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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-05-13

''The great evil is that the whole sys-
tenn of renting and working land is out
of joint. There must be complete rev.
olution in our industrial system. In the
old times the sfave-owner portioned his
land year by year so as to keep its fertil-
ity up; and in the time his slaves were
not in the cotton he had them gather
muck or pine trash and make manure
the land kept even or gained. Now it is
all done by hiring or renting, and
every negro only wants his days
wages or his crop for that year, and
forces it out of the land by fertilizers.
Now these fertilizers do not build up
land like manure does; they are nothing
but chemical agents-they force the land
to give out what was in it, and leave it
poorer"
Then how do the planters make any
''The few who make any are doing it
by using up their capital-that is, the fer
tility of the soil. And millions of acres
have already reached a point where they
yield no profit at all. The negro who
works such piece can make wages, but
the owner gets nothing. do not know
ten men in the state who make money
by cotton-growing alone. When you find
a planter who is doing well, you will find
that he is practicing law or medicine or
trading in something. "-"Parke" in Chi
cago Times.
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The Grand plaza of Mexico.

This is certainly the most historic spot
in America. Quebec, with the blood of
Montcalm and Wolfe and Montgomery
and Arnold on her storied stones, appeals
to us strangely. But here on this spot
stood the temple to the sun, ON whose
summit Cortez saw, from the deck of his
brigantine, sixty of his valiant soldiers
sacrificed to the great stone idol, now in
yonder museum. Here ne imprisoned
Montezuma; here he found the sealed-up
chamber, with its heaps and heaps OF
gold and precious stones. Here he slew
the GOO Aztec mobiles; here, and here
abouts, he and his Spanish soldiers slew
more than 200, 600 Of these helpless and
docile little brown Azteosl And here,
after he had destroyed the old city en-
tirely and built new one and died, was
found, century after, the marvellous
calendar stone," the Aztec almanac.
And here was found the sacrifice stone"
that surmounted the temple to the sun.
When you read in the guide books
that this stone weighs twenty-five tons,
and when you see that the calendar
stone, with its thousands of wonderful
figures, is nearly ten feet across, then,
and then only, are you ready to read
Prescott. And you are ready, too, TO be-
lieve all that he has TO tell you of the
terrible scenes that have taken place on
THU Grand plaza.-Joaquin Miller.
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Llnooln's contsmp. for oonvsD.lonall.lss.

Lincoln's Contempt for Conventionalitias.
Mr.. Lamon describes Mr.. Lincoln as
pre-eminent in moral courage, eloquent
IN speech and possessed of great COM
mon sense. With him there was method
IN every move. He never trif1ed. He
was charged with overmuch seriousness
and melancholy, which was often mis-
construed for encouragement. He never
told an anecdote that did not point to a
moral This character often subjected
him to adverse criticism among the ul-
ira fashionables, especially when this
class was made the object Of his satire.
1t was said of him that he lacked ven
GRAFTON amounting almost to moral OBJ
liquity. He stopped to no vindication in
life, leaving that for history. Mr.. Lin
coin was epigrammatic in calculating his
ideas, INDUCED in no studied phrases,
was no fumbler of works.
1t will be acknowledged that Mr.. Lin
coin lacked dignity in outward appear
ance. He fully realized that he was
formed by nature all right, but was not
moulded by art, In speaking of his lack
of polish he said: Il guess viii leave
the fancy work to others and viii browse
around the utility department as best
CAM Mr.. Lincoln, however, showed
that he was master of forci-
bic nondescript sort of dignity
never before recognized by orthodox
diplomats. No American at any period
in our history could write paper of pub
lie import with more impressive serious
ness, circumspection and grave dignity.
He was ever genial, tender and social,
never bewailing his hardships or exult-
ing in his triumphs. His great ambition
was to leave the world better than he
found it.-New York World.
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An1ntroduotion to pius tx.

