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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-09-10
COURIER OURNALISTIOs

Death has dropped his sickle in
Spain to mount an improved reaper
and mower.
Boston merchants prefer tall
saleladies, probably as IN keeping
with high prices.
In Austria "soul pills. are sold
to persons who wish to improve
their immortal part.
The governor of Missouri is a
graceful swimmer, and never flIrts
water on the other old boys.
A Brooklyn woman has eloped
with an ash cart driver. The
coachmen were exhausted long ago.
A Pittsburgh lady cooked La
fayette's dinner when he visited
America in 1925. It will be re-
membered that the marquis never
returned.
The president gets 100 letters q
day. He doesn't have to get in line
at the general delivery once a week
to ask, "Is there any letter here for
c.. Cleveland?"
Brooks, the st. Louis murderer,
is receiving many books, bouquets
and cards from st. Louis ladies,
but he would probably be getting
more had he murdered a woman.
The Emperor Hadrian lamented
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When to Prune.

When.shall we prune? The an
swer to this question will depend
somewhat on the answers to the
questions: Has your orchard been
pruned at all? and if so, when ?
The tendency .among farmers,
for whom this is more especially in
tended, is to neglect pruning their
orchards altogether; not because
they think this is the proper way,
but because they don't think any
thing about it. They look upon
fruit growing as a side issue, and
think that they can't afford to take
the time from the main crops, and
give to this, especially during the
summer season. That farmers can
hardly spend their time more prof
itably than in caring for their Or
chards and fruit gardens, whenever
they need il, we will not stop now
to argue.
Among orchardists the fashion in
regard to pruning changes as do
other fashions. At one time the
tendency is to prune excessively ;
then seeing i'll effects from that,
they go to the other extreme, and
extensive fruit growers can be
found who prune but little if any.
Now in this matter, as in most ev-
erything else, the golden mean is
probably right. If the trees come
from the nurseryman with the
proper form and are not neglected,
but little at the right time will be
necessary to keep the form right;
and that is all we prune, as a rule.
Going through the orchard, say ev-
cry two weeks, during the summer
season with no other tools but the
fingers, pinching back a shoot that
is making too fast a growth here,
rubbing off superfuous shoots
there, but little time will be requir-
ed to keep the orchard in good form.
If the tree has been neglected, in
terfering with the growth of other
branches, and deforming the tree,
the pruning is best done in the
early spring, before the sap starts.
In such cases all large wounds
should be covered with a coat of
grating wax or some other prepare
tion, to keep the water off and pre-
vent decay.
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Lawn Making.

The most important element OF
the ornamentation of premises in
late years is the lawn. Lawn MAX
ing has become an art, and it has
reached great perfection. The
principles of lawn making are sim
pie, but they must be wrought out
thoroughly. Those who are ex-
perienced in the matter nearly al
ways begin by grading the grounds
into a perfect plane. Such grad
ing is expensive and in grounds of
any size is an erroneous practice.
Sharp eminences or depressions
should not be allowed on the lawn,
but natural and gradual swells in
the surface, gentle fluctuations and
easy slopes should always be pre-
served. On small city grounds ev-
erything must be reduced to one
plane, but on the premises which
should attend country home, the
gentle undulations left by nature
should be preserved. The lawn is
the foundation, the groundwork for
beautiful place. The same
amount of shrubbery and of flowers
will have double the effect on a good
lawn that it will on an unkept sur
face. Even if one does not plant
shrubbery and flowers, a simple
clean lawn is a beautiful orna-
ment The lawn should never be
much cut up with flower beds and
groups of shrubs. A simple, natu-
raj, unbalanced arrangement is the
most pleasing.
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HydrOphobia.

