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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12
Rice and Beans

Half the people of the world live
almost exclusively on rice. 1t con-
tains So per cent. of nutriment, while
roast beef contains but 26.
There are countries where the
most exclusive diet of the masses is
beans; these contain 81 per cent. of
nutriment.
The best and cheapest food for
the dense populations of Asiatic
countries, therefore, is rice; and
since, from the general poverty of
the people, varieties Of food are
out of the question, bounteous ma
ture has given them most freely
that kind which is among the most
nutritious of all foods. With the
rest of the world, rice is more of a
side dish, and is served most fire.
quently in the form of pudding.
We venture to affirm that when
the cost, the percentage of nutri-
ment, and the wholesomeness of
beans are considered, there is not
in the world single article of food
that can compare with them
There is no other vegetable food
that answers so we'll as substitute
for meats. While they have so
much to recommend them in other
respects, they have no rival in
point of economy. A quart of
beans, cos ting ten cents, will fur
nish a family of five persons with
food for a day.
Much of the value of beans as
food, depends on the manner of
cooking. 1t would be difficult to
cook them to much. They should
be iirst boiled until soft, and then
put in baking dish and baked un-
til brown. A little salt pork or
butter, but not enough to make
them greasy, should be put in the
baking pan, and cooked with them.
If the beans are not Thoroughly
cooked, they are difficult of diges-
ton; still there is not one hotel or
restaurant in a thousand that
serves them sufficiently cooked; and
as rule, it is not we'll to call for
them in such places; but at home,
when prepared under the supervis-
ion of a good cook, they make a
dish that is wholesome and palata-
ble.-HalPs Journal of Health.
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Bad Ben.

Ben Butler was just as wicked
when he courted his first sweet
heart as when, in widows weeds,
he laid siege to. the state of Mas
sachusetts-if the following story
from Truth can be accepted as
truth. 1t recalls a story ofthe gov
ernor when he used to go a-court-
ing, and was in love with fair
damsel living some distance from
his home, and for whose favoring
smiles there were many aspirants.
1t goes without saying they were
all better looking than Ben, but the
latter determined to put the inside
OF his head against the outside of
those of his opponents. The sequel
was as follows:
The nearest way to this young
airt's house, and the one taken by
all her eager followers, was over
bridge formed by a single and
somewhat slippery log, placed over
deep brook in the rear of the
house. Young Butler repaired to
the bridge an hour earlier than the
accustomed "courting time" carry
ing q pail of lard, with which he
carefully anointed the log by the
mellow moonlight, backing himself
across astraddle. AS he afterwards
sat with his sweetheart, waiting for
the other suitors to appear, loud
splash came from the direction of
the brook.
Ben's game eye twinkIed, and in
imagination he could see one of
his gorgeously gotten-up fellow
candidates climbing up the oppo-
site bank with his teeth chattering
and heading for home across lots,
but the copspirator looked as limo
cent as a cat in a dairy and said
nothing. Pretty soon there came
another souse, and after while an
other. The beauty began to look
at the clock and to show evidences
of decided pique at the negligence
of her admirers circumstance
Ben did not fail to turn TO his own
profit. Presently he could family
hear voices in the distance, and he
knew that the last two twains were
approaching together. Pretty soon
there came a tremendous double
splash.
"Dear mel" said the young lady,
chow the fish are jumping to-
night"
The upshot of it all was that
when the future governor rose to
go, the sighted beauty gave him
her hand, sealing the bargain
with an 0ld-fashioned husking-5ee
kiss.
Butler left his prize in such
state of exultation that he forgot
all about the CREASED log, and the
first thing he knew both heels hit
him in the back OF his head, and he
took a header down below, just as
his victims had done. He climbed
up the already well-clawed bank
and made the six miles home, ut
tering Kearneyisme unfit for publ
cation.
He was taken with chills and fe
yer as result, and when he got
well he found his famed had eloped
with a hired man.
Butler tells this as the narrow
est escape of his life, as he said the
girl began eating onions the very |
next day after she became engaged
The general has been lucky ever !
sin ce.-Illustrated World.
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Reuben Resumed

Father" said the young man, as
he leaned on his hoe, "they say the
balance of trade is agin u.s." "They
do, eh?" ''And that our bank re-
serves are rapidly diminishing"
s'Du tellr' "And that railroad ex-
tention has come to a halt" ''Well,
1 swami "And that volume of Sc
curities is substantially without a
market" "Great snakes Well,
1 never! And do they say any
thing about Teller stopping to lean
on his hoe to talk when he might
just as well talk and hoe tooY'-
Reuben resumed.-Good Cheer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

