before the peo-
pie, the leaders and newspapers OF
both political parties cordially adj
vocating its adoption. The size OF
the vote in its favor surprises the
friends of the measure. AS might
have been expected, the majority
comes almost entirely from the ru-
raj portions of the state, the cities
excepting the capital, voting strong
ly against it. 1t was a square fight
between morality and immortality
between sobriety and inebriety, be-
tween I civilization and refinement
and avarice and sensualism. This
result ought to encourage the friends
of decency everywhere in this
country in their fight against free
whisky and no Sunday. In every
state the masses of the people out
side of the cities are in favor of 9
peaceful Sunday and against the
unlimited flow Of Intoxicating Ii
quor, and, in direct issue, can be
depended upon to roll up sure ma
Ijority.- Chicago News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03

Some of the measures for reduc-
ing the revenues seem little more
than childish. A great fight has
been made over the bill to reduce
the tax on matches, and Mr.. Kelley,
of Pennsylvania, was the especial
champion of the measure. The re-
peal of this tax was said to be de
manded by the people, and yet it
was not a thing that seemed to
raise any popniar enthusiasm. In
1881 the total revenue from the sale
of match stamps amounted to
$4,000, 437, which makes an average
tax of cents per capita per year.
This is the extent of the burden ia
ken off the people by the advocates
of this measure. So long as there
are taxes that really do distress the
people it would have been far better
to have removed them first, and
have left matches alone for q while
II Chicago News.
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Turkeys as Incubators.

A correspondent of the Ohio
Farmer advises the use Of turkeys
as incubators, saying: 1t is not
known to farmers generally that a
turkey hen can be forced to sit at
any time, and that she will sit any
length of time; in fact turkey is a
perfect Matching machine, the most
perfect one yet invented, althou Oh
the person thus training the turkey
to hatch must first understand the
modus operandi, which have tried
to my satisfaction. l will here
give my first experience. 1 took
the turkey up on Saturday and put
her to work on artificial eggs for
four daps; then she became cross
and broody. 1 fixed her nest and
set her with twenty-five hen eggs,
giving her liberty to come off and
feed at her will. She stuck to her
work until she had the job accom-
plished, and out of twenty-five eggs
she Matched twenty three chicks.
l took them from her and set her
again with thirty eggs; Matched out
twenty eight chicks. 1 then took
her off and let her mother chicks,
and a more careful mother never
lived. She would mother all the
chickens that came to her. She
stayed with them as long as they
stayed with her. There is no troub-
lie to get them to take to strange
chicks; they would take to young
geese or ducks if they would take to
the turkey. This is the cheapest
and most perfect way Of Matching
and rearing chickens ever found out
and will do away with all the patent
artificial incubators. L expect to
hatch at least 1000 chicks in this
way during the season.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03

Guinea fowls are invaluable on a
farm where large numbers of chick
ems are annually reared, as they act
as a safeguard against attack from
hawks and crows, while we have
known them to scarce off strange
and thieving dogs 10y their discor-
dant and shrill noise. They are ex-
ceedingly sharp-eyed and detect
danger and give the quick alarm
before the other poultry see or even
suspect it, while many a nocturnal
chicken thief has cause to remem-
Der the salute he met with when
plying his profession in some un-
lucky quarter.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1882-08-03

In valley of Yorkshire lived an
old couple, on whom some mischiev-
Gus boys liked to play tricks. One
night they walled up their windows
with sods, so as to completely ex-
clude daylight. The old people lay
in bed all the next day waiting for
morning. AT last the old man be-
came so tired that he arose to see if
there was yet no signs of dawn. He
found the sun just setting. Nearly
frightened to death he rushed into
the house, exclaiming, "Oh Betty,
Betty, the world is coming to an
end, for the sun is rising at the
wrong side of the earth r'-Chfcago
News.
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of the case, but when made known
to them was ignored and passively
denied. If medical services should
be paid for only when skillfnlly
rendered, then the physicians who
attended Garfield should not be PAID
one cent. Relatively to the ex-
igencies of the case before them they
were all bungling students, to whom
the nation was teaching the a, b, c's
of the surgical art.-Chicago News.