Franklin Dyer, a highly respect
able farmer of Galena, Kent county
Md, gives the following as a sure
cure for the bite of mad dog.
"Elecampane is a plant well known
to most persons, and is to be found
in many of our gardens. Immedi-
ately after being bitten, take an
ounce Of the root of the plant (the
green is preferable, but the dried
will answer, and may be found in
any drug store, and was used by
me-, slice or bruise, put in a pint of
fresh milk; boil down to a half pint;
strain, and when cold drink it; fast
ing at least six hours afterward,
and next morning repeat the dose,
prepared as the last, and this will
be sufficient.
sit is recommended that after
each dose nothing may be eaten for
at least six hours. l have a son
that was bitten by a mad dog egh-
teen years ago, and four other chill
dren in the neighborhood we're also
bitten; they took the above dose,
and are alive and well 10 this day.
1 have known a number of others
who were bitten and applied the
same remedy"
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that his ghost would not be capa-
BILE of jesting. 1t was the same
way with the man who, while on
earth, never dared to getsoff joke
on his mother-in-law.
mo cigarette smoking allowed
in this office" has become a com
mon sign in New York; but it IS
impossible to suppress the cigar
cite nuisance as it is to do away
with any other. Many regard the
cigar as much worse than the CT
garette.
If it is true that sometimes a
Kansas woman murders her hus-
band four weeks after the wedding
ceremony, it only shows that Kan
sas women are merciful. 1t is bet
ter to die in a month than to expire
after forty years of continuous hen
pecking.
=, Not many farmers, says the Lex
ington (Ga. Echo know that on
the middle stem underneath a cot
ton leaf is small cell, or cavity,
that contains a drop of blood,
which can be seen by pressing be-
tween the thumb nails 1t is
doubtless the blood of some gal
liant sutler who fell in one of the
cotton fields of the great civil war.
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WINDING TIP TIME.

A wee brown maid on the doorstep sat,
Her small face Ind meath wide brimmed
hat
broken clock on her baby knes
She wound with an ancient, rusty KEY.
"What are you doing, my pretty one?
Playing with Timer ! asked in fun
Large and wise were the soft dark eyes,
Lifted to mine in grave surprise.
"Fse windin' him up TO make him 60,
For he's so drefful poky and slow"
Winding up Timel All, baby mine,
Bow crawl these lengthsned MON, nts of
thinel
How sadly slow goes the stAid old maE!
But he has MT charged ince the world began
He docs not change; but in after years,
When he min giles our cup OF Joy with teArs:
and duties are many and pleasures are fleet,
Aud the way grows rough meath our tired
feet;
When the day is too short for ito crowd of
cHres,
And nignt surprises Us unawAres,
We do not wish co hurry his feet,
But I'm hit going all too feet.
III, baby mine, some future day
You will throw that rus ed key away,
And to Phebus' car will madly cling,
As it whirls along like winged thing,
And wonder how, years and ears ago,
You could ever have thought that time was
slow. Chicago Current.
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VOL 27
A Mothers LOVe-A Practical
Illustration Of Its Power.

A mothers love What potent thing
It is I! 1t will melt the heart of the most
hardened criminal, when no other Influ-
ence would be effectual. No one but
mother knows its full meaning, but every
one can appreciate it if they will 1t is
known, though, that it means sleepless
nights, care, inconvenience, and, if ne
cessary, want, hardship and death. But
the subject has been too elOquently
treated by the sweetest poets and the
ablest writers to furnish an essay for
these columns. Too many practical IL
Illustrations occur in every day life for it
to be dwelt upon, so that It's unnecessary
to speak of the subject further in order
to make the reader understand the full
meaning of what is to follow.
Mrs. Henry Schualcn, of Ashland,
KY, writes that her daughter has been
cured of deafness which resulted from
chronic catarrh. She tells how she had
lost all hope of her daughter her ideal
being cured, and how overjoycd she is at
the result. After trying many remedies,
she says PERUNA brought a cure, and
that the daughters hearing is restored.
She concludes, by speaking in the most
flattering terms of PERUNA, and then de-
scribes in the most lovely manner the
happiness it has brought her, and reviews
the distress she experienced while her
daughter was afflicted.
DE- A. II. Ong, Martins Ferry, o.,
writes Il have large trade on your
PERUNA. Think it is a grand remedy"
Mr. Robert c. Hannah, Tolesborough,
Lewis county, KY, writes: g. write to in
form you of the great benefit l received
by the use of your medicines, PERUNA
and MANALIN. had been low spirited
and very sick for about six months with
a bad cough, and my friends thought 1
had consumption tried a number of
patent medicines, and most of the doctors
in the vicinity { and we have some as
good as you can find in the country,
but they did me no good whatever. Our
merchant, Mr.. Gillespie, insisted upon
me trying your remedies. did so, but
must saw / had little faith in them at
first; before 1 had consumed my first
bottle, I noticed a change for the
better, and to-day / am entirely we'll,
and as sound a man as there is in the
vicinity. ! credit my cure to your valu-
able remedies, PERUNA and MANALIN,
and recommend them to all of my
friends.
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A New Cjrop,

