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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
The ENcHANTEp ISLES
or the Pacific Have Lost all Their
Charm and Picturesqueness.

Or the Paeinc Have Lost all Their
Charm and Picturesqueness.
M D. Conway in San Francisco Chronicle
In Mr.. Aldrich's pleasant story of
the saltwater Tragedy" the lad who
had run away to sea and returned home
quite sick of it creeps up to his old
room and his first act is to solemnly
burn "Robinson Crusoe." That is the
book whose lies had beguiled him from
home and inspired secret hopes of be-
ing shipwrecked. He was shipwrecked
and he discovered enough about ''Rob-
inson" to burn him. 1 sympa-
thized with that lad when / read
his story and now find myself
mentally picking out number of books
which may some day serve to kindle a
books about foreign travel and tribes
may once have had more truth In them
than Defoe's too-realistic fiction, but
time steadily and swiftly makes such
works false, at least in many cases.
The coasts and islands are no more
filled with happy and interesting
natives: these are unhappy and they
are driven to skulk into remote places.
The traveller must either hunt them as
bisons or be content to see ubiquitous
and missionaries where he had hoped to
make anthropologicalo observations.
Everywhere grog-shops, churches,
Sabbaths and the Salvation Army. This
morning we had six clear hours toroam
about the streets of Auckland. I saw
six Maori men and as many women,
who looked as wretched as if deniZens
of Dante's purgatory. In the museum
L saw their skeletons and relics of their
arts and ornaments, and these are by
nomeans without fineness and beauty.
Why should not the white rulers of
New Zealand have cultivated these
people into some picturesque variety
instead of exterminating them by
changing their habitat? The same
government has resolved to annex the
Samoans, which means destroying the
finest and most interesting islanders of
the Pacific, Why they have not half
cultivated New Zealand yet. They
appear to be possessed with frantic
desire to reduce all races to one.
Near Auckland l visited a noble
height called Eden. 1t is on the green
edge of an ancient crater, and many
similar volcanoes are commanded by
this summit, as well as beautiful islands
and inlets of the sea. The road is
lined with tbistles. These, which now
overrun New Zealand, are said to have
all sprung from seed imported by
patriotic Scotchman. There is queer
irony in calling a place thick with
thistles Eden" The top of the green
hill called Eden is surmounted by q
carved stone, on which was an adver-
tisement of yesterdays Salvation meet
ing
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
MEN AND OTHER ANIMALS.
The Tastes. Vices and PecuIiarIt5es
Which They Have in Common.

The Tastes Vices and PecuIiarIties
Which They Have in Common.
cincinnati Enquirer.
Men and animals have much that is
common between them In many points
some animals exhibit the passions,
tastes, vices and peculiarities that stamp
men. Obstinate men, those gifted with
that quality which Sterne says in man
Is styled perseverance, in a mule OBJ
stinacy, are like the Arctic putin. or
Lapland mouse. The former seizes the
end of bone that is thrust into his
hole, and will not loose his hold till
drawn out and killed. The latter
wander from mountain to mountain,
and will turn out for nothing. They
have eyes, yet run against trees, stones,
rocks and animals, and bite and contend
with every animal they meet They
cross rivers, and at last reach the
ocean, plunge in and,are drowned.
A jealous wife resembles a green ma
cav If its master cares for a dog OF
a cat, nothing can exceed its violence
and fury. Nor will it be appeased un-
til its master returns and lavishes ali
all the airs of the Jay; a fippant bean
bl1C NdulIA VI tl1C fOO1llSn IuCL
are like the one-horned rhinoeeros, in
capable of either gratitude or attach
ment. A quick tempered man, forget
ting and forgiving the next instant,
finds his counterpart in the Cape ante
lope; fierce when assailed, yet taking
food the next minnie from the hand
that struck it. A domestic man is like
the antelope of Scythia, who will not
eat unless surrounded by her mate and
little ones.
Some men are like the great bat of
Java; when wounded and unable to
avenge the injury, he wreaks vengeance
on his wounded limb. The japanese,
out of revenge to others, often rip open
their own bellies, and many men cut off
their noses to spite their face. Sneaks
are like the Tanoua parrot of Guinea
When he is going to bite you he ex-
hibits a disposition to caress. Lazy
men living on the exertions of others
find their parallel in the Taurus Arc
icus. He loves fish, but he never
them. He waits until another
bird has done the work, then scares the
bird and secures the fish he drops
Horace Greeley and the vegetarians
we're like the slaygush, an animal of
which attacks with vigor |
wolves, tigers and all the fierce animals,
yet lives on roots, herbs and fruit. The
attacked every system and
every theory.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
THE VILLAGE DOCTOR.
How His Patient is Made to Forget
. sickness and Find ii Easy to Die.


