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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-29
Elmo, Texas,

Ed. CITIZEN.-There being no cor
respondent from this place to your
most valuable paper, l thought 1
would pen you a few lines and if it
finds its way into your columns will
report regularly from this point. At
present the weather is everything
that could be desired, a more lovely
and seasonable spring could hardly
be imagined, and the prospects OF our
agricultural population is certainly
at present rose oolored.
On the 9th inst. jack fross got in
his work in good shape, or at least
sufficient to nip our gardens to the
ground. Corn on many farms was
up and IS damaged but the sun
shine is warming the earth and veg
itation is growing rapidly.
The fruit was uninjured and the
yield promises to be abundant. The
prospect of a good crop of small
grain, such as wheat and oats, is
very hattering up to this writing.
There is no cotton planted in this
section. The health of our neighs
borhood is surprisingly good. Your
correspondent hopes to meet many
of his friends from old Giles this
summer. For fear l weary your pa
thence l will close. The CITIZEN is
welcome AID weekly visitor at
my house. Success to the CITIZEN
andsall it's friends. LEO.
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1t is an encouraging sign of the
times that SO many OF the leading
railway corporations now require
abstinence 1rJm Intoxicating bev-
erages on the part of their employees
while on duty, and in some instaE-
ces that they must be to- oil abstain
ers. This significant action, though
not prompted by philanthropic con
siderations, but rather with view
to dividends, is valuable practical
recognition of the temperance re-
form. If abstinence from intoxi-
cants on the part of the employees o.
great corporations is thus found tc
be great factor Of business sue
cess, such fact, is in itself an OH.
ject lesson Of great significance, H.
Illustrating the value and wisdom oil
total bstinence f9r all.-Dissemi.
nator.
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A DOGS Nose.

The following anecdote is related
in foreign contemporary by a
Well-known English gun-maker:
A black pointer dog, while hunt
ing in a moor in Argyleshire, was
on one occasion severely rated for
eating some carton, Ipart of dead
and putrid sheep. Passing to lee
ward of the carrion about an hour
afterward, the dog evidently remem-
bered the former scolding, and Civ
ing his master an expressive look
continued to hunt. The stencil
from the carrion was so great as TO
be almost insuppertable, and, hur-
rying past it, the master was sur
prised to observe the pointer, gen
orally most obedient animal, make
sudden wheel and draw directly
upon the carcass from which no
whistling or command could pre-
vent him. An advance to check
him led only to his steady and reg
ular approach, making point after
point to the dead sheep. Annoyed
at this, his owner seized him by the
neck and drew him away, when at
that moment q cock grouse rose
from the very mass of carrion, and
gayly Growing few down the hill
side, but was in very few minutes
afterward safely bagged. Alter the
bird had gone the pointer at once
cheerfully resumed his hunting.
The sense of smell was so powerful
ly discriminative as to detect the
presence of one small bird from
the horribly tainted air OF the dead
sheep.
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Oonnelled to Terms,

Widower Smith rode up one
morning to Widow Jones door and
gave the usual country signal that
he wanted to see somebody in the
house by dropping the reins and
sitting double with his elbows on
his knees.
Out tripped the widow, as lively
as a cricket, with a tremendous
black ribbon on her snow-white
cap.
Good morning" was soon said
on both sides and the widow waited
for what was further to be said.
"Well, Ma'am Jones, perhaps you
don't want to sell one of your COWS,
nohow, for nothing, any way, do
youp
well, there, Mr.. Smith, you
couldn't have spoke my mind bet
ter. A poor, lone woman like me
doesn't know what to do with so
many creatures and should be glad
to part with one if we can come to
| terms"
So they adjourned to the mead
ow; Farmer Smith looked at Roam,
then at the widow, at Brindle, then
at the widow again, and so through
the whole forty. The same call
was made every day for a week, bul
Farmer Smith could not decide
which cow be wanted. AT length
on Saturday when the Widow Jones
was in a hurry to get through with
her baking for Sunday, and had
sever so m 0ch" to do in the house,
as all farmers wives and widows
have on Saturdays, she was a little
impatient-Farmer Smith was as
iresolute as ever.
"That ere Attorney COW is pref
ty fair creature" but he stopped to
glance at the widows face and then
walked round her-nOt the widow,
but the COW. "That ere shorthorn
Durham is not bad looking COW,
but l don't know" another look
at the widow. The Alderney COW
[ knew before the late Mr.. Jones
bought her" Here he sighed at
the allusion to the late SIr. Jones;
she sighed and both looked at each
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Metal of the Fntnra.


