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

A metropolitan photographer Tells
About One of the Tricks of the Trade.
"The latest catch is in advertising for
handsome children as models. Every
mother naturally thinks that her baby is
the prettiest one alive. When the idea
is presented to her mind of not only
having her beautiful baby pictured as q
model, to the envy of all other mothers,
but of actually being paid for that joy,
it fascinates her. In less time than q
COW could turn hand spring she has
fixed upon the large sum she viii de-
mand, and of course receive, for per-
hitting her baby to be photographed,
and has even settled how the money shall
be expended for baby's further adorn-
ment and comfort. Then she goes to the
photographer who wants models, aud
his fine work begins. Mothers have to
be treated in various ways, but the oper1
ator is a chump who can not take a pict-
ure of any decent looking baby so that,
with a frame of judicious 'taffy,' its
mother viii be pleased.
IF the subject has got a little beyond
babyhood his job, that far, is all the
easier, for all children are graceful and
unconsciously put themselves in pretty
attitudes. 1t is only the mothers atti-
tude that has to be changed From one
who has come to get money, she must
be transformed to one who has come to
leave money. So the model market is
already supplied fully, greatly to the
operators regret, because a more beauti-
full child he never, etc., ETC., or the pro-
prietor of the gallery unfortunately out
and the operator has no authority, to
his infinite sorrow, for more charming
infant he never, etc., etc.; or it will be a
question that must be carefully considered
before decision between another baby
and this one, but there can be little
doubt that such lovely baby as this,
etc., etc.; or if the mother is one that
seems to require rough medicine, her
baby, though a good average, will not
do for model, owing to certain imper-
fections, slight, perhaps, but nevertheless
apparent to an artists eye. All the while
there is the negative, very good pre-
sentiment of the blessed baby, making
its own appeal with mute eloquence to
the mother. ts 80.
~The end of it all is, of course, that,
whether from hope or pride or cunning
expectation of influencing selection, or
spite, OF Just BECAUSE she wants them
anyway, the mother orders dozen of
baby's pictures. The fact is that no
photographer really wants child models.
Very few children of actual value for
such seryice-like the little Fernandez,
who was thoroughly trained for it-are
and there is no such demand
for their pictures as used to exist. And
it is very hard to take children's pictures
particularly those of babies-unless the
operator has peculiar talent for it, COM
bining with natural love for children
and patience with them, rare magnet
ism for controlling them and exceptional
skill in instantaneous photography.
When he possesses all those qualifica-
tons he has as much of that sort of work
as he can do, and needn't advertise for
child models.-New York Sun.
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A hundred times they caught his
hand in the act of suicide. AT
last Mr.. Clemens took the old Bible
one day from the table and said :
Jack, see here; you don't want to kill
your sister, do you? You are killing her.
Look at her. She cannot stand this
much longer Jack glanced at Anita, as
she lay asleep on the sofa, utterly ex-
hausted, her pale, sad face and little thin
brown hands, pathetic enough In the re-
Taxation of, slumber and when his father
handed him the book with, Jack, prom
Use on your mothers Bible that you will
not try again to take your life; 1 know
we can trust your word, he promised.
"One by one all the rest have gone.
Mr.. Clemens lived only about four years,
and Jack and Anita are left alone at the
old farm.
@The instinct divinely implanted in
the human to wage eternal and ir-
repressible conflict with the powers
of evil, finds its expression through
Jack in implacable and furious
hostility against that form of sin by
which he fell. He feels that whisky
found his weak point and tempted him
to his ruin"
TrimbIe said, YES" He sat quite
immovable, a curious look of introver-
sion so his face. Had my recital
so deeply moved him, or had
1 touched sensitive nerve in his
heart? "Into the solitude in which every
soul dwelIs no other soul may penetrate"
Our thoughts, however widely apart,
were recalled by the opening of
the door and tho entrance sim
ultaneously of blast of cold
air and slrull-capped head. Trains
all right. All aboard, gentlemen!" AT
the next station Trimble again passed
out of my life.-C. E. Carey in New
Orleans Times Democrat.
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THE APACHE.

