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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Mrs. Annie S. Carr, of Frews-
burg, New York. writes to Phila-
dolphia paper and gives the fol
lowing interesting points in poul-
try raising: fas
AS / have many friends and rela-
tlves who are readers of your val
liable paper, / wish to give them
experience In poultry raising. Be
ing left in dependent circumstances,
with three fatherless children to
support. I was driven to action. I
bought % common hens and two
Plymouth Rock ROSTERS. My hens
were young and healthy and good
layers, because well fed. About
March II secured an incubator
that held 240 eggs. The materials
cost mes$6, and required two days
labor. Between March / and July
l Matched five ineubators full OF
chickens-in all 96S chickens. ]
sold them when about three months
old to hotels in some villages near
by. The first 16 dozen brought
me 800, or 1925 per dozen; the
next l6 dozen, 500, or So per doz-
en-; the next 16 dozen, $72, and for
the remaining 81 dozen got $Sl;
total, 1888. After paying for feed
$47.25, had left for my own la
Dor $685.. 85, having no capital at all
to startsson. My brother, living IN
Pennsylvania made an incubator az
ter he went home and cleared on
his chickens $437. He did not
hatch quite as many as / did, but
he shipped his to New York, and
got high prices for them. An in
cubator is easy to manage and takes
but little time. One hour q day
| is sufficient. ALI the fertile
eggs can be Matched early before
you cad get hens to set. / have
now five incubators made, and ex
pect to raise 5000 chickens next
year. / know / can clear 20 cents
on each chicken. / have only Q
small house and lot, but very little
room is required when chickens are
sold SO young. There are thou
sands of people who would turr
their attention to poultry raising i
they only knew how much none.
they could make at it. Any on
| can get plain directions for making
/ an incubator like mine by sendinI
stamps to repay postage to th
4 G. S. incubator company, Newark
N. j. Many of your readers VIII
are out of employment or have leif
ure time might try the poultr
; business.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

To foresee rise or fall in the
markets and take advantage of it
is one thing. To produce such fiuc
tuations by the brute force of
wealth for speculative and pecula-
tive purposes is auite another.
Such transaction Is a robbery.
To combine to commit it is q con-
spiraey. 1t should be treated as
such. There are laws already in
force but unexecuted forbidding
these ofenses. Public opinion
would heartily approve the attic
ton to the last letter of penalties
they provide for the punishment of
those who "engross" and 5'sforstall''
the food and clothing and medi-
cine Of the community.4lCh
Tribune. 1 1ie. g11cli1a
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

A family living near one ofonr pat
rons is IN great trouble on acc cunt
of the father of the family indnLy-
ing in much advertised "bitteEs."
They are represented as temperance
drinks but they give him delirium
tremens. Most kinds of drinks call
ed isbitters,' are alcoholic,and many
of them are quite as strong as the
liquors: are, which are drank from
the counter of the dran-shop.
These 'sbitters1 are o delusion and
snare. Those who advertise them
in respectable newspapers do a
great deal of harm. go W
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Something in the Bed.

Judge Pitman has a habit of
slipping his watch under his pillow
when he goes to. bed. One night
somehow it slipped, and as the
Judge was restless it worked its
way down toward the foot of the
bed. After a bit, while he was "
ing awake, his foot touched it; it
felt very eotas he WIS surprised,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
She Wanted Comedy.

Three months ago, when q new
servant girl came to well-to-do
family, says an exchange, the mis-
tress said she desired to post the
girl in advance on one certain little
point. She and her husband be-
longed to an amateur theatrical
company, and in case Jane heard
any racket around the house she
must not imagine they were quar-
relling-they would simply be re-
hearsing their parts. The "play''
began on the third evening of the
girls engagement. The husband
tainted his wife with extraya-
gance, and she said he played
'poker' for money, and chairs were
upset and footstools were kicked
around, and threats were made of
''going home to mother" Next
morning the mistress said to the
girl:
did you hear US playing our
parts in The Wronged Wife last
night2''
'Yes'm~
ut was simply a rehearsal, you
know; and you mustn't think strange
of my throwing a vase at my hus-
band and calling him vile
wretchp"
Three or four nights after that
the curtain went up on a play called
''rhe Jealous Husband" and Jane
heard sobs, signs, protestations,
threats and EXPLANATIONS. The
next play was entitled "Coming
Home Tight and was mostly
played in the front hall. Then
followed "The Depths of Despair, y
Threats of Divorce" and ssSuch a
Wretchp' until Jane was at last
tired of having a. private box and
of being the only audience. The
other morning she appeared in the
sittiHg-room with her hat on and
her bundle under her arm and said:
"Please, ma'aIn, 3ut Pm going
this morningr'
"Whatl going away?''
"Yes IN !'
"For what reason?''
"Please, ma am! but I'm tired of
I'm girl. as naturally
likes to see hugging and kissing
and love-making, on the stage, and
when Marks the Lawyer comes in
on what-do you-call-it I'm sure to
be tickled to death! 1 think I'll
try some family where they rehearse
comedy and have deal of kissing,
and perhaps 1 may come in as a
'supe,' and get a small share of it
for myselfr'-Exchange.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