Iron is the basis of our civiliza=
ton. Without it, says contempt
rary, we should have miserably
failed to reach our present exalted
station and the earth would scarce
ly maintain its present population.
Should it for a moment forget its
cunning ard lose its power, earth
quake shocks or the wreck of mat
ter could not he more disastrous.
However axiomatic may be every
thing that can be said of this Won
derful metal, it is undoubtedly GER
tain that it must give way 10 met
al that has still greater proportions
and vaster possibilities. Strange
and startling as may seem the as
sertion yet / believe it nevertheless
to be true that we are approaching
the period, if not already standing
upon the threshold OF the day, when
the magical elemen,swill be radical
ly supplanted and when this valua-
BILE mineral will be as completely
superseded as the stone of the
Aborigenes.
The coming metal, then, to which
our reference is made is aluminium,
the most abundant metal in the
earth's dust. Leaving out of con-
sideration the constituents of the
earth's centre, whether they be mol
ten or gaseous, more or less dense
as the case may be, as we approach
it, and combining ourselves to the
practical phase Of the subject the
crust) we find aluminium is beyond
question the most abundant and
most useful of all metallic sub
stances.
1t is the metallic base of mica,
feldspar, slate and clay. Professor
Dams saysi "Nearly Gil the rocks,
except limestones and many sands,
are literally ore beds of the metal
aluminium" 1t appears in the gem,
assuming a blue in the sapphire,
green in the emerald, yellow in the
topaz, red in the ruby, brown in the
emery, and so Oh to the white, gray,
blue and black Of the states and
clays. It has been dubbed hclay
metal'' and "silver made from clay"
also, when mixed with any consid-
cradle quantity of carbon, becom-
ing a grayish or a blush black,
"alum slate"
This metal in color is white and
next in lustre to silver. 1t has new
er been found in a pure state but is
known to exist in combination with
nearly two hundred minerals. Co.
rundum and pure emery are ores
that are very rich in aluminium, con
tanning about fifty-four per cent.
The specific gravity is about two
and one-half times that of water; it
is lighter than glass, or as light as
chalk, being only ene-third the
weight of iron and one-fourth the
weight of silver; it is as malleable
as gold, tenacious as iron and hard
er than steel, being next to the dia-
mond. Thus it is capable of the
widest variety of uses, being soft
when ductiliJy, fbrous when tenaci-
ty and crystalline when hardness is
required. Its variety of transfer
nations is something wonderful.
Meeting iron, or even iron at its
best in the form of steel, in the same
field, it easily vanquishes it at every
point, 1t melts at 1900 degrees F.,
or at least 600 degrees below the
melting point of iron and it neither
oxidizes in the atmosphere nor tar
nishes in contact with gases.-lron.
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A Mothers Influence.

In a railway car q man about go
years old came to sit beside me.
He had heard me lecture the eve
ming before on temperance. 81 am
master Of a ship" said he, Sailing
out of New York, and have just
returned from my fiftieth voyage
across the Atlantic. About 80 years
ago I was a sot, shipped while dead
drunk, and was carried on board
like log. When / came to, the
captain asked me, DO you remem-
Der you motherP / told him she
died before 1 could remember.
'Well,' said he, Il am a Vermont
man. When l was young l
was crazy to go to sea. At
last my mother consented. l
should seek my fortune. My boy
she said, i don't known anything
about the towns, and never saw the
sea, but they tell me they make
thousands of drunkards. Now,
promise me you'll never drink a
drop of liquor He said, 1 laid my
hands in hers and promised, as ]
looked into her eyes for the last
time. She died soon after Pve
been on every sea, seen the worst
kinds of life and men; they laughed
at me a milksop and wanted to
know if 1 was a coward. But when
they offered me liquor, l saw my
mothers pleading face, and 1 never
drank a drop. 1t has been my
sheet-anchor; 1 owe it all to that.
Would yon like to take that pledge
said he." My companion took it,
and he added, at has eavedgme
L .have a fine ship, wife and chill
dren at home, and 1 have helped
others"
That earnest mother saved two
men to virtue and usefulness; how
many more. He who sees all can
alone tell.-Wendell Phillips.
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Amusing Case Of BOycotting.