From the awful desolation of the Llano
Estacado w
have traced my red dominions with
your blood upon the sand:
You may see its current tinging through
the tawny Colorado
Are you mad that you imagine shall
stay my lifted hands
defy you and hate you'll Doyou threaten
me with DEATH
Me, whose fervid spirit surges with the
centuries hot breathS
Turn and ask this flaming desert, it has
lain forever so;
1t has scorched the helpless mesa with its
seething overflow;
Molten, pitiless, remorseless-ask it If
fear to diel
am one with this-immortal-and the
bloodshot suns of years
Burn with my soul, as ages they have
burned this alkali;
shall be again the desert-what have
to do with fearsl a
You shall die, shall clasp you to my heart
with hot embrace,
Whispering words of awful vengeance in
your pallid, speechless face.
--Lippincott's Magazine.
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Reef ON Sale i'm Costa Rica.

The way beef is offered for saleis pecu-
liar. 1t is cut from the bones in long
strips and hangs up in the stalls in that
form-no roasts or steaks as with us. ; 1t
is easily sailed or dried in that form, but
it seems to destroy one-half of its value,
considering that the beef is not corn fed
and is prepared in this unskillful way, it
lis much better than one would suppose
There is now a small importation of
.blooded stock-Durham and Jerseys
taking place from the United States. A
large cattle dealer tells me they do well
and that as yet they have experienced no
difficulty from the ticks that infest such
importations in South America. But it
is too soon to tell, for Stephens in his
travels through Nicaragua in 1910 de-
scribes these posts as intolerable in the
deep woods of the country.-Cor. Kan
Eas City Journal. IL.
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Order d Tlings in England.

The kinds, as they are still called, the
helots on the estates, are as stolid and
british a race as any peasantry in the
world, and seem like the slaves of the
south before emancipation, content with
their condition, because they have never
known or conceived any other. They
are bred to suppose that what they see is
the natural order of things, and that
change is not only wrong but impossible,
that their lot is ordained Of God, as ine-
vitable as death, and deliverance as far
off as the stars.
The parson breaches this doctrine as
religion; the squire lays it down as law;
for the squire is also the justice of the
peace, the highest and often the only Of
fcer of the law the laborer ever sees.
Law, religion, rank, power, all are on
one side; and the wretch with his shilling
a day and his family to support, lives
near the palace. of his master, and rots
and drinks, or starves and dies, ignorant
of the possibility of improvement, and
submissive-they say.-Adam Badeau's
Letter.
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PreparatIon Of rea in Brieles.

'The method adopted by the Mongols
and other Tartar tribes for the prepare
tons of tea in bricks is" says Johnston
in his Chemistry of Common Life" cit
is believed, that which extracts from the
leaves the greatest possible amount of
nourishment. They scrape the tea into
fine powder and boil it in the alkaline
waters of the steppes, adding some fat
and salt, after which they pour off the
liquid leaving the deposit. They drink
twenty, even thirty, glasses of this
liquor in the day, mixing in it some
honey and butter with a little roast meat,
hat with only little milk instead of the
meat they can subsist many weeks with
hers Journal.
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euILpINe THE PANAMA CANAL.
Difficulties of the UndertakIng-ot
Comparatively Easy Jobs.

Difficulties of the UndertakIng-otho
Comparatively Easy Jobs.
1t certainly is huge undertaking to
build canal with twenty-eight feet of
water, 100 feet wide at the surface,
through mountains which rise to the
height of 800, as admitted. This canal
has to be built four miles out at sea, in
the harbor at Panama. When the Pan
anna railroad was built by the Aspin-
walls, they had the greatest trouble to
get human labor which could live
through the work. Col. Lloyd Aspin-
wall told me several years ago that his
father started with Irishpen, and they
died so fast that he became alarmed, and
then tried negroes and Chinese. They
also yielded to the climate. They re-
turned again to the Irish race and finally
succeeded in laying the railroad after an
incredible amount of exertion and sac
rifiee.
Not more than one-seventh Of the
canal has been excavated, and some
$73, 900, 900 has been spent, of which only
500, 100000 were put upon the canal
proper, the charges upon the company at
home and the probable extravaganza of
its projectors amounting to great sum
of money. 1t seems that S23, 100000
were spent in merely cutting off the
wood and taking out stumps ON the canal
line. French people have put, of their
earnings, into this enterprise the extra
ordinary amount of $3.50, 900, 900, and
the canal will probably cost at least
$500, OOO,O 900. The company is already
anticipating the need of money, and is
about to borrow $3.50, 100000.
Everybody must desire TO see this
great enterprise put through, and if it is
feasible the French will derive their
chief glory on this continent from the
event. The Suez canal was a compare
lively easy job, and it has already
changed the commercial routes and con-
ditions of the world. But there had
been at least two canals across the 18TH
mas of Suez before the French built the
present one. Nature strained her sides
to make an isthmas like that of Darien
or Panama, but left to man the most her
culean job he has ever yet set at. The
building of the Chinese wall was merely
matter of absolute government, oper-
ating upon an extraordinary number OF
sub iects, whose task was as simple as
house building. The principal railroads
of the world have had but pigmy tasks
10 do compared to the inter-oceanic sluice.
1t is true that the Alps have been
pierced two or three times for railroads,
but the amount of cubic feet required
to be removed for a mere hole of the
size of passenger train is insignificant
compared to removing the hills them
selves, which, starting at twenty feet.
soon rise to forty feet, and then reach
40 feet For about four miles they run
through hills of that height and then
proceed to take away hills more than
three-fifths of the height of Washing
ton monument.-"Gath" in Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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From Match1ocLs to EleotrIc PrImers.