Ben Wylde in Chicago News.l
Piece by piece he learns every symp-
tom, every little particular of his
patients last night; and then, when
the conversation ceases and the wife
goes back quietly up the narrow back
stairs to make the children's little bed,
the old doctor sits and peels long curly
shavings off the yellow pine stick, softly
huns a good old Methodist hymn,
and thinks what he should do next for
his sick man.
Half the forenoon is gone when the
good wife comes to the door and says,
in the same old subdued tone to which
she has habituated herself: Doctor,
he's awake now" The old doctor slowly
lifts himself, unkinks his stiffened joints,
kicks his legs out to straighten down
his trousers, shuts his big bone-handled
knife, brushes the snavings from his
shiny clothes, and goes to the bed
room. The sick man slowly turns his
head toward the doorway, smiles sadly;
puts out his long, white, bony hand to
him and whispers hoarsely: well,
doctors" which is a sick mans favorite
form of asking how his doctor thinks
he is getting along. The old doctor
raises the blue paper curtain and
slowly draws a chair close to the bed.
"Oh, you're looking ever so much bet
ter to-day. Well have you out hoeing
potatoes in a day or two"
The old doctor knows this is false;
knows that no human power can pro-
long the mans life a month, but he Is
one of those great good men who live
above the necessity of telling the truth
on all occasions. Only the puny-souled
creatures who have to keep themselves
in straitjackets lest they do something
wicked need to live within the narrow
limits OF an inyiolable rule always to
tell the truth. You're getting on nicely.
Don't YonLsee you've got mora color N
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
when sugar was Invented.

montague hOuScuOlI
The exact date of the inven ton of
sugar is lost in the mist of fable. How
ever, sugar is said to have been known
to the Chinese 5000 years ago, and
there is not much doubt but that the
manufacture of the article was carried
on under the Tsin dynasty 200 years
before Christ. A strong claim for
priority has been made for India. Prob
ably the Hindoos learned the art from
the Chinese, and from India the knowl
edge was carried further west.
Three hundred and twenty-five years
B. c., Alexander sent Nearchus with
large fleet down the Indus to explore
the adjacent countries. When that
officer returned from his expedition, he
brought to Greece an account of honey,
(sugar) which the Asiatics made from
cane, without any assistance from bees.
This was the earliest idea the western
nations had of sugar, the Jews, Egypt
ians, Babylonians and Greeks knowing
nothing of its use. As late as A. d.
$50, sugar was prescribed by Galen, the
famous physician, as a medicine.
Before the discovery of America,
sugar was costly luxury, used only on
rare occasions. During the wars of the
Roses, about 1855, Margaret Pastor,
wife of wealthy country gentleman OF
Norfolk, wrote to her husband, begging
that he would ''vouchsafe" to send her
a pound of sugar. As late as the year
100, all England consumed only 20,-
OO0, 900 poundsin the course of the year,
but since the consumption has greatly
increased, 2O,OO0,00O hundred weight
now being used by the English peopl'
The process of refining sugar wa
not known in England previous to 1859.
That was probably an invention of the
Arabs. A Venetian merchant learned
the secret from the Saracens of Sicily,
and sold the art for 100000 crowns.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
The Manufacture os Ready-aIade
Houses
Scientific American.f