An amusing boycott has been in
progress for several days on q ba
kerry on Hudson street in New
York city, kept by a widow named
Gray. She had been guilty of en-
ploying non-union bakers, and re-
fused the demand of a committee of
union bakers either to compel her
workmen to join the union or dis
charge them. She declined to do
either, but expressed fixed deter
mination to conduct her business
in her own way, without interior
ence from any one. "Then we de-
clare a boycott announced the
committee, which was carried into
execution by some thirty men,
members of the Bakers union tax
ing up positions in front OF her
store. They distributed handbills
setting forth that Mrs. Gray was a
Zoe to organized labor, and that her
bakery should not be patronized
by friends of the cause. Frequent
visits to the neighboring saloons
caused the boycotters to become
more aggressive. They insulted
people who went into the bakery
and scared off children. Appeals
to the police of the vicinity not be-
ing needed, Mrs. Gray came out
with a broom and brandished it
right and left in the faces and
about the ears of the boycotters,
who ingloriously fed to the next
doors pavements. This was on
the second day of the strike. Sat
urday there was an unprecedented
rush of customers to the bakery.
Mrs. Gray had never done such a
business before. She observed that
if the rush continued, she would be
compelled to enlarge her place.
Flowers were brought and sent by
admirere of her pluck. People
came from a distance to buy bread
and cakes; but the grocers in the
vicinity stopped selling her bread
because threatened with a loss of
custom if they persis ed. So far
she has gained more than she has
lost by the boycott. A large num-
Der of ladies living at a distance
from Hudson and Christopher
streets have resolved to send for
bread and cakes so long as the
boycott is kept up. The baker s
union is in a quandary. They have
found that boycotting a woman is
different sort of thing from en-
forcing boycott on a man. None
of the sterner sex would have dared
to attack them with a dirty broom,
nor would a boss male baker enlist
the active sympathies of so many
people as quickly as Mrs. Gray
has.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-29

1t has become the fashion to
talk of girls, as at present brought
up, as more ornamental than use
full. Old bachelors occasionally in
dulge in TRADES against woman's
! ignorance of housekeeping. If
these lay sermons are correct, the
only mission of a wife is to bake
ank sweep and sew. Now we do
not underrate the Importance of
such requirements. A girl has no
right to marry poor man if she is
entirely ignorant of household mat
tiers, and most young men in this
country are comparatively poor, and
have their fortune to make for
themselves. But to be ignorant of
| household affairs is one thing-to
be drudge, or upper servant, is
another. We have often seen q
lively, pretty girl, after a few years
of marriage, sink into q listless,
careworn matron. A wife should
be something above a mere mental.
She onght to be "helpmate," and
no wife can be that in the higher.
sense of the term, unless she is
Il companion. Many an otherwise
excellent woman, perfect in the or
dering of her household, and capa-
BILE, when necessary of working
heartily herself, drives her husband
to the company of pot-hOuse COM
1anioDs because she is no campan
ion for him. We do not say that a
doctors wife should study medI-
cice, or a a lawyers wife study law,
or mechanics wife should learn
his trade, in order to become a
companion to her husband. This
is not what we mean. But every
man, even the most Illiterate, has
his peculiar tastes and sympathies;
and it should be the business of a
wife to discover them, to be interest
ed in them, and to be able to talk
appreciatively about them.
The poorer a couple are, unless
in the case of actual day-laborers,
the more they are thrown together,
and the more need there is of COM
partnership. With the very rich,
society occupies much of the time
of the wife, if not of the husband,
and there is, perhaps, less abso
lutte need of this companionshlp.
But even with the very rich, ca
pscity for companionship would
add greatly to the mutual happiness
If husband and wife, and often pre-
vent sad family tragedies. Wives,
neglect net your household duties,
buS be something more than mere
housekeepers-be intelligent COM
naniOns IN vOnr hushandS
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-29

The Art Exhibition at Nashville
which occurs in May promises to be
eminently successful. The secre.
tary of the Association, Mr.. D. II.
Rains, has just returned from 8
very successful northern trip in the
interest of the exhibition. New
York, st. Louis, Chicago, Cincin.
natl and Detroit have all contribu-
ted rare pictures from. the best
artists. One very interesting fea
Jure will be the lectures by Prof
Ives, of Louis, which will be illus
trated with stereoptican views
Prof. French, of Chicago, will also
deliver a lecture, and upon the
whole the exhibit will equal OF
surpass the very attractive exhibit
of last year.
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Faots Abont Strong Drink.


