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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-02-11
Whitesboro. Texas.

Mr.. EDIToR:-If you will allow
space in your columns I will give
with the limited experience and OBJ
servation / have gained within the
short time / have been here a
few items concerning Texas. /
left Nashville Jan. 2Sth by way OF
st. Louis, thence down through the
wild tribes of the Nation,and had a
chance to observe the movements
and manners of the red skins. The
Indian Territory 10 far superior to
Texas az farming country for the
reason that it is rich land, fine tim
Der and we'll wa;ered. 1t is an ex-
cellent country for stock and many
of its fine farms could be converted
into excellent stock farms.
1 travelled over some good Texas
country too before arriving at
Whitesboro. This town is located
on the t. P. & d. F. railroad with
about 1900 inhabitants, surrounded
by belt of fine lands. The town
is improving and l am Of the opin-
ion that it will be a town of note
within some limited future time.
When 1 arrived at this place at
night and opened the car door TO
get of began to imagine | had
opened the north pole door from
the why one of these northers made
a dash st me. The thermometer
registered loo below zero. How do
you like that for cold weather? 1
have been told that mail carrier
froze to death near here daring
The cold wave. You may stake your
old hat these things called northers
will almost draw the filing cut Of
your shirt. They are splendid to
cool down Texas lever when your
boys cone out here about l6 to Is
years of age. | am rather of the
impression it would be best for
some of your Giles county lads not
to take on too much of the Texas
fever before coming out and giving
the Texas slow fever and buck
agues a shake. l have always heard
a great deal about the Texas north
ers but l knew but little Of them
until recently | had the opportuni-
ty of meeting with oae which gave
full satisfaction. learn from the
best financiers of this place that
the financial troubles are just as op-
pressive here as most anywhere /
have been. From all reports crops
we're very short last year which
makes times very dull. suppose
you have heard 8 great deal said in
regard to Texas black mud. Well,
it is mud, you bet, and is very IN
comfortable and troublesome In its
tendency to crawl up over your boet
tops and on up until it ventures out
over your coat collar and drops
down. The sandy lands are very
choice to live on, but considerable
trouble is experienced in windy
weather with the sand. | saw to-
day very uncommon sight--emi-
grants travelling on wagons with
heating stoves in their wagons and
pipes projecting out through the
cover, smoking almost equal to a
locomotive stack. Z. i.
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Received, rhat viii pay a. [ go-on
the railroad
That 7 nlll honestly and closely scan
nay nei gh boris iaPIss, and help him to
correct them.
That l win qolt spending SO much
money on cloihcs-for my. wife.
That | will quit smoking in places
where It is positively forbidden.
That ! viii not write ~ feqiplscen-
ces Of the war. w.
That 4 will make shorts prayers and
longer subscriptions.
lhat Iwill not say. 81 beg yons 9ss.
dom g my neigAbor's Ndfe,ahas h'lsl
to my own.
That Twill not play lawn tennis Tor
at least three months.
That WIN not bite of more than Z
can chew.
That Twill not worry and fret about
what would become OF the other eight
or nine billions Of people in the world,
Ii should die.
That viii not slop over.
That | viii study my lessons aud
keep my face clean.
That if fail in any of these reso4
lutions it will be somebody else
fault.
That | can get along we'll enough
with every body but myself
That will be most wretchedIy sorry
fora thousand things by next Dectm-
ber-
That they sha'nt be the same things
that was sorry for last December.
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Love.


The following definition in its va
rious phases and mazes is from tn Q
Drummer, publication published
somewhere up north:
Love is keeping ten dollar family
on six dollar salary.
A great many young people who are
too green to burn, run into love like
lot OF colts turned loose in pasture,
with this difference-the colts can
jump the fence when they want to get
out.
There was never yet so great a fool
who couldn't find man or woman to
hold up the other end of single tree ..
The way of providence are past finding
oUl.
Happy marriages are composed Of
three parts OF love, one part money,
and the balance in good health and
common sense.
The woman who loves man well
enough to feed him on good coffee, hot
biscuits and fried chicken, can be re-
lied upon as a good article, warranted
not to fade.
The love that has tendency to make
one have an inclination to die for its
object is not SO much better after all
than that which produces an inclina-
ton to live for its object.
Warmed oyer love, like warmed over
victuals, isn't quite so good rs the first
article but people can live aud get fat
on it.
The love that stands by young
man till the COWS come home, as he
swings a girl on the front gate, some
times deserts him like leaves from.the
frost when he has to swing the baby in
the cradle.
Love is like beer-it gets fiat when
it is uncorked all the time.
Some girls can't tell the difference be-
tween love and taffy.
a baby is love materialized.
Whenever love has to play second
fiddle, it is about time to break up the
band.
Love will make a man take another
hold when every other power on earth
has banked out and given it up as a
bad fob.
QLove is worth two dollars and a
half per bushel to any man or waman
living
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Why Mr.. Maplesugar Travelled.

