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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21
The Sucnessful Farmer.

lie praCJlCdl inquiry IN every
farmers mind is: What does it
require TO become a successful far
mer? One very intelligent and sue
cessful farmer has answered that
question most truly by saying that
"successful farmers does not de-
pend so much upon what a man
has, as upon what a man is
There is world of good sense in
that answer. Now a man is what
he makes himself. Intelligence lies
at the base of all success, whether
in farming or in anything else. We
mean practical intelligence, not a
knowledge of rhe classes, langua-
ges, etc. Said the wisest man that
ever lived: "Iron sharpeneth iron,
SO a man sharpeneth the counte.
nance of his friend"
And after all that is the true
idea of practical intelligence. We
gather from each other the ideas,
strength and purpose to become
successful. No one person compre
hends all the phases and methods
leading to success. Each thought
full man has good ideas on plans,
but not on all subjects and ways.
A gets from B a good practical
idea on managing live stock, and B
is not quite up with the best meth
cd of some other department OF
farming, and SO he gets a better
idea from A on that. And thus it
lie through all departments of ac-
tive life.
Whenever you find a man that
believes he "knoWs it alp and has
nothing 70 learn from others, you
can put him down as an egotistIcal
nobody, and always a miserable
failure on the iarm. The success
full man you will find to be bright,
quick, looking here and there,
and laying all men and all
nature under tribute to his work
and purposes in life. We have in
mind scores of such men. Recently
one OF them remarked to US that, no
odds what kind of times we had,
while he might miss it this year or
that, in his farm plans, yet taking
any period of five years, in the last
40 of his farm life, he had averaged
during such periods a profit Of
more than ten per cent. net on his
farm productions after deductlDg
interest on amount invested in land,
taxes, labor, seed and marketing.
That man has left no stone unturn-
ed to acquaint himself and qualify
himself for all his farm duties, and
that too before we had agricultural
colleges or agricultural schools.
He says that he takes and reads five
or six agricultural periodicals and
papers, devoted to his own interest,
and considers it the best annual in
vestment he ever makes. In this
way he becomes thoroughly con-
versant with the thoughts and
methods of all engaged in the same
pursuit, for in these periodicals and
papers he finds the contributions
and current writings of thousands
OF other successful farmers who
have been wide-awake like himself.
And thus he utilizes in his own
plans all that seems good to him
which he has not adopted.
And SO we conclude with the sen
sible quotation above: Successful
farming does not depend so much
upon what a man has, as upon what
he is" for one must be intelligent
in order to turn to good account
what he has.-Indiana Farmer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21
Indulgence of Children.

A child taught to obey until it is
years old knows nothing else. 1t
is not easy to begin the lesson at
that age, harder still at 8, and qnite
out of the question at II. Indulge
your child, say three or four years
old, in all its little whims and fan
cies, give it everything it wants, ss-
pecially if it cries for it, make your
self, your servants and your house
hold its slave, allow it to contradict
you, to kick and scream (things are
wonderfully cute in a baby you
might make show of resistance,
but give up always in the end },
then tell your neighbors of all
their little sayings and doings in
it's presence, talk them over fre
quently, deceive it in things 1t is
too young to understand, tell it you
are not going out and then slip off.
Practice all these harmless ID
little things upon your child, and
although it may be endowed with
intelligence and a naturally sweet
disposition, if it does not grow up a
selfish and unamiable daughter or q
wilful and overbearing son it GER
tainly will not be your fault.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

A great many of our exchanges
in the state and some few moth eat
en- sheets outside have doubted the
Cleveland cradle story of the Pulas-
XII CITIZEN. We constantly bear in
mind that the CITIZEN is always
certain of its facts and he is ras b
man who charges that paper with a
deviation from real George Wash
ington truth. We bear in mind
how well and ably it proved that
Colonel Ingersel was guilty of pla-
garism and doubly substantiated its
charge. We have faint recollec-
ton too of how it .'downed" those
foolish fellows Rwho cast doubts
on its having seen and handled the
veritable ark of the covenant. No,
sir-e-el We are not the stupid
dolt to deny the fact that the CITI-
ZEN has in possession the cradle in
which Cleveland's croupy, colicky,
infanille life was soothed, and we
will bet $495 10 that the CITIZEN
has got it and dare the New York
Sun or any other paper to meet us
in Pulaski any day after the wealth
er breaks and .settle it.-Lawrence
Democrat.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21
Try It Just for Luck. y