Bishop Ireland, in an address be-
fore the Plenary Council in Balti-
more, presented the following sta
tistics regarding the ruin and sin
resulting from the use of strong
drink:
"In San Francisco last year there
were arrested 1860 people. Oh
these 1880 were for drunkenness
or disturbances of the peace owing
to drunkenness. In Philadelphia
in 1881, 27,22S arrests out of 44,097
were for intoxication. In Balti.
more in 1888 there were 1888 ar
rests made, q very small number
when compared to other cities, but
of this number 5.3IS were fol
drunkenness and disturbances Of
the peace arising from too much
drink. In 1881 there were in the
United States 1875, 100 liquor dealers
one dealer to every 270 persons,
including men, women and chill
dren. The saloons are more nu-
merous in the larger cities. In Bos-
ton there is a liquor saloon to every
$50 people, in Chicago one to every
lao, in New York one to every 135,
and so on. The speaker then argu-
ed that the average number OF
drinking people could not possibly
support the saloons unless hey
drank to excess. In Boston in 1881
the bureau of labor statistics made
an effort to trace back the source OF
every arrest made, and after care
full research they found that Y per
cent. was due TO drink"
These are words of truth and So
berness; and it is a matter for
thanksgiving that the bishops OF
the Roman church are beginning to
awake and bear testimony on this
important subject.
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Have an Object IN Life and Succeed in II

have an OD]ect IN Lille ana succeed IN 1t
SUCCESS is great beautifier.
Your disappointed man is lank and
his seedy clothes are not becoming.
Your successful man has smile al
ways at command and his feeling OF
independence and accomplishment
give him bearing which stamps
him Enthusiastically. We have all
heard the story of the minister who
borrowed ten dollars of friend just
before going into the pulpit.
cpl return it as soon as / get
through" he said. "Rut the con
seriousness that 1 haven't a penny ia
my pockets takes all the spirit out
of me-" Money does not mean
success but this minister had firm
hold of the idea that money helps
to success if rightly used.
The moral of these remarks is,
that to have worthy object in life
and to succeed in 1t is worth more
than all the inherited wealth, the
good looks or the bright wit in the
world. Young men-it is strength.
Young women-it is worth all the
curls and bangles you can buy. 1t
is the most becoming thing heaven
grants,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-29

A Salem Mass mechanic hiss
invented a method of ventilating
railway cars by means of fans re
volving underneath the car, through
gearing attached to the axles. The
air is forced up into the Car through
pipes having bell shaped, movable
openings above each seat; but this
air is freed from dust by passing
first through water. The Boston &
Lowell road is testing the device
Iron.
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Wild Cherry and Tar.

Everybody knows the virtues OF
Wild Cherry and Tar as a relief and
cure for any affection of the Throat and
Lungs. Combined with these two in
gradients are a few simple healing
remedies in the composition of DIR. Bo-
sanko's Cough and Lung Syrup, max
ing it just the article you should always
have in the house, for coughs, colds,
Group and bronchitis. Sold by Ii. M.
Grigsby. 3
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-29

A mixture of zince white with
zinc chloride is found to furnish q
paint of great value for both wood
aud metals, as it becomes very hard,
and can be washed and brushed
without injury, which qualities are
of course, of prime Importance. An
essential precaution, however, to be
observed in regard to this paint il
not to apply in rainy or frosty
weather as it then becomes mealy
and scales off.-Irou,
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Miss Nellie Kent,