"My dear Mr.. Milmanner," said
young Mr.. Maplesugar, in a low
and painfully agitated tone OF
voice, You cannot have been
blind to my tender attentions to
your lovely daughter, and / ahem
II am come-ahem-that is j
would--ahem-"
"Ahem no more, young man." an
swered Mr.. Mildmanner, turning
away for a moment to hide his
grief; II well know what you would
say. You would wed Elizabeth
Ann"
"You have fathomed the desires
of my heart, my dear Mr.. Mildman
ner, but do not be distressed; do
not shed those tears; do not grieve
for fear you are to be robbed of a
beloved daughter. Though have
never been a parent myself, l can
well imagine parents feelings at
such time as this, and l would
not take from the paternal nest its
brightest jewel. Elizabeth Ann
and l will wed and come ard live
with you"
Young, man"--and Mr.. Mildman-
ner looked straight at young Mr..
Maplesugar with a pair of tear
dimmed, but penetrating eyes-"you
have not correctly interpreted my
grief; you have not arrived at
knowledge of the cause of my mo-
mentary agitation. It is not so
much that fear to bri1y another
son-in law 10 the pare mt nest mat
these tears are shed. List a mo-
ment to my plant, my fair young
flower: A year or more ago, when
autumn leaves were falling, Maria
Jane and blushiDg husband were
domiciled in our midst, and they are
with us still. At Christmas tide
Helen Victoria brought home
fragile plant in trousers, who set
tied down to share our joys, our
sorrows and our buckwheat cakes.
When the roses bloomed again, So
phia Artemisia and her pale, seden-
tary William Henry we're we'd
ded with eclat. They occupy our
best room now, and have no SON.
in-law more regular at meals than
this pale, SSsedentary William Hen
~. In the last week of the late de-
parted summer, Hortensia ,,Juventa
and who had endowed her with his
worldly goods drove me to the attic
cham Der, and now you come at the
first breath of winter and ask me to
take you in out OF the cold.
Young man, it cannot be. Besides
Elizabeth Ann l have three daugh-
tiers yet unwed, and their poor old
parents are too frail and feeble to
move to the wood shed to make
room for another addition to their
aggregation of sons in-law There
fore, must draw the line at Eliza
beth Ann. She cannot wed frag-
lie plant in trousers who would how
er under this warm old paternal
wing. Let me see you travel"
And young Mr.. Maplesugar trav-
eled.
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IaEnesS.

Everywhere in the nature of hui
man beings it is evident none
should live in idleness. II they
need rot labor for livelihood, they
all should certainly exercise more or
less every day for the preserva-
ton of their health, if not only, but
even to. save life itself In one
sense the magnus est Ia6oy9, is most
beautifully true, for labor is wor-
ship when it ministers to the well
fare and happiness of mankind lit
is also useful, healthy and ennob-
ling to the worker himself.
Nothing in any useful employment
can degrade character, but shonld
and generally does elevate it. 1t is
the spirit which is carried into
work which degrades or elevates
one. A petty shop keeper or a
writer eating gingerbread in the
street may be an editor or a
philosopher who bottles lightning
for the uses Of mankind. The only
disgrace in any useful, laudabls
work consists in havinga soul in it
whose range of thought is as short
as the yardstick, and as narrow as
the tape. An idler is not quite so
much biped as he is a sort of BIZ
valve, kind Of human oyster that
merely opens and shuts.
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The Wilderness Of Southern Texas.

