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cabin within twelve miles of the
lake. The water in the canal is of
a sinister blackness very suggestive
of malaria and chills, yet it Is both
heslthy and palatable, and the
swamp is the only place on the
southern coast which is entirely
free from malaria. The water has
the bitter flavor of tannic acid de-
rived from the juniper vegetation of
the swamp.
A considerable population of
whites and negroes subsist by the
lumber trade, which is the great in
dustry of this region, although
there are many good farms along
the line of the canal. The soil is
bottomless peat bog which when
dried or sweetened with lime or oys-
ter shells produces fabulous crops
of corn and tobacco. The prevalent
forest growth consists of bald cy-
press, white cedar, red cedar, mag
nolia, red or swamp maple, sour
gum, sweet gum and water oak. AS
a whole the flora of the swamp is
rather tame and monotOnous, but if
it were possible to penetrate the re-
noter fastness many things would |
be discovered which
ire invisible along the margins.
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Spring Fever.

We recommend the following,
from the New York Herald, to such
of our friends as don't just now feel
exactly well but can't tell what ails
them:
Blessed be the physical change
which is not malady, and which
borrows the name Of a disease
merely as a mask under which to
pass from winters clouds and blasts
to the sunlight and freedom Of
spring. Everybody has spring fever
just now, but merely mentions it.
Nobody seriously complains of it,
and he who suggests a cure does not
get even Thank you' for his pains;
for the remedy, no matter what it
may be, is worse than the disease.
The most noticeable symptom of
spring fever is an aversion to doing
anything symptom which is as
comforting to the victim as it is
alarming to any one who wants
anything done. Another evidence
of spring fever is an unavoidable in
clination to drowsiness, and an ad-
mirable degree of willingness to for
give all of ones enemies if they on
lyswill keep out Of the way. Spring
seems to be humanity's period Of
mental Information.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-06-26
Ancient Wonders,

Ninevah was fourteen miles long,
eight miles wide, and forty six
miles around, with a wall one hun
dred feet high and thick enough for
three chariots abreast. Babylon
was fifty miles within the walls,
which were seventy-five feet thick,
and one hundred feet high, with
one hundred brazen gates. The
Temple OF Diana, at Ephesus, was
four hundred and twenty feet to the
support of the roof. 1t was one
hundred years in building. The
largest of the pyramids was four
hundred and eighty one feet in
height, and eight hundred and fifty
three on the sides. The stones are
about sixty feet in length, and the
layers are two hundred and eight.
II employed $4,000 men in build
ing. The labyrinth of Egypt
contain three hundred chambers
and twelve halls. Thebes in Egypt
present ruins twenty-seven miles
around, and contained 100000 in
habitants and 100000 slaves. The
Temple of Delphus was so rich in
decoration that it was plundered of
$50,00O,O00, and the emperor Nero
carried away from it two hun
dred statues. The walls of Rome
were thirteen miles around
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-06-26
LOGAN IN rs.
The New York Tribune's Beautiful
Pen-picture Of the Orator
and Statesman.

