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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
A Plea for tha Wife.

"To become husband is as seri-
Gus matter to a man." writes DR..
James G. jackson, s-as it is for a
woman to become wife. Marriage
is no child's play; its brings added
care, trial, perplexity, vexation, and
it req uires a great deal of the hap
piness which legitimately springs
out of it to make the balance heavi-
ly in its favor. Very few people
live happily in marriage, and yet
this is not because unhappiness is
germane to the relation, but be-
cause those who enter it do not
know, first, how to get married, and
second, how to live happily. You
have already made your choice
wise, 1 am bound to believe. Those
qualities of character which have
attracted you to choose as you have
should make your love grow daily
while you live together.
las to the second point: If you
wish to live in harmonious union
with your wife, start out with the
avowed recognition of the fact that.
she is your companion and co-part-
ner. Marriage usually makes the
wife neither of these. In many in
stances she sees less of her hus-
band than before she married him.
He comes, he goes, he reads, thinks,
works, and under the stimulus of
business brings all his powers and
facilities to the surface and is de
veloped thereby--not always sym
metrically, but vigorously-not al
ways tremendously, but with in
creasing power. Married men do
not usually shrivel up, nor put on
look of premature age, but wo-
men do, and it is plain to see why
they do.
"Married women are shut up in
houses. and their chief care is for
things that have no inspiring in
fluence. Their time is wholly ia
ken up in meeting the physical
wants of notwithstanding, wash
ing dishes, keeping the house in or
der, sewing, receiving company
not one of which has in it a tenden-
cy even to culture and elevation.
Married women are devoted to the
house, and this means life of vex
alton and pettiness. 1t gives no
sort of stimulus to the spirit. So
the husband who is out of doors,
active, interested in measures which
affect the public good, coming into
contact with men greater than him
self, who inspire him with better
purposes and nobler ends of labor,
develops into manly beauty and
grows in character, while his wife
at home, who has as faithfully per-
formed her share of the work, with
ers and decays prematurely.
Treat your wife exactly as you
yourself would like to be treated if
you had to live under her circum-
stances, and you will not go far
wrong. Do not entertain silly no.
tions that because she is of a diff
ferent gender from your own, that
she is, therefore, different in her
wants, feelings, qualities and pow
ers. Do not be a victim of any so
cial policy. Stand up bravery for
the right; give your wife a chance
to live, grow and be somebody and
become something.
nTry to be thoughtful, consider
ate and torbearing. You will have
new duties, and they will bring new
trials. Take good care of your
health and hers. Be simple in
your habits; be careful in your ex-
penditures; be industrious. If you
keep your health and are frugal,
blessings will come from your
united love, and you will grow hap
pier day by day as the years pass.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
Power Of Sunshine.

From an acorn, weighing few
grains tree will grow tor one hun
dred years or more, not only throw
ing off many pounds of leaves ev-
cry year, but itself weighing many
tons. If an orange twig is put in a
large box of earth, and that earth
is weighed, when the twig becomes
a tree, bearing luscious fruit, there
will be very nearly the same
amount of earth. From careful ex
perlments made by different scien-
titic men, it is an ascertained fact
that o very large part Of the growth
of tree is derived from the sun,
from the air, and from the water,
and very little from the earth
and notably all vegetation becomes
sickly unless 1t is exposed TO the
sunshine. Wood and al are but
condensed sunshine, which CON
tains three important elements
equally essential | both vegetation
aud animal life-magnesia, lime
and iron. 1t is the iron in tie
blood which gives it tie sparkling
red color and strength. II is the
lime in the bones which gives them
The durability necessary To b Oily
vigor, while the magnesia is impor
tant to all the tissues Thus it is
that the>more persons that are out
OF doors the more healthy and Wig
orous they are, and the longer will
they live. Every human being
ought to have an hour or two OF
sunshine at noon in winter, and in
early forenoon in summer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
All cotton-Np Cotton.