The progress of civilization has
sadly reduced the Robi1 Hood re-
nance OF the good old times when
every wood WAS a hunting ground !;
but the Ruskinites who 60 into
mourning at the completion of eve
~ railroad might dry their tears in
Texas. Culture can progress under
full steam for a good many years
before it will spoil such Arcadias as
the chaparral country between the
sources of the COLORADO and the
mouth of the Rio Grande-the
park-like upIands, where the chil+
dren of million settlers would find
as much play room as a carload of
kids in the blue grass counties.
Soldiers who have rexiGted the bat
tie grounds of the wilderness may
remember how strangely foot trails
lose themselves in the jungle while
pine thickets screening the road at
every turn and hiding the hunters
dog from the hunter; and in the same
way the lines of the international
railroad" cross the wilderness Of
southern Texas. Half mile from
the track one may find sleepy hol-
lowe that seem never to have been
walked by the scream of the iron
horse; hill pastures, where the an
tilope browses as quietly as on
the highlands of the Sierra Madre,
even while the rocks echo the thun-
der of a train rushing by on its
way to the distant station. And in
the hills of the uplan6s there are
rocks that have never heard that
echo. Between San Saba and Fl.
Davis, an area exceeding that of all
Tennessee, has never grieved the
souls of its teamsters by aSrailroad
survey. The northern part of tliis
reservation contains one of the few
remaining buffalo pastures on this
side of the Rocky Mountains. A
few miles northeast Of Eft. Concho |
the old military road to New Me:ki-
CO crosses the mesquite plain, and |
teamsters who travel that road in |
winter time are pretty sure to sight |
buffaloes. Net in herds; the bison |
legions of the NOrtE American prAi-
ries are vanished forever; but |
troops of ten or twelve are still DC
casionally seen in the upland val
leys, especially after a hard frost.
In spring these survivors of better
times take refuge in the dreary bor-
derland of the staked plains, whore
they separate pair-wise for greater
security, and retreat further hill
ward at the least sign of danger II
DR.. Oswald, in Blvouac.
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s'Dear, dear ducky, the nice little
widow has been telling me how
how I might be widow"
"She has? She understands the
business l should think" The
idea had the effect to sober him.
what did she want you to de,
lovey27
"Well-it was dreadfnlr
"Well, well, what was it? III
have a warrant out and arrest her;
I'll have Harry Tudor-the she
Blue Beard that she is" and he
went so far as to kiss the cheek of
his poor wife, who, quite broke
down under this unwonted tender
ness, threw herself into his arms
and ssid,-
81 will never do it, ducky, no,
never"
81 am sure of it, 1 can trust you.
You are not fit to be a poor widow.
You need the protecting arm Of
some husband"
Mrs. FIFTEEN drew herself up a
bit at this; there was rebellion in
her look.
Eyes, she told me her secret"
she said
"What was it, lovey2 1 am sure
you would not hurt a hair Of the
head of your poor, devoted"
Here he broke down from some
cause or other and staggered to one
side.
81 told her about your drinking
SO, James, and how you spent my
earnings, and how | get out of all
patience and sometimes we'll nigh
hate you" This was said with
grave solemnity and she then add
ed hriskly: "What do you think
she told me to do?"
"Couldn't guess; but I'm sure
you won't do-it."
'Never-you would not live
month"
do tell what it was"
'Shs told me to let you have
your own way-think of itP'
The mans eyes twinkled with
wicked mirth.
THAT wasn't so bad, lovey."
''Not so bad why, you would
drink yourself to death in a month
or less if 1 would let you have your
own way"
"Oh, no; would be cautious for
your sake, so unfit to be widow.
Let me have my own way, loyey; !
I'll take the risk"
And she did-she followed the
widows advice. Under the circum
stances, the reader can easily di-
vine why Mrs. FIFTEEN became a
widow.
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About Buttons.