A chamberlain opens the door for you,
loudly calling your name and titles, a
cameriere follows behind you with a
large tray, on which are laid the objects,
ivory, gold, silk, silver, anything that
you have brought with view of the
pope blessing it, that you may bring l.
to your Catholic friends, who look at it
from that moment as a relic. You hold
in your hand whatever offering you
have yourself to lay at the feet of the
holy father. Mind you, you are on the
threshold; now comes the ceremonial.
On the doorstep you have to kneel down,
you then get up and make three steps
and kneel down again, another three
steps and you kneel at the feet of the
padre santo and get hold of the hem of
his robe, which either he lets you kiss in
all humanity or he takes you by the
hand, lifts you up, and after blessing
you, stretches out his hand toward the
tray which the cameriere holds and pro-
nounces the blessing: "In nomine PATHS,
ct Fill, ct Spiritus Sancti. Amen"
Whereupon the cameriere with the tray
disappears, the door shuts, and you are
left alone.-Temple Bar.
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a storx About santa Ana.

Apropos of noted men, the bishop of
the diocese, who was a member of Santa
Ana's cabinet, has an anecdote to tell
which is characteristic of the latter
worthy. The bishop is one of the most
distinguished gentlemen in Mexico, and
a man of great learning, whose life has
been model of holiness. While a cab
net ministsr he went by appointment one
afternoon to see President Santa Ana on
some important business concerning af-
fairs of state. Hardly had this confer
ence begun when Santa Ana abruptly
arose and left the room. The minister
waited, but the president did not return.
Time passed on, and still the minister
momentarily anticipated the return of
his chief, until at length he inquired of
an aid-de-camp in waiting if he could in
form him how soon his excellency might
be expected. Really, cannot tell you,"
replied the officer, "for his excellency has
gone to visit 'Colea de Plata Silver
Tally "And pray, who is Colea de
Plata?" said the Bishop. "A favorite cock
of his excellency's wounded in fight
which he won this morning, and to whose
care the president is now personally at
tending" was the answer. He did not
return that afternoon; and it is needless
to add that the minister soon afterward
sent in his signation.-Fannie B.
Wards Morelia Letter.
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"ouTcAsT" DECORATIVE ARTS.

Leather Work and PapIer DIache-sten-
Cling and other Mechanical Methods.
There are certainly truly honest and
original decorative arts which, so far as
general appreciation is concerned, par
ticularly that of amateurs, might as well
be called lost or sham. Leather work
was, till very recently, one of these.
have heard a clever woman speak of it
with contempt, as a mere imitation of
wood-carving, which at best produced
only trumpery leaves and flowers, and
"she knew all about it," But in fact she
knew next to nothing about it, and
much less of CUR buili and stamped
work.
Papier mache is another of these out
casts, which are condemned by fashion
and art-priggery as lacking in truth"
simply because very few are acquainted
with its remarkably varied, forms or
capacity. A third is stenciling which is
very little praciced save by workmen,
principally because it ranks as a merely
mechanical method of ornamentation,
and such as is quite unworthy the atten-
ton of the painters of flowers or mir
rors, or of aquarelles, which, as regards
any ideal, are, perhaps, not one whit be-
yond Berlin woodwork. The reader
who has ever seen dozen average pupils
under third-rate teacher, all painting
together with the idea in common of
simply attaining a uniform and identical
manner of mere execution, will agree
with me when say that it is all quite as
much mere "fancy work" as the making
of wax-howers or sealingewax coral
baskets.
Now, it is characteristic of this age
that, as regards the amateur, it is sub
stituting the minor arts for mere fancy
work. Such feeble painters as those of
whom have spoken, who attempt in
vain some mere imitation of higher art,
simply because they have not gone
through such preparatory training as
the minor arts in great measure supply,
would find it impossible to produce a
good vigorous piece of stenciling, be-
cause they would be deficient in the eye
for effect, and the peculiar inventive
power which such work demands and
develops. Art Journal.
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Rui1dinrs Rnrnad Last Year.

