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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31
How a Woman Uses a Hammer.

She wants to hang picture on a
wall. She gets a nail, a hammer,
and tall chair to stand upon, and
calmly surveys the situation.
Then she measures the distance
and scratches a spot, always an
inch too high or too low, and pre-
pares for actions.
She takes the nail in the left
hand and the hammer in the right,
and gentle taps like the drum &C
compartment of music box.
Then she lays herself out for a
big blow, raises her arm and strikes,
and yells like a captured Comanche
maiden on the boundless prairie.
She goes about the rest of the
morning with her thumb done up
in bread poultice. Yet she never
learns from experience.
The next time she wants to drive
a nail in anything she will hit it ex-
actly in the same place.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31
Invitations.
BY ANNA WITTE.

Two invitations received re-
Gently set me to thinking how reck-
lessly people extended them; and
when these were accepted, what a
bitter experience it often proved all
around and to all parties. met
lady twice; at the second meeting
she gave me a most pressing invi-
tation to take my babe and spend
the summer with her at her home
in Colorado. She, of course, never
dreamed of my accepting, but it
would serve her right were l to do
so.
A recent letter, from a relative
in the same state, says "come and
bring the whole family; close your
house, and spend the summer with
me-" This, too, was meaningless, be
cause her family numbers eleven, in
a house none too large, while mine
would be four more. No one can
be too careful about giving invita-
tions, without weighing well the
suitability and convenience. If
these matters were well weighed,
there would be fewer families in the
country imposed upon by city &C
quaintances during the summer
months. They may have made a
short stay of day or week in the
city, and, when leaving, given
some such invitations without judg-
ment or forethought. The city
friends may have been as careless,
and accepted what "the good God
sent" without questioning the adj
visibility. So, when they find them
selves unwelcome and in the way,
they wonder why the invitation was
not as valid it seemed to be in
words.
Daughters should be careful
about inviting company even for
short stays without first consulting
mother" as she alone knows how
much household matter can be in
terfered with by company. Better
refuse to receive guests, than have
come and violate any rules of true
hospitality. Honesty and truthful
ness should play very important
part in extending invitations Of any
kind. Weigh matters on all sides;
then give the invitations only when
they are truly genuine.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31
A Slv Trick.

No man ever lived in Tennessee
who had a deeper insight into the
secret springs of human action than
the late Thomas O'ConnOr. At a
certain sitting of the legislature he
had a bill which he desired very
much to have passed. There was
member of the legislature who
had promised his constituents that
he would not vote for any such
measure, and had added that there
was not money enough in the
state to bride him. 1t so happened
that this member had a patent
churn on exhibition, and one day
Maj. O'Connor strolled around to
look at it. After carefully inspect
ing it and hearing all the argu-
ments of the member before men
toned, he said that he would be
glad to buy a half interest in it,
and as he had the capital and the
machinery, they could make a for
tune ont of it. The legislator glad
ly embraced the opportunity, and
offered n half interest for $500
The next day the major approached
this member and asked his vote for
the bill he had heretofore opposed.
He said that he had been thinking
the matter over and had changed
his mind; he now believed the pas
sage of the bill would best sub
serve the interests Of his cOnstitu-
ents. The measure was carried,
and then the legislator hunted up
O'Connor to see when he would
make arrangements for the manu-
racture of the churn. The major
said he had seen his partners, Cher
~ and Morrow, and he was sorry
10 say he could no. convince them
hat a fortune lay in the churn, and
Is they were two to one they out
voted him; however, he was still |
Wiling to take the half interest,
md he paid over $500 Monroe |
Democrat
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