''The difference between the poison
of a snake and that of rabid dog"
said physician last evening, ais
that snake poison acts instantly,
while the virus from the fangs of a
mad dog may not operate for years.
1t is only lately that the medical
world has known of certain anti
dote for the poison of snake. Da-
cerda, Rrazalian physician of
great learning and experience, has
demonstrated by repeated expert
ments that permangnate of potasso
injected into the wound soon after
the bite is a sure antitode for the
most yirulent snake poison"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12
PLAIN
TRUTHS

The blood is the foundation of
life, it circulates through every part
of the body, and unless it is pure
and rich, good health is impossible.
If disease has entered the system
the 01y sure and quick way to drive
it out is to purify and enrich the
blood.
These simple facts are well
known, and the highest medical
authorities agree that nothing but
iron will restore the blood to its
natural condition; and also that
all the iron preparations hitherto
made blacken the teeth, cause head
ache, and are otherwise injurious.
Browns IRON BITTERs viii thor
oughly and quickly assimilate with
the blood, purifying and strengthen
ing it, and thus drive disease from
any part of the system, and it viii
not blacken the teeth, cause head
ache or constipation, and is posi-
lively nat injurious.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Judge Treat, in the United States
Circuit Crurt at st. Louis, rendered
decision of great Importance to
nearly every part of the United
States, settling the great barbed
wire fence controversy. The effect
of the decision is to release all re-
strictions on the manufacture Of
barbed wire, and save millions of
dollars annually to the farmers and
ranchmen of the country that has
heretofore been paid in the shape
Of royalty. Barbed wire will now
he cheaneT
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Here is something for the farmer
boys to think about. No matter
what legitimate employment a boy
may be engaged in for living, If
he is talented and has the true grit
he may climb as high in the scale
of success as he wants to. Gov
ernor Cleveland sold newspapers.
The governor of Kansas drove oxen.
The governor of Texas was once a
hostler. The present governor of
California was once a sailor. and af-
forwards swept out store for his
board. A. T. Stewart taught
school and sold tape by the penny
worth. Jay Gould sold mouse
traps. Jim Keen kept a livery sta
BILE. Rufus Hatch was a locomo-
tive fireman, and Clark Mills the
sculptor, was bricklayer and plas-
terer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

It is said that Nebraska has one
woman minister, one woman lawyer,
ten women physicians. Many wo-
men are in editorial work.
A Brooklyn girl has been much
worried since the first of this
month. Her lover has moved next
door, and she is afraid he will see
her putting out the washing and ex-
pect her to do it after she marries.
A Centerville girl worked the
motto, 81 need thee every hour" and
presented it to him. He says that
he can't help it. 1t takes two hours
to milk the COWS and feed the pigs,
and business has to be attended to.
Women are called the weaker
SEX" and yet, up to the hour of 60
ing to press, not one of her sex in
this country shown enough intel
lectual weakness to embark in the
weather propet business or attempt
to eat sixty quails in thirty days.
A young lady who has tried it
says the story that kissing will
cure freckles, lacks the important
element of truth; but there is one
thing, she admits, greatly in favor
of the remedy-it is not disagreed
BILE to take. Hers, however, may
be deep-rooted, stubborn case, and
she shouldn't feel discouraged be-
cause fifteen or sixteen hundred APP
plications failed to effect a cure. 1t
won't cost much to give the medi-
cine a couple years trial.-Burling
ton Hawkeye.
She had been called an old maid,
and rather resented it. She said:
81 am past thirty. / have a good
home. 1 think yon know ! have
had abundant of opportunities to
marry. have been bridesmaid a
score of; times. 1 ask myself with
which one of the beautiful girls 1
have seen take the marriage VOW
would exchange to-day? Not one.
Some are living apart from their
some are divorced; some.
are the wives of drunken men; some
are hanging on the ragged edge of
society, endeavoring to keep up APP
Dearances; some are toiling to sup
port and educate their children,
md these are the least miserable;
some tread the narrow line
beyond the boundary OF which lies
he mysterious land, and some have |
rome out into the darkness of I'M
lnown horrors, and some are dead.
\ few there are who are loved and
IGNORED wives, mothers with happy
ZONES; but, alas! only very few.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

In farmhouse near Boone, Iowa,
lives Mother Spence, aged eighty
six. In the same house lives her
daughter, aged sixty-four, her
granddaughter, aged forty, her great
granddaughter, agedI twenty-five,
and her ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
aged two. This is believed to be the
only house in the country sheltering
five generations, and its great thing
for that baby to be able to boss its
ancestry so far back.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12
The Secret of the Mothers Power.

