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Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-09

General Booth, the founder of the Sal.
vation Army, has evidently found lead
ins the hosts very profitable business.
1t seems that Adelinao Patti has Iong
wished to sell her scat in South Wales,
and desires 10 reside near one of the
italian lakes with Nieolihj. General
Booth, society journals sAv, is in treaty
for the estate fer his own private resi-.
Gence.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-08-09
Hydrophobis Investigations.
London Times.

NJ. Pasteur's experimeRtsss : a,. % 1,o;n,.
with the virus Of baHccess. He has thus
on with pRssnted on 81 dogs, 10 of them
fad ffd and 3s bitten BY them under uni.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

cite smoking physicians say it af
fects seriously the functions of the
stomach, especially in the young.
1t has tendency to, increase the
sction of the heart, causing palpita
tion. 1t is fruitful source of in
digestion. 1t has a decided tenden-
cy to produce catarrh in the head.
/ his, t is said, arises from the fact
that a acigarette being much short
er than a cigar, more of the smoke
finds its way into the mouth and
nasal organs, a very much larger
percentage of the smoke being in
hailed by the smoker from q cigar
ette than from = cigar. Cigarette
smoking, it is averTed, has also a
decided tendency to produce asth-
ma, and renders the system more
liable TO the attacks Of pneumonia
and bronchitis. In its effects upon
the nervous system cigarette smok-
ing is said to be in the highest de-
gree perniciOus, both directly and
indirectly. 1t destroys healthy ap-
petite for solid food, and by the
constant xpectoration it produces
leads to a morbid craving for drink.
Injury or destruction of the nerves
of the eyes, it is alleged, has been
in hundreds of instances produced
by cigarette smoking-ScIentific
American.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
Mechanics Who Rise.

There is a large sized nugget of
truth in this from Df.. j. NJ. Buck
ley's series of "Letters to Young
Men" in the New York Christian
Advocate:
Benjamin Franklin told the
truth when he said that the best
knowledge a man could give to his
son was the mastery of good trade.
Such a man is cosmopolitan. He
can make himself useful anywhere,
and he can live anywhere. If 1T
should not be necessary always to
work at his trade, he feels the abili-
ty within TO support himself. {.
Between the average mechanic
and the great manufacturer or mer-
chant prince, great numbers can be
found who began as mechanics and
who have taken positions by their
mechanical skill fully equal to that
of the average merchant and far su-
perior to that of most clerks and
professional men.
Always have in view rising above
the position of a mere journeyman.
Look at things from a broad, busi-
ness point of view. Consider that
some day you may not be a journey
man, and tryito study the relations
Of capital to labor, and to master
the principles of business, so that, if
you should ever form a partnership
with business man, you will not
be at his mercy, and see that, if you
choose, you may at any time enter
upon business for yourself, and not
fritter away your life in a vain eff
fort to overcome by mechanical
skill financial obstacles.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
PUcXERINGs.

An aesthetic tailor uptown has
painted his wagon red and yellow
for the autumn.
You can tell the exact age of 8
tree by its rings; but this is not
the case with a society bell.
Although the postage is reduced,
a woman will write her letters just
as closely, and put in as many post
scrips as ever.
The opera seasons viii shortly
commence. 1t fills the book keeper
with sorrow intense, TO think of his
girl and the awful expense.
The man who owns an elegant
hot-house, located next to a base
ball ground, is not quite so nervous
as he was a month or six weeks
ago.
A turkey recently ate a string of
amber beads under the impression
that each bead was a string of corn.
No moral goes with this style.
The Englishman who gets most
lasting impression of this country
is the British pugilist who under
takes to stand against John L. Sui
liVan four ro nds.-Puck.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
HOPS VS.. Other Stock.