"Some of our esteemed Georgia
contemporaries" says the Augusta
Chronicle, ''really think that within
ten years truck farming will be the
rule and cotton planting the excep-
ton in the south. Not much, The
truck will increase, but so will the
cotton. Vegetables will increase,
but so will the cotton. Vegetables
will bring in money when cotton is
preparing to do so. That's all.
To which the Macon Telegraph
adds: That is just the state of the
case, in our judgment. 1t is abb
surd to suppose that vegetation can
take the place of cotton as the lead
inc farm interest of the state. The
call cotton" extreme was not as sill
ly as the "no cotton" extreme-bsd
as il was. While the rage of some
editors against cotton is so great
that they have no patience with
those who maintain that it must
continue to be the chief money
crop of Georgia, it is cheering to
read a sensibl comment like the
following, from the Cuthbert Enter
prise: 1--WE had friend once who
used to pursue the all-cotton plan,
and getting deeper into debt every
year, he resolved to plant only
three acres in cotton to the plow.
The result was a larger failure than
ever. Let us avoid both extremes.
What we want is diversified farming,
some corn, some oats, some wheat,
some hogs, some syrup, some
truck and some cotton. Let US
make our own provisions as far as
possible, and have several money
,rops to look to besides cotton.
The man, however, who entirely ig-
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
Wise and Otherwise.

A little fellow three years old,
who had never eaten frosted cake,
asked at the table for q piece OF
"that cake with plastering on it.
-~Patrick, were you minor when
you landed in American" asked the
naturalization officer. "No, your
honor; was a bricklayer"
Every man is fond of striking
the nail on the head; but when it
happens to be the finger-nail, his
enthusiasm becomes wild and inco-
herent
A little girl was reading the
other day and happened to come
across the word Anabaptist She
asked her mother the meaning of
the word, whereupon her little
bro her promptly replied, "Whyl
she was John the Baptist's sister"
'Why do you carry your pocket
book in your hand?'' asked Phila-
delphia hu, band of his young wife.
''Oh," was the quiet reply, cit is so
light that am afraid it might
jump out of my pocket"
There is a class of persons resem-
bling the Dutch justice, who said
in his haste, upon hearing the
plaintiffs testimony" You've got the
case," and after listening to the de-
PENDANT "You have got the case
too"
A judge having fallen asleep dur
a trial, Lawyer X. suddenly
stopped pleading, and exclaimed,
81 will wait until he awakes before
finishing" But" answered his OPP
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
How the Courts Encourage Grim.
inals.

A couple of cattle thieves at San
Jose were convicted in 1879 and
sentenced to five years imprison-
ment in San Quentin. In writing
out the verdict juryman improp-
erly spelled the word defendants.
The document read: eve find the
defendances guilty" On this
bubble the case of one of the
thieves was appealed to the Su-
preme Court. After long ponder
ing on the weighty subject, that au-
gust tribunal decided in the thief
favor. The case is not one of strik.-
ing Importance, save that it illus
trates what is constantly occurring
in our courts. The law no longer
inquiries: as this man thief? Is
he a swindler? Is he a murderer?
Did he actually commit the crime
he is charged with?" On the con
trary, it turns its large manifying
glass on the case and practically
says: "Is there any possible tech
nicality by means of which this
worthless scoundrel can be shielded
from punishment? If there is, we
want to find it." The law seeks to
exclude from the jury-box- men who
read the daily papers and who are
wide awake and intelligent, and, in
the case under discussion, nullifies
verdict because, naturally enough,
a juryman is too ignorant to spell
correctly. A thief it turned loose,
not because he is innocent, because
the juryman proves to be ignorant.
The juryman was really on trial, at
great expense to the public, instead
of the thief The investigation was
one concerning photography, not
cattle-stealing, as was enormously
supposed. And this is what they
call law in California-an article
that costs taxpayers and litigants
vasts sums of money annually.
Our courts have become arenas in
which technical esthetes assemble
to split hairs, strain at legal gnats
and save the guilty from punish
ment.-San Francisco Call.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
Young Men.