1t is estimated by insurance companies
that in the United States last year
dwelling-houses were burned at the rate
of one every hour, with an average loss
of $1,396. Barns and stables, fifty per
week. Country stores, three per day,
with loss of $4,000 per week. Ten
hotels burn weekly, with a loss per year
of 100000 Every other day a lumber
yard goes up in smoke, each represent
ing $50, 900. Forty-four cotton factories,
the loss in each case being SOS, 900; forty
three woolen-mills at $25, 200 each, and
forty-two' chemical works at $27, 900
each, were destroyed by fire last year.
Forty-two Tboot and shoe factories were
consumed, the loss being $4,000 each.
Theatres were Tapped up by the flames at
the rate of five per month, average loss
$4,000. Only about half as many court
houses were destroyed, the cost of each
being about 500, 000.-Chicago Times.
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30 Inherited rit1es Of Nobilitr.

1t may strike the superficial observer
of Oriental usages as peculiar that in the
Ottoman dominion there are no titles of
nobility, no aristocracy or inherited titles.
The sultan himself is no more, in the
sight Of the Koran, than his meanest
servitor. The lowest slave to-day may
become grand vizier tomorrow. In
fact, many of the present ministers have
arisen from the humblest walks and avo-
cations to their exalted positions. 1.-THE
poets of the east" says Saladin
to the ion-hearted King Richard, SAY
that valiant camel-driver is worthy to
kiss the lips of fair queen, when cow
ardly prince is not worthy to salute the
hem of her garment. Cincinnati En-
Ouirer,
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SMOKING HIS FIRST CIGAR.
Out on the Shady Side of the BARR
Caught by q Brother.

Out on the Shady Side of the Barn.
Caught by a Brother.
The first smoke don't last as long as a
case of sea-sickness, but while it does
last it is original and unique. The new
smoker is no Judge of cigars. He in
variably takes strong one. He goes a
good deal by the box in which he finds
the cigars. If cigar has fancy paper
ring about it he will take it at any price.
If he lives he will know better. Out on
the shady side of the barn he takes him
self and his cigar. He is afraid that
some one will modest him. He lights the
cigar, and holding it in the most awk-
ward manner between his fingers puffs
and expectorates. 1t seems manly to
smoke, and he pictures himself narrating
to his chums how well he handled HIM
self and his first cigar.
The sensation is not at all pleasant.
He allows longer time to elapse between
the puffs, and wishes that the cigar
would burn up more rapidly. The mouth
has a peculiar taste, which frequent ex-
pectorations will not remove. The old
familiar fence is turning green. He sees
everything circle around him. He is bet
ter after while. Flat on his back on
the green sward, he looks up at the blue
heavens overhead and watches the feecy
white clouds float in many directions.
Dinner has no attractions for him.
Candy would not tempt him to get up.
He hears his name called by an elder
brother. 1t sounds way off, as if in a
dream. Nearer and nearer it comes, and
finally the owner of the voice comes
around the corner of the barn.
He guessed the cause for he sees the
half-smoked cigar. If he is real good
boy with box full of Sunday-school
tickets he viii tell his mother, and the
young smoker will be taken in the house
and lectured for the rest of his boyhood
days. If he Is real bad boy, one whose
badness insutes his living to manhood's
estate, he viii get his sick brother up on
the hay in the old barn, and viii tell
f1b at the table to excuse his absence.
His kindness viii cost the inexperienced
smoker later on many marbles, much
candy, and the best of everything. He
viii threaten to inform their parents
many times of the first smoke, and viii
scare the smoker into many scrapes and
much trouble.-St. Paul Globe.
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Chicago's Board of Trade clock.