New Yore Tribund, Jan. Is, 1875.
Pranced there in upon the arena
Of The great debate, like a trick
mule in a circus, or a spawned
nightmare upon the track of beau
tiful dream-Logan of Illinois.
There was a vision of mustaches,
eyebrows, and hair piled on each
other in arches; a large bandishing
of arms, pose and stridulous war
| whuOp; and much as though a pic
ture of the DeeTfield massacre had
stepped out from the pages of our
early history, Logan took the Amer
lean senate by its large capacious
ear. And then he went for his
mother tongue. He smote it right
and left, hip and thigh, and showed
NJ mercy. Swinging the great
broad axe of his logic high in air,
he turned it e. e it fell, and with the
hammer side struck the language
of sixty millions of people fairly in
the face, and mashed it beyond re-
sognition. Under his stroke the
floor of the American senate was
spattered with the remnants Of
once proud vocabulary, and messen-
gers, doorkeepers and pages were
covered from head to foot with the
spray. In the fearful two hours
which followed the first roar of his
Grafton, all the parts of speech were
routed and put to flight. There
were orphan adjectives and widow
ed nouns; bachelor verbs driven to
polygamy and polygamous verbs
left lonely y;coDjunctions discovered, |
scattered, adverbs dis
heveled and distorted, and syntax
flung into WILD disorder. 1t was a
great day for Logan.
He set his teeth into the language
as the untamed tiger of the iungles
takes between his mouth and paw
the wearing apparel of the wayfarer
and the ripping of 1t was heard
through all the forest depths. 1t
to the other end of the
capitol, and sluggish representa-
tives lifted up their ears and listen
ed to the roar with terrified awe.
Some started for the scene; but up.
on being told the cause of the dis
turbance in the brief communica-
tion, ''Logan's up" turned back
with full assurance that they could |
hear from that end Of the capitol |
all that was worth hearing. So |
through two hours Logan swung
his beautiful arms over the heads
of the senate like the booms of a
derrick, while his chin
churned the language like n pile
driver in heavy sea, and the baf-
fed reporters made wild plunges
with their pencils to gather up his
for the printer.
All! Logan Is a great man; a
statesman. When he throws his
intellect into a question, whether it
is of finance or self-government, or
Of sticking to the ship, something
has got to come. And you may al
ways know where to find him-to
wit, where he has always been,
drawing pay from the government
n some capacity. He lacks only
fifteen or twenty things of being an
orator. He has lungs.
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Trees on Roadsides.

j. L. Rudd, in noting that sew
eral horticultural writers have OBJ
served the greater abundance of
fruit on trees exposed to roadside
dust, says the belief is prevalent in
Europe, especially in Russia, that
the crop is greatly increased by
busting the trees with ashes, lime
and road dust. 1t is an undenia-
BILE fact, that these three agencies
will add greatly under favorable
circumstances to the destruction of
certain insects, but to look upon
them as causing a direct increase
OF the crop is rather problematical.
Clouds of dust are the natural con-
sequence of wind and passing vehi-
cles, and form rich deposits along
the road, rich from the dropping Of
teams, herds of cattle, focks of
sheep, and so forth, besides the
fertile washings from the road.
That wind during the bloom of the
trees is, very favorable to the
propagation of the pollen is admit
ted by all fruit growers, and again
that trees planted the road sides en-
joy greater advantages in regard to
atmosphere and sun, two very es-
sential factors in fruit CROWN 9,
should not be overlooked.
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nemonratic Platform.

