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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

Mrs. Hopgood when the walters
were once out of the house and the
roll of the cab wheels had died
away. ''To think-only think that
son of mine should ever stoop to
disgrace himself thusr'
''It's your own fault" said Kenny,
the second son. you'd not let
Ally bring his friend to dinner"
Hold your tongue" sharply re-
torted Mrs. Hopgood, wincing be-
meath the prick of home truth
Call Elsie. 1 need her help"
30, mother" piped Fanny, the
younger girl, running downstairs
in haste. "Elsie amt here"
'Not hereF'
''No, mother; she hasn't been to
bed at all-and there's a note on
the table directed to you
"Open it, MOTHER" said Isaac
Hopgood.
This is sad night for our house
hold. Ny God! has our home be-
come so distasteful to our children
that they fly from it, like rats from
a falling houseY'
The note was short enough as it
read:
Dear mother: 1 am tired of liv-
ing in the kitchen. l have run
away with John Elton, and before
you see me again 1 shall have en-
tered upon a new future"
Mrs. Hopgood broke into hysteri-
cal sobbings. Mr.. Hopgood read
the hurriedly scrawled paper, with
a face cold and set like steel.
run away with John Elton" he
repeated slowly. "Poor Elsie! then
God help her; for he is as great a
villain and scoundrel as ever lived,
and she has sealed her own doom.
Mother! mother! this comes of your
housekeeping"
"It wasn't my fault, Isaac" sob
bed Mrs. Hopgood, rocking herself
backward and forward in a chair
into which she had dropped.
cit was your fault" retorted the
husband, almost savagely. "You
made the very name of home a
mockery to your children, and set
your soul inside scrubbing- pail;
and now you are reaping the bitter
harvest, my DEAR
OF course poor Alexander Hop
good was unable to lift his throb-
bing head off his pillow next day,
and his mother never left him until
afternoon.
When at last she camedown stairs,
the parlor blinds were thrown wide
open, a flood of sunshine streaming
in, the table neatly set IN the dining
room, and flowers on the table, and
new books, games and puzzles
scattered around.
Mrs. Hopgood gazed around her
with bewildered air. She hardly
knew her own home.
''This is the way we must live
henceforth, MOTHER" said her hus
band cheerily. ''Let in the light
and sunshine; teach Ben and Fanny
that home is something more than
an empty name, and try in so far as
we can, to retrieve the errors of our
past life.
Mrs. Hopgood mutely bowed her
head.
81 will try, husband" she an
swered,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22


The Louisiana free traders clam
or protection to sugar, the Arkan-
sas free traders for ditto to cotton
seed oil, the South Carolina free
traders for ditto to rice, and so all
around the circle from wood pulp
and pig iron to peanuts and quinine.
Meanwhile the tariff discussion goes
on and will continue for thirty
days when congress will adjourn
sine die without passing any tariff
bill and leaving the free trades and
and protectionists so mixed it will
be difficult to separate them. They
may be shaded of, however, into a
revenue schedule with incidental
protection or into a protection
schedule with a revenue attachment.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

People living in Texas, who are
disposed to grumble about the wet
weather, should try winter in Ne
vada. A Mr.. John Singleton,
coming over from Bennetsville to
Lundy, had with him a small terrier
dog, which was quite a pet at the
mines. "The little fellows tail and
ears''-refering to the dog, we per-
sume-"were completely frozen off,"
Mr.. Singleton who was anxious to
save what was left of the faithful dog,
wrapped the animal ia wooden scarf,
and carried him in his arms TO Lun-
dy, but when he got there he found
the rest of the animal had shared
the same fate of tail and the ears,
and had dropped off. Up in that
country Texas norther would pass
as a simeon, or hot wind.-Texas
Siftin0s.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

In recent school address, Sir
John Lubbock said that it seemed
to him that the character of educa-
ton was even more important than
the amount. He believed the foun-
datiop of the ordinary remarks
about the undesirability of learning
more than two or three subjects
arose from the confusion between a
smattering and a grounding in a
subject. Smatterings, no doubt,
were very useless; but to be well
grounded in subject was quite a
different thing
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