The question of continued silver
coinage at the present rate by the
government seems to be one that
can never be settled by argument.
The anti-silver men say that if the
present rate of coinage contin-
ues it will result Tin a monetary
panic. That would prove a great
disaster at present and one that we
can foresee no remedy for, after
the silver has actually been coined
and produced that resul4. On the
other hand, the silver men claim
that the effect of the suspension OF
silver coinage will be to unsettle
values and precipitate a panic.
This would also be a disaster that
it would be wise to avoid, but we
think II suggests its own remedy.
If we are bound TO have a panic
anyhow, let US have one. that can
be met and conteracted. If sus
pension of the coinage act produc-
es penic it is reasonable to sup
pose that a vigorous resumption
would soon counteract it. Then
why not adopt Mr.. Cleveland's
views and suspend the coinage OF
silver until the evil effects become
apparent? We have heretofore fa-
vored the continuance of the coin
age under the present law, but af-
ter reading the arguments on both
sides, we are satisfied that nothing
short of an actual experiment will
ever settle the question and we pre-
fer the one that has the least ele-
ment of danger about it, and one
that can be remedied if it should
prove to be wrong. If we only
knew how much of the talk on the
subject means "buncombe," for po-
litical effect, we would feel more
confident, but we are not willing
to risk running the splendid busi-
ness prospects ahead of US is any
experiment for which there is no
known antidote in case it should
prove to be disastrous.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

A CoRREcTIoN.-In your last is
sue, under the heading Of "farm
method and experience" you say
that ..an unknown exchange says
that by reversing a scion or branch
of tree the new tree will produce
fruit without pits, cores or seeds.
Now the facts o.. the case are that
the whole the whole thing is simply
ridiculous, and as false as perjury.
1t is e trick of the trade to deceive
the uninitiated. Millions of grape
vines are propagated in that way, or
by bending down the vines and
holding them firmly in the surface
Ioil until they become well rooted
when they are taken up and placed
upon the market, and the fruit is
the same as the original plant that
bore it. All nurserymen know this.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21
The PHrophore.


At a recent meeting of the
Academy of Sciences at Paris a
plate half filed with water, in
which were half a dozen insects
about an inch in length, which
shone like diamonds, although the
room was filed with sunshine, was
passed around among fhe mem bers.
These insects had been brought
from Mexico, where they are to be
found in the forests. Their scien-
tific name is the pyrophore; and,
as none had ever before been seen
in Europe, they created quite a
sensation. The light resembles
that of glow worm or a fire fly,
although as much more brilliant
and intense as an electric lamp sur
passes a wax taper in its power of
illumination. When the light be-
gins to fade, it can be made as
brilliant as before by shaking the
insect, or dipping it in water. 1t
is said the Indians of Mexico nse
them for light at night, as a few
will suffice to illuminate an entire
room. When they are walking at
night, they put one on each foot,
so they can be sure of their way.
and also that they do not step upon
any venemous snake or reptile with
which the tropical forests abound.
The Mexican ladies buy them of
the Indians, and inclose them in a
transparent bag, which they wear
in their hair or at the neck. The
effect is very beautiful, especially
when several are worn; and, as the
Indians sell them for a few cents a
dozen, they are within the reach OF
every fair one. They are fed on
sugar cane, and, if well taken care
of, will live a long time. One placed
upon a page will enable it to be
read with ease Ia the darkest night.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

"Well, I'm glad to see that at
least one baseball club has gone
into a useful business, for of all
foolishness l think this thing
Of going around over the country
playing ball is the most foolish
of all, "the remark which greeted
Mr.. Squildig as he appeared at the
breakfast table this morning.
'sGone intS a useful business?'
querried Squildig.
"Yes, and hope the other clubs
will follow the example. 1t may
take little business away from the
colered men, but it will be benefit
after ALL"
"What do you mean?' asked
Squildig, mystified.
"Why, the paper this morning
says the Metropolitans whitewash-
ed Brooklyn, and l think all the
clubs had better go into the white
washing business"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21
Sam Jones Power,
Southern Bivolac.