There will always be a demand
for COWS. This demand to 60 right
on, makes a good basis for starting
business with a sure sale of the pro
ducts we may furnish to meet it. A
COW crop. New idea. How will it
work? Let US see. The farm
wants to be enriched. Cannot do
it selling grain. That's what's the
matter; been at it too long. The
grain is all out of it. Grass is
natures renovater. We will go in
for grass and fodder. These things
are not so exhausting, neither do
they require the solid elements out
of soil which it takes to make the
clear stuff like corn, wheat, oats,
barley, etc. Grass and roots, corn
stalks and millet, if cut at the right
time are mostly water, and that
don't cost anything. Push every
inch of the farm to grow these non
exhauting but Tenovating crops.
We will have pasture in summer
and fodder in winter. Raise COWS,
good ones. Look around and buy
the best heifer calves. Pay neigh
Dor Jones little extra to take the
"old cow to a good Jersey or Ayr
shire hull, or what is better, have
one yourself and other neighbors
who have extra cows to use your
bull, and you buy the heifer calves
and raise them. Every three years
turn off crop of ten or more fine
young COWS and raise.ten. Let them
come in when two years old. This
gives an opportunity to make them
gentle and to test them. Make
reputation as the breeder of the
best cows, broken the best 1.-THE
more best the better) of any man
in the county, and your fortune is
made. Here is advice for young
man or anyone. Raise and sell
COWS.
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That Deficiency.

How much is it on the preach
er's salary? Why is there a def
cheney? Who is to blame for til
Let there be a heart-searching about
this matter. The blame lies some
where, find out where it is, and lei
the remedy be applied. We are on
the fourth round and conference
will soon be here. Let the presid-
ing elder probe this matter. Let
stewards open their pockets and
give literally, and go to work earn
estly. A deficiency, in every case,
should be source of grief to Off
GERS and members; in almost every
case a deficiency Is shame and a
sin. Do not let your preachers 60
to the conference with the stig-
ma of humiliation and want, en-
tailed by a deficiency. The preach
er needs every dollar you have as
sessed; he may be able to go to
heaven, and not starve, if be is not
paid in full; but he will be strait
ened and discounted by your fail
ure, and you will scarcely get to
heaven if you have not been con-
cerned and self-denying in trying to
make up his full due. A religion
which does not awaken an interest,
liberality and sacrifice, about the
preachers temporal wants is not
soul-saving nor heaven-getting.
God spake very touchingly and
tenderly of the Levites, that they
were never to be forgotten, and he
made sufficient provision for them
that they might occupy the van
tage ground for His work: so
Christ esteems His laborers, and he
blesses those who bless them, and
He cares for those who care for
them.
This letting the preacher 60 to
conference hard pressed, with a de-
ficiency due him, and nobody con-
cerned to make it up, is all wrong
and evidences a bad state of thiHgs
spiritually. For the honor of your
appointment; for the welfare, free
dom and reputation of your preach
er; in the name of religion, justice
and generosity; for the glory of
God and your spiritual fruitfulness,
let there be no deficiency in your
preachers salary; let it be paid
promptly, generously, and in full
Let every steward go to work and
see every member, and let the mat
ter be put on every conscience, and
let every member respond cheer
fully.
Next year make assessments on
every member, old and young,
rich and poor, and let the aggre-
gate be more than enough, and
work by plan and begin early and
press it all the year, and educate
the people to give as a means of
grace; teach them to have a lively
and tender interest in the temporal
welfare of the man who labors to
fit them for heaven, always remem-
bering the words of Christ, "The
laborer is worthy of his hire. -
st. Louis Christian Advocate.
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Plank Strawberries.