The works of the immense clock which
has been put up in the board of trade
building in Chicago are pronounced a
most perfect reproduction of those of the
great Westminster palace clock in Lon
DON, but with some additions and inn
provements adapted to its commercial
purpose. 1t is constructed of iron, bronze,
and steel, and weighs ten tons without
the bell, the latter adding some 1850
pounds more. The pendulum alone
weighs 750 pounds.
In its arrangement the works are di-
vided into time train, hand train, and
a striking train, these several trains COM
prising separate machines, resting side
by side, on separate frames. Each of
the trains is operated by a separate
weight, and the three weights together
reach some $500 pounds. The hammer
that strikes the bell weighs eighty
pounds, the clock work is below the dials,
which are ten feet ten inches IN diameter,
and the bell is above them, or ESQ feet
above the ground. The pendulum
swings one way in two seconds.-New
York Sun,
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JUST IKE Argentina set as II the human
heart-that Argentina had not-were be-
ing smashed by a blow and torn in two.
Hubert, the man whom she had begun
to love and trust, was loaded with guilty
secrets--a villain of the deepest dye. It
was Gobblecock that had ruined him
of course, it was Gobblecock who had
done all the mischief, Gobblecock was
an unmitigated monster. Nelly screamed
out loud-a shrill, piercing scream, that
rang through every lamp and glass, and
echoed as if the ground itself had
shrieked, till walls and ceilings thrilled
with it.
Nelly came to her senses lying on a
couch in the drawing-room, surrounded
by the whole household. She was afraid
of Gobblecock, who was gently tanning
her-the monsterl And she shrank from
Hubert, who was SO glad to see one con-
scious look in her eyes. Poor Hubert!
She burst into tears at the sight of him.
That villain of the deepest dyei Had he
not brought "our friend from London"
to be conspirator, plotter of dark
deeds?
Nelly wanted to speak to Mary. The
others were all sent away; and to Mary
she told all the escapade: how she had
slipped into thrilling situation just like
Argentina in "A Dead Mystery, "and-
Mary interrupted her by saying quietly,
Hubert is writing story. His friend is
a writer from London. You dear little
goose, they were only planning the book.
Hubert's friend is correspondent for a
foreign paper. You saw him at his let
ter last night. And he has written stories.
'Brightley Court is his. He put our home
in that-and even poor little me. You
need not make your eyes bigger, Nelly
"Oh, Mary! will Hubert ever forgive
me?"
Poor villain of the deepest dye He
will ask you never to be the heroine of
dead mystery again"
"But, Mary, did you say that-that-
that big man-wrote 'Brightley Court
You are Ruth!-I know it-you are
Ruthl"
"He imagines SO. He is Hyacinth
Grey. But you look frightened"
Ruth viii marry Hyacinth Greyl"
Nelly gasped.
Il do admire him-from my heart"
said this calculating heroine; 'but ]
must show you my little pearl ring.
Harry gave it to me tonight"
Alas! let Shakespeare say what he will,
there is something in a name. Not even
Juliet's love would have sufficed if she
had lived in these days, and if Romeo's
name had been Gobblecock. -Cassen's
Magazine.
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A Wax Model for Anatomists.

A highly interesting piece of work is
at present being executed at the Berlin
Royal academy, under the direction of
medical and artistic experts, the wax
model of carefully prepared human
body of life size. From it a cast in zinc
is to be made, showing with rigid exact
ness the muscles, arteries and veins. An
idea of the nicely of the work may be
formed from the fact that thus far
fifteen months have been spent upon the
head alone, which is not expected to be
finished under three years more. The
Importance of the work for anatomical
studies, when completed, will amply
compensate fer the trouble, time and
money spent upon it, which, when fin
ished, will be exhibited and bought by
the overnment.-Boston Budget.
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pegrees Of sllll in Labor.

There is very common but mistaken
impression abroad that there are no de-
grees of skill in what is called ordinary
labor. A single illustration viii show
the magnitude of this error. Take the
simple operation of handling arock-driIl,
for instance. One man viii drill holes
true and parallel, while another, though
he may be quite as industrious and well
meaning, will do precisely the opposite.
The result is that the former uses less
powder for the blast, and the rock comes
out in shapely masses fit to be made into
dimension stone worth a good price,
while the product of the latter is only serv-
iceable for rubble work and not worth
as much by many times its cost. Yet
both the men rank as laborers.-W. II.
Swift in Globe-Democrat.
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A DesorIptiop OF prme. RaoheI.

