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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

John Slack, of the Bristol Cour-
Ter, was over at Nashville last week,
and thus wrote for his paper: Judg-
ing from appearance the present
legislature is the ablest that has as
sembled for years. A large MAORI
ty of the members are large and
present splendid appearance-but
a member is larger Gin his own es-
timation) when the session opens
than when it closes. Just what
causes this shrinkage L cannot tell.
1t may be the tough beefsteak and
muddy coffee furnished by the Nash
vile boarding houses, or it may be
a lack ofappreciation on the part of
confding constituents. l hope this
legislature will prove an exception
to the general rule.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
Not Worth It.

A citizen of Michigan who has
something OF reputation for his in
fdel views and arguments hap
pcned to meet seven or eight clergy
men at railroad station as they
were waiting to take the train to at
tend a conference and introducing
himself to one of them he said:
Il want half an hours talk with
the smartest one of your crowd.
Who is hep
"Well, Brother White is pretty
smart" was the reply.
The infidel walked up to the cler-
gyman named and bluntly began
preacher White, you hold that
there is a God, don't your
Eyes, sir"
"And that none but believers can
be saved?" 80
"Just So"
"Well, sir, 1 don't believe any
such thing, and I'll defy you to con-
vince mei'
81 shan't try to, SIR
you won't! Don't you want me
to be savedr'
mo, sir-no sir! / wouldn't waste
five minutes to send you straight to
heaven"
"Why not?"
"Why not? Why sir, folks have
been going to heaven by the mil
lion for thousands of years, and
there is now such crowd up there
that a small soul like yours could
no more be found or heard of than
an atom of sand thrown into the
middle of the ocean. It's too small
potatoes to pay for hoeing~-[E Elk
change.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
An Enormous Yield.

The Townsville, Ga, Times
says: Sometime last spring the
Southern World offered a premium
of $40, in gold, to the boy under
sixteen years of age who would re-
port the best yield of any crop on a
half acre of land. Master Mark
Battle, son of Rev. j. r. Battle, saw
the proposition and contested for it.
The results of his labors were two
hundred and fifty bushels of fine,
large sweet potatoes, on half acre
A specimen half bushel of the pota-
toes, and proper accompanying GER
tiicates-sworn to by disinterested
parties-were forwarded the other
day to the Southern World, ct At
lanta. We commend the worthy
example of young Mr.. Battle to the
young men and boys of Thomas.
1t shows what boy can do when
he tries. Boys make a great mis-
take when they think that farming
is only drudgery. and can not be
made to pay. What the country
needs is fewer clerks with their hair
parted in the middle, fewer profess
sional drones, and more manly
youths who are not afraid and
ashamed to take hold of the pillow.
But make the country prosperous
and the towns will take care of
1t is in the soil where
the surest chances of success are
found; it is on the farm where the
truest contentment is found;
it is around the country
family Preside where the truest viz
tue is found. Despise not the
country.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
She Wanted Notices.

A gentleman whose wife had in
structed him to purchase few nice,
appropriate notices, became inebria-
ted end forgot just what it was.
He had confused notion that his
wife's request was in some way re-
lative to his purchase of something
in the way of sign cards, so he call
ed upon a dealer and purchased
quite variety. ''Tve got 'em (hic)
my dear. He-he-here's whole lot
nice uIl's, he said as he triumphant
ly produced his package. With a
sigh over his condition, she opened
the parcel and found the following:
Hands Of'"Your Cheice for Bets"
look Out for the Locomotive"
"Keep OF the Grass; ""No dogs Adj
mitted." Ham Sandwiches 10cts.
Each" 'sTom and Jerry" "For
Rent" "Oysters in All. Styles"
Then the lady went down town and
made her own selection and when
be woke up one morning after q
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

How many ministers can say
face to face with a looking glass,
81 am a success" Are they? How?
In what way? Money? Nonsense.
Ministers. don't go into canonicals
to make money. They are to win
souls. They don't go there for So
cial distinction Or fat fees. They
go to win men from lower to a
higher plane. 1t always seems to
me a weak point In the Methodist
economy that they change their
preachers from post to post every
two years. You can't kill the devil
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