LsoCicatlliC
A correspondent paid visit not long
ago to city in Maine, where large es-
tablishment is located for the produc-
ton of these ready-made houses, and he
says that few have any idea to what ex-
tent this business has been carried, or
to what perfection it has been brought
In the establishment to which we refer,
dwelling houses are made, like boots
and shoes, in any quantity, and of any
size or style, and for any market in the
wide world. Not long since this con-
cern received a single order for fifty
houses for Cape May, to be delivered
speedily and in complete finish.
These houses were to be, not sheds
nor shanties, but regularly ordered
dwellings; and they were made accord
ingly and so delivered, and contain
hundreds of occupants at this moment.
An order will be received for $4,000
hotel, or an ornate, French roof cottage
for fine country estate, and these are as
easily and expeditously furnished as an
ordinary clearinghouse for country
village, or barn for ranch In Kansas
or Colorado. Do not suppose that only
a coarse, rough frame is thus sent out
to be trimmed into shape on the spot
Wn6r6 II Is uouNeTSu! Ou IIIe contrary,
the house is complete when it leaves
the factory. and as ready to go together
as Is a musket when it leaves the
armory at Springfield, all the parts
being found, even to the knobs for the
doors and the screens and shades for
the doors and windows, according to
specification. Great trains of freight
cars stand waiting about, and are
freighted almost daily here. The re-
fuse trimmings and edge cuttings of the
lumber are carted off to a neighboring
pulp mill, and there speedily turned
into material for paper or other pro
ducts.
Machinery for almost every con-
ceivable use in connection with wood is
at hand, and house materials, of any
kind or size or shape, seem to drop out
like meal from a hopper. In a recent
instance where a large building was
furnished for a southern order, the
parts were thus made, and when put
together in the city where the building
is now standing the length of the latter
was found to vary not the eighth of an
inch from the original specifications,
its length on the front num-
bered hundreds of feet. Every inch of
this building, from the sill to the last
was sent ready prepared from
this factory, and "set up as ready and
almost as quickly as a nail cask.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
rAE aRowrA oF TAE eaAvER
Wages OF First Glass Engra rers--.
Working for the Illustrated Maga-
fBoston Harald !

zines
Boston Heraldl
A generation ago the engraver used
to be considered of comparative unim-
| portance, and he was remunerated ac-
cordingly. Within fifteen or twenty
years, however, he has come to the front,
and now he divides both glory and
profit with the artist on a more equita-
BILE scale. The magazines, you know,
apparently consider it as much of an
advertisement to mention the engraver's
name as that of the designer. The
former have thus become much more
independent, and a great many of them,
if they don't like a drawing won't have
anything to do with it. A proportion
of the leading engravers are fairly well
off. 1 know number of them who
may be worth from S5O,O00 to $75, 900.
Yet there is not enough money in the
business to make a man rich, as we
reckon riches nowadays.
The income of a first class engraver
ranges, perhaps, from $500 to $4,000
or $1,000, the average being nearer the
first mentioned figures, while those who
get the latter can be counted upon
your fingers. In an establishment like
Harper's, the engraver who works by
N@-O WON ACOCAfCo BLOObOAye HUH oOO
to $50. The amount paid per piece of
work, of course, varies very much, ac-
cording to the size of the drawing and
the nature of the subject. Speaking in
a general way, the expense of engrav-
ing drawing that cost $40 would
range from $50,to 800. In the Lady
of the Lake" there aretwo sketches, for
which Frost was paid $50 each, that
brought S120 piece to the engraver.
1t costs from 800 to 1920 to engrave
Gibson's work.
The illustrated magazines, as / have
intimated, were potent agent In put
ting up the prices of engraving by in
creasing the demand for good work. I
should judge that the monthly art bill
of The Century and Harper's ranges
from $4,000 to $4,000 and perhaps more
In some instances. The Century peo-
pie, however, are paying less for their
work than formerly. Three or four
years ago, this magazine had its choice
of the best artists and engravers of the
country, but since then Pyle, Frost,
Gibson, Abbey, Reinhardt and other
leading artists have been "gobbled up"
by Harper's, and work for nobody else.
The engravers are not so willing to
make exclusive arrangements, but the
inducements offered the artists are too
alluring. WaHHH Aa#He eAE
The Harpers, by the way, have
dropped Mast. He don't care to do
much work now, and why should he? |
He received $4,000 a. year for long |
time, and having made some shrewd in
Yestments in real estate about Central
park, is probably worth to-day between
100000 and $3OO,OOO Who will take
his place? Well, I understand that
Mr.. A. B. Frost is the man, and that he |
also is guaranteed $4,000 a year. In |
some respects, perhaps, Frost's work is
better than that of Mast, but I question
he has that broad and brusque
but effective way of dealing with GER
tain classes of subjects. Mast had
faculty of making a Carl
cature which was likeness, though in
serious work he had no rank.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
TarrinG and FeatherinG Church
Organ.
ICincinnati Enquirer.l

