The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-12-24
OUR HOME PAPER.
BY EsTELLE VEsHE.

Giles countians, did you read the
editors supplement-his eloquent
appeal to your good sense? 1t was
short, full of truth and strickly to
the point. You need the CITIZEN
your home paper-and pride for
your county, if nothing else, should
prompt you to subscribe at once.
Danish the thought, the excuse,
that you cannot spare the money,
even if trammeled by small means,
looking forward to borrowing your
neighbours paper, which perhaps
will be sent you under protest and
grudgingly. 1t is small sum of
money TO expend for good paper,
and there will be no occasion for
you TO feel like street beggar af-
ter you have paid for it, and expect
your wife to make hundred sacrl-
fees in return, and be constantly re-
minding her OF your great liberality
when it is nothing but your duty to
her, your country and yourself
The dollar and fifty cents you give
for the CITIZEN will contribute
more to your comfort and informa-
ton than a similar sum spent 9th
erwise.
Your family will watch for the
coming of the paper and thank you
each week for the pleasure it gives
them. 1t will bring smile to
your lip and a warmth to your
heart 1t will prove an instructor
and blessing to your household,
and you will feel before the year is
half gone that you cannot do with
out it. 1t will come to you with
sparkle OF wit, repartee, spirit and
gayety in its Columns variety
and refreshment as bright as j une
morning. 1t will tell you just where
to find a good physician if you
should be so unfortunate as to need
him; and just where to find a law
yer's Office { may the good Lord de
liver you) should you need his ser
vices. 1t will tell you too where to
find our fashionable merchant with
their counters teeming with every
thing lovely-and at cost-so cheap
that the very articles seem to catch
the general hilarity of the christ
mas times and wink at their owners
becomingly over the good bargains
their customers are getting. In
fact, you will find every branch of
business that is worth knowing any
thing about advertised in its col |
umns. 1t will also bring TO your
hearth the latest items of home and
foreign news; the latest political
intrigues and party victories,
sketches of travel and of new books,
romances mirroring human life
with its deep problems of love and
sorrow; now and then fugitive
poems that are gems unrevealed.
on agriculture and horti
culture ably written. Notes on
stock and poultry raising that give
you new ideas and promises of
greater success. News letters from
all over the country with graphic
detail of occurring items, making US
familiar with the social life of our
people, unattainable by any other
method, and binding us as a great
family in one common interest-the
pride and welfare of our county
and town.
The CITIZEN is earnest in its
spirit, unainching in courage and
has an unyielding confidence in the
truth and power of the holy scrip
lures, and you will find no hide
bound sectarianism cropping out in
It's columns. Nothing but what all
who care to grow in grace and sweet
-easonableness may read with profit
and unalloyed pleasure. Subscribe
for the paper and learn these facts
for yourself, besides gathering the
comfort of sell-satisfied conscience
that you are doing your duty to
your county by helping to sustain
her interests, her welfare. Helping,
in return for favors, a worthy man
to feed little mouths and shoe little
feet. A man who has through storm
and sunshine, defeat and success,
stood bravely at his post undaunt-
ed to work for our county, to help
in all her enterprises and to gather
and send out to you the latest items
of news occurring throughout our
broad land. A man who never
"bent the pregnant hinges of the
knee that thrift might follow faWn-
ing" but defended the right and
brow-beat the wrong without stint
or fear.
Last, and least of all, was not
requested to write this article. 1t
sprung from a desire to help those
who try to help themselves and to
call your attention especially to the
merits of the CITIZEN. have writ
ten truths and given gratuitous ad-
vice. If received and acted on it
will be of infinite benefit to you; if
rejected 1 shall feel that you have
been unjust to yourselves, but will
not censure me because ! have pre-
sumed to lay the facts before you
and urge you to become subscribers
for our home paper-the "CITIzEN,"
for your own good,
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