Nine years ago I fed 100 sheep.
bought them the first of Septem-
ber for 50 a head-in good flesh,
and good feeding sheep, / also rails
ed about $50 pigs, which ran with
the sows till the middle of October,
when they were weaned. Not wish
ing to winter all, l took 100 of the
pigs to feed, at the same time fed
grain to the 100 sheep, and sold
sheep and pigs the same week, end
of January. The sheep brought
$3.50 per head, a profit on them
of $3.50. The pigs brought $3.50.
The amount of corn fed to each
was very nearly the same. The
capital invested in pigs was the
summering of the sows on grass.
They were of about equal value
with the sheep when 1 began to
feed grain, which leaves a balance
of 81 in favor of the hogs.
Four years ago, with 10 COWS a.
$40 each, capital Of 81, 800, l sold
10000 lbs of cheese at an average
of 10 cents. Take out $500 for
making, leaving a balance of ST.
700. Fat calves, sold to the amount
of $500, making a total profit on
COWS of $1,000. The same year l
had $50 hogs at $40 each. a capital
Of $500, and from them sold 55,-
600 lbs at an average price of $4 80
per cwt., total sum of $2475 l
bought $50 bushels corn, $3.50, and
$3.50 wor h o. meal-whOle cost,
$500; a profit left of $2,175, and
with $500 less capital invested than
IN cows, a balance of $l75 in favor
Of the hogs.
| do think that cows come nearer
10 hogs, in dollars and cents, than
any farming l have tried. The cap
ItaI invested in q drove of young
hops is very small compared with
other stock, and for quick returns
would take the hog. Since twelve
good sized hogs can be kept on one
acre of good clover pasture for A
or 3 months and gain finely, my
way usually has been to sell pigs at
seven or eight months old. The
average price of hog for the last 20
years is nearly IS per .cwt., and OF
corn about 40 cents a bushel, leav-
ing a handsome margin for the feed
er. 1 have said repeatedly, and
say the same now, that have made
more money from raising hogs than
any other branch of farming.
ASA FOSTER.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
Snake Bites and Hydrophobia

In a recent lecture in New York,
DR.. Woodbridge said: sin cases OF
a bite of a venomous serpent, the
old historic method of sucking the
wound with the lips is one of the
first things to resort to. If the
poison is in the circulation, the
use of strong brandy or whisky, in
quantities powerful enough to pro-
duce intoXication, must be resorted
to. The bite of a mad dog should
be cauterized at once, by a pencil
caustic or by application of irons
heated hot. The popularity of
hydrophobic poison is that it re
mains in the spot where the bite
occurs for several days or weeks,
and not until this poison ferments
does it become dangerous. Or. Hew
EFT, a surgeon of London, allowed
himself to be bitten no less than
eighty times by rabid dogs, each
time successfully cauterizing the
wound. He fell a victim to his te
merlty, however, for one day he was
found dead with a pistol shot from
his own hand. A statement was
left in his papers that he had neg
lected the cauterization too long
and feeling the first symptoms o
hydrophopia, he preferred to die
| without the long agony."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
Novel Use Of Graenhacks.

What becomes of all the green
backs and bank-notes after they
have served their few years of use
fuiness?' is a frequent query. A
bank note has its life just the same
as all other things useful. What
an interesting story the travels of a
greenback from the moment it
leaves the press until it returns to
the macerating machine would
make. The average life Of bank
note is about three years, perhaps a
little longer. After serving its pur-
pose as currency it is metamOrphos-
ed into rabbits, birds, and other
figures. The process of the de
struction of the notes is an interest
ing one.
The reader viii often see in the
daily papers a paragraph something
ike this: National bank notes
received for redemption TO-DAY,
$5OO,O0O." The next day those
notes are carried to the bureau OF
engraving and printing and placed
in 8 machine containing immense
knives, which chop the notes into
fragments. The operation is con-
Quoted under the supervision of
three responsible officers of the
treasury department, especially de
tailed for the business. No one is
allowed to be present at this mace
ration of the notes except the off
GERS and the men who run the ma
chine. They are compelled to re-
main in the room until each sepa-
rate note is destroyed. They must
account in detail afterward to the
redemption bureau tor each note;
and should one become lost or mis-
laid, and afterward find its way into
circulation, the result would be the
immediate discharge of the three
gentlemen who daily have in their
custody from $50O,000 to 81, 100000
or So, 100000 of notes and bonds.
The shreds are reduced to pulp, and
then by a patented process this
mass is moulded into figures OF
birds and animals and sold as me-
mentoes to visitors. Oftentimes il
will be composed of what was once
$1OO,O00,OO0 worth of money
Hartford Globe.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
The Bible in Peru.