southern BlVV1ac.
He is perhaps the finest exhibi-
tion of the effect of apparently re-
served force that we have ever
known. He never seems to know
that he is making any such impress
sion; yet, as he stands In easy, non
chalant attitude, pausing between
sentences as he leisurely walks the
platform, seeming to select pebble
from q mountain OF powders at his
command, he is the imperson alton
of reserved force. This is equally
true when, as matter of fact, the
sentences he is utterlng are the
crystalized results of the intensest
preparation of which he is capable,
and contain the ultimate light with
in his reach. 1t is equally true
when he is repeating himself for
the twentieth time to the same au-
dience. The faculty is marvellous
and its power almost boundless.
After the influence over the mass
es, the legitimate result of his un-
tagging wit, love and profound
earnestness, the next element of
power is his reliance upon the intu-
tive rather than logical methods of
stating truth. Like all men who
have moved the masses, he dogma
tizes, and that with such fury of
earnestness that the hearer, for the
time at least, docs not stop to doubt.
Accompanying and as a part of
this method is terse and renarka-
bly, lucid statement of practical
truth put in the most cogent and
powerful form of which words are
capable.
All grammatical and rhetorical
rules are sacrificed, even a moder-
ate respect for good taste is ignored,
if it be in the way of pungency and
power. Usually the force of the
statement crushes it's own way to
conviction. If the statement is re-
garded as not perfectly lucid in it
self, he neither restates nor argu, .
| it, but trusts to illustration, by
which method he escapes all cOnfu-
sion and keeps alive a keen interest.
Take his solution of the question,
4 hhCAC NOCO OAC SNAA VI
lie? He thus illustrates: "a gen.
tleman said to me, 'Why do you so
denounce all games of chance and
Speculatlons In futures? The ele
ment of chance found in these runs
through all the transactions of life.
If you plant a cotton crop 1T Is a
chance as to whether you make or
lose; you start on christian course
it is a chance as to whether you
vim or lose'" Mr.. Jones replies
"All you say is true; but if I plant
cotton and should raise a large crop
and sell it at fine price, is any bo'
dy else necessarily hurt thereby
If begin a christian life and run
we'll the race until a crown is won
is anybody else hurt therebyP Nc
casuist who has once heard him car
forget the kernel he has thus deity
disencumbered of ali husk.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21
CHANCERY SALE
OF VALUABLE
ELK RIVER LANDS.

hillary Ward and others, vs.. NJ. &. Eddins,
ct ais.
DURsUANT to decree of the chanOery
L court of Giles county, Tennessee, in this
and other causes consolidated / will sell on
Thursday, Jan. %, 1886,
at public sale to the highest bidder in the
town of Elkton on a credit of one and two
years with interest from the day Of sale and
free from the equity of redemption the
lands mentioned in the pleadings situat-
cd in the lst civil district of Giles comfy on
the south side Of El K river and being lot No.
4 containing S6 90-lo0 acrea, and lot No, 5
containing 1G4 l60 acres of the ubdivis-
on OF the lands OF VIM. E. Eddirs, decd.
These arc very desirable lands. Parties
wishing TO purchase will do well to examine
the same before the day of sale. Purchas-
ers will be required to execute notes with
good and solvent personal security and liens
will be retained upon each lot of land for
the payment OF its purchase money. Every
body come to Elkton on the day Of sale as it
will be or may be profitable to them. Dec.
99d, 1885. J B. STACY D. c. q NJ.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

We heard the other day little
testimony as to the value of farm
life as an.aid to longevity, that is
worth repeating. A well-known
and popular clergyman of this city
Of advanced years was asked to
give his age. He replied that the
record in the family register made
him 81 years old, but judging by
his feelings he was not more than
81; and he accounted for feeling so
much younger than he was by say
ing that he spent twenty years on
q farm and he believed that this
had added at least ten years to his
life. We have no doubt Of it. There
is no pursuit more healthful, and
none more invigorating to mind as
well as body, than that in which
the All-wise Creator placed our first
parents, and which He directs His
chosen people to pursue, farming.
Ind. Farmer.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

Every woman has to learn to be
sclf-reliant. She must have judg-
ment enough to know what to wear
and how to dress herself. She
must not change her manner of
dressing for the purpose of pleas
ing some one else. A sensible wo-
man will acquaint herself with her
husbands business affairs and
know what she can afford, and
dress accordingly-no matter what
any person may say. Many will
tell you that you should have this,
that and the other because some
one else has it, and your husband
is doing as good a business as that
woman's is. Turn a deaf ear to all
such. If any one is vulgar enough
to find fault with your attire, they
are not the kind of associates you
want. Cut their acquaintance and
select your friends from a more in
telligent class. You should have a
higher aim in life than to try to
please every one. You might have
gone on coloring ycur shawl until
it had worn every hue OF the rain
bow and still you would not have
pleased your neighbors. Always
be your own sensible self. Act as
your hitherto good judgment has
caused you to do and yeu will
please your husband and your old
auntie that has your interest as
much at stake as if you were her
own daughter; aud you will please
many sensible people. And those
that have no higher aim in life
than to seek to follow every fashion
Of form or color that is presented
to them you need not care to please.
They are in such close pursuit OF
fashion that they will not miss you
in little while if you refuse to fall
in rank. Some one else will fill the
place, and they rush on, and you
will be left more important one.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

