The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-06-03

This in the 18th day Of May and
farmers are still breaking and
planting, narrowing and sowing and
will be until they get through.
There has been some of the mos,
Thorough preparations made this
year for making corn that / have ev-
er before noticed. Some fields
have been broken with 3 three
horse pillow, then rebroken with the
bull-tonngue Originally called ego
devil'') then narrowed and rolled
again rebroken with the cnltivator
or double shovel, narrowed and
again rolled q large wooden roller
Ground thus prepared may be rea-
sonably expected to make a good
yield and the workman well paid
for his trouble.
The clover cutting season is upon
us, and fine crop on hand ready
for the sickle. Hope the boys will
have good time saving hay.
l will say right here before for
get it, that our chickens are nearly
big enough to fry. Won't we have
a good time eating fried chicken?
If there is anything that l can get
away with, without suspicion or
help, it is fried chicken. That is
one thing don't allow anybody to
beat me on except the Methodist
preachers, and they couldn't, only
there is more of them than of me.
1t rained to-day, though that is
nothing uncommon. It most always
does that at the winding up of a dry
spell. The boys commenced cut
ting clover to day and it got wet,
but there is nothing strange or un-
usual about that. It's what always
happens to it when it Is not housed
or sheltered, unless it don't rain.
My wife Sallie thinks the best plan
is to take care of it. ] lost ST, 900
last year just simply because /
didn't have the hay and stock to
eat it. Sich is my luck and / reck-
on it's right. Mrs. Baker thinks so.
This Is lovely time. Spring has
come out of her winter quarters and
donned the most stylish robe that
mother nature can furnish. Her
whole wardrobe is made out'n
green, adorned here and there at
proper intervals with roses, pinks
and flowers of every shade and COL
or which knocks monotony into a
hat. l acknowledge that
nay pencil is too dull to do the
subject justice, so I'll drop it. The
good time IS just ahead
A fellow can get more solid liv-
ing by eating the fruit, than look
ing az the blossom. Mother Eve
thought so, and by eating one apple |
she and Adam were placed in pos
session of more wealth than was eV-
err given to man before or even since.
You may think it strange that !
our farmers are so backward this |
spring. 1t is the cutWorms and the |
dread of the cutworms that causes
it, and not the candidates. / mere
ly state this fact to show where the |
blame lies should anything ever |
come up hereafter. They have Civ
en- us so much trouble. mean the |
cutworms. They came in March |
and ate up a field of clover for |
one of our neighbors, and have |
causen much replanting of corn,
&c. The probability is that we are
clear of them for this season.
mean the cutworms.
Our next dread is that the grass
hopper he will pay US his annual
visit, and il they increase numeri-
cally and corporally as they did last
year, the demand will exceed the
supply. Fearful thought. My wife
Sallie says they bave eat up one
side of her garden and eat down
the other. (She is talking about
the cutWorms. Right where she
had her garden truck planted there
is a nice crop of locust come up,
not the kind John the Baptist
made meat of but the kind we make
posts and fence stakes out of; o
good thing for the candidates to
hitch their horses TO while election
eering. You will frequently see
sight, and a sunburnt, careworn,
looking fellow, sanguine and jolly
to meet though sad aud lonely by |
feeling himself sorter melancholy |
like-don't think that everything |
is gold that glitters. 1t tries mans |
inward parts 30 thus leave his |
horse and wend his way through |
the hot sun up long steep bill to
see the laborer to supplicate with |
him for his vote and influence, and |
be turns out to be a 16 year old |
boy. If he happens to be voter
he will cheerfully and with as much |
patience as he can command, listen |
20 the speech of the office hunter,
which is never monotonOus while he |
tells of his financial embarrass-
ments, mortgages and double mort
cages and his bodily ailments and
his loss of health and limbs and |
MS broken down constitution, and |
/ sickIy wife and IA gal children
and the oldest only z, and wants
The office especially for what mon
~ there is in it, at the same time
willing and competent to discharge |
5he duties of the same TO the salts
action of everybody. Then takes
up his opponent who has plenty OF
everything. who has q good farm or
own property, fine carriages, money |
IN the bank, bloated bondholder,
owes nobody and everybody owes
him, fine clothes to wear, children |
n the Sabbath school, wife healthy,
hired servants to nurse the baby,
baby carriages, hammocks for his
to swing in and his oppo-
lent whole, sound, stout and |
healthy. Then he sorter checks up |
20 get breath. The voter getting |
patience worn, comes to the point
It once, and in reply says Mr..
smith 1 can't help you; your oppo
lent has just left here, and he told
ne such pitiful tale it aroused my