The editor of the Kan 'sas City
Journal is a wanderer on the face of
the earth. Only last week he was
a man respected by all and in re-
ceipt of a princely income. To-day
he is, no one knows where. In his
paper last week, in his description
of the toilets worn by the ladies at
the bazar of all nations, he said
Miss so and-so had on a pink Gun
dershirt," when it ought to have
been "underskirt." The girl bought
a revolver and started out one way
looking for the editor, her brother
took shotgun, her father an AK,
her lover armed himself with a
horsewhip, and the editor took a
shawl strap with linen ulster jim it
and swan the river, and is sup
posed to be in the foothills, exist
ing on roots and briers.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
Christian Hcspitalitv.


Let no religious tramps take adj
vantage of the beautiful virtue of
christian hospitality. Not so much
the sumptuousness of your diet and
the regality of your abode will i'm
press the friend or the stranger that
steps across your threshold, as the
warmth of your greeting, the in
formality of your reception, the re-
iteration by grasp, and by look,
and by a thousand attentions, in
significant attentions, of your ear
nestness of welcome. There will
be high appreciation of your well
come, though you have nothing but
the brazen candlestick and the plain
chair to offer Elisha when he comes
to Shunem. Most beautiful is this
grace of hospitality when shown in
the house of God. 1 am thankful
that / am pastor of church where
strangers are always welcome, and
there is not state of the Union in
which ] have not heard the affabili-
ty of the ushers of this church
comphmented. But 1 haye entered
churches where there was no hospi
tality. A stranger would stand in
the vestibule for a while and then
make pilgrimage up the long aisle.
No door opened to him until, flushed
and excited and embarrassed, he
started back again, and coming to
some half filled pew, with apologize
air, entered it, while the occupant
glared on him with a look which
J seemed to say, "Well, if / must, l
must" Away with such accursed
indecency from the house of God.
Let every church that would main
tain large christian influence in a
community culture Sabbath by
Sabbath this besutiful grace of
christian hospitality. A good man
travelling at the far west, in the
wilderne ss, was overtaken by night
and storm and he put in at a cabin.
He saw firearms along the beams of
the cabin and he felt alarmed. He
did no know but that he had fallen
into a den of thieves. He sat there
greatly perturbed. After a while
the man of the house came home
with a gun on his shoulder and set
it down in a corner. The stranger
was still more alarmed. After a
while the man of the house whis-
pered with his wife, and the stranger
thought his destruction was being
planned. Then the man of the
house came forward and said to the
stranger: Stranger, we are rough
and rude people out here, and work
hard for living. We make our
living by hunting, and when we
come to the nightfall we are tired
and we are apt to go to bed early,
and before retiring we are always in
the habit Of reading e chapter from
the Word OF God and making a
prayer. Is you don't like such
things, if you will just step outside
the door until we get through, I'll
be greatly obliged to you" Of
course the stranger tarried in the
room, and the old hunter took hold
of the horns of the altar and
brought down the blessing of God
upon his household and upon the
stranger within their gates. Rude
but glorious christian hospitality =
DR.. TALMAGE, in Frank Leslie's
Sunday Magazine for February.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
HOLMES IMMINENT.
OR, THE
Mothers Friend.