The destiny of this world has
been largely determined by the en-
ergy and resolution of young men.
Alexander, at thirty-three years OF
age, "wept for want of more worlds
to conquer" Scipio Africanus had
finished career of glory before
he was thirty one. Papinian be-
came an oracle of Roman law at
thirty four. Charlemagne had
made himself master of France and
part of Germany at twenty nine.
Raphael was not thirty when he
began to be called "Divine" Ra-
phael. John Calviro, says Ban
croft, secured an immortality of
fame before he was twenty -eigh C..
Milton had written the best miscel-
laneous poems at twenty-six.-
Isaac Newton had reached the PIN
nacle of his knowledge and fame at
thirty. Harvey discovered the cir
culation of the blood before he was
thirty four. William Pitts the
elder, waged war with Walpole at
thirty-seven. Napoleon achieved
his victories in Italy at twenty
eight. Byron produced his most
brilliant works at thirty four
Pollock, the author of 1.-The
Course of Time" died at twenty
eight. Mozart, the great German
musician, died at .thirty-fve. La
fayette was but twenty three at the
seige of Yorktown, COMMANDMENTS
chief of the French national guards
at thirty-two. Hamilton was secre-
tary of the United States treasury
at thirty two. John Jay was chief
justice of New York at thirtytwo.
Summerfeld was only twenty five at
the period of his greatest fame
as o preacher.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
Incuhators.

o. E. Gibbs gives his experience
with an incubator in the Rural
New Yorker, which is far from fiat
tering. The following are few ex-
tracts:
l have owned and run an incuba-
tor for three years. 1t is of a pat
tern most extensively advertised,
and probably one of the best in the
market; capacity 100 eggs. 1t re-
quires about one quart of oil per
day to run it, or about five gallons
for single hatch. With ordinary
eggs / get between 40 and so chicks
per 100 eggs. In three years l
have used about 1920 eggs and
have obtained 54a chicks. My eggs
average about three cents each in
value, and it costs me one cent an
egg to- run the machine, for oil,
making the total cost 81 per 100
eggs. The average cost of a
chick when Matched is nine cents.
In raising the chicks have thus far
made total failure. NY first at
tempt was to put the chicks under
hens that had been sitting three
weeks. l divided 70 chicks be-
tween 5 hens, putting the chicks un-
der them after dark, removing the
dummy eggs on which they had
been sitting. By seven o'clock the
next morning three of the five hens
had killed half their chicks and
nothing could induce them to adopt
the incubator little things. Two
were not so fastidious and made
good mothers. then tried artificial
mothers and abandoned their use
because chickens raised Ia them
will cost me in care, feed, fuel, ETC.,
not less than 81 each when ready
for market.
For eight years 1 have kept from
Is to l25 hens. The aggregate re-
suit is Il considerable sum on the
wrong side of the profit and loss.
| have never seen a man who has
not met Il similar result.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
Think for Yourselves.

Boys should never go through life
satisfied to be always borrowing
other peoples brains. There are
some things they should lind out
for themselves. There is always
something waiting to be found
out. Every boy should think some
thought that shall live after him.
A farmers boy should discover for
himself what timber will bear the
most weight, which is the most
elastic, what will last longest in wa
ter, what out of water, what is the
best time to cut down trees for fire
wood? How many kinds of oak
grow in your region, and what is
each especially good for? How
does bird fly without moving a
wing or feather? How does a
snake climb a tree or a brick wall?
Is there any difference between q
deer track and a hogs trackg
What is ita How often does a deer
shed his horns and what becomes
of them? In building a chimney
which should be the largest, the
throat or the funnel? should it be
widened at the top or drawn in?
The hoys see white horses, Did
they ever see Q white colt, Do
they know how old the twig must
be to bear peaches, and how old the
vine is when grapes first hang upon
it? There is bird in the forest
which never builds a nest, but lays
its eggs in the nests of other birds.
Can the boys tell what bird that is?
Do they know that a hopsyine al
ways winds With the sun, but Il
bean vine winds the other way.
Do they know that when a horse
crops grass he eats back toward
him; but a COW eats outward from
her, because she has no teeth upon
her upper jaw, and has to gum it?-
ChatterboX.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