The evolution OF clothes fastenings
wat something like this 1horns, ilsh-
bones, strings, metal clasps, pins ana
and buttons, aud the buttons did not
come until abo1t the lime Columbus
discovered America. Buttons alont4
were not quito sufficient, and It tootf
our good ancestors two centuries lo1a-
er to invent the button hole. That b
10 say, buttons were iirstF6sed entirely
for oraament, and it VS. not nntil the
cIsss e. Queen BIZ hetha reign that
1.-THE CRED 0yciIs see Of ,buttonine
onela CLOTHES instes1 Of piulilpg them
osetheE Nith clasps Nls discoV-
q ed The 0 nsmental pnrp0se Of
the Button is still in vogue a LADIES'
costumes, and in meas sursives Ia
those two helpless buttons On the back
their coats.
Buttons are made OF almost every
nlAisrial and In every c5l5r There -
1eely an article can be med, leave
out fats and such tlll which
Annot be turned into huitus, and ar
Ter which the public does 20 fun With
Frantic eagerness. lit has Infinite Yatia-
lions, and its fashions tread upon each
other in swift succession and crowd the
wearer. Their manufacture is enor-
nous, our largest factories being az
Newark, N. j Waterbury Conn. and
Springfield and East Hampton, Mass.
We import from Germany, France and
England buttons to the value of ,O00,-
600 yearly.
The first manufacturer OF buttons In
the United States was Samuel WnlIston
OF East Hampton, Mass. His father,
grandfather and great grandfather had
been ministers in Connecticut and
Massachusetts and he intended to be
one, but while studying for that pro-
fession his eyes gave out and he nearly
lost their use. He gave up the minis
try, became country storekeeper and
married. His wife to keep the wolf
from the door commenced 10 cover by
hand the wooden buttons OF the time,
which met with quite ready sale In
the market. Behold how large a
matter a little buttoa maketh. The SAL
ability of the article led to study Of
the subject and to the consideration Of
machinery as an aid to the business,
for your true Yankee will never do by
hand what he can get machine to do.
One Invention led to another, and to
the establishment Of factory, con-
stantly enlaTging, in which was made
more than half the buttons used la the
United States. Samuel Winiston made
a large fortune in the button business,
and he lived long and useful life, dy-
ing in 1874, at the age of79. During
his life he founded the Williston semi
nary, at Easthampton, endowed two
professorships in Amherst college,
built church which was twice burned
down and rebuilt by him, giving DUR
ing his life and bequeathing at his
death to these and other charities more
than $l,500,000. This Is what buttons
did. Could anything better be said
about them? Observe too, It was the
wife whose industry selected the OBJ
ject which made the fortune. II Mr..
Williston had remained bachelor and
depended on self fasteners or studs he
would never have been able to give
s | 100000 in charity. The moral lies
on the surface. Chicago Herald
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True Manhood

The Rev. Dewitt Talmage thinks
there are many good husbands in the
W orld-as per the following extract
from one OF his sermons:
Society has a great multitude Of
grand men, who know how to make
keme happy. When they come to be
husbands they evince nobility OF ma
ture, and a self-sacrificing spirit that
surprise even the wife. These are the
men who cheerfully sit in dark and
dirty business offices, ten feet by twelve,
in summer time hard at work, while
the wives and daughters are of at Sar-
atoga, Mount Desert or the White Sui
phur. These are the men who never
having much education themselves,
have their sons at Yale and Harvard
and Virginia University. These are
the men who work themselves to death
by 90 years of age, and go out to
Greenwood, leaving large estates and
generous life insurance provision for
their families. There are husbands and
fathers here by the hundreds who
would die for their households. II out
lawry should ever become dominant in
our cities, they would stand in their
doorways and with their one arm would
cleave down, one by one, fifty invad-
ers, face to face, foot to foot, and every
stroke a demolition. This is what
makes an Amy in defense of country
fight more desperately than an army
of conquest. 1t is not so much the alb
stract sentiment of flag as it is wife
and children and homo that turns en-
thusiasm into fury. The world has
such men by the million, and the no.
munculi that infest all our communities
must not hinder women from appre-
ciating the glory of true manhood.
Many persons in the city and sur
rounding towns have old grapevines
against their walls that have long 81 nee
ceased to do any good. They may per-
chance contemplat digging them
down. If so, they had better think
awhile before doing so. Rather than
cut down, manure them heavily, and
then train the young vines. which will
surely spring from the old root. They
will bear with their pristine st rength.
Spirit OF the Farm.
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The BENEFITS Of the Civil War.