The conference of representative
men proposed to be held in this city
February 7, it is stated, will dis
cuss, first, prompt payment of the
public debt; second, the general
government to issue all money, make
it legal tender in payment of pri-
vate debts and public dues, and
keep its volume uniform with the re-
quirements of business on a cash
basis; third, railroads and tele-
graphs to be regarded as public in
situations and their charges regula-
ted by national and state laws,
based on a fair return on the
amount actually paid by stock and
bond holders for the construction
and equipment of such property;
fourth, the repeal of all class legis-
lation and the enactment of laws
compelling all property to bear its
just proportion of public burdens;
fifth, all public lands to be held fol-
actual settlers; sixth, economy in
public expenditures, honesty in ad
ministering public affairs, and an
elective civil service system; sew
enth, purity of the ballot through
laws adding Acknowledgement to i'm
prisonment for all who sell thei1
votes, coerce voters, or render falst
returns of votes cast Washington
Register.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

A writer in an exchange says: 81
discovered many years ago that
wood could be made to last longer
than iron in the ground, but the
process is so simple that it was not
well to make stir about it. 1 would
as soon have poplar, Eastwood or
ash as any other kind of timber for
fence posts. have taken out bass
wood posts after having been set
out for several years that were as
sound when taken out as when put in
the ground. Time and weather seem
to have no effect on them. The posts
can be prepared for less than two
cents apiece. This is the recipe:
Take boiled linseed oil and stir in
pulverized coal the consistency to
the paint. Put coat of this over
the timber, and there is no man
who will live to see itrot."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22
Gossip,

There is absolutely no redeeming
feature in gossip. Even if true, we
do not desire to know disagreeable
facts about any of our neighbors.
Nothing is more demoralizing to a
man than to lose faith in his
fellows. The man of faith and hon
or is apt to be suspicious of 9th
ers, and does not willingly believe
evil. The lover of scandal and the
believer in it. are. alike deficient in
honor and morality, and are the
bane of well organized society. If
all gossips could be quietly killed
some morning, the next generation
of men and women would be hap
pier. A case of hydrophobia now
and then starts the cry of ''muzzle
the dogs" death on the high
ways" etc. There is death and
mystery in the highways and by
ways and in the home from the poi
soned tongues of the gossips. Let
the voice go up, "Muzzle the Cos
sips" Teach the children that Cos
slipping is dishonorable, and that
faith in the honor and virtue OF
mankind will build up society and
add to the sum of human human.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

can be inhaled with impunity. Mr..
Julius Kircher, pupil of Liebig,
and owner Of chemical factory in
Brooklyn, writes, says the Medical
and Surgical Reporter, as follows to
the Zeitsch. f. d. Oestr. Apoth.
Verein:
The observation of Koch has
found brilliant confirmation in my
factory where a large quantity of
sulphur is evaporated daily. That in
this process a great deal of sulphu-
rous acid is formed, can easily be
imagined. During the forty-four
years that my factory has existed,
none of the many laborers have ever
been affected by tubercular con-
sumption, nay, more frequently,
enough persons in the beginning
stages of this day, applied for adj
mittance and were cured within q
few weeks, simply by inhaling the
sulphurous acid. fnot too far pro-
crossed, these individuals become
strong, stout and perfectly healthy
again.
All diseases zymotic in character,
even cholera, stay away from his
factory and those working there.
Persons affected with bronchial ca
tarrh are rapidly cured.
Phthisical patients should live in
rooms where hourly one to two
drachms of sulphur are evaporated
on warm stove. First eight or
ten days there is increased irrita-
ton of cough and expectoration,
then these cease and the Individual
rapidly improves. Convalescents
should live for time in rooms filed
with aromatic watery vapors.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

The Boston Advertiser { Rep
thinks that in case Malone and
Riddleberger hold the balance of
power in the senate, the republicans
should rather suffer the democrats
to contest the senate organization,
after March, rather than disgrace
themselves by a shameful trade
by which Mahone's vanity and paid
for notoriety and prominence may
be pratifed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