Liebig, the great agricultural
Oh enlist, said: "a certain mass OF
gold and silver circulates in the
world, and the art of becoming rich
consists in knowing the way TO di-
vert from the main stream to an adj
ditional brook to ones own house.
In like manner there circulates, in
the air and in the soil, relatively
inexhaustible quantity of the food
Of plants; and the art of the farmer
consists in knowing and using the
means of rendering this food avail
able for crops"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

A st. Louis doctor is responsible
for the following: In the mountains
of Missouri there is a celebrated
"root doctor whose dispensatory
consists of only three remedies,
which he terms respectively =
Hy-bob-a lorum, Lo bob -hirum,
Hy-lo bus tem.' The first he says
is carthar, It,, the second an emetic,
and the third is a ''rank pizen,"
and "busts 'em wide open" They
are all obtained from certain tree,
the first by peeling the bark ''down-
ward" the second by peellng it "up
ward" the third by peeing it
ground and round" The doctor
adds that this man does a large and
lucrative business.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

At recent dairymen's conVen-
ton, one of the members, during
the course of his remarks, among
other valuable hints about farm
economy, said: eff there is any
thing under heaven that will raise,
the mortgage off of your farm quick
er than CON ! DO not know what
it is. 1t has proved to be the best
mortgage litter ever introduced in to
Illinois, Iowa or Wisconsin, and it
will do as much for the other states
as il has for these"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

We would like to see or hear of a
cross of the Holstein and Jerseys,
having an idea that such eros ;
would give the ideal dairy COW; the
Holstein giving size of animal and
a large quantity of milk, while the
Jersey blood would improve it's
butter-producing qualities. Has
any one tried such cross, and with
what results p Southern World.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

posing council, perhaps his honor
will wait until you have finished
before waking"
Judge not by appearance. A
woman carries pocketbook in heI
hand just as proudly when it con
tains two horse-car tickets and a
latch key, as W hen full of bills.
"What fine looking man that
is" said one gentleman to an
other, noticing a face and form
such as would attract attention
anywhere. EYES," was the reply,
"he looks like an encyclopedia, but
he talks like primer"
At an evening party one of the
guests preserved a strict silence no
matter what happened to be the
subject of conversation. Theodore
Hook at last advanced to him and
said: "If you are fool, you are a
wise man; if you are a wise man,
Won are a fool"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02


According to the Canada Farmer,
the agriculturist of Canada met in
convention and adopted for them
selves the following creed: I'VE
believe in small farms and thorough
cultIvation; we believe the soil lives
to eat, as well as the owner, and
ought therefore to be well MANFRED !;
we believe in going to the bottom
of things, and therefore deep pillow
ing, and enough of it, all the better
if it be subsoil pillow; we believe
in large crops which leaves the land
better than they found it making
both the farm and farmer richer at
once; we believe that every farm
should own a good farmer; we be-
lieve that the fertilizer of any soil is
spirit of industry. enterprise and
intelligence; without these, lime,
gypsum and guano would be of lit
tie use; we believe in good fences,
good farm house, good orchards,
and good children enough to gath
er the fruit; we believe in a clean
kitchen, a neat wife in it, clean
cupboard, clean dairy, and a clean
conscience; we believe that to ask
a mans advice is not STOPPING, but
of much benefit; we believe to keep
place for everything and every
thing in its place, saves many a
step and is pretty sure to lead to
good tools and to keeping them in
order; we believe that kindness to
stock, like good shelter, is saving
of fodder; we believe that it is a
good thing to keep an eye on ex-
periments, and note all, good and
bad; We believe that it is a good
rule to sell grain when it is ready /;
we believe in producing the best
butter and cheese, and marketing it
when it is ready" All this may
certainly be commended as ''sound
doctrine"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

Fat animals killed by lightning
might he supposed to be as good
for food as though knocked down
with q sledge. Such is not the case.
Animals killed by lightning are not
fit for food, for the reason that the
blood cannot be extracted though
the means be applied Immediately.
The shock kills every nerve and ar
terry, and the blood will not dow
from the veins.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
= The Bad and
TU0 Worthless