The funniest thing we have heard of
lately, and at the same time the most
absurd, occurred in New Jersey vii
lage 1t was nothing less there Ger.
tainly could be nothing more-than
tarring and feathering an insignificant
church organ, for the reason that the
organist was unpopular. The organist
happened to be a lady, and not even
the roughs of religious body had the
audacity to add to her angelic wings
the common feathers of the barn-yard
fowl and attach them to her person
with vile tar. If they had tarred and
feathered the organ because it in
continently squeaked and because
its reedy lungs were always
afflicted with asthma on a Sunday morn
ing, and hoarsely added their noble
voices in the songs of praise, we could
have commended their conduct, for if
there is one thing on earth which we
despise and which seriously interferes
with public worship it is a cheap and
blatant melodeon which lifts its husky
and impudent voice above the general
discord of congregational singing and
introduces a confusion worse cor founded
into the confounded confusion that al
ready exists. But to disgrace even a
melodeon for the sins of lady player
who occasionally strikes a wrong note
is evidence that religion has not got
very firm grip on that little New Jersey
community.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
Varieties of wood Pulp.

In the first stages of the manufacture
of wood pulp for paper, poplar was re-
garded as prominently adapted for the
purpose, and for q considerable time it
was thought that only that wood, bass
wood, and few other kinds could be
ground into a suitable pulp. Now,
however, machines are made which turn
out pulp with equal facility from all
kinds of wood. The longest fibre is
made from willow, Eastwood and poplar
ranking nest, respectively. Cedar, fir,
and hemlock are said to work about
alike; maple has fibre shorter than
that of either spruce or pine, and is
quite hard to grind; birch is very hard
and grinds quite short. Poplar and
buckeye pulps remain white for a con-
siderable time, other woods changing
color; birch becomes pink, maple turns
purple, and Eastwood takes on areddish
hue.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27

your hands And your eye looks
brighter than it has for a month. A
very sick man couldn't sleep as YOU did
this morning. Why, I've been here
two hours, and you've been sound asleep
and snoring every minnie o. the time;
amt he, Mrs. Sanford p The poor wife
is almost AFRAID the doctor exaggerates,
but there IS something so wholesome in
the old doctors manner and SO encour.
aging in his words that she quite for
gets her troubles, and becomes even
clipper in her efforts to assure her hus-
band that the doctor is right.
While the little woman moves SOFTLY
about, gently busting this and that
piece of furniture, turning the shutters
so that the sunbeams creeping toward
the bed NAV not climb up and get into
the eyes of the sick man, the old doctor
urges ON the conversation, adroitiy
turning the subject from sickness and
trouble, and even from health and pros
perity, with which the sick man might
make painful comparisons. Soon the
room is changed from a chamber of
death and despair to a panorama of
scenes pictured by the doctor in the re
lation of his recollections and expert
Cnces. The sick man turns his head to
catch every word. He is an interested
listener while the old doctor sits there
and relates as actual personal history a
hundred ard one things that never hap
pened to anybody. Why should he
stop to ask himself whether truth is
mighty so long as he can see that false
Aood isprevailing over his patients des-
pair and causing him to forget whether
he is sick or we'll
A writhing of the sick mans face and
the placing of his thin, clammy hand |
upon his breast tells of sharp pain.
Quick, the opiate! There, he sleeps |
Now all is we'll. All, yes, he sleeps
He will not wake again. Death came
to him as in a pleasant dream. He
knew it not, and hence he died but
once. Kind-hearted, warm old doctor |
Dear old coward, who never fights
but surrenders at its first APP
proach, and labors lovingly to smooth
the way to death! Blessed old bungler,
who gives no dying man the warning
that would turn his latest hours to bus
mess cares and save his heirs world
of worryment and loss Who does not
love the old docIor?
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
Was Much aObIeeged., ;,
[Arkansaw Traveler.l

A merchant, after satisfying himself
that certain customer did not intend
to pay his bill, sent him a receipt for
the full amount. By return mail he re-
ceived the following note: "Uster have
M doubts about you bein' gentleman,
but am satisfied on that pint. There
is a great difference in men. One time
[ owed fellow bill, and after dunnin'
me nearly to death he sent me a receipt
for half of the amount, and blamed If
he didn't finally make me pay the other
half. But you have done the square
thing by me, an am much ableeged to
you"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
For International S,opErixht.