One of the greatest comforts to those ex-
pecting to be confined is a remedy upon
which implicit con fdence can be placed
one that will produce a safe and quick deliv-
ery-.one that viii control pain end shorten
the duration of labor. Such is "The Moth
er's Relief" Try and see what
A Blessing 1t is to Suffering Females.
This Linimens, when used two or three
weeks before confinement, produces a won
derful effect, causing a very easy and Quick
labor, with comparatively little pain, and
leaves the mother in a condition to recover
quickly-or in other WORDS to have good
getting up. Under its use, labor will ordi-
Manly occupy much less than the usual time,
and the suffering be diminished beyond ex-
preston.
The condition for which this remedy is Of
fered is of such a Character as to forbid a
long array o. certificates Those interested
ia its use are respectfully referred to the
hundreds who have used it,
READ THETESTIMONIAI,S:
must earnestly entreat every female ex-
pecting to be confined to use 'tTHE MoTHER's
RELIEF" Coupled with this ensreatv,
will add that during large obstetrical prac-
tiee, forty-fouE yesrs), l have never known
tito fail TO produce safe ard quick delivery.
II. j. HOLMES, M. D.,
Atlanta, Ga.
lady from one of the counties of Middle
Georgia, who has been acting as midwife for
many years, writes. 81 have disposed of ell
THE MOTHERS RELIEF you sent me, and /
am delighted with it. IT every instance
whe:e it has been used its effects have been
all that | could ask. 1 consider it great
blessing"
A gentleman writes; "My wife used your
MoTHER's RFLIKF at her fourth confinement,
and her testimony is that she PISSED
through it with one-half CT the suffering of
either other former eoafnements, and recov-
erec from it ia much less time. She also
recomrended it TO lady friend vino was
about to be confined for the first time, and
she says: VI have never seen any one pass
through this great trial with so much ease
and 50 little suffering"
The names of these and macy others can
be had by calling at my office.
Having had the foregoing remedy thor
oughly tested in Atlanta and vicinity, offer
it 20 my patrons as possessing superior merito.
am permitted also to refer to the follow
ing well-known citizens of Atlanta; G. s.
Newton, VIM. NJ. Crumley, Jr., W. A. Gregg
and d Balm, all of whom are ready to testi-
fy to the merits of the preparation.
Price, 1.50 per bottle.
Prepared by
j. BRADFIELD, Sole Prop'r,
msy25-lm2. Atlanta, Georgia.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
Diet Cure.

AS the result of generations OF
erroneous teaching, the mass of
human kind have very unfortunate
ideas in relation to their health.
We eat, drink and work in utter dis
regard of every law of hygiene and
then when nature revolts, we add to
the troubles by forcing more food
into the stomach, or what is worse.
q dose of drugs. The following ex-
cellent ideas on that subject we take
from the 'IDiet Cure" book writ
ten by Mr.. I. L. Nichols-a book,
by the way, which should be in
every family.
Eating should be performed only
in response to a natural appetite.
With this precaution there would
not be much sickness to cure; but
in case of most ordinary sickness
the first thing to do is to fast. Eat
nothing so long as the stomach does
not crave it. In certain states of
disease, where the organs of diges-
tion are weakened and disordered,
The best beginning of cure may
DO total abstinence for time from
all kinds of food. There is no cure
like it. If the stomach can not di-
gest, the best way is not to force
anything upon it-rest is the one
thing it needs. Take nothing but
pure soft water, and only that when
demanded by the sensation of thirst
this will make the best possible
beginning of cure in a great ma
jority of cases. When GONZALES
cence takes place and the patient
feels that he could eat something
with relish, let that something be
plain and easy of digestion, and let
its quantity be small. A few days
of such feeding will usually set one
all right for his regular meals, with
out the aid of any medicine what
ever. = Orange County Farmer
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

The two greatest masters OF fc-
ton that the world ever produced
were women-George Sand and
George Eliot. And tits an unde-
niable fact that the most popular and
best paid story writer's of the day
are women. In the dramatic world,
a woman-Sarah OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
above all others In the world of
song women carry off most of the
honors, and certainly most of the
money. Even in the world of art
woman is rapidly coming to the
front as master of the brush. Is
there any excuse for bright, go
ahead girl to stand in the back
ground and be mere nothing? Let
her seek her mission and I'LL it at
any cost.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

Farmers are-too apt TO think they
are the hardest-worked and worst
paid men in the country; hen ce the
desire of so many of their sons to
strike out for themselves in some
other business, under the impress
sion that they can improve on the
old order of things. In nine cases out
of ten the move proves a failure.
Stick to the farm, boys; you have
much better chance there than in
the great outside world. Read,
think and observe, and determine to
be the best farmer in your county.
Then will success crown your eff
forts; your work. will be easy and
your burden light Rural World.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

