The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-19
orerworkad and Lazy Men.


and magazines. There may b,
some overworked men, we think
as q matter of fact, we have know
q dozen in the past twenty years
observation. On the other hand,i it i:
not PUTTING it too strong to say, tina
for every overworked man there are
a thousand lazy shirks. Most mer
are industrious, few work beyond
their strength, and there yet re
mains large body of citizens tC
whom we desire to pay our respects
who are idlers, lazy shirks, who
daWdle up and down the streets
Sinking work they ought to do
gossiping about other peoples bust
ness, and whining about their aches
or the ills of the world. No man
has right to be a loafer whether
he is rich or poor. Laziness and
the dry rot kills more men than
overwork; and their example is per-
nicious. The hard working me-
chanic, looking up and down the
street at the line Of fellows that re
fuse to work, and yet seem to get
on, is tempted to try it. The great
workshops and small ones show a
small proportion of American youth
learning useful trades. The places
are being filed by the first genera
ton of children of foreign born pa
rents. The American boys parents
are fitting him for a profession
where his lack of ability often
forces him to be a lazy loafer, or
seek some make-shift-anything
but square, hard work. The ranks
of law, medicine, ministry and
teaching are full of men who could
have made creditable places as
builders, manufacturers and trades
men. The American parent tells
his boy to shoot high; and the boy
follows his parental advice without
placing the necessary amount of
powder in his gun. The conse-
quence is the towns of the entire
country are full of jack-leg profess
sional men untitled by ambition to
do anything well or useful. Lazy
young men, ashamed to do manual
labor or to learn trade, are turned
out of American homes by the hun
dreds and thousands every year,
and it is more the fault of parents
than sons. Let the boys-aud the
girls too, for that matter-of every
home know and understand their
first duty to themselves is to learn
to do some useful thing by which
they can earn an honest living.
Boys grow out of their teens, with
the consent of their fathers and
mothers, waiting for something to
turn up that will enable them to
shirk downright hard work. They
90 out into the world to find them
selves respectable mendicants; and
when asked by the person to whom
they apply for employment, "what
do you know how to doF' stammer
out, swell, l can do almost anything,
write, or clerk, or, or" What is
wanted everywhere is young men
who can 90 something well, and are
not afraid to do it. Able bodied
men are seeking easy places where
there is neither ability nor work re
CURED. Hosts of them are hunting
offices and appointments because
they are too lazy TO work. Parents
have no right to turn their we'll
bred and intelligent sons out in the
world to depend on luck and cheek
to get through, with their hands
and heads untitled to compete with
those trained to some trade or bus
iness.-Topeka Capital.
Professor Douglass, of Michigan
University, at Ann Arbor has sue
ceeded in manufacturing miniature
by means of electricity.
He suspends large copper plate by
silken threads and electrifes it.
By the use of arsenious gas the
is made visible hanging
from the plate in the
form of funnel. If the plate is
passed over a table containing NOV
able articles, the whirling motion
of the electric charge sucks them
up or scatters them hither and
thtther. The effects are exactly the
same as those seen in destructive
In the light of these
wonderful experiments the develop
ment of tornado is a simple. A
low l. ipg cloud charged with vapor
becomes subcharged with electrici
ty, and the vortex descends until
is formed with the earth.
The whirling motion continues un-
titan electric equilibrium is estab-
lished. We may assume that the
cloud is charged from the sun in
a state of violent electrical commo-
ton, like that which produced the
storm Of November last.
The sun storm was then visible to
the naked eye. During the preva-
lence of the electric CONFUSION the
storm centre on the sun changed
form with the greatest rapidity.
There was a cyclonic motion Of the
suns luminous atmosphere about
the dark VORTEX, which il called
sun spot, Slowly, but surely, the
mysteries Of the sun and the earth
are being unravcled. The discov-
cry by the Ann Arbor professor is
a great advance. No human
knowledge or foresight can do any
more 'than make prenar&sions for
the safety az human life from the
tornodos sweep. An instance was
yesterday morning in
which a family was saved by the
foresight which had provided an an
dergroqId retreat near a residence
which was embellishments and
Chronicle.
"Mother, are you hqrtz" asked a
young WOMAN OF an old lady who
had been knocked senseless by a
runaway horse, in Chicago. When
mother recovered her sense it was
that The pretended
daughter was 2 shief who had
stolen der hand bag. If there is
any country that can furnish cutter
thieves, and a greater variety OF
them, than are to be found mp north
we have yet TO hear of it.