A correspondent of the Mirror
and Farmer suggests plan, though
not new, whereby those who have
but little space of land can raise
strawberries abundantly: Take a
plank ten feet long Tor any length },
two and half feet wide, two and a
half feet deep; make a box; fill
with dirt to within eight inches of
the top; fill up the space with fine
manure; then bore holes IN the sides
and ends with two inch augur one
foot apart. Insert the roots care
fully into the holes; they will grow
splendidly, be free free from weeds
and when they bear, which they
will do bountitElly, the lucious red
berries will turn their fat sides up
to the sun and look good enough to
eat. You can water them on top at
your pleasure, and raise the biggest
kind of a crop. Being close to the
house, all the soapsuds Can be used,
which strawberries delight in. If
planks are not handy take sugar or
-four barrels, filling the same
with dirt and manure and boring
the holes the same. Try it, girls,
and have all the strawberries you
wish. No weeds, no hoeing. The
berries being so far from the
ground. they will always be free
from grit. Water them on top to
keep the manure moist"
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GRIT
By v. r wHELAN.

Some call it luck, dear brother jim,
Some term il common $euse;
While others still, with equal vim
Pronounce / P,9vIieace.
But believe in Spiie II all,
Fate, Ptovaisn . o. Wit
Bull headed lac. % br-z ~ gail,
It's proper nam IS grit"
IT'S we'll for these. dear brother Jim,
With time and .dSh 20 pare
To lift their h7a - d 81 han ? I, Him
In esersa ting prayer
But PRAYER acne won't Sin tho Eight,
in spite o. molly II;
IT'S acts that tell, or wrong or right,
And actions call f1r"yrit "
Two seen in trial tests of speed
The horse that bik or breaks,
Although he sometimes takes the lead,
He nsyer takes ;he stuSes
While -and-stp a1J -on-t the Stride
Though slow.r on the bit.
Is often on he winning side
Because he's got the grit"
I've seen some fellows in my time,
Good, noble men and strong
With hearts less human than divine,
Who couldn't got along.
NO matter W here you placed them, jim.
They didn't sem u f.;
They couldn't win or sink or swim;
They didn't have tho grit"
Amid the countless ills of life,
It's pleasures and It's woe,
The strongest factors in thu strife
Are steady licks and blows;
And though we may not always win
We never will submit
But still wade in, dear brother Jim,
Aud die like men of''grit =
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DYSPEPSIA.

sedentary habits, mental worry, nervous
excitement, excess or imprudcnce I'm eat
ing or drinking, and various other causes,
induce Constipation followed by general
arrangement of the liver, kidneys, and
stomach, in which the disorder of each
organ increases the infrmity of the others.
The immediate results are Loss of Ape
tite, Nausea, Foul Breath, Heartburn, Flat
ulence, Dizziness, Sick Headaches, failure
OF physical and mental YigOr, distressing
sense Of weight and fullness In the stomach,
and increased Costfveness, all of which are
known under one head as Dyspepsia.
In every instance where this disease does
not originate from scrofulous faint in the
blood, AYERS PILLS may be confidently
relied upon to effect a cure. Those cases
not amenable to the curative influence of
AYERS PILLS alone will certainly yield II
the PILLS are aided by the powerful blood
purifying properties of AYERS SARsAPA-
RILLA.
Dyspeptics should know that the longer
treatment of their malady is postponed,
the more difficult of cure it becomes.
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what we want at this camp
meeting" said Sam Jones, the 9th
er day, sis a gospel of power
mark the expression. How will
you get it? You know when God
wants to launch out his laws into
force to do work for himself he
don't count noses and see how many
noses he has got. He goes by
weight. He puts up scales and
weighs us. Do you understand?
There is many great two hun
dred-pound Methodist or Baptist
around this country, and put him
on Gods scale and he don't weigh
on ounce. He has great big fat
body, but if you could pull out his
soul and show it, then he would
say: What is that starved, shliv-
eled, shrunken thing you have got
there? Why it hasn't had a square
meal in ten years"
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Almost anu dau may see nersnn

Almost any day may see persons
unaccustomed to sudden and violent
physical exertion, run at breakneck
speed to catch passing street car
or railroad train. The disturbance
of the circulation thus caused be-
comes a severe strain upon the
heart and not infrequently serious
or fatal consequences follow.
Not long since young man of
twenty was found dead sitting in a
passenger car. The inquest discov-
cred the fact that he had been a suf-
ferer from heart disease, and that
his death was in all probability has
tened by the exertion in catching
the train.
During past year a number of
sudden deaths have occurred at
skating Kinks and gymnasiums, due
no doubt to violent exertion. A
diseased heart, properly taken care
of, may continue for years to &C
it's work without much
But a sudden exertion
or a violent emotion may immedi-
ately cause it's cessation forever.
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Nonresident Notice.