"Will you please pass the ShemY'
asked a QUOT man at the lunch
counter I.Haven't anyrI squaled
tho girl in attendance. "Soine
.Japhet2'' queried the quiet man
again. stDon't keep it'll" squeaked
the damseL1 81 say,'' Clipped in a
curious passenger, 'what do you
mean by Shem and JaphetT'-
''Nothing, y responded the little man
dolefully, nothing; only the ham
is SO old and musty that / thought
the rest of the tribe might be around
here somewhere, and I'd like to see
'em. "-Drake's Travellers Magazine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

An ice palace is being erected for
the approaching carnival in Mon
treal. Hundreds Of men are en-
gagged in its construction. The Gen.
tire tower will be 100 feet in height
with tower less in height at each
corner. Forty thousand feet OF
ice will be required tor the stEpc-
ture. The interior, as well as the
exterior, will be brilliantly lighted
by electricity. sass3s infs
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Estimates of the cost of govern.
ing New York city for the year in
volye thirty-one millica dollars.
When sums exacted by state and
federal taxation are added 1t will
be discovered that each man, wo-
man and child OF wretehedly gov.
erned Gotham must pay sixty dol
lars per annurn for the privilege Of
breathing the air OF heaven on Man
haitian island. e5soila 4 ,seigi1
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Ysur Subscription b
Please Renew.
Does Advsrtisins Paw,

The Portsmouth, Va, Times
says it is sometimes questioned by
merchants whether advertising
pays. The question will hardly
bear discussion in the light OF the
following facts, rates for transient
advertising being figu.ed: "The
Chicago Tribune, it is said, for q
column year receives 500, 900.
The N. Y. Herald receives for its
lowest priced column $39,723, and
for its highest $4,000. The N.
7. Tribune for its lowest $20T64.
and for its highest, $50, GAS, and
these papers are never at a loss for
advertisements to fill their columns.
Their patronage comes not from
any desire to assist the respective
papers, but from business men who
lind it profitable to ADVERTISE"
1t does pay. A few days ago
friend of ours had gone into a man
ufacturing house in Baltimore in
search of mining machinery. It
was his Intention to give an order
for machinery for delivery within
the next three months, which would
have given thes' house profl4 Iof
not less than $4,000. While be Who
a solicitor called for an ad-
vertisement Of machinery for min
ing Journal He was told that the
firm did not advertise. Our friend
bowed himself out, and this notice
may advise the firm why he meyer
returns. He prefers to place his
money with firms having enter
prise and eye to business, and he
will buy of those who can afford to
advertise. ~, asu3-fsiosI
A firm of commissioners in Phil
sdelphia placed an advertisement in
a journal as an experiment. They
we're economical Quakers, and
sparingly. Within
three weeks their advertisements
we're running in seven publications,
and there is no question with them
about it paying. As well might an
enterprising firm go in to save
postage as advertising. Customers
90 to those who most persistently
extend them an invitation. Adver-
Using pays an hundred fold.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

we notice one thing-it takes q
rich man to appreciate the blessing
of poverty. Soloman q was worth
$75. 900 when he said ga good mime
is to be chosen rather than great
riches. Bu1ingt0n Hawkgye.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

'sSpare my child spare my child ]"
cries the mother, when too late. One
box of DR.. Mofett's Tssthina (Teething
PowdersJ would have sxvsS her darling.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

Two. hundred and twenty-five
thousand dollars have been subscri
bed to the Louisville exposition.
with fair prospects to increase it to
100000. 5
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18

A correspondent of the German
town Telegraph keeps rats out OF
his granary by daub ing all the an
giles on the outside of the building
with hot pine-tar, to the width OF
three or four inches, and also any
seam or crack where rat or mouse
can stand to gnaw. This is Ger
tainly a very cheap expedient--li
efficient.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
What Pluck Will Do.