A moments work on clay tells
more than an hours labor on prick.
So work on hearts should be done
before they harden. During the
first six or eight years of child life,
mothers have chief sway. Some
one asked Napoleon what was the
great need of the French nation.
"Mothers," was the significant
answer. al have found out what
made you the man you are" said a
gentleman one morning to Presi
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12
The Charleston News and Courie

The Charleston News and Courier
repeats the observation of a Boston
newspaper about the depressions in
Massachusetts, and then says: In
the south a very different condition
OF things prevails. All of
our manufacturing and other in
dustries are fourishing. Our cot
ton mills, especially, are doing a
wonderfully successful and increas-
ing business. The old mills are
running on full time and are
crowded with orders, and in all
parts of the country new factories
are going up, while others are pro
jected and are sure to be built.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

The other night at London club
some Americans were boasting
about their inventions and the won
derful machines to be found in the
states. One of them told of the
well-known machine which, live
pig being introduced at one end,
turns out the animal in sausage at
the other. An Irishman, who was
not going to have the Yankees rid
ing rough shod over every other ma
ton, turned on them and said:-
sRedad, we've got the same ma
chine in Ireland, only ours is more
perfect, sure, for if you don't like
the sausages you can put them back
into the machine and by reversing
the action they'll come out a live
pig again where be went in"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Milan, Tenn, Exchange: 1t is
estimated that there will be, within
radius of five miles of Milan, pro-
duced this year 10000 bushels of
peaches, $4,000 bushels of plums,
10000 bushels Of apples, and pears,
cherries. nectarines, berries and
other fruits in immense quantities.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

The Morristown Gazette is of the
opinion that the four mile law is
doing a great deal to lessen crime,
reduce criminal Costs and court
fees and Tighten the burden OF taxa
ton upon the people outside our
corporate cities and towns.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

most unanimously in favor of the
claims of Ireland against the En-
glish government and they. prove
conclusively that the Pope is heart
lily in sympathy with county which
''has suffered so much for the
faith" Mgr. Capel, indeed, whose
word has great weight in London,
pronounces for home rule, pleas
ant proprietary and the develop
ment of Irish manufactures. While
Vatican the Irish Nationalists will
do well to make lasting peace
with the Pope, and will abstain
from the Incorporate speech and
denunciation which might have ali
ienated the strongest of their allies.
Try
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Buckner H. Payne, the well:
known magazine writer and author
of the celebrated work upon the soul
of the negro, under the title
Ariel and thorough linguist,
died in the Davidson county poor
house a few DAYS ago.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

An idea of the increase of real
estate in New York city may be had
from the statement that two build
ings recently torn down at the
corner of Broadway and Nineteenth
streets, which cost their owner
$4,000 originally, occupy a site
which is now valued at $350,OOO.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Plantation philosophy: De shang-
high chicken minds me OBJ certain
men dat Use seed. He crows NIGH
ty loud an brags around 'mong de
hens an young chickens, but when
a game rooster comes around he's
got business on de udder side of de
fence.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12
Printers Ink keeps the hinges o.
ztora Iaorc loose -

Printers Ink keeps the hinges of
store doors loose"
The best fire escape-Not be
around when the fire occurs
Some men who claim to be self,
made are not very well done.
Just as long as a woman retains
her maiden name, her maiden aim
is to change it.
A long man trying to whisper to
a short girl resembles the letter S
walking with a period.
Two things go off in a hurry
An arrow dismissed by bow, and
a bow dismissed by belle.
1t is said that fashionable ladies
won't go fishing this summer un-
less they can get silk worms for
bait.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Vicksburg Herald. 1t is quite
probable that the population and
wealth of the South will increase
twice as fast from 1880 to 1890 as
it did in the preceding decade. Yet
the North was astonished at the
census figures of 1880.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

One of the Tennessee State off
Gals stated that he believed the
SOB compromise would be accepted.
But that in the event that it should
not be, then the taxes levied to pay
interest on the public debt will be
used to purchase bonds in the open
market.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12
A few NIGHTS ago the editors

A few nights ago the editors at
work on the top floor of the tallest
newspaper ofice in New York
heard the fire engines gathering at
its base about midnight. Stepping
to the telephone, one of the editors
called to the police headquarters, q
mile away, "Is our Office on
fire?' mo" came the prompt re-
ply; "its little building;around the
corner" 1t took less time to ask
the question of a man a mile off,
who knew all about it from routine
reports, than to go down stairs and
see for themselves.-Albany Union.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