Planters Journal (Vicksburg) ::
From Gen. Grants account Of the
Chattanooga campaigns, which Is
published in the November Centu-
~, and is accompanied by explana
tory maps, we take the following:
There was no time during the 70
bellion when did no think, and Of
ten say, that the south was more to
be benefited by defeat than the
north. The latter had the people,
the institutions and the territory to
make a great and prosper
GUS natien. The former was bur-
dened with an institution abhorent
to all civilized people not brought
up under it in ignorance, and ener-
waited the governing class, With
the outside world at war with this
institution, they could not have ex-
tended their territory. The labor
Of the country was not skilled, nor
allowed to become so. The whites
could not toll without becoming dc
graded, and those who did we're de-
nominated poor white trash The
system .of Tabor would have soon
exhausted the sell and left the peo-
pie poor. The non slave holders
would have left the country, and
the small slave holder must
have sold out to his more fortunate
neighbors. Soon the slaves would
have outnumbered the masters, and
not being in sympathy with them,
would have risen in their might and
exterminated them. The war was
expensive to the south as we'll az to
the north, both in blood and treas
ure: but it was worth all it cost"
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If by feeding clover hay the far
mer can sell the hay TO the stock
for about the same that he would
get on the market, and if he will
then buy as much phosphate as il
he had sold the hay of the farm,
and use the phosphate in connec-
ton with the manure made by feed
ing the hay, the farm will improve
with wonderful rapidity and the
farmer will receive nearly the same
amount of net cash. l say nearly
because the labor of attending to
the cattle and saving and applying
the manure will have to go sgainst
the value of the manure, as they
would not be incurred if the hay
had been sold of. kaA
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Rntohering Unon the Farm.

Every farmer should produce his
own meat. 1t is q great mistake
for him to suppose that be can
probably buy anything which he
can produce. He should not gener
ally buy meat, or -four, butter, and
in some cases he might very well
90 back 70 the old fashion, and =
good one, when the women Of the
family spent part of their time In
spinning wool and linen for the
use of their households.
Every farmer should be an ex-
pert butcher. In many small towns
and villages, especially in the west
aud south, good meat is a rarity,
because those few farmers who do
rea: some stock de not know how
to slaughter and dress 1t. A farmer
could often take home with him
fifty dollars in cash, after an occa-
sional visit to the village with lot
of good, we'll butchered meat, when
he would otherwise sell the living
animal at half the price.-American
Agriculturist.
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Echo, Oregon.

EDITOR PULASKI CITIZEN 1t
was my good fortune this week to
get copy of the CITIZEN, presented
by my old friend H. d. McCrory of
that place. In perusing the col
umr of the much appreciated pa
per it reminded me that / pro uised
about five ears ago while sojourn-
ing In Texas. 10 give the readers OF
the CITIZEN a few items from that
part, bat alter making the promise
/ packed my traps and started for
Oregon. We boarded the train at
Fit. Worth and went to San Fran
cisco and from there on o. r. q N.
steamer to Portland, Oregon; thence
by rail to Walla WalIa, Washing
ton Territory. There we spent the
winter and most of our money, and
from there we cpped over into Or
egon,. where we now reside.
II [ remember rightly l did not
promise just when l would write,
so when this is mailed l have not
lied. Being relative of g.
Wash, and full fedged democrat,
l couldn't lie any way Now that
have finished my apology | will at
tempt to give the readers Il few
items.
The little village where l now re-
side is situated 205 miles from
Portland sonIthe o. r. q N. r. r.
on the banks of the Umatilla river,
Is miles from where it empties into
the Columb ia, in a beautiful valley
about rs by 200 miles lying be-
tween the Cascade and B.ue noun
tain ranges. The soil is most ad
mirably adapted to the growth of
fruits, vegetables and small grain
In this valley the winters are very
short. The first snow fell the l4th
and we have had but very little
cold up TO date. Though in mid
summer we are in sight of perpetual
snow, old Mt. Hood, Adams and St.
Helen towering almost to the sky,
exhibiting 3 most picturesque
sight. There are other snow-cap-
ped mountains over in British Co
lumbia that are visible in clear
weather from this point. Both
mountain ranges furnish an i'm
nense quantity of good lumber
worth from SIS to SIS thousand.
Land is worth from SI25 to $40
per acre; wood SIS per cord. They
raise a good class of stock here.
Horses, hogs, cattle and sheep do
well; diseases SO common among
stock in the eastern states are not
SO prevalent here. They also pro-
duce a good variety of poultry.
The worst ill the human family is
subjected to here is bald headed.
ness. Men become bald here al
twenty five, aside from- this they
live TO good old age. When l
first struck the country l thought
they had all been scalped in an In
dian war, but learned better when j
Became acquainted. Religiously
they are inclined to be infdels, with
q few exceptions. Wishing the ed
itor of the CITIZEN a happy and
prosperous life, I'll let up.
S. NJ. JOINER.