The Atlanta Constitution tells
the story what four boys did in that
city, which may interest some of
our youngsters. At all events it, is
worth printing:
"These four boys have started a
few years ago selling newspapers.
They made ten cents apiceejthe first
morning they went to work, and
for two winters thereafter they
went barefooted through the snow
and sleet in the freezing dawn on
their morning rounds. From tn
first they saved a certain per cent
of their earnings which they in
vested in Atlanta estate. The old
est of them is now eighteen years
of age, and the youngest twelve
They have supported an invalid ia
ther and their mother all the time
and now have property worth con
siderably over $4,000, houses from
which the rent is $40 month, and
5000 stock in a building and loa1
association. They have educated
themselves the meanwhile, remain
ing from school this year in orde
that they may work harder an'
build home for their parents tina
is to have front parlof and a bay
window in it. These little fellows
have been carriers, newsboys, er
rand boys and app entices abou
the Constitution office, and one o
them is now assistant mailing
clerk. Their net saving from thei
sales and salaries, exclusive OF thel
rents, have been $40 week for thi
year. Next year they can do bet
ter, and by the time the oldest Q
the brothers is of age they ough
| to have a comfortable little fortune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-18
Ply YOUR TAXES.

A TT. nar,;ea owing corporation back taxes
a arc hereby notified that settlement must
be made at once. No longer indulgence can
b. given. Tho taxes for 1889 are due std
must ne paid on or before the sist OF Janus
w.Iss3. NV term Of Office will expire on
~ a5tb dav of January, 1883. and in &C
cordance with tho Law the books must be
closed at that time .,.
take this opportunity to thank thu ei9-
Gems OF Pulaski for the confidence reposed 10
The nsst six YEAR. and with close OF this term
shall no longer be an aspirant for that Poti-
ton. L. b. bAlNCA' l. "
December IL 1899.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1883-10-24
Tho Moukpy and the Baby.

Some time AGO IN English lady, who
was living 1T Kingston, Jalnalca, took
paSSarr on !; hnmrward- bound vessel.
taking her two-m0nth$-Old infant with
her. \ large. strong. active monkey
which WA; ON board took Il violent fancy
for the child. The monkey would >il all
day long watching tine mother as she
rocked and fonllrd tn" little one. and
followed her from p%lacrto place. Several
times the animal tried un>ilrrr><iully t"
Get possession of the baby. One l"a''ll-
full afternoon II distant sail attracted the
attention Of all on board. and the captain
u~oli,rlv offered his glass to the lady. She
placed her baby on the sofa and Iad Just
raised the rla>S 10 her eye when Il cry WAS
heard. Turning quickly she hchrld Il
sailor in pursuit Of the monkey Whlrh
had gra>prd til" infant firmly
with one arm and WAS nimbl!v climbing
the sl,roldS. The mother tainted as the
animal reached the top Of the mninmast.
The captain WAS ut his wits end. lie
feared if he sent a sailor in pursuit the
monkey would drop the baby and escape
by Icaping from mast t" mast. The rlllld
in the meantime WAS heard tn cry. but
the fear that the monkey waS hurting 1t
was d~isprIlrl by seeing II initiate the
motions Of the mother. handling. >ooth-
inc and ~rndcavoring to hush it to sleep.
After trying in many ways to lure the
animal down. the captain finally ordered
the men below and concealed himself on
deck. In Il moment. to his great JOY, he
SAW the monkey carefully descending.
Reaching tue deck it looked cautiously
around. advanced to- the sofa and placed
the baby upon it. The captain restored
the frightened infant to its mother. who
was soon satisfied that her darling had
escaped without injury.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1883-10-24
4 Farmers Market in New York.