The democracy of the state of
Tennessee in convention assembled
| do declare:
l. That whereas, the administra-
tion of Gov. VIM. B. Bate, has been
proven faithful and wise, we hearth
Iy endorse the same.
2. That we regard the settlement
Of the debt Of the state of Tennes-
see, made by the last legislature
as final, and pledge ourselves to the
faithful maintenance of the same.
3. That we favor such legislation
as will compel railroad property to
bear its just proportion of necessary
taxation.
4. That we favor the regulation
of railroads by a commission for
that purpose so as to protect the
roads in all their rights and the
people from extortion and from un-
just and unfair discrimination.
5. That we favor the promotion
and encouragement of popular edI-
cation.
6. That We declare that no more
taxes should be levied by the state
government than is absolutely nee
essary to defray the current expen-
ses If the same administered with
the -Aost rigid economy, 20 meet
the accruing interest upon the
funded debt, and Iiquidate the same
in accordance with the contract.
But if by the practical operation of
our revenue system more money
has been or should accumulate in
the treasury than is needed for these
purposes we favor the appropriation
of the same by the proper fiscal Off
GERS of the state under safe and
proper legislative restrictions to the
extinction of the states indebted
ness.
7. Justice and sound policy for
bid the federal government to fos
ter any branch of industry to the
detriment of another or to cherish
the interest of one portion to the
injury of another portion of our
common country, and hence we de-
nounce the present tariff as a mas
terpiece of injustice, inequality
and false pretense. It prohibits
imports that purchase the products
of American labor. 1t has degraded
American commerce from the first
to an inferior rank on the high
seas. 1t has cut down the sales of
American manufacturers at home
and abroad and depleted the re
retuns of American agriculture
and industry followed by over half
of the American people. It costs
the people five times more than it
produces to the treasury, obstructs
the processes of production and
wastes the fruits of labor. 1t pro-
notes frauds, fosters smuggling, en-
riches dishonest officials and bank
rupts honest merchants. 1t accu-
mulates a corruption fund in the
vaults of the government to poison
official action and debauch the pub
lie conscience. We favor a reduc-
tion of the tariff and demand that
no more revenue be raised than is
required to defray the legitimate
expenditures of the government
economically administered, and
revenue raised for any purpose,
whether by custom house taxation
or otherwise, is unauthorized by
the constitution, but this convention
here assembled hereby pledges it
self to cheerfully support the plat
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millions, his talents for manage
ment are excellently displayed.
The figures of his household ex-
penses for the last twelve months
are interesting, and must be a
source of lively satisfaction to him.
On such luxuries as bread, meat,
woolen goods, iron and steel, cotton
goods, boots and education he was
very economical. He only spent
$5O5, 100000 for bread, 1903, 900, 900
for meat, $29O,OOO,OOO for iron and
steel, $237, 100000 for wooden goods,
s233, 100000 for sawed lumber, ,$210-
100000 for cotton goods, $196,000-
900 for boots and shoes and $50, 900
coo for education. 1t is noteworthy
that, though spending such small
sums on the luxuries of life, he was
able to supply in full the first ne
cessity of his family-drink. He
spent 5000, 100000 on liquor.
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form adopted by the national dem
ocratic party at the Chicago con
vention, not only on the tariff, but
on all measures of reform.
s. We denounce the republican par
ty because the logic of It's long lease
of power coupled with the duplicity
and sham pretenses evidenced by
its platform recently adopted in
this state, and also at Chicago,
shows that it is the settled purpose
of the real leaders of that party to
subvert self government and erect
on its ruin and the poverty of the
masses a consolidated depotisms.
8. But this convention here as
sembled hereby pledges itself to
support the platform
adopted by the national democratic
party at the Chicago convention,
not only on the tariff question, but
on all other measures of reform.
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Machinery and the Hand.

1t has taken years of improve
ment to make headway against the
strange. notion that improved ma
chinery and mechanical process
work against the workingman. 1t
has been the cry at every new step
in advance that it would be the
death blow to some industry form
erly carried on by hand. The loco
motive was to do away with team
ing. The sewing machine to be a
foul crime against the welfare Of
the seamtress. The reaper and
mower were to interfere with the
rights Of the sturdy swathe cutters
of the farms. In short, every such
advance has been met by just such
objections. Yet there is less power
ty, less squalor, less ignorance and
less idleness among the laboring
classes in our age, which Is the age
of invention, and in our land, the
land of inventive genius, than in
any other age or land the world has
ever known.
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What a Yankee Editor Thinks
of the South.

The Manufacturer, Holyoke,
Mass, says: "The best part of the
United States for immigration is
the south. The southern states of
fer the finest opportunities to those
wanting to start in manufacturing
or business, to the agriculturist, the
stock raiser and the miner. There
are forests there that, by compari-
ison, make the remnants of Michi-
gan's pine forests seem mere
groves. Iron, coal and other min
erals are stored in the earth tor a
hundred perhaps hundreds,of gene
rations to come. The soil is prolif-
ic, and wisely conducted agricul-
ture has rich rewards. Cattle,
sheep and hogs can be raised cheap
ly and very proftably. 1t is prob
ably useless to try to stop the tide
Of emigration to the north west so
long as even poor government and
railroad lands are left. When
these are taken up, as they will be
in a few years, the south must re-
ceive the land seekers.
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Forty Thousand Whisky JUGS.

Through the adoption of the To-
cal option law by 81 of the 1873
counties of Georgia, over half the
state has been transformed into
temperance territory. Among the
devices resorted to by the thirsty
residents of liquorless districts was
that of having whisky sent to them
from other places &C. o. D." The
jugs needed for this trace came to
be in such demand that the earthen-
ware works of the state, which had
been dying of inanition, had a rush
of business, and 10000 such jugs
have passed through the express
companies hands since Jan. 1. The
temperance people made the point
that under the United States laws
dealers could only sell at their
places of business, and that a sale
&C. o. D." did not come within the
meaning of the law. To satisfy
themselves H. Myres; d Bros, of
Savannah appealed for decision to
the internal revenue commissioner
at Washington and have just receiv-
ed a reply to the effect that the
temperance people are right.
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It'll Make You Work.