The successful farmer is the
reading one in nine cases out of ten.
1t is only by reading that one can
keep up with the times in which we
live. 1t has been aptly said that
an agricultural community without
books and papers relating to farm
ing is like q ship at sea without rud-
der or COMPASS.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

An exchange has the following
advice to young men: Young man,
be politician. 1t is one of the
grandest avocations on the footstool.
1t is the only one where men can
call each other liars, thieves, and
other polite names without getting
licked. The career of Frank James
is perhaps little more romantic,
but for downright solid comfort
and entire freedom from care, and
total indifference to consequences,
the balmy and serene ll::ffa of the
pure politician takes the confection.n
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

In Two years, you know. You can't
eradicate tares and things biennial
~ you know-can you, now? So I
don't see that those eloquent and
magnetic gentry have fair chance
at the adversary, and no wonder he
goes about whom he may devour.
And doctors. What doctor ever
made hit and a success at first?
Now and then they marry an heir
ess. Is that success? 1 know two
jolly, good young doctors in
Brooklyn, each of whom married
100000 and a brick house. All
right. That's why they married,
and that's what they got. If they
hadn't married money and a brick
house they might in time have be-
come good doctors. AS it is they
are nothing but social ornaments in
public, and little better than lap
dogs in private. What lawyer ever
made quick success? Where's he?
Show him up. What nonsense.
We have few in Gotham who are
called successful, and they are hard
ly fedged. One married daugh
ter of rich toody, and was given a
superb residence and $4,000 a
year. Is he success? All right.
If you think so, we differ. 1 know
another whose another" had the
most pronounced residence-and
the best known--on Fifth avenue.
She died. The daughter inherited
$4,000 in cash, and heaven knows
what else. Is she success? What
editor ever achieved a success in a
hurry? l don't desire to be per-
sonal, so I'll stop before 1 begin.
But just cast your eagle eyes over
rich, young editors. That's all ask.
Il Philadelphia Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
The Largest Hands Ever Read Of.

There lives in Taylor county a
Mr.. Gaultney, who is the greatest
curiosity in Georgia There seems
to be an accumulation of adipose
matter about every joint in his
body, and the nearer the joints of
course the greater amount of this
fatty matter. Consequently his feet
and hands are enormous, each of his
hands Teighing over sixteen
pounds, and being several times
larger than his head. He is TWEEN
ty three years old and only thirty
six inches in height Savannah
News.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
A certain school boy, who kne

A certain school-boy, who knew
more about town bah, marbles, ''an-
tey over" and the like than about
his books, was asked: "What is
geography" "a big boob" "Of
what is earth composedY' mud"
mo, it is composed OF land and
water" swell, that makes mud,
doesn't it?" "What is the shape of
the earthr' "Flat." "If / should
dig hole through the earth, where
would I come out?' "Out of the
hole"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

The late Charles Darwin once
offered to supply medicines in his
neighborhOod free to any one who
applied and was not able to pay.
He had few calls, and concluded
that there was a constituencies on the
subject of charity. He then made
a small charge for the bottles and
the poor focked to him for their
medicines
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

The president of Tufts College
was recently made a happy father,
and the following morning at pray
er in the chapel he introduced this
rather ambiguous sentence: "And
we thank Thee, o Lord, for the sue
cor Thou hast given u.s." which
caused a general smile TO creep oyer
the faces OF the class Hayerhih
Gazette.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
An irate gentleman in New York,

An irate gentleman in New York,
writing to some one in Nashville,
declares that Tennessee will not
have an opportunity to 60 in debt
again, as no man would lend her a
dollar. This is good news, rather
than depressing. 1t is to be hoped
that the state will hereafter pay as
she goes, and never again enter the
market as borrower or an indebtor.
Ledger.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

Carving isn't fun. a young man
was invited to carve a turkey 81
dinner, recently, and before the
knife was finally taken from him he
had upset a glass Of water, wrench
ed his shoulder, shot the bird across
the table into "A lady's lap, and near
ly iabbed mans eye out, and it
v ASH tough bird, either.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