The GanSevoort, or Farmers market.
is probably the most unique Of the mart>
which this city possesses. says the New
York Times. The markct-placc consist,
of Il square which has been laid out in
streets and sidewalks, but is provided
with no buildings. This market WAS
built about three years ago by the city
upon the site of the old Blccckcr street
car stables. The local rulers wisely de-
cidcd to make the GanScvoort market
a source Of rcvcnuc. and consc-
~uucntlv each farmer who brings Il
wagon-load Of produce to this place
is taxed twenty-five cents for the priv
lcgc of dispoSing of it. The merchant il
charge of each cart Is required to pur,
chase a ticket. which he is expected II
keep in sight by adjoining his hat or some
other portion Of his apparel with tho
same until he leaves the market. The
ticket sets forth in simple language tho
fact that he has paid into the finance de-
partmcnt Of the controllers office the
sum of twenty-five cents for Il stand
in the market. BY the term "stand" Is
| lIlClll SltllllllS oplIl " IL sym ti''
the beasts of burden thereto attached.
| Around the edge of the card are placed
numbers for the various days in the
month. The day for which the ticket is
good is punched by the official who is as
signed to this duty. The unfortunate
produce merchant who enters the market
place without Il properly punched ticket
is turned Owe to the police, who proceed
to give him an example of how legal
punching.i is done.
The market is generally known anon"
its patrons rs the "GooSc" market. prob
ably for the reason that no goose not
/ human was ever sold there. The market
is devoted almost entirely to the sale of
vegetables. Other descriptions Of prod
ucc are rarely bought there. The sellers
are, as a rule. farmers and small produce
spectators from Long Island, while the
great majority Of the buyers are licensed
vendors and groccrS. The counirymcn
range their wagons along the lavcmcntS.
close to the sidewalks. where the pl!r-
chascrs examine the wares and make
their bargains. The latter generally have
their carts in attendance, and bring them
alongside the country wagons when the
time comes for taking possession OF the
produce which they have bought. The
market place is nearly as large as Union
square. The stores fronting on the
square are nearly all occupied by fruit
and vegetable dealers. There arc several
cheap eating houses in the neighborhood,
at which the countrymcn refresh them
selves after having disposed Of their
produce. These places are well patron-
lied. as a rule.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1883-10-24
The Earth Still Vigorous

That the earth has not yet, however,
entirely lost It's viYor is evident from the
! Java outburSt. which is the most stupcnd-
Gus phenomenon of the kind ON record.
| 50 long as the old earth is equal TO efforts
Of this kind we need not mind lis latter
end. When the blood leaves tie cold
rytrcmiticS and the heart has not vlgol
enough to send it to the surface. the end
is not far off: and when volcanic and
earthquake manifestations cease from oil
the face of the earth, the end may tic
within almost measurable distance.
! Much OF it, ocean water will have been
absorbed by the underlying rocks. and
the atmosphere may be rarcr and less
liic-giving than it is now; b~v-and-byr,
with the last ray Of internal heat. the
last drop of water and last particle OF air.
all life will have vanished and Il dead
earth will shine upon Il dead moo So
LONG, then, as the mother of us all has
any vigor left wc must expect her to
manifest it occasionally, as she has done
recently at ISchia and Java: so that.
lamcntablc and rcyrctablc as has been
the loss of life at these places, the cataS-
trophies are not entirely without their
bright side. Only when the earth is as
dead as the moon will such catlstrophcS
become impossible.
GcologiStS and SciSmologists know
pretty well the lines along which these
manifestations of the carth'S vigor are
likely to occur: lines Of weakness they
call them. but in view Of the above
considerations we might call them,
rather, lines of vigor. Perhaps when
they know still more they may be able to
tell their fellows what places to avoid IN
planting their settlements and building
their houses. But it is doubtful if such
telling would lm Of much avail. After
the most destructive outburSts Of Etna
and NrsuviuS. the drcimatcd inhabitants
have rrcpt back to their old locations,
rebuilt their huts, and planted their vines
needless of the terrible lesson. Already
building has begun again even in shat
tered ISchia. and if the proper kind Of
wooden house be used possibly the next
shaking the island gets may lead to
fewer calamiticS.
We have said that the Java outburst Is
the most %Sturcndous on record. An
island has been shattered and sunk and
| sixteen others have raised their heads
above the surrounding waters. Some
hundred thousand people have been sac
! riticcd to their mothers anger, buried
beneath volcanic debris, or swept of the
face Of the land by the volcanic wave.
The floor Of the ocean over Il wide area
TO the southeast Of Slmatra has been
raised into IL plain above the waters, and
the effects of the uphcaval have been felt
as far as the American coast OF the Ia
ciiic.
There can be little doubt that the wave
which was felt along the coast of North
America was propagatcd across the Pa
citic from the Java outhrcak.-L"ndon
Jy,.,.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1883-10-24
MurlerOus Parrots.