Those who indulge in the use of
Intoxicating liquors sometimes
apologize for their drinking by as
serting that it helps them to their
work. The following dialogue is a
good answer to the unfounded as
sertion.
81 drink to make to make me
work." said a young man. To
which an old man replied, "That's
right; thee drink and it will make
thee work. Hearken to me a mo-
ment which may do good. l was
once a prosperous farmer.
81 had good, loving wife and
two fine lads as fine as the sun
ever shone on. We had a comfort
able home, and lived happily to-
gether." :"
''But we used to drink ale to make
us work. These two lads l have
laid in drunkards' graves. My
wife died broken-hearted, and she
lies by her two sons. L am seventy
two years of age.
''Had it not been for drink, l
might now have been an independ-
ent gentleman; but 1 used to
drink to make me work, and mark
1 have to work now. AT seventy
years of age it makes me work for
my daily bread. Drink! drink and
it will make you work.
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Uncle Jacks Talk.

When 1 was a boy, it was my
tondest hope that l should some
day be a an; it seemed to me that
to throw off all restraint, to do as
pleased and have no one to govern
me, no one to scold me, would be
happiness indeed. The time seemed
very long, very long coming, and
many times did 1 stand up against
the wall and measure myself to see
whether / was growing rapidly.
Oh, how mistaken / was, as 1 found
out later in life. The days of child
hood are the days of freedom, free
dom from care and responsibility.
Kind guardians watch over the
child, it's every act is carefully con-
sidered, and while romping thought
lessly over the green fields or slid
ing over the smooth ice or snow,
a mothers boundless love, a fathers
watchful protection, are plodding
and working to make the child
happy; ever in the thoughts of a
kind mother, and a dear father,
lives the child, and what is man
hood, with its sorrows and cares,
compared to guileless, merry child
hood. But L forget that meant
to say something else to you, when
| started to write. In this anxiety
to become men, boys will often
adopt the bad habits of their elders;
it is natural that children do the
things they see their elders do, and
so l often see little Katie out of the
corners of my eye put on her moth
er's gown and then turn to the
mirror, and watch the trail sweep
the ground; how the little girl
would like to be a woman. It's the
same way with the boys. Now 1
love to see a manly boy, and every
body admires him, but then BOYS
are so apt to think that to learn to
do the foolish things others do, will
make men of them, so they begin
to use tobacco, when to let it alone
would be much better; or drink,
and drink is poison; they will use
bad language, and nothing is
worse; all this they do from the
mistaken idea that because some
men do so, they must. But, my
boys, that won't make men of you.
You never heard anybody say that
Tom is a manly fellow because he
smokes or drinks or swears; none of
these things are even a recommen-
dation to a man or boy; none of
them ever did mortal any good. Il
advise you to shun the company
of boys who indulge in these bad
habits. All sensible boys will
avoid such companionship. What
is the result? They are left in bad
company, and rapidly grow worse.
a boy looks much better behind
book than he does behind a cigar,
always, and doctors all agree that
nothing is so injurious to a growing
boy as the use of tobacco; it dulls |
the brain and Injuries the lungs,
and 1 am quite positive that no boy
living really ever enjoys smoke;
he simply smokes because others !
do; now that's exactly how a mon
key apes everything, he sees, good or
bad. A manly boy is a boy who |
loves truth, who shuns bad compan-
ions, and tries to adopt the good, |
not the bad manners of men.
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Our ideas of high farming differ
very materially from those of the
agriculturists of many sections of
Europe, where rents run as high as
$500 per acre, and where farming is
made to yield good income even
at those figures. France, England,
Holland and other countries are
long way ahead of us in the mat
ter of making every foot of land
give its largest possible yield, and
this accomplished by manuring
highly and cultivating with the ut
most thoroughness.
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Dismal Swamp.