Mas uarwell aud wife ct ais vs.. Sheel Tay-
Tor ct ais.
IN this cause 1t appearing TO the satisfae-
/ ton of tho clerk that tho defendants
Ophelia, William, James and Sheel
TAYLOR and all other heirs of Caroline Wor-
lev decd, wilo Of Joe Worloy, who are IN
known to complainauts are ron-residents OF
the state OF Tennessee, 40 that the ordinary
process ftlns court cannot be served Onthem.
On motion it is therefore. ordered that publ
cation be made for four weeks in succession
in the Pulaski Citizen a newspaper publish
ed in the town Of Pulaski. in said state, re-
ouiring the said the defend to be and ap-
penr on the first day OF the county court to
be held for tho county of Giles, at the court
house in Pulaski, on the LIST Monday in Oc-
tober next, and answer compliments bill, or
the same will be taken for confessed as to
them and set for hearing eX-parte.
Aug2O-4t WILL s. EZELL, Clerk
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The recipe for the government
harness dressing is as follows:
One gallon neat foot oil, two
pounds bay-berry tallow, two
pounds beeswax. Put the above in
pan over a moderate fire. When
thoroughly dissolved, add two
quarts of castor oil; then while on
the fire stir in ounce of lamp black.
MIX well, and strain through a
a fine cloth to remove sediments let
it cool, and you have as fine dress
ing for harness or leather of any
kind as can be had.
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Sleep.

Never sleep In the day time, if
you can avoid it. Retire regularly
at the same hour each night-at
least by ten o'clock; and rise in the
morning as soon as you wake.
Make business of sleeping when
you do retire. Dismiss from your
mind every care and thought, and
dispense with all conversation
Never sleep over eight hours in one
night. Do not sleep on your back,
or with your mouth open. The
best position is on the right side.
Let your sleeping room be as large
as possible, with one side at least
to the sun Ian upper story is pref
erable); and in all weather have
your windows raised or lowered two
or three inches. In very damp or
cold weather invalids should have
a fire to get up by. Let the out
door air occupy your sleeping apart
ments, with your bed clothes well
exposed to it nearly all the fore
noon. Change all your clothes on
going to bed. Observe these rules
strictly, and you shall sleep sweetly
and soundly, and rise refreshed and
in the morning.
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Pure bred stock costs a little
more at the start, but when once
fully established on a place they
are an everlasting benefit, for all
their offspring are, as the parent
stock, far superior TO the mongrels,
and the little extra expense of get
ting choice stock to start with is
amply paid for by the superiority
of those they produce.
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Shoeing Horses,

On light soils that are free from
stones, horses may generally go un-
shod without injury. 1t is probably
too sudden an innovation 10 stop
shoing horses under all circum-
stances at present, but no doubt q
colt which has run without shoes
for two years, might still go on
without them and not suffer. A
light shoe without calks, to protect
the crust of the hoof from breaking,
and put on without ever cutting
the frog, leaving that to wear natu-
rally, would answer every desirable
purpose where shoes are necessary.
There are light steel shoes, made
with projecting blunt spurs, that
give secure foothold, and are bet
ter for the horse than the common,
roughly made, heavy iron ones,
which are often ignorantly set.
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lie journal a Hygiene. 4

LIE Journal Hygiene. A moder-
crate drinker of twenty years of
age may expect to live 1876 years
at thirty, 10; at forty, l1.6; at fifty,
los; at sixty, $50. The probability
for total abtainer is, at twenty
years, 44.3; at thirty, 36.5; at forty,
28.S; at fifty, 2l.25, and at sixty,
1929.
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Save all boards and bits of
tough timber aud put them away in
the barn or woodshed. How many
times Il year does a farmer want a
piece CT board, handle for maui,
or a stick for pin and if not at
hand, a whole board or fence rail
must be cut, or perhaps s half
day lost going to wagon shop.