The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
UToPIAN EUREKA.
Estelle vehse Troubles It's Healing
Waters With a Piercing Pen.

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doubt"
A friend, having read the writer's
article in the American, of a curl
Gus enigma in stone here on cxhi-
bition, writes us in mingled strain
of irony and sport, to give the pub
lie snake story. As he is one of
our best chancery lawyers, and
having practiced imposition upon
common sense so long, he is better
fitted for humbuggery than the
writer. VOltaire says, Character
is what nature has engraven in us;
can we then efface it?'' We have
often been told that he, our profess
sional friend, since he stepped out
of his cradle has eclipsed the light
of Munchauseni
Had he asked us for a centipede
or tarantula story we could have
given him a very readable one
founded on facts. They are nu-
merous here and larger than any
we saw on our Texas tour.
We have seen and heard many
remarkable things since we came to
the famous Eureka which almost
makes us feel inclined to dIscredit
Solomon's statement, ''that there
is nothing new under the SUM-" but
we have as yet seen but one iive
snake, a scary looking fellow be-
longing to the coach whip variety.
He wraps himself around you and
trails you nearly to death, taking
all the conceit and vanity out of his
victiml
1t might be advantageous to our
friend to meet one of these snakes
in the woods.
While on the subject of snakes we
will add that it is said by the know
ing ones that there is q small white
snake that inhabits the springs,
few specimens Of which can be seen
at Mr., Tibbs' laboratory that he
strained from the water preparatory
to shipping.
If my friend was here (pity he is
not) and gulched much of the water
in the darkness, he might reverSe the
story of Jonah-only it would be a
snake instead-and the world might
believe what he has believed of him
self for long time; that lie was
whale, and of no small magnitude.
However, he must remember the
latitude allowed fishermen and |
aquarians generally. In view of
this, he can read what we say of |
him cam grono sails, if it will lay on
his stomach any better.
There are great many peculiar
and interesting thingsin and around
Eureka, and a strange witchery that |
enchants US with potency as ire /
sistible as that of the magnet. The
wild, thrilling scenery, the springy, |
animating air of these lofty hills |
that lend the brightness and beau
ty of the ''roses that blossomed by |
Bendemeer's stream" to the pallid |
cheek, and strength to the weary |
limbs. The transient, fuctuating, |
kaleidoscope of faces, ever throng
ing its steep, crooked streets, wend-
ing their way to the springs to dip |
their cups into the pure healing wa
ters and drink, sitting down the |
throbs of the sick heart with long
ings and faith, that they may return
with renewed health to loved ones
who are waiting in their frraway
homes with hopes and fears for
them. The comical architecture of
the little city with its long flights
of wooden steps, its plank pave
ments, it's stores and its shops full
of life and thrift, its wooden bridg- |
es spanning its gulches, its numer-
Gus springs, each possessing some
especial virtue; its laundries, It's |
bath houses, its great number of
hotels rising tier on tier, with one
side or the other on stills, from the
deep gulches ascending to the tip |
top of the mountains, with here and |
there a little church bearing the |
cross or steeple nestled beneath the |
oaks and solemn voiced pines.
Here and there great bare bowl |
ders jut out, occasionally draped |
with tracing of delicate. clingiDg
vines and the many beautiful varie
ties Of ferns, the sight of which |
gives a woman's fingers a strange |
inclination to grasp, and forthwith |
determination takes possession of
her to gather them, even at the risk |
of breaking her neck, or some other
part of her structure.
The flower gardens, small and
beautiful, clinging on such sleeps
that you must be supported with a
staff to gather a nose-gay! If Vail |
liant exulted over one little pale
flower in the wastes of Africa, what
would he have done over these bril-
liant Fl overs growing amidst
iron-ribbed rocks and rolling gravel?
AS we stopped over an old-time
marigold sprin ging so luxuriant
from between two giant rocks with
out o particle Of soll in sight to sus
tain it, we were forcibly reminded |
of the prison scene of Picciola and
the heart broken man with Gods |
sunlight shut out by thick walls
and nothing lett him to love or
brighten his dreary cell but the lit
tie flower springing from between
the paving stones.
Now the reader must uot infer be-
cause we speak Of the many afflicted |
that there are no healthy people |
here. Many are the fair faces and |
bright cheeks gracing the parlors of
the Silver Hotel, with a sprinkle Of
that commodity that Samuel Weller
cautioned his boy to beware OF, |
very demure and retiring(?). Then
the widowers and bachelorsl 1t
would be difficult to throw stick |
at cat and not hit one of these
gallants, so numerous and attentive
are they upon the whims of the la
dies.
Here in the hotel the gay party |
are quite given TO fun, dancing,
flirting and making. However,
no broken hearts will result from it, |
as it is not of the kind t. survive
the smallpoX or a broken leg. Col.
Lair. the ever attentive host. and his |