Mr.. Milne, the agent of the Amer
lean Bible Society who passed from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, across
the continent of South America,
gives most interesting reports of his
work in Peru. On the Goth of last
November he was at Iquique, mean
ing in a few days to take steamer
tor Valparaiso. OF consignment
of 900 volumes he had remaining
only seventy testaments and 30C
portions, which would soon be dis
posed OF. S At Tacns, notwithstand
Ing the poverty and distress caused
by the war, there were sold in eigh
teen days 164 bibles, 79 testamenti
and 185 portions, for $1g3,gU Ma
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
USEFUL PREcEpTs.
First catch your lover.

First catch your lover.
Hold him when you have him.
Don't let go of him to catch eve
ry new one that comes along.
Try to get very well acquainted
with him before you take him fol
life.
Unless you intend to support him,
find out whether he earns enough to
support you.
Don't make up your mind he is
an angel. Don't palm yourself off
on him for one, either.
Don't let him spend his salary on
you; that right should he reserved
until after marriage.
If you have any conscientious
scruples against marrying a man
with a mother, say so in time that
he may either get rid of her to
oblige you, or get rid of you to
oblige her, as he thinks best.
If you object to secret societies
and tobacco, 1t is better to come
with your objections now than re-
serve them for curtain lectures here
after.
If your adorer happens to fancy
a certain shade of hair, don't color
or bleach yours to oblige him. Re
member your hair belongs to you
and he dosen't.
Be very sure it is the man you are
in love with, and not the clothes he
wears. Fortune and fashion are
both so tickle ii is foolish to take a
stylish suit for better or worse.
If you intend to keep thrse ser
wants after marriage, settle the mat
ter beforehand. The man who is
making love te you may expect you
to do your own washing.
Don't try to hurry up a proposal
by carrying on a filtration with
some other fellow. Different men
are made of different material, and
the one you want might go off in a
fit of jealously and forget to come
back.
Ifyou have a love letter to write,
do not copy it out of a Letter
Writer" If your young man ever
happened to consult the same book
he would know your sentiments
were borrowed.
Don't marry a man to oblige any
third person in existence. 1t is your
right to suit yourself in the matter.
But remember at the same time that
love is blind, and a little friendly
advice from one whose advice is
worth having may insure you q life
time of happiness, or prevent one of
misery.
In love affairs always keep your
eyes wide open, so that when the
right man comes along you may see
him.
When you see him you will recog-
nize him, and the recognition will
be mutual.
If you have no fault to find with
him personally, financially, consci-
entiously, socially,morally, political
ly, religiously, or any other way, he
is probably perfect enough to suit
you, and you can offord to
Believe in him;
Hope in him;
Love him;
Marry him
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

If the republicans and the demo
Gratis are wise, and wish to win in the
coming struggle, they will have to
abandon their old dead and buried
tissues" and take a new departure.
Were either of them to frame a
platform Advocating a rich and am
liable wife for every young man and
an amiable, loving and rich hus-
band for every young woman, 1t
would be certain to sweep the
whole country. The. sedate widows
and widowers also should have a
good stout plank all to themselves.
New York Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
Cigarette Smoking.

There has been introduced into
the New Yoil, Assembly Q bill
which prohibits the sale Of cigar
cites or tobacco to minors under
I6 years oF age. A law to that eff
feet already exists in New Jersey,
and ITS example might advantage
ously he followed in other states.
m regard TO the results of cigar
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

methods for obtaining food, clothing
and luxuries without using the
brain or hand in the honest &C
quirsment of them, will be found to
be the most prosperous.
Happily, a great and beneficial
change is now taking place in the
otton-growing states. This has
come through sad experience; there
was necessity of our people becom-
ing more self-reliant and self-sus-
tanning. We are realizing the fact
that "heaven helps those who help
themselves" We have found that
we can raise corn and wheat, and
cattle and hogs, aud make cloth
and machinery without at all i'm
peding the growth of our cotton, su
gar and tobacco as money crops.
Talk as we will about cheaper
transportation, we are slowly buf
surely arriving at the sensible con
clusion that there is really more
need of manufactures than trans
portation, although when equally
developed each is an essential aid
to the other We haye made the
interesting discovery that it is bet
ter to transform a ton of iron ore at
our Birminghams into plows, hoes
and horse-shoes, than to send it to
northern manufacturing centers and
pay two freights, one on the raw
material and the other on manufac-
tured articles. Self-reliance is the
key to permanent prosperity, and if
we expect to increase in population,
there must be co-partnership ex
isting between the field and factory.
Farm and Fireslde.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