III Hl "OIITk0SS
10 Vs. Are never i1aitoted
or coGnterfeited.
This is especially true of
family medicine, and it is posi-
tive proof that the remedy initiated
is of the highest value.
AS soon as it had been tested
and proved by the whole world
that Hop Bitters was the purest,
best and most valuable family
medicine on earth, many imita-
tions sprung up and began to steal
the notices in which the press and
people of the country had express
ed the merits of FL. B., and in
every way trying to induce suffer-
ing invalids to use their stuff in
stead, expecting to make money
on the credit and good name of
Fl. 3.
Many others started nostrums
put up in similar style to III. B.,
with Variously cunningly devised
names in which the word Z" Hop"
or Chops" were used in a way to
induce people to believe they were
the same as Hop Bitters. All
such pretended remedies or cures,
no matter what their style or name
is, and especially those with the
word "Hop" or "Hops" in their
name or in any way connected
with them or their name, are imi-
tations or counterfeits.
Beware of them. Touch none
of them, but: Use nothing but
genuine Hop Bitters, with bunch
or cluster of green Hops on the
white label. Trust nothing else.
Druggists and dealers are warned
against dealing in limitations or
cOunterfeits. 0)
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

An average COW will produce $50
worth Of cream in a year, calf
worth eighi or ten dollars, and
enough skinned milk to fatten ten
dollar porker. Figure up the cost
of keeping COW, perform little
problem in subtraction, and you
have the net profits of the business
in figures, which are popularity sup
posed not to lie.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

"What can 1 do for you to in
duce you to go to bed nowY' asked
a Lowell mamma of her five year
old boy Monday evening. "Yon
can let me sit up little longer,'
was the youngsters reply.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

Old Abrams wisest remark: "Ef
de descendants OBJ de rooster what
crowed at Peter was to make a
noise every time . lie is told, dar
would be such a noise in de world
you couldn't heah de hens cackle. -
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02
1H:I.-....B.

nores cotton in this section is not
likely to be the most successful
farmer in his neighoorhood in
money matters"
The Atlanta Constitution Tor
Henry w. Grady referring to its
own labors and expectation as to
truck farming says: eve confess
frankly and gladly that this Incl
dental has outgrown what we ex-
pected. 1t bids fair to bring more
than a million of dollars into the
state during the next three months
for melons alone, and to add per-
haps half million more for vegeta-
bles, peaches, pears, berries, etc.
This will be done without deduct
ing one bushel from the grain crop,
or one bale from the cotton crop.
The money comes too, at time
VIII en- money is sorely needed, and
when in the lack of it the farmer
must put a mortgage on his farm or
a lien on his crop, and go to the
money-lender."
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Land and Patent Claims Solicited.

Ny exp. TioBre ard being here nj head
quarters enhb mo 10 attend promptly "
all claim against tho government Circn :
lars Tree Address with stamp;
mAy2-fy ~. V. TtERHEY,
Ftxt5 WAshir gton, q q
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THE BENTLEY FIELD,

~ Tenn. one mile and half west Of Elkton,
is now offered for sale. eaid farm contains
ahOuf
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-08-02

A pension can 30 increased at any tims
when the disability warrants It. As you
grow older the wound has gradually under
mined tho constitution, the disoaso has made
you moie helpless. In some manner the dis-
ability hA increased; 50 apply fer an increase
at once
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PENSIONS TO 75eo, AL. :;

SAILORS. who were disabled BY
wounds, disc asses, accident, or other
wise, the loss Of toe. piles, varicose veins,
chronic diarrhea, rupture, loss OF risnt o.
(partislly ee), loss of bearing, falling back
OF measles, rheumatism, any disability, no
matter how slight, gives you a pension.
New and Honorable Discharge
Obtained.
Widows, children, mothers, and fathers Of
soldiers dying In the service, or afterwards,
from disease contracted or wound received
while in the service, are entitled TO pension
REJECTED and abandoned claims specially
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