Mark Twain writes that he is At
years old and does not expect to live
long enough to see international copy
right established, but his great grand
father struggled for the right, and it is
his unworthy great grandson's hope and
prayer that as long as his stock shall
last the transmitted voice of that grand
old man viii still go ringing down the
centuries, stirring the international
heart IN the interest of the eternal cause
for which he struggled and died
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
The stupid Fellow.

Gaze upon that pure, beautiful
evening star, and swear to be true while
its light shall shine; swear my love;
swear by Venus" exclaimed a Boston
youth In impassioned accents. How
stupid you are" answered the Boston
girl, "that is not Venus. The right as
cension of Venus this month is 15h., 9m.,
her declination is II deg. 25m. south,
and her diameter is 1912.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
Tobacco Production and cOBsump-
Boston Advertiser.l

Our own tobacco exports are at
least ten times larger than are those of
Turkey; but probably few people know
that in the production, consumption
and export of tobacco America exceeds
every other country, and that, as q
producer of quantities, it is fol-
lowed Immediately by Russia, Hum
SSy. Germany, France-not by Cuba,
nich has but 800 tobacco farms, and
exports less than does Turkey.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
Toney Gastronomy.

~Oh, yes" said Mrs. Paryenu, TO
a friend on the ever-interesting subject
of gastronomy, I'VE always sc-ye our
broiled quail on real pound caLe real
big slices, too; toast is so common you
know everybo iy serves quail on toast" /"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27

Inter Ocean: Advertising made a
fortune of clear $4,000, 900 for J. c..
Aver, and his wife inherited it. This
teaches that the wives of business inen
should persuade them to advertise
largely.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27
BEFORE DAWN.
Maurice THOMPSON

lNauilce thompson.
A keen, insistent hint of dawn
Fell from the mountain height;
A wan, uncertain gleam betrayed
The faitering of the night.
The emphasis of silence made
The fog above the brook
Intensely pale; the trees took on
A haunted, haggard look.
Such quiet came, expectancy
Filled all the Earth and sky;
Time seemed to pause little space;
/ heard dream go byl
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-12-27

The girl had got her hands free and
flung them before her face to deaden
the sobs. But Mrs. Reece was
resolute mother at times, and she sx-
torted the confession. Alison had i'm
provised the note and sent Thomas
around the long way to deliver it, and
so keep him from passing by the willow
walk.
'Oh, child, childp moaned the dis
mayed woman. '.If he has indeed
fallen over the Scar it is you who have
given him his DEATH"
And it proved to be 30. In taking
the two miles round between the cot
tage and the farm high and perpen-
dicular precipice, called the Scar, lad
to be passed. The tableland, or pla.
teau on the top was wide and a perfectly
safe road by daylight, since traveller
could keep as far from the unpro-
tected edge as he pleased, but on dark
night, or In a thick FOG it was most dan
gerous. Thomas Wktkyn must have
drawn near the edge unwittingly and
fallen over it. There he lay. on the
sharp rock, when the poor father and
others went to look for him, his DEATH
like face upturned toward the blue sky.
"Speak to me, Thomas, speak to
me y walled Alison quite beside herself
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-02

New YonK, July 1.-Agnes L. wynne, o2
Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, was fatally shot
to-day by her husband. Janes Il. Wynne.
She is 10 years old, and her husband is one
year younger. They were married
eighteen months ago, and have
one child, three months old. For
some time they have lived unhappily, and
Wynne says he intended separating. He
had been drinking hard and when he went
nome to-day a quarrel took place. He
II dare you to do it." At that time Mis-
'Wyhnes was lying on the bed with the
baby beside her. The boy husband
drew revolver and fred, the bullet enter
ing his wife's breast. He went for physi-
clans. Subsequently, Mrs Wynne was
taken to the hospital, and the wound pro-
hohnced fatal. Wynne was arrested. Two
playmates OF Mrs. Wynne Witnessed the
shooting,