Please give a recipe in your next
number for keeping beef in quantities
of 100 pounds or more from getting
strong. 9. ii. j.
For 200 pounds of beef boil four gall
Ions of water, two pounds OF brown SUI
gar, three ounces of saltpetre and ten
pounds of salt till all are dissolved.
Skim frequently. Pack the meat in
barrel as closely as possible and pour
on the brine when cold.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

An enterprising Pittsburg woman
is about to start an escort bureau
in Washington, Baltimore, Bos-
escort bureau in Washington, Bos-
ton, New York and Philadelphia,
where young ladies without beaus
can secure escorts for the theater
by paying $25. She is allowed to
choose from an album a face to her
taste, and the young man pays all
the expenses
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

This country ought not to receive
a dollar from China for any such
purpose as the erection of mOnu-
ment to Grant. If any donation be
accepted from the Chinese govern
ment 1t ought to be one for the ben
eft of Cinnamon who have been
robbed, shot and driven into the
desert by the hoodlums of occiden-
tai America.-Chicago Times.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

The man who seeks Office in
Dyer county, or elsewhere in the
state, fails to correctly read the
signs of the times if be thinks be
can be electeu by pandering to the
whisky element. The temperance
movement, whether it comes in the
guise of high license or not is 4
giant making immense strides in
the state, aAd that aspirant for
nuhIic faAor who is so blind as to
oppose it will be crushed In defeat
State Gazette, Dyersburg, Tenn.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

A little boy who was told that
tae tiny baby sister he was bending
over had come from heaven, looked
up a while and then said, "Please
tell US about heaven, baby, before
You forget it."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

Don't neglect to subscribe fer
one of the standard poultry jour
nails. The hints it may give in 3
single number may be worth 5
years subscription.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner will
contribute to the February Har
per's paper on Education as a
Factor in Prison Reform" He ex-
plains and advocates the Elmira
system of presenting to convicts
the powerful motive of the desire of
regaining liberty by means of edu-
cational discipline in which the
prisoner cannot share-including a
compulsory workshop, school and
physical gymnasium-the result be-
ing that the prisoner goes back to
his duties in society before the end
of his sentence a man remodeled by
wholesome self-development into
the possibilities of a good citizen.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

A paper on manual Training" :"
by Charles H. Ham, of Chicago,
which Is to be printed in the Feb
ruary issue Of Harper's Magazine,
will give an interesting summary OF
the practical work done il schools
throughout the country in this di-
rection. Horace Mann endeaVored
to start reform in this direction as
far back as 1910, but the resistance
against it was effective. Mr.. Ham
dates the new interest in the sub
ject in this country to the Centen-
NAL Exhibition, where some models
of iron working in its successive
stages suggested to DR.. Runkle,
president of the NJ Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology, a plain way
of combining school and practical
instru ction. There are now courses
in manual training in more than
forty of our educational institu-
tions.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

More OF Mr.. j. c. Boards inter
esting illustrations of curious fea-
lures of natural history will appear
in the February HArper's in con-
nection with a paper by Olive
Thorne Miller, on Living Balls" J"
*s*
Ex- Minister S. G. w. Benjamin
will contribute a paper on "The
Tazieh, or Passion Play in Persia"
to the February Harper's.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21
BOb'S Adventure.

ut Do wish, Bob, you would
get married !''cried my moth
az er, impatiently, one day af-
S ter she had endured my
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21

The "Blue Grass Region" of Ken
tucky is famous for many other
things besides its whiskey. Its in
habitants consider it zone of the
very beautiful spots on the face Of
the earth" as is chronicled by Mr..
James Lane Allen, who is to have
a paper on it in the February Har-
per's. Accompanying his descrip-
tion, there will be some noteworthy
illustrations by Mr.. Julian Rix.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-01-21
LITERARY NOTES.

When Goldsmith wrote "She
Stoops to Conquer" he adapted
words ia a pretty but difficult Irish
air, "The Humors of Ballamagairy,'
intending that they should. be sung
by Miss Hardcastle. But as Mrs.
Bulkley, who, as critics would say
nowadays, created the part, could
not sing, the song was not included
in the play when it was first plb-
lished. Goldsmith gave it 10 Bos-
well, Johnson's "Bozzy," who sent
it to the London Magazine soon af-
ter poor Nell's death. In making
illustrations for "She Stoops," Mr..
Abbey has made this song the text
for one of his most charming pic
lures, which will be given with the
instalment in the February Har-
per's.
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