The Standard has an amusing account
of the kca, a variety Of green parrot in
New Zealand, which has lately been
placed under ban by the legislature.
Anybody is to have a shilling who kills
kca. 1t appears that the bird, which is
naturally graminivorous, a few years ago,
during a severe winter, found it impossi-
bic to procure food, and haunted the
carcass butchers sheds to cat bits of
mutton. 1t approved the mutton, though
mutton is not indigenous to New Zealand,
while the kca is, and presently dis
covered, whether by inductivc ratiocina-
ton or experience, that sheep were made
of it. So it attacked the sheep. Flocks
of keas visit the folds at night, settle on
the sheep, whose wool gives a bird a fine
purchase, and peck and peck till they
reach the kidney fat, which they eat,
while the poor sheep dies in agony.
English dogs, also, when they take to
sheep-eating, always gorge themselves
with the kidney fat, often neglecting the
flesh, and killing sheep after sheep for
their dainty. The shepherds in New
Zealand sometimes lose d sheep a night,
md the kea is declared to be as costly a
pest as the rabbit.-London Spectator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1883-10-24
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

DR.. Paul Gussfcldt, who had under
highest peak of the Chill Cordillcras
&c, 034 mctcrs), failed to accomplish the
task owing to the extreme cold, but ne
succeeded in taking some very instruct
i've photographs of a very remarkable
legion.
Mr.. Thomas U%rquhart has made a
careful comparison of the cost of wood,
anthracite coal and petroleum refuse as
fuel for locomotives on Russian railways,
and finds that petroleum is ut least fifty
per cent. more economical than either
wood or coal. The oil presents the
further advantage of giving rise to much
less smoke and dirt than the other kinds
of fuel.
1t is said that the cOchincal trade has
been nearly ruined by the discovery OF
anilinc dyes. Until very recently this
trade was the mainstay Of the island OF
TcncriiTc, the cochincal depending upon
the cultivation of the cactus plant,
which. since the suppression of the trade
of anilinr. is no longer the rcmuncrativc
business that it formerly was. The fail
urr of the trade has affected all classes
of society. the rich rs well rs the poor.
Is il true that birds and insects disap-
pear from localities about to be visited by
Il deadly epidemic Testimony Of Euro
pcanS seems to be strongly in favor of the
hypothesis. One writer says: II ven
turc to suggest that the investigation and
collection of trustworthy meteorological
data during the prevalence OF cpldcmlcs,
and of collateral information bearing
t%hcrcupon. have not yet received as much
attention rs it deserves from observers
outside Of the medical profession"
In the United States in 1882 there
were 132. 800 net tons of lead produced,
worth at IN average value of 500 per net
ton on the Eastern scaboard $12.G 24 33G.
For the first half Of 1883 the production
is estimated ut 20. 900 net tons, worth. at
$50 per ton. So. BOO 900. 4 very large
proportion of the lead ore smcltcd is ar
wcntifcrolS, and is worked for its silver
contents. and not for the value of the
lead. In the census year ending May 81.
1880, the amount of white lead corrOdcd
was reported at 123,471,S9O pounds,
| worth about So. 10, 500.
To Nicolas Lcblanc's great discovery.
| of the method of extracting soda from
common salt. VI. Dumas traces the vast
development Of the worlds chemical in
dlstrics during the last hundred years.
OF carbonate of soda prepared by L.c-
blanc'S process, it is estimated that the
present annual consumption in Europe
and America is from 700. 600. 900 to 800
OO0, 900 Kilograms G71.G0O to sS1, 800
tons). Yet the name of the discovcrcr
had nearly been forgotten until the recent
action of people Of his native town-ls-
s%oudon-in proposing to erect a monu-
mcnt to his memory.