Wellington, Lorain county, o., writes:
CDR. s. d. HARTMAN s. Co., Columbus,
o., Gentlemen: have been a great suff-
rer from chronic catarrh, bronchitis and
neuralgia of the face. / have been taking
your PERUNA for one month. The neu-
ralgia and catarrh is almost well, and the
cough is much better. like your PERU
MA very much"
c. E. Dupler, aged thirty-four years, of
Equality, Illinois, had been affected with
a chronic catarrh which he first discov-
cred six years ago. In succession he lost
his smell, taste and hearing. The disease
was so malignant that it not only attacked
the softer parts, but destroyed the bony
partition of the nose and seriously affected
the external parts. He could only hear
watch ticking by holding it close to his
ear. He suffered intense pain in the nose,
from which green, dry clots of offensive
odor fell. In this condition he presented
himself to DR.. Hartman several months
ago. He can now hear a watch eight
inches from his right and six inches from
his left ear. His taste and smell are again
returning, and the external part of the
nose is quite well. Few more grateful
patients ever left physicians Office than
Mr.. Duper. He said, Why in the
world was PERUNA not prescribed for
me long agoi"
Cramps of the Stomach.
We have the privilege of reporting the
following case. Those similarly affected
can get the name and address of DIR.
Hartman. The lady does not want her
name IN tine papers. For year, or years,
1.-THE writer does not remember the length
of time,) this lady had cramps, the most
fearful, of the stomach, every day and
night, (which would be followed by that
terrible weakness, which was something
wonderful" The suffering and distress
of this lady was Undesirable and almost
uncomfortable. After all the physicians
and medicines had failed, and all hope
had almost fed. DIR. Hartman was con-
suited, and from the first day of taking
his PERUNA, the cramps and all bad
feeling left her, and now for over month
has been entirely free from every symp-
tom. A more thankful patient no doctor
ever had.
Mr.. Boggs, druggist, Charlestown,
Kanawha Co, w. Va, writes "PERUNA
sells well here and gives good satisfaction.
Customers speak well of it."
DR.. J. Anderson, Coshocton, Ohio,
writes "Your PERUNA sells we'll and
gives good satisfaction. consider it a
splendid medicine"
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cold Roam is an old milcF,

other. 'Old Roam is an old milch I,
and so is brindle but / have know n
better" A long stare followed this
speech, and the pause was getting
awkward, and at last Mrs. Jones
broke cut:
"Lor, Mr.. Smith, If Pun the one
you want, do say so"
The intentions of Widower Smith
and Widow Jones were duly pub
lished the next day in church for
the first time; and as soon as they
were published three times they
were married,
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The available coal of Alabama,
collected into one lump, would he
forty five miles long by twenty five
miles wide by ten feet thick. A
breaking off of 5000 tons daily from
the lump would leave a large part
of it untouched at the expiration Of
5000 years.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-29

The farmer should not neglect
the sorghum crop (after the ex-
perience of this winter) for winter
food fer his stock. The better plan
for the management of this crop is
to plant late-even after the wheat
or oats are off-so that the crop
will come in late. then cut and
shock in field, tying around the
middle and around the top; it will
cure nicely in the shock, and shed
the rain we'll. Plant as convenient
ly to the feeding corn as possible,
1t is fine for mules and cattle run
through the cutter as oats. 1t is
fine feed, and the stock clean it up
well-fed in the stalk. They clean
up the stalks so clean you would
not known, passing along, that the
stalks had been thrown ont.
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DYSPEPSIA.

T S0dentary habits, mental worry, nervous
excitement, excess or imprudcncc In cat-
ing or drinking, and various other causes,
induce Constipation followed by general
derangement of tho liver, kidneys, and
stomach, in which tho disorder OF each
organ increases tho inGrmity Of the others.
The immediate results are Loss Of Ape
tite, Nausea, Foul Breath, Heartburn, Flat
ulence, Dizziness, Sick Headache, failure
of physical and mental vigor, distressing
sense Of weight and fullncss in the stomach.
and increased COstiycncss, all Of which arc
known under one head a5 Dyspepsia.
In every instance where this disease docs
not originate from scrofulOus faint in the
blood, AYERS PILLS may be confidently
relied upon 10 effect n cure. Those cases
not amenable 10 the curative influence 0c
AYERS PILLS alone viii certainly Weld IL
the PILLS are aided by the powerful blood
purifying properties Of AYERS SARSAPA~
RILLA.
Dyspeptics should know that the longcr
treatment of their malady IS postponed.
the more difficult Of cure'it becomes.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-04-29

The milking should be done as
quietly, gen lily and rapidly as DOS
sible. A noisy and slew mixer
will soon ruin the most gentle of
cows.