A bull is a person who wants a
stock to advance. A bear is a per
son who wants a stock to decline.
Longs are holders Of stocks. Shorts
are operators who have sold stocks
that they do not hold, to be deliv-
cred at some future time, their ex-
pectation being to buy them at pri-
ces below those at which they have
sold them. BY the way, ''lamb" is
an outsider who goes into the mar
ket and leaves his money.-Chica-
90 Tribune.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
sslf-Ieliance And Home Supply.

The necessity of more home man
ufactures must be evident to every
intelligent farmer south of the Ohio
and Missouri rivers. If we would
prosper, we must manufacture An
unmiggated evil is population in
which half the people are idle
Prosperity and happiness are allied
to industry. The community that
has the fewest idle hgsds 10 plan
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
COMPLEX IDEAS.
Entertained by Colcred People Re
Garding the Marriage
Relation.
Daily AYaIanche. 26.

Daily Avalanche, 26.
The colored brother and the col
ored sister have some very primi
tive ideas about marriage. To many
of them there is nothing sacred in
the institution. 1t is a mere con-
venience, the woman getting a home
and the man getting his dinner
cooked, his clothes mended and his
socks (if he has any) darned. To
! some Of them it is a mere picnic,
and to others nothing more than a
contract. Two curious cases illus
trsting the confused ideas entertain
ed on this subject came within the
observation of an Avalanche repor-
ter yesterday.
An old darky stopped Lawyer
Barnes yesterday and the reporter
overheard the following conversa-
tiOn:
"Tse in trouble" said the darky,
"dey has got out biggery warrant
'ginst me-"
"What is that?' said the lawyer
''Dey say didn't hab no right to
marry de second gal while de fust
wuz still living. Now what's /
gwine to do?'
"You had better see the county
court clerk about it.
The old man accordingly went to
Paul Wright and said he wanted to
get out "biggery license" to mar
ry two women. Paul had barely
succeeded in convincing the old
fellow that it was impossible to is
sue such a license, when colored
woman about 40 years old named
Sarah Littlejohn approached the
counter and wanted to get license.
care you married now?" asked
Col. Wright.
"Yes, sah."
"Then you can't get a license"
"But has a release from my
husband to marry Mr.. r. W.
Winn."
She thereupon handed the aston
ished clerk the following letter:
''Mr. R. W. Winn, 1 do hereby
give you my permission to marry
my wife, Sarah Llttlejohn, and 1
promise never to interfere between
you two.
sIAwYER II IITTIFJOHN
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

Most of the articles which Mr.
Morrison proposes to put upon the
free list are either raw material TO
be manufactured, or substances US
ed in man nufacturing and against
extractive industries; in favor OF
New England and against the mid
die states, the west and the south,
Mobile Register.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

Here is golden truth from the
Memphis Avalanche. Let it shine.
Its rays are of the purest and Sc
renest. "Whenever you find farm
ers as a class out of debt and with
money in saving banks, you will
find diversified system of agricul
ture' and there can be no great di
versity of agriculture when there
are no manufactures. ."-Birming
ham Ace.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06
nNadame you've destroyed S:

MADAME, you've destroyed S.
worth of merchandise, aBgrily re-
marked 4 dude to a lady, as she
seated herself in chair in which
he had deposited a new derby hat.
Serves you right, she replied,
slowly rising from the ruin, "you
had no business to buy a 50 hat for
fifty cent head"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

While the foresters are placing a
row of trees on either side of the
large streams in order to prevent
floods,l if they would think to
hang a piece Of sponge to each
tree, this would absorb The exces-
sive moisture in the atmosphere,
and prevent the heavy dashing
rains so injurious to farmers. A
little practical sense and fore
thought are all that is necessary TO
enable people to escape the dangers
that beset them at every step
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