So prevalent is the habit of talk
ing small nonsense in company,
that even thinking people mask
their intelligence by its use. But let
some one person bring a sensible
topic of conversation forward, and
it is wonderful how soon he will be
surrounded by others, well-informed
concerning it, and anxious to diff
fuse their knowledge. The trouble
is, we do not understand each other.
Men have become thoroughly i'm
pressed with the idea that in order
TO make themselves agreeable they
must keep up constant stream Of
nonsense and silly utterances, and
the ladies seemed to have formed the
same idea in regard to the gentle
men, until out of this mutual misun-
derstanding has grown this empty,
meaningless jargon of words at al
most every social entertaining--a
short shower Of soap bubbles.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

1t is clear that the south can
invite population for decades to
come and still have room to spare.
She can invite it with assurance,
because she has the munifcent in
ducements to offer. Her lands are
cheap. her soil yields the richest
products, her forests are vast, her
mines are exhaustless treasures,
and her climate is unsurpassed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

DIR. Guthrie says: "Give me
these links: First, sense OF need;
second, desire to get; third, belief
that God has in store; fourth, belief
that, though He withholds while,
He loves to be asked; andldfth, belief
that asking will obtain. Give me
these links, and the chain will reach
from earth to heaven, bringing all
down to me, or bearing me up into
heaven"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

Texans must take to the woods.
The legislature has bill providing
that any one using 'profane or
vociferous language in the vicinity
of a dwelling house" shall be fined
or imprisoned.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

81 say, Jenkins, can you tell a.
Young, tender chicken from an old
tough oneY' "Of course / can"
"Well, how?' "By the teeth
"By the teeth Chickens have no
teeth" mo, but / have.''
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22


"Well," quoth Alexander to him
self, off can't ask friend to din
ner at home, there is at least the
alternative of inviting him to the
hotel. 1 never did such thing be-
fore, but 1 don't see how else can
manage"
So Alexander Hopgood enter
tanned Mr.. Ryerson at the hotel,
and gave an unlimited order fol
iced champagne and dessert. And
the upshot of it all was that Alex
ander Hopgood was brought in at
IL O'Clock at night by two of the
walters, hopelessly intoxicated.
don't be f-f-fraid, mother, u
suffered he, brandishing an empty
bottle, as he BEANIE dimly conscious
of her white, scared face bending
over him. $50 on with your wash
ing! it's deal jollier at the hote
than it is at home. Freedom for
ever! Hoo-oorayr'
"Oh, what shall ] doT sobbe6
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22
Sulphurous Acid in Consumption.

Most readers are aware that sui
phurous acid is one of our most
important bacilicides, and the
more to be recommended. as it
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-22

81 don't want any more discus
sion on the subject said Mrs. Hop
good, daubing away with the brush.
Alexander went out slamming the
National Republican., 1883-03-02
NATIONAL REPUBIICANg MORNING, MARCH 2,

objects of sympathy than the Irish, but
the world has no account Of them. There
may be some nation beside England whose
statesmen boldly declare their intention TO
precipitate upon us tho starving victims Of a
system which gives the harvest to those who
never see the land while reapers famish, but
we do not recolloct any. We have mourners
going about the streets because at the end of
q war between two South American ropub-
lies tho conqueror will not allow the con-
quered to dictate the terms of peace; almond
eyed Asiatics who are turned away from our
western gates excite the tender compassion of
our eastern people nihilists in Russia are
half way indorsed by many American news
papers Alsace and Lorraine arc still French
to us-and shall we stiae all generous SYM
pathies for a people who are told by their
unchosen masters that there is not room
enough for them TO remain in their own
country because they cannot make the land
produce enough over their own necessities to
satisfy their English landlords2 When
Americans can be Indifferent to the wrongs of
ireland they should blot out the declaration
of independence and forever cease to prate of
sympathy with the oppressed in every land.
National Republican., 1883-03-02
Is England Forcing Irish Emigration,