Nine. Rachel created a decided sensa-
ton at Washington, where her audience
did not need printed translations, and
could applaud or weep in the right places.
She had aged much since used to visit
her at her country seat at Marty, near
Paris, but her histrionic talents were in
no way diminished. Pale, with Jet black
hair, a small regular nose, a mouth
mobile enough, but rather sweet in it's
expression and tender in its lines for the
heroine of tragedy, and a large forehead,
quite protruding itself over the straight
black brows that Swallowed her wondrous
eyes, she was the very embodiment OF
feminine intellect. Her figure was slight,
and her mental entirely dominated her
vital system; but her limbo, with all
their delicacy, had firm look, and she
was rather 1.-THE than fragile. The fall Of
her drapery would have made any
sculptor despair did he not see that itself
was but the reproduction on tissue of
lines into which the Grecian sculptors
wrought their marble.--Ben; Perley
Poore.
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How the Emigrants Were Drowned.


In the good old steamboat days, before
the war, we used sometimes 70 lose
twenty or twenty-five emigrants at
trip. We used TO bring great many
Germans up from New Orleans in the
Storage. Thep couldn't speak English,
and apparently couId't understand.
remember once we had about 100 on
board on the up-trip, and every day we'd
see a commotion among them, hear
them shouting and screaming, and point
ing to the river, indicating that some one
had gone over. We didn't pay much at
tention TO the matter at first, as we
thought they were committing suicide.
One day saw great big German.
weighing fully 200 pounds, walk to tho
boats edge with bucket attached TO a
long rope. ran up and grabbed him
and showed him how to throw the
bucket to catch the water, that is throw
it ahead and let it fill as it came down
the stream and then draw it up. He took
the bucket, tossed it straight from him,
and it scarcely struck the water when he
was jerked overheard after it and was
drowned. That showed us the secret of
so many drownings we had had. Every
time. "a German threw a bucket he
pitched it straight out, and the current
catching it dragged him after it. We put
a watch on the foreign passengers after
INSTRUMENTATION IN Globe-Demo-
Graf
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The Capacity for steady ThInleinr.


have asl1ed-and it is a good test
can you, on a long railway journey,
think out a problem on a great social
subject VIII you begin to think out
that problem when you have before you
two hours in railway carriage? This is
simply form of mental Incidence; they
can not concentrate themselves and bring
their thoughts sufficiently together to do
spontaneous work. 1t partly comes from
this, again, that they viii not give them
selves time; from that they get out Of
the habit of steady thought, and they
viii not dwell long upon one subject.
Both in reading and in thinking you
never get far unless you viii have long
consecr tive tete-a-tete with your book
or with your problem.
People read and think in the same way
that they visit their acquaintance and
friends. They have an exciting converse
ton for 'Aw minutes, and then the
visit is over. If you wish to see a land
scape or explore a character you must
take time, and it must be done by steady,
consistent and continuous thought. i
bespeak, therefore, for reading and for
thinking greater elaboration, more care
full choic of material, more consecutive
ness and continuity and above all, that it
should never become necessary to hurry
through anything, whether it be lecture,
or book, or problem Goschen's
ocf11ra
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Corea is the land of hats. There are
indoor hats and outdoor hats, rain hats,
military hats, wedding hats and a va
riety of ceremonial hats-few of which
are worn for other than ornamental pur-
poses. The ordinary outdoor hat has a
conical crown and brim foot and a
half broad 1t is made of kind of stiff
gossamer of silk or horse-hair, dexter
ously worked in with finely-split ban-
boos. Another extraordinary form of
head-gear is the mourning hat, an i'm
mense structure of plated straw, re-
sembling an inverted bowl some two or
three feet in diameter, and effectually
concealing the wearer's features from
view Lowell.
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The Fasbionab1e Drink Of the Dav

Whether it is because of the present
mania for everything English or not, it
is hard to say, but without doubt the
fashionable drink of the day here, as in
England, is tea. 1t is said to be a more
healthful drink than coffee, which, with
Americans, has heretofore had the pref
erence, as it is more refreshing, less heat
ing and very restorative, and, too, has
the advantage of being SO much more
easily made. It is unquestionably the
drink for brain-workers, and women
who are exhausted with the laborious
duties of social life find it a delightful
stimulus, whereas coffee has the effect
of making them feel dull and heavy
Cor. New York World.