The Congressional Record, as now
managed, is one continuous and
voluminous lie. 1t is not what it
purports to be. 1t is not what the
people pay for. Instead of being a
record Of the official proceedings of
the two branches of Congress, it is a
garbled, doctored, patched and eX-
purgated version of those proceed
ings. 1t reports not that which has
actually occurred, but that which
members would like to have the
country believe has occurred. No
body who reads it can be sure that
the words he finds there were ever
uttered by the senators or represen-
tatives to whom they are attributed.
Nobody who looks to it for words
known to have been used in Con-
gress can be sure Of finding them
truthfully set down. The Congress
iOnal Record is a cloak for indecency,
tail-feather for vanity, q stalking
horse for dishonesty, slave for
wounded self-love, a crutch for
lame-dignity, step-ladder for per-
sonal ambition, a convenience for
the shirks, waste-paper basket for
unappreciated oratory. In short, it
is anything and everything except
what it pretends to be. The official
journal OF Congress should either be
reformed and run on square princi-
pies, or abolished altogether.-New
York Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31
Early Marriages.

1t seems to me that a great many
bovs-for what else are they at the
age of twenty or even tWenty-one P
are rushing into matrimopy nova
days, depending entirely upon their
small salaries for home comforts and
the necessaries of life, never dream
ing of drawbacks in the shape of
sickness, etc. This is eminently
wrong. There should be n law re
quiring a young man to state before
court his ability to care for and sup
port a wife before he married her.
The fact of the matter is, this ousi-
ness of mere boys getting married
should be stopped. Many and many
a time, after marriage, they have
hard work to support their family.
They lose their situation, get iii, or
something of the sort. Then they
get into debt, never get out, live
hard, weary life, and heartily wish
they had never heard of marriage.
Love is all very well, but one can t
make three meals a day out of 1t,
and it won't pay house rent and
board bills. Some of these young
lings think only of the blissful
future, with no storms, no heavy eX
pense and all that. We do not desire
to discourage early marriages, but |
do say most emph atically that the
young man who goes into this bust
ness had better understand the cost,
and tribulations.
And when they can barely support
themselves, it is nothing but ridicu
Gus madness to tie themselves to
others. If the young gentlemen
will kindly roll little of the above
nto their cigarettes, after dinner,
md smoke it, they will find to sit
veil.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31
Talmare On the Sonos Of Solomon.

Talmare en- the Sonos Of Solomon.
A white dove with outstretched
wings surrounding a floral cross
was perched over Dr. Talmage's
head as he sat amid a profusiOn Of
flowers on the PLATFORM of the Brook
lyn Tabernacle yesterday morning.
Floral crosses, festoons, and bas
l1ets; flowers in pots and in punches
made the pulpit look like conser-
vatory, and the perfume filled the
vast amphitheatre. ''My beloved
is unto me as bed Of spices and
sweet flowers" was the text. Dr.
Talmage said.
"Solomon's songs are considered
by many as fit only for the moon
struck sentimentalists, written by
a man crazy for a fair maiden, a
book unfit for family reading and
for churches. We must admit that
for long time Solomon had sever
al hundred more wives than he was
entitled to; but he afterward re-
pented of his sin, and God chose
him to write some of the sweetest
things about Jesus Christ that
we're ever written. Let me say
that the modern criticism which we
hear as to the immodesty of the
bible comes with a very bad grace
from an age in which some of the
worst French novels have reached
their fiftieth edition and when on
the parlor tables of respectable peo-
pie there are books abOminable.
For every pure-minded man and
woman SolomOn's description of
Jesus Christ is a mental enchant-
ment. Why should we all the time
hover about a few viOlets in the
word of God when there are so
many azalias, rhododends. fIchIas,
even primroses, crocusses, pas
sion flowers and morning glories?
Why are these flowers symbolic OF
Jesas Christ? First, because of
their fragrance. No sooner had
you opened the door of our church
to day than you perceived the fra
GRANGE of these flowers.
Glow shall I describe to you the
fragrance Of Christ? The name of
Caesar means power; Alexander,
conquest; Demosthenes, eloquence;
Phidias, sculpture; BenjaminWest,
painting. The name of Christ
means love. See how that name
has affected men. Jonothan Ed
wards, man of argument, who was
never charged with sentimentalism,
at the mention of the name of Christ
sat down and wept in joyful emo
tion. John KnoXe a man of indie
pendent nature, whose righteous in
dignation made the queen SILVER
With agitation, yielded to the story
of Savior's love. Solomon sur
rendered his whole palatial splen-
dor to him.
"FloWers are symbolic of Christ
also because of their brightness.
Every about is bright and ra-
diant. Look at that melancholy
man over there. You think you are
better than 1 because of your lugu-
briousness. You can't cheat me,
you old hypocrite; 1 know you.
There is just as much religion in a
as O burial. Religion is
love and joy. To-day they have
planted q palm at this end OF the
platform which seems to say ''Ho-
3annaw and one at the other end
which seems to say ''Hosanna|-
n. Y. Sun.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