The cable report of the proceedings in the
British house of commons on Tuesday last had
the following:
Mr.. Trcvelyan said that although the govern.
ment had no large measure concerning the gov
ernment of Ireland TO introduce this year, they in
tended TO bring forward several useful measures
with regard to the distress existing there. The
truth was that the holdings In the west Of Ireland
were too small the people could not live without
getting into debt The question was whether by
giving extraordinary reliefthe government should
stay emigration, which the poor were not averse
TO, and merely postpone the evil day.
This is tOlerably plain talk. Read the last
sentence again. The holdings of land are so
small in the west of Ireland that they cannot
yield enough to satisfy the rapacity of the
life to the tenants, And this, says Mr.. Ire
velyan, raises the question of whether they
shall have extraordinary relief or be starved
into emigration. He evidently favors the
latter. The extraordinary relief would be
the removal Of the muz2le from the Irish
"ox that treadeth ont the corn" Land is not
worth for rent more than it will produce
over, and above the absolute necessity of life
for those who cultivate it. This plain propo-
sition is treated in England as heresy, the
inculcatroH Of which tends to produce assassi.
nations. WheiN the landlord will not leave
substance onoug to his tenant to keep the
souls and bodies of his children together he
thinks to tame The wild glare in .he eye of
hunger by a'SQerciop pet. The cold-blooded
declaration above quoted, that it is question
whether the government had not better drive
the Irish from Ireland by Withholding relief IL
suggestive of the administration of afihirs in
East India by Warren Hastings, under which
Mr., Burke said the people "sought exile as q
relief" Let us hope that the analogy may
never reach the point at which they fled tC
the wild thickets, which oppression had scat
tered through IL, and sought among tho jun
giles and dens Of tigers refuge from the
tyranny of Warren Hastings" for then might
follow the same catastrophe that attended
that cocrcive policy, and which the same au'
thority thus described; "Not able long Il
exist here, pressed at once by wild beasts and
famine, the same despair drove them back
and seeking their last resource in
arms, the most quiet, the most passive
the most timid of the human race rose up il
an universal instruction; and what will al
ways happen in popular tumults, theefIc o
the fury of the people fell on tho mcaner ant
sometimes the reluctant instruments ofthe tyr
amy, who in several places were massacrod,'
Mr. Trevelyau says to "stay emigration, whicl
the poor are not averse to, merely postpone
the evil day" That is, the poor who hay,
holdings too small to enrich the landlord
must leave Ireland and are willing to do 50
He is impatient Of their stay, and doprecate
any action by the government which shal
make their abode in their native land endura
BILE. There may .bo somewhere ON tn
earth an oppressed and fatcd people ftte
National Republican., 1883-03-02
A widow with n Glass Eye.

Tho prettiest widow in all this great me.
tropolis, says New York correspondent, is q
lemon and lily blonde ranging from five to
small in width, with no more than 18 years
to her age, and enough of a fortune to allow
of doing Just as she pleases about marrying
again. was in her party at the Madison
Square theater the other night, and we We're
weeping more or less over the sorrows of the
play Allowing for the hearty dinner which
/ knew the widow had eaten there couldn't
have been room in her thin figure for great
amount of emotion; and when / saw that
tears were yelling up in one of her eyes and
not in the other l surmised that the dinner
had got entirely on ono side of her midritf
and the sympathy all on tother. But was
wrong; and this Is how / found out The
widows escort was n sappy young fellow,
whose love was as profound as his shallow
ness permitted After puzzlng himself over
the dryness of one Of hor eyes, while its mate
was brimmier, he asked for an explanation of
the phenomenon.
"And which eye do you admire most ~ she
said
"H-h-hard TO tell," he stammered. "The
one w-w-with the tears sort of melts fellow,
d-d-don'tyOu know, and the one without the
tears sets h-h-him ablaze with its flashes"
"On the whole, now, which one do you pre-
fer2n
"Wa-wa-well, think the d-d-dry one"
"Um so glad Dolphy, to hear you say that,
and the widow beamed rapturously into his
face, "because the eye is glass one, and I'm
sometimes afraid II dishgures me-"
This revelation lost her a lover, and don't
suppose she will miss him from the gang
and she certainly had fun with him while hS
lasted,
National Republican., 1883-03-02
A StnIe TricIK of Words.

