The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-12-11
Something for Nothing

CdrO monte
the soap boz aud $50 bill trick, +"
the lottery, the priz package the
ito boot" in rad,, the confidence
game, the "sm' ggl,d goods dodge
the chromos for subscribers anS
the like, all appeal Iu Lbls desire IN
get something for nothing. Let us
notice few of the most re, utabla
of the schemes, especially those
that most often deceive farmers.
just now in Ohio the pr ~ ,odoe
with ready-made clotliu /. the
rage. l walk up one or the princi.
pal streets of Cleveland, aud IN the
great show window OF an immense
clothing store ! see fine live horse.
with saddle and bride. offered "a a
prize TO that one among the ems
TONERS of the store who holds the
lucky ticket. Day after day, week
after week, the lhorse stands there.
eats his oats and hay from his ele-
CANT manger, and draws crowds of
purchasers, who buy more or less
clothing, many of them mainly for
the chance it gives to win that
horse. In Cincinnati / see almost
the same thing; this time it is an
elegant pony and phaeton. In
Cleveland, again, just across the
street from the horse lottery. il an
old reliable house that has sold
good clothing at fair land ilxed)
prices for many years. But it has
been into the prize business, and
realizing that "hope deferred max
eth the heart SICK" it gives a genu-
inc stem winding Waterbury watch
with every purchase of clothing
amounting to $42," and an "electri-
cal magnetic instructor" with each
suit Iof clothing costing less than
$12.
For myself, when 1 buy horses, 1
buy horses; when 1 buy watches
buy watch; and when 1 buy cloth
ing l want my moneys worth of
clothing and not a part OF it in in
fnitesimal chances on a saddle
horse that will be an elephant on
my hands if have the bad luck to
draw him, or in watches or 'electri-
cal instructors"
l have a friend, a banker aud
large land owner and farmer, whose
gray hair, keen eye and quiet smile
show that he has seen the world.
In fact he was for years in early
life a steamboat captain con the
lakes. One day lately three young
sharpers asked him to a friendly
game of euchre to while away the
time on the cars. Repeatedly, as
the play went on, one of them would
bluff him for a bet on some card
where he was sure to win, and his
partner would nudge his foot and
wink him to take the bet. Finally
he quickly said: "Guess not,
young gentlemen! I've been there.
1 don't mix mine. When 1 play
euchre, / play euchre, and when /
play poker it's poker" The young
men seemed TO lose their interest in
the friendly game; they found they
were not dealing with skid"
Some farmers hope to get some
thing for nothing out of their land.
They can only do it by cheating
the generations that are to follow.
Old Mr.. Tull a century ago origina-
ted the expression, "tillage is ma
nure." This has been shown to be
incorrect, again and
again; but every few years it Sc
'enely bobs up its head, and runs a
lew life of "usefulness." Original
y, manure" (same root as maneu-
're) meant tillage, hand work. But
t don't now, and it did not when
Full made his famous apothegm.
f it had, his apopthegm would
lave been a mere truism of defni-
ion. Manure now means a fertil-
zing substance added to the soil,
nd neither clover nor tillage adds
liant food to any apprecisble ex-
ent. Clover, let US say, collects
nd cooks the plant food, and til
age masticates it so that the plants
an better digest it, but you must
ave the food in the soil before yo1
an cook or masticate 1t. / do not
lean that tillage does not pay. 1t
ays abundantly in making plant
BOD available, and in preventing
ne weeds from stealing away from
le useful plants. But It does not
ay by adding plant food to the
oil, that we can prove, unless it be
ifinitesimal quantities of nitrogen.
the soil is fertile, clover and till
lge will develop the fertility. If
is sterile, you may clover and till
oomsday with little effect. If
lere is food in the cellar or money
the pocket, you can get them by
Ding down for them. If not. not.
Another way in which people ex-
ect to get something for nothing is
subscribing for papers that Of
r premiums" They take the pa
er to get the chrome, or the imple-
ent or the valuable seeds, or what
'er it may be, free. l would rath-
have the subscription money put
TO the columns Of the paper than
to pictures or seeds or presents or
'emiums. OF course q premium or
'sh commission to those who form
ubs or get subscribers is entirely
gitimate. 1t is pay for service
ndered. But the better class of
lpers and magazines, religious,
,erary, social, political and agri-
lltural, have wisely abandoned or
e abandoning the practice Of "giv-
'omething for nething" to induce
,ople to subscribe.
Why not give up the idea of get
ng something for nothing' AS
rule, a dollar costs dollar, and
'u cannot get two dollars for one
lthout cheating.--Country Gent.
Tobacco given in buttermilk, as
hxy Can Ntsnnmau