The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-04-16
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Pleads Plaintivaly in para5oxical
Philophizing and Para!yz-
ing Pale 1ritudes,

:. IN his reply to your piece"
- thought l would look at it again
! and L lead it over thinking 1 would
come at him again. laid it dowr
in hopeless despair. It reminded
e me of some of those operatic piece:
yon hear sometimes; after they are
> over yoE can't sing or whistle s
- note OF them to save your life
Il They sound to me for all the world
just like hog with his head under
= the fence or gang of sheep run
ming over a pile of shingles.
- Lynn gets after me with a sharp
> stick and burr on the end of it.
He says [ need a liver pad but he
! fails to tell me how to apply it. l
remember a Lynnville doctor some
thirty years ago prescribing a bis
i. ter plaster TO be applied to the alb
, domen Of boy. A few days after
the gentleman saw the doctor Whs
inquired how the blister acted. He
said, mot very well, it did not hurt
ab very much, however, but it gave
domen hell" Lynn, my friend,
you'll need pad too if the Pros
pect correspondent sees you soon.
Get one about ten by twelve and
apply It about where a horses tail
sprouts aud il it answers a no bet
tor purpose, wh1H y9:; arc mritisg
these lengthy and interesting letters
for they are good for the CITIZEN,
1t will prevent the tuberosity Of
! y0Ur hiSo Hmm, from, ,,n,Fo,o -
your glutius maxlmus. But, gentle
men, this is only little pleasan
try ia the place of not being able
TO tell you ''it's girl"
We had temperance lecture at
Meriah last Sunday night by a lady
who came very near destroying the
peace and harmony Of the state
the married state, 1 mean. She
said by way of an apology for de
tanning the people SO long that she |
had talked longer than she had in
tended but she wished then to er
ganize ledge of Good Templers
and if if any one desired to leave it
would not be construed into = mark !
OF any discourtesy whatever; that
so fer as she was concerned indi-
vidually she could stay there all
night very conveniently. 4 gentle
man in his enthusiasm replied,
':And I'll stay with you" An old
bachelor who railways has so much
business to attend to for other
mems wiyes that he has no time to
sttend 10 one of his own made it
his business to inform the wife of
the man who happened to make the
unguarded but innocent remark and
he told it in such a way that it did
not set very well upon the bump Of
her adhesiveness, for the case being
altered alters the case you know,
and.whens he took the gentleman to
task for his iucenstsncy the house
was not large enough for them both
to express their feelings and he had
to get cut and in SO doing be left a
hole in the window, and they do
say came very near blasting the
prospects of his future posterity.
My tales out.
We are now commencing another
annual round OF our mortal exis-
tence. Don't be too sure of not
slipping up and receiving fatal
fall before you reach the mile stone
upon which is written Jan. LIST,
1882. BE careful what road you
take. Consider also well which is
the better way OF travelling. Put
ting boiler into your stomach and
raising the steam with alcohol is
very dangerous way of getting
along. You are liable to run off the
track and do irreparable damage to
your reputation, if not to you car
cases, because reason is not the en-
giRser. If you straddIe the high
mettled mare of fancy, she may
kick up her heels before you know
it and pitch you head long into the
dust of sober reality. There is a
great deal of beautiful scenery on
the road from this year to the next,
and to. see, appreciate and admire
it ali you must keep sober and per-
form the journey ON foot. Take
the staff of hope in your hand, have
your knapsack well filed with
faith and fortitude. The latter ar
ticle is frst-rate Undershirt when
blow the cold winds of adversely.
Go slow and thea you will have
chance to behold the beauties of
the ever changing landscape and
and thus far experience the pleas
ures OF life's pilgrimage. / know,
however, that you will not take the
same road nor trot along with the
same jog. Some will 60 one way
and some another. Some will wan.
der far away from the paths of
propriety--ramble through the
woods in search of the wild flowers
of pleasure, which are facinsting to
the eye bat as wanting in fragrance
as the blossoms that bloom upon
the bonnets of the city bellies.
Some will take short cuts and some
will take long ones, some cut
across lots and find themselves at
last where they cannot be found.
Many and many who fancy that
they have got good foothold and
have both physical and mental
strength to hold out for this year
will bs compelled to lay themselves
Down to die just as the buds begin
to open and the birds commence
Staging. It's rather hard but it
can't be helped, as an old maid
once remarked when she was told
that young men generally preferred
external attraction to intrinsic
worth.
To come q little closer, the four
seasons Of the year are as emble-
NAUTICAL OF human life as any pic
ture thai could be painted by the
pencil of nature. Spring with her