Cincinnati Enquirer: If the dem
ocratic party comes into power, the
simple, incontrovertable logic of the
must have alI the places under tie
government. If the republicans re-
main in control they will certainly
continue to hold everything, Pen
dieton bill or no Pendleton bill.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

How are you railroad monopoly?
Nine million bushels OF potatoes
were imported from the old country,
5000 miles away, into this country
for the simple reason that the rail
ways of Gould's System" and Vsal-
derbilt's system" would not carry
them from Nebraska and Kansas
where they are rotting in the ground
at any reasonable figures. 1t is
a damnable fact and deserves CEN
sure.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

The Farm and Garden says that
despite the constant attention that
is called to the value of sheep, not
only as improvers of the soil, but az
profitable farm animals for wool ano
mutton, there are many farmers
who have never raised or kept a
single sheen.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

In Georgia an acre of land,
which In 1870 produced only 500
pounds of seed cotton, was ma
nured by having twenty sheep
penned on it twenty nights, and in
1881 it produced 900 pounds of
seed cotton. This virtually trip
pied the annual value OF the land.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

Corner lots fronting Central Park,
New York, are selling at 100000.
Lots adjoining the corners bring
$4,000 and $4,000, and lots on the
side streets near the park $4,000
and $4,000.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

A teacher said to little girl at
school, eff naughty girl should
hurt you, like a good girl you would
forgive her, wouldn't you?" Yes
marm," she responded demurely,
''if / couldn't catch her.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

"Where do all the Boston and
Harvard boys go?" vas a question
asked the other day. "Out west to
raise cattle, so that the country
boys may have chance to come to
town.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
At a juvenile party a young gen.

At juvenile party a young gen.
tleman about seven years of age
kept aloof from the rest of the com
pany. The lady of the house called
to him, saying: ''Come and play
and dance, dear. Choose one of
these pretty girls for wife" Not
likely!'' cried the young cynic. "No
wife for me! Do You think want
to be worried out OF my life like
poor papa2"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
lie was a pretty close man, with

He was pretty close man, with
out doubt. At breakfast he cut an
egg in two, and gave the new hired
man one-half of it. The help ate it
and held out his plate for more.
WHAT gasped the host, "want
hull eggY "Of course, do said
the man. The boss stared blankly
at him for a moment, and then push
ing the half egg across the table
snappishly said: "Take it, eat it,
and kill yourselfp' The man ate
it. and is still alive.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

Gen. Butler makes no secret OF
his. wish to become the democratic
candidate for president in 1884,
and says it was for this reason he
desired to show he could command
the vote of his state.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

Janet said father, 81 thought
you hated stingy people, and yet
your young man ''why pa, who
said he was stingy?' "Oh, nobody"
replied pa, 'only could see he was
little close as 1 passed through
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

The statement is made in a New
York dispatch that "the last year
has been an unusually bad one for
fire insurance companies" 1t is
understood that one So bill which
they, were after managed to get
away.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

McStaggart ION his way home
having jumped over the shadows of
the lamp-posts, ETC., brought up by
that of the kirk steeple). "E-h p
(Pauses). "Me' mind! 'Sh no help
for it { Pulls up his pants). Shall
have to wade thish!n
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

a western cyclone went through
the open windows Of a house,
caught up all the tides, pillow
shams and a pocket book aud blew
them miles Always. The man of the
house refuses to look for the peck
etbook. He is afraid he might al
so find the tides and pillow-sh
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25
An excellent medicine is sunshine.

An excellent medicine is sunshine.
The world requires more Of it, NOR
ally and physically. 1t is more
soothing than morphine, more pc
tent than peoples. It is good for
liver complaint, for neuralgia, for
rheumatism, for melancholy-for
everything. Make your rooms. sun
ny and cheerful; build your house
so as to command the sunlight all
day long.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-01-25

Mrs. Senator Logan has snow
white hair, and her admirers say
that she, with her brilliant black
eyes, was never before so interesting
and beautiful as she is now.