A serviceable hanging basket
may be made by taking an old tin
fruit can and Sitting the sides into
sits about three fourths of an inch
wide to near the bottom, and
spreading them until it forms the
shape of fruit basket
They are held in position by wire
over which the end of each strip is
bent. Suspend by wire, and paint
any color desired. Fill with moss
and soil, into which plant some
suitable vines and flowers, and it
will be thing of beauty.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

Uncle Eb, as we used to call him,
among lots of good qualities had one
failing. He did love good liquor;
but such was the state of his credit
that no one would trust him. He
therefore one day Tesorted to a
trick to answer the great desire of
his appetite. He took two case
bottles, put a quart of water in one
of them, then put a bottle in each
pocket, and started for the public
house. "Tll take quart Of gin,"
said Uncle Eb as he placed the emp
ty bottle on the counter. The gin
was put in and the bottle replaced
III his pocket, when Uncle Eb pulled
out OF his purse what at a distance
might seem like a two-shilling piece.
''This is nothing but tin, Uncle Eb,"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

for the music Bishop set to it, but
Foster was a true singer, composed
both the words and the music of
his songs with a real feeling, a
sweetness, grace and tenderness pc
culiaFly his own that raise the best
of them to the highest rank OF pop
ular ballads. Think of "Old Folks
at Home" the "O1d Kentucky
Home" or "Massa's in the Cold,
Cold Ground" These are not a
mere rehash ofwhat has been done
before but genuine creation that
has been initiated and copied but
that will not be superseded. And
these are only few out of a hun
dred songs, ranging from ''Uncle
Ned'' and ''Susannah" and Camp
town Races to "Come Where My
Love Liess Dreaming or "Old Dog
Tray" that have been the delight
of millions all over the world, and
that part of our possessions as
people. Their range is not the
highest, but within that range they
are complete; and all the music
thus far produced in America OPP
eras, contatas and all the rest-will
not weigh, as genuine artistic
achievement, against one Of Ste
phen c. Fosters songs Philadel-
phia Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

Mrs. Dunston, of Warwick, N. c.,
left her baby, eighteen months old,
on the floor of the front room play
ing with its toys and little terrier
dog. The mother was away just
three minutes, but when she re-
turned and opened the door her in
fant's head, arms and shoulders
were hanging beyond the stone sill
of an open window, and near it,
with its feet on a chair, stood the
dog holding on to the child's dress
with his teeth. The child, uncon-
scious of any danger, was Growing
at some objects in the yard, fifty
feet below, while the dog, holding
fast to the dress, looked a mute APP
peal for haste and help. When the
dog had been relieved of its burden,
it pranced around the mother and
child with delight.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

Don't read books and papers
which suggest thoughts you would
not utter. They stain the soul /;
they burn the heart Can you trust
your hand into SCOT and bring it
out white and clean? Can you
SINCE your clothes and not have the
swell of fire on your garments 81
Beware of books which are sugges-
tive of evil, though they be clothed
in. the purple and gold of fine lam
guage. Don't watch for evil inten-
tions in those around you. Hold
every man honest until proved 9th
erwise. Thus believing in others
you will draw out of them their
best, for men, ordinarily, sre the
best to those who believe in men.
Also keep your heart young by
faith in your fellow man.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31
An excellent mixture to remoy