volunteer Washington correspondent of
lthe New York Tribune INDUCES in column
Of mean abuse of the President over few
New York postolllce nominations, and raves
from administration men," as though the
Republican party was arrayed into two
wings, one of which was defend
ling tho grave Of Garfield while the
other was bent upon doing it some violence.
The writer of this rot ought to be confined in
an idiotic asylum. There are no republicans
to whom the descriptive adjective Garfield" +"
properly belongs. The worst cases Of chronic
loficeseckors had worn that appellation thread
bare in an effort to coniurc themselves into fed
eral Office with 1t months ago, and the assinine
revival Of it in yesterdays Iribmeargues that
tho supervisory mind on the great journal
founded by Horace Greeley must have been
doing duty somewhere as dincr-out
or tho dismal stuff would have been
excluded. Republicanism has nothing
to do with any personal allegiance or
I man worship. GarGoldism is not princi.
pie. The memory Of Gen. Garfield is sncred,
and safe from all assaults except that pollu-
ton which it suffers at the hands of msera-
BILE political bummers who use his name to
got themselves fed, Such vampires will
gradually be understood, and will perish under
the hot blast of public scorn.
National Republican., 1883-03-02

IT is one of streaks of idiocy running
through human nature that postal employees
should ever rob the mails. They must be
more OF less familiar with the nice system Of
checks and balances by which it becomes q
mere matter of time when the theft is traced
out. It has been proved thousands of times
that systematic robberies of the mail are sim
ply impossible to cover. The employe is sur
rounded by q network that grows gradually
smaller and smaller, and at last points abso-
lutely to the guilty man. On Callahan the
other day no less than fifteen decoy letters
were found. Nothing is easier than to send
out decoy letter and to find out its ulti-
mate fate. The criminality of postal thief
is only in proportion TO his folly and the in
variable certainty with which ho is discov-
cred.
National Republican., 1883-03-02
nnANCM OEEICEs.

The following is a list Of the branch Offices in
Washington. Others will be added hereafter;
VS. RoosE's News stands ut the ARLINGTON
HorEr WnLARDs HOTEL, and METROPOLITAN
HoTEi.
RooSE & QuEES's News Stand, NATIONAL HOTEL
r. i. QUEEN, ST. JAMES HoTEL
RIGGS House News stand.
EBBIlT House. News Stand.
AMERICAN 1IousE News Stand
W. s. THoNPsoNs Drug Store.
c. H. FICRMNGs Drug Store, Georgetown.
J. BRADLEY ADAMs's Book Stores.
CIR. DuroUR, Druggist, 1918 Fourteenth street.
r. H. FERGUSON Druggist, corner Second aud
PENNSYLVANIA avenue SsE.
s. 4. LEWIS, Druggist, corner Fourteenth and
streets.
&C. c. sM,rs, Druggist, corner Fourteenth and
New York avenue.
W. +. SCALA, Druggist, 600 Fast Capitol street
II. A JOHNSTON, druggist corner Tenth aud o
streets northwest.
S. sLArERs Cigar Store, corner II and First
streets northwest.
National Republican., 1883-03-02
Az II Stnnda.

u The conference committee had anything
put pleasant time last night, and there is a
nge Of discouragement in the expressions Of
hose who were hopeful yesterday that
bill would come out of the COM
pnittce and 60 through to-day. The
Ill was considered, and all went smoothly
lntil the important articles came up for final
3ettlement. On these no agreement could be
bad. Messrs. Kelley, Mckinley, and Haskell
are fighting for n bill which shall come
kyithin rifeshot of the true protection idea,
md they will stand together to the
Ind. Some Of the senate members of the con-
erence see tho reasonablcness of their atti-
ude, and Mr.. Sherman has the solid sense TO
ldvise his colleagues to concede something TO
he house members of the committee.
Mr.. Malone Is also fair in tho mat
II Ter, and it is barely possible that
lPomothing may come of Il. Mr.. Morrill, has
1 prediction for his own bill, of course; AID
NIr. Carlisle, who is the fairest of all the DEM
bcrats, is still consistent in this committee
with his whole course, and being so is glad to
pave an opportunity to make one with the
ttiCklers for the senate rates. and SO make II
b struggle that prevents headway. The pro-
tcctionist idea must prevail, else there had as
lwell be no bill at all. The republicans ought
10 sec this, and continue their work.
Tho country has protection in the law as it
Stands, it ought to have the same protection
with proper revision of the tariff and re-
luction Of the revenue.