A Louisville burglar had a mar
row escape last week. He attemp-
ted to break into an editors house,
but escaped before the editor could
head him off and rob him. The cd
itor has since taken his name out
of the directory and his name taken
off his door, and goes aboHt with a
sort of will-you-walk-into-my- -parlor-
said-s-spider-to-the-fy air.-Peck's 5
Gnp
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

Years ago Mat Carpenter de-
scribed the late Alexander Stephens
in this wise: can empty coach
halted at the treasury department
and Alex. Stephens got out of it" "
The same joke was fitted to Bern
hardt when in America, but origi-
nal with Carpenter. In one of his
great railway suits he turned to a
wealthy witness and said: "He
commits perjury as gayly as troub-
adour thumbed his guitar. r."-Bio-
graphical Sketch.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

II is said that Dorsey has taken
the contract to secure delegates to
Chicago from Arkansas and New
Mexico. He declines an invitation
to visit the white house, and will
spend all his ''soap" on the Illinois
ans as the most available men to de
feat Arthur before the convention
Hartford Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

Mr.. Watterson says: ''As matters
now are, new iss not recognized as
property at all. Everything about
newspaper office, from the perfect
ing press to the newsman's pot OF
paste, is property and he who steals
It falls within the reach and com
pass of the law. But thai which
con stitutes the real value of news
paper property-its news franchis-
es--costing vast sums Of money
and years of special enterprise,
training and labor, has no legal
status whatever. 1t is practically
outlawed. Anybody can steal it
with impunity. The proposed
measure protects it from pirated
use and concurrent publication for
"a hours. 1t creates, indeed a new
property--that is property in news.
No one can oppose it except those
who want to rob others of their
labor and money"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

1t is well enough to be rich but
to parade your riches is contempti-
bic. A man may be proud of his
house, but it is not necessary TO
ride on the ridgepole, says the pro-
verb.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

A few weeks ago a Philadelphia
fish dealer departed for a railroad
station o few miles out to spend
Sunday with some friends. After
the cars had started he found on
looking at his return ticket that
"in consideration of the reduced
rates, ,"etc., the ticket was good only
until the day following; so on his
return Monday he had to buy an
other ticket home. A day or two
afterwards a leading official of the
company bought couple of early
shad of him. They were delivered,
and on opening the bundle was
found a card stating that sin CON
sideration of the low price charged
the shad would not be good after
two hours" The fish had to be
thrown away and that official has
been in brown study ever since.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-03-06

The Christian Union sees no reason
why churches may not sell reserved
seats fol single Sundays, inasmuch
as thev already sell reserved seats
for the season. The notion was
suggested by the writer's experience
in taking his family to hear pop
ular preacher, when they had To
W it until all the pewholdeTs were
sea ed before they could get seats,
en- when the ushers knew that
tue seats were to be unoccupied.
The Indiana republicans have gone
10 work and constructed q tariff
platform broad enough to furnish
standing accommodations for com
ers. Here it is
Revenue for tariff only.
Free trade tor protection only.
Protectio for revenue only.
Tariff for free trade only.
Tariff only.
Revenue only.
Free trade only.
Protection only.
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The Newspaper as an Educator

LAo oNonSpdpoE dS dA EOucdCOE.
With each day that passes the
newspaper grows more and more an
educator, and the extent to which
it has become can hardly be recog-
nized. A few years ago it was con
sidered luxury, but there are few
homes now that are too poor
as not to count a newspaper among
its belongings. In fact, in many
homes it is the principal reading.
A business man, weary with care,
will hesitate about beginning a
book. 1t seems a herculean task to
go through with all those pages, at
tractive though they may appear,
but he will take up his paper, Gull
such articles as may strike his IAN
cy, and then lay it down at any
moment without hesitation. In
the intervals of her housekeeping
cares the wife catches it up and
reads an article here and here to
learn what is going on in the great
outside world. The boy and the
girl each want to see each days
news, and so the daily or weekly
journal goes the round of the family
while the book rests securely upon
the shelf.