The celebrated Dismal Swamp
occupies the greater part of five
counties in Virginia and three
counties in North Carolina, covering
some 800 square imiles of surface.
A large portion of this vast area is
practically inaccessible, and still
unexplored. The swamp begins
about 10 miles southwest of Nor
folk, and can best be reached by
steamboat via the Dismal Swamp
Canal, which passes within three
miles of Drummond's Lake. There
are three or four places in the
swamp where the boat stops, but
there is no hotel or even a decent
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-06-26

A successful poultry grower rec
ommends the free use of powdered
sulphur about hens. He mixes a
small amount of sulphur in the
dusting places where the fowls take
their daily dirt bath, and he finds
that the powder is sure to rid the
fowls of lice. He also sprinkles
sulphur in the nests Of setting hens,
thus keeping his fowls entirely free
from vermin. He claims that sui
phur, properly used, is the best
possible preventative of lice in hen
neries, and that the worst case of
lousy poultry can be cured by it's
use. Another poultry grower
claims equal power for powdered
tobacco leaves. Both methods are
simple and inexpensive.
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NOTICE

On Tuesday, July s, 1884,
WILL offer for sale to the highest bidder,
on nv promises at old Lynuville, all my
property, both personal and real, viz;
10 Head of Horses and MUJeS,
I1Hedd beef ana milk cattle,
70 1CeU Ored,) one lot Of
Pork Hogs, one double
SeCted BUggy,neC,
one 2-HOrse U'0gOB and HaT-
ness and Farming IIlpLe-
rlaents, also Tly Household
G Kitchen Furniture,
CONSISTING OF
I cot of Parlor Furniture, l frst-class
Uainea' Piano, one new Charter Oak
Cook Stove and various other arti-
cles too te lious to mention.
Also nv homo place containing about "A
ACRES OF LAND, including my residence,
ali in good condition, also present growing
crop. VIII rent about 45 acres of GOOD
CLOVER AND GRASS, and will cell
HOUSE AND LOT IN OLD LYNNVILLE.
On Saturday, July u, 1884,
l will sell all my property at Lynnvile
Station consisting of TOWN LOTS in from
Of depot. Terms made known on day Of
sa1a Any parties wishing to examine prop
crtv before day of sale will be shown the
same with pleasure. Also all parties in
debted to me will please ceme forward
and settle at once d, b. GAkRETT.
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If you are behind and things need
hurrying, you have the means at
hand to do it, which is this: Take
barrel and fill it half full of we'll
rotted manure. Fill the barrel up
with water and stir it for two days.
Then water your beans, cucumbers,
tomatoes, melons and you will be
surprised to see how they will
grow. Two barrels can be used to
advantage, one soaking your fertili-
zer while you are applying the 9th
er. We have heard of a new(to us
preventive to keep bugs from the
tender squash, melon and cucumber
plants, which is to make a strong
wash of cow manure and pour it
over the plants. 1t is said odor
stays on them. 1t is certain that
manure water will make them grow
and will not harm them.
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The person engaged in farm life
can realize more real pleasure and
happiness than in any other occu-
patton. The editor, lawyer, doctor,
merchant and in fact all other class
es, trust in the tlller of the soil for
subsistence, while on sthe other
hand the farmer looks to the soil
and providence tor his. This being
true. he is the most independent Of
Gods creatures, and this makes
him feel a degree of comfort and
happiness that no other class of
men can feel. The tiller of the soil
has far better opportunity of sit
tingdown and thinking candidly and
soberly in regard to things in gen
eral than any other class. 1t seems
to US that his surroundings are
such that he has more inclination
and desire to serve his master than
any other class. This of itself is
true happiness.
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Red clover will produce the heav-
lest crop Of hay on suitable land
that can be grown. About four
pounds of green grass make one of
Orchard grass and produce pound
of hap to less than three pounds of
grass. Alsike clover yields less
than the red variety, but the pro-
portion of grass to hay is the same.
While it is advisable to secure as
large yield as possible it is best to
grow a mixture in order to secure
equality.
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PLANT SMALL TREEs.-A western
writer says, very sensibly, buy
trees. Small trees, ten chances to
one, will come into bearing sooner
than the lerger ones. The larger
the tree the less fibre there will be
upon the roots. A tree that has
plenty of fibrous roots will live and
and flourish, while one that lacks
such feeders will languish, and per
haps die.