1t has been supposed that a
cows mission on earth was to raise
calves, to give milk without kicking,
and scare women. This suppose
ton ia wrong. A colored man in
Kentucky has cow that, in addi-
ton to the accomplishments emu
merate above, is capable of serving
as a saddle horse, a pack mule and
draft horse, Next year she will
chop wood and build fires. These
excellences possessed in Kentucky
by an animal other than a blue
grass horse are indeed noticeable.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Saving is too wasteful a process
to be used in the manufacture of
veneer. The logs are first steamed
till they are soft and then put on
machine and a knife shaves OF
strips as thin as the thinnest tissue
paper
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Three-year-old short horns are,
under the best management, made
to weigh 1000 pounds, which sell
at $3.50 per 100, or $3.50 per head.
Four-year-old scrubs sell for $50
per head.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Judge Richie, of Frederick, Md.
has sixteen beautiful and accom-
plished daughters, only one of
whom is married. This is what the
French would call al embarrass-
ment of Richie s.-Lowell Courier,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

If you have rough, pimply, or
sallow skin, bad breath, pains and
aches, and feel miserable gener-
ally, Hop Bitters viii give you
fair skin, rich blood, the sweetest
breath, health and comfort.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12
Miss Dora Kinney. of wild Cat

Miss Dora Kinney, of Wild Cat
Indiana, is the bQss shepherdess OF
the Wabash. A few years ago an
uncle gave her an orphan lamb to
raise by hand, which she did sue
cessfully, and, becoming so inter
ested in sheep husbandry, she pro-
cured a mate for the lamb, and she
now sports twenty eight old sheep
and thirty three lambs, sixty-one in
ali, all from the first starting pair
Miss Kinney attends to her tlocks
altogether herself, both winter and
summer, and now receives quite a
handsome little income from the an
nual sales of wool and mutton.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

If you are a frequenter, or a
resident of a 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, 1883-07-12
Ireland and the Yatican

Our correspondent at Rome has
interviewed various prelates with
respect to the letter OF the Propa-
ganda. Their opinion is given al
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Hens may be little backward
on eggs; but they never fail to come
to the scratch where fower-beds are
concerned.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

In our opinion the subject of
good roads is a paramount one. If
we would make progress CONNER
cially, religiously and politically,
we must first of Rll have good
roads.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

An American young lady singer
went to Europe bearing the name of
Mary Jane Boggs, and her cogno-
men is now Miss Nina Lafonti.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

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, 1883-07-12

If you are wasting away with
any form of Kidney disease, stop
tempting Death this moment, and
turn for cure to HOP Bitters.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

The most innocent of girls, says
Florian, knows that a man is in
love with her shortly before he
knows it himself.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

1t would be easier to endow fool
with intellect than to persuade him
that he had none
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Ifyou are costive 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.
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HUNTER STOCK FARM
Mile east of Buford's Station, Tenn,
w. j. WILSFoRD, Proprietor,

q name this farm "Hunter Stock Farm"
because hunt out and keep none but the
best stock.)
Have 2 good Jacks, a good Columbus
horse and two pure brod Jersey Bulls.
have q hord of finely bred Jersey heifors
and cows. Keep a good flock of Cotswold
sheep and Berkshire pigs.
l solicit the patronage of discrimina-
ting public in a general breeding business.
Terms moderate. have also all kinds Of
young stock on sale. A few xtra-bred a.
lies for sale. mar15 If.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

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. no,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

Not since 1874 has there been
such an overflow Of the Missouri
and Mississippi river bottoms. The
loss to farmers is simply inestima-
bic. Ali the bottom lands are COW
cred with water. Wheat fields of
hundreds and thousands of acres in
extent are submerged, and the crop
was nearly ready for the reaper.
Corn fields Ofequal extent are one,
tYo or three feet deep in water
Thousands Of acres of potatoes in
the American bottoms nearly ready
to be dug, are ruined. Much live
stock has been lost. Fences and
even buildings have been swept
away. Where, a short time since
were waving meadows, wheat, corn
and oat fields, fine gardens, and eY-
erything TO make the heart glad,
there is nothing but a desert waste
of water. Thousands upon thou
sands of farmers have been driven
from their homes without food or
SHELTER, except as bestowed by the
hand .Of cAarity. For a whole
year and more they must depend
elsewhere than upon their farms,
for their means of life. There
should be some organized plan of
action taken to relieve the necessi-
ties of the suffering.
AS we go to press we are pleased
to announce that the water at ST.
Louis has begun to fall and it is to
be hoped its decline may be rapid,
that farmers may yet plant such
crops as with a favorable season
may mature. Rural World.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-07-12

BROWNS IRON BITTERs effectual-
ly cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion and
Weakness, and renders the greatest
relief and benefit to persons suffering
from such wasting diseases as Con-
sumption, Kidney Complaints, etc.