An excellent mixture to remove
grease spots from boys and mems
clothing particularly, is made of four
parts of alcohol to one part of am
monia and about half as much ether
as ammonia. Apply the liquid to
the grease spot, and then rub dill
gently with sponge and clear cold
water. The chemistry of the oper-
alton seems to be that the alcohol
and ether dissolve the grease and
the ammonia FORMS a soap with it
which is washed out with the water.
The result is much more satisfac-
tory than when something is used
which only seems to spread the spot
and make it fainter, but does not
actually remove it. If oil is spilled
on the carpet and you Immediately
scatter corn meal over it, the oil will
be absorbed by it. Oil may also be
from carpets upon which
you do not dare to put ether or am
monia by laying thick blotting
paper over it and pressing a hot |
iron on it. Repeat the operation |
several times, using a clean paper
each time.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

Out of the eight hundred and ten
thousand persons in England who
are elias ed as pauper, more than
five hundred thousand can trace
their condition to the drinking hab-
it. What warning this should be
to rum drinkers. Whisky guzzling
has done more devilment in the
world than all the other sins put to-
gether- created more sin, misery
and it is about time that the hui
man family was learning this fact
and SOLDERING up:just a little. -Cleve-
land Banner.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

A writer in the Kansas Farmer
says: Feed children on fruit, oat-
meal mush, graham bread, nice
sweet milk, butter, eggs, and occa-
sioDally beef or mutton-never pork
and dress them comfortably and
sensibly. Do not educate the
mind at a tender age at the expense
of the body; keep them out of bad
company, and make home so at
tractive that they will like to stay
there; do all this and you give them
the very best foundation on which
they may build the structure of a
human life and an immortal soul"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

The simplest solution of the wild
boy problem is to keep him at home
after dark. In nearly every in
stance the boy who drinks carries a
pistol, CANDLES, poisons himself with
cigretts, reads bad literature, and
INDUCES in other vices is boy who
runs at large at night, choosing his
own company and amusements. If
parents would grasp this view of
the situation and do their duty In
the premises, there would be little
for the law to do.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

Augusta News: If the south con
tinues to grow in the manufacture
ing Of cotton and wooden goods and
iron materials as rapidly as her
people have developed these indus
tries, in few years the north will
be as anxious for war that shall
drive us out of the Union, so they
can place q tariff on these goods, as
they were years ago for one to keep
US in the Union, SO that they might
compel us to buy theirs at their
own DricQ.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

If the American people want to
do honor to a song-writer who real
ly deserved honor, let them erect a.
monument to Stephen G. Foster,
the one really original and inspired
musical composer that America has
produced. Paynes's song never
would have been remembered but
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

said the trader. "Eh, now, it's a
two-shilling piece, said Uncle Eb.
''It's tin,'' said the trader; II shan't
take it." "Its all Tve got. .
Every well, you can't have the gin"
Uncle Eb, without much demurring.
pulled from his pocket the quart of
water. The trader looked it, poured
it into the GIN barrel, and off went
Uncle Eb. chucking.-Exchange.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

That San Francisco father who
sought to encourage his son in ways
of thrift ought to be pretty well sat
isfied with the boys business abili-
ties. He allowed his offspring $40
I per week for pocket money, and in
order to inspire saving propensities,
offered to allow him two per cent.
a month on all money that the boy
should deposit back with him.
The boys account with the father
grew tremendously large-so large
as to inspire wonder, and the IA
ther, upon investigation found that
his young hopeful was in the habit
of borrowing money at ten per cent.
year and had deposited it, under
the terms of the contract, at TWEEN
ty-four per cent.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31
Educating the Children.

From their earliest infancy in
culcate the necessity of instant
obedience. Unite firmness with
gentleness. Let your children always
understand that you mean what
you say. If you tell a child to do
something, show him how to do it,
and see that it is done. If children
give way to petulance or ill-temper,
wait till they are calm; then gently
reason with them on the impro
priety of their conduct. Never al
low tale-bearing. Teach them self
denial, not self-indulgence. Prac-
tice the above.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

1t is of the gaming table we
would speak. 1t makes thieves.
1t makes defaulters 1t makes sui
cides. 1t breaks heart, wrecks
characters, blasts hopes and de
stovs manhood Monroe Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

If you have rough, pimply, or
salloW skin, bad breath, pains and
aches, and feel miserable gener-
ally, Hop Bitters will give you a
fair skin, rich blood, the sweetest
breath, health and comfort.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

If any one not expert in the
business thinks he can realize large
profits from poultry, without first
dividing them in such a manner
as to avoid crowding, he will soon
find he has made a mistake. Fowls
do better in small families than in
large focks, and the few can be
kept with greater profit, even in a
small yard, than the very numerous
if the latter have an unrestrictedrun
Of farm. This is the general, rule
but it may be largely modified by
circumstances. The smallest focks
may need very little care and give
profit. But if the fowls are al
lowed to range about the stables, in
fest the managers and feed troughs
Of the stock, damage grain fields
and ruin gardens, they will become
a costly nuisance. If an the other
hand, large focks are managed with
intelligent skill, have good houses,
we'll constructed, well furnished and
neatly kept, and are confined to
proper yards and runs, systematic
ally fed and watered, there is a
large profit in keeping large focks
of hens, because, as compared with
the capital req uired and the cost of
food and necessary labor, they give
larger income than any other class
of our domestic animals.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

a small boy in South Carolina
raises canary birds and gives the
proceeds of their sale to the board
of foreign missions. In three years
this enterprising and beney olent
young person has thus given about
BOO
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

1t has been matter of wonder
why women should kiss each other;
but the reason is simple enough
when you know it. That is the on.
ly way they can stop each other
fran talking.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

The American Recorder gu aintly
remarks that il is great deal
more to a mans credit TO pay his
debts than to stand on the streets
and lie about those who have trust
ed him.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

IA Connecticut woman has sold
out her millinery shop and opened
a saloon. She concluded that sup
plying women with headgear was
neither as pleasant nor as profitable
as fitting men with night-caps.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

If you are a frequenter, or a
resident of miasmatic district,
barricade your system against the
scourge of all countries-malarial,
epidemic, bilious and intermittent
fevers-by the use of Hop Bitters.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

lfyou are costiye or dyspeptic or
suffering from any of the numer-
GUS diseases of the stomach or bow
els, it is your own fault if you re-
main i'll, forHop Bitters lisa sover-
eign remedy in all such complaints,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

If you are wasting away with
any form of Kidney disease, stop
tempting Death this moment, and
turn for a cure to Hop Bitters.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

According to the Cuthbert, Ga,
Enterprise, an acre in cabbage will
make 5000 heads, which sell at ten
cents each without difficulty. That
is $500 an acre. Put it at half that
amount and it beats cotton about
twenty times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

SomerEille takes the first prize
for tender hearted man. He is so
sensitive that he can't bear to see
or hear his wife saw wood, and
when she tackles the bucksaw in
the cellar he puts on his hat and
rrn L. r,nH nR a. = l,nn-n
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

If you are sick with that terrible
sickness Nervousness, you will find
"Balm in Gilead " in the use of
HOP Bitters.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-05-31

In short they cure all Diseases
of the Stomach, Bowels, Blood,
Liver, Nerves, Kidneys, Bright's
Disease. $500 will be paid for
a case they will not cure or help.
Try Hop Bitters to-day. (io)