The earliest muskets were fred by a
match-then came the flint lock-then
the percussion caps-then metallic
cartridges with the decorating power in
their shells-and now comes the electric
primer, which is rapidly being adapted
to breech-loading small arms OF all de-
scriptions. The ordinary cartridge shells
are retained, and instead of the danger
GUS and unreliable Illuminating material
to be exploded by percussion, a piece Of
fine platinum wire is inserted in contact
with the powder. A small galvanic bat
terry is arranged in the stock of the gun.
Nearly all of the usual lock mechanism
is dispensed with. A. touch ON the trig-
ger closes the electric circuit; the plati-
mum wire becomes white hot and the
charge is instantly fired. One battery
will supply enough current for about
z 900 ahots.-Texas Siftings.
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ouenehlng Flame. and Saving Life.

The recent gasoline catastrophe in this
city, by which three women were burned
to death, makes it timely to again call
the attention to one useful precaution in
cases of clothing catching fire. The per-
son should Immediately lie down fiat and
roll over upon the burning garment
Even if this does not extinguish the
flames, it will prevent them from reach
ing the head and upper part of the trunk
where the most serious injury would re-
suit. Fires resulting from burning oil
are inextinguishable with water, but
may readily be smothered by throwing
-four upon the burning oil. If clothing
is set on fire by splitting oil or by the
bursting of lamp, handful of -four
thrown Immediately may be the means
of quenching the flames and saving life.
Chicago News.
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Pictures by Electric Light.

The taking of pictures by the electric
light caught a good many curious Gus
toners while it was fresh but the
novelty soon wore off. Besides, even at
the best, it was very considerably more
expensive process than operating by
sunlight and did not leave the margin of
profit that would be necessary to make
it profitable. You see, the person who
has a picture taken pays not only for
that picture but for the time the pho
tographer has to wait for somebody to
come and have a picture taken. So, to
make business better, either the profit
upon each picture must be greater, or the
number of pictures taken must be in
creased. Photography by the electric
light, as matter of popular service,
helped in neither way, unless in very ex-
ceptional cases. Those who patronized
that method would have had pictures
taken anyway, and simply chose that for
curiosity's sake, and, the cost of produc-
ton being greater, the operator was
little, if any, bettered, except, perhaps,
by the advertising notoriety he GOT
New York Sun Interview. ag
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rhe nIet Of worllnr Peonln.

From a study of the dietaries of factory
and mill operatives, mechanics, and
other people engaged in manual labor in
Massachusetts, and Connecticut, COM
piled by Carroll d. Wright, the most
noticeable features observed were the
large quantities of food consumed,
especially of animal food and fats. The
dietaries studied all pointed in one direc-
ton, indicating that in this country a
large excess of food is consumed, not
only by well-to-do people, but also by
those in moderate circumstances. This
excess consists mainly in meats and
sweetmeats, which are expensive, as well
as physiologically injurious when con-
sumed in too large quantities. Chicago
News.
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Tbe FROG I'm Fairv stories.

In fairy stories the frog is perpetually
recurring. Its shape is popularity held
in aversion, so nothing could be more
suitable for the utmost degradation of
enchanted princesses and princes. Ivan
the tsar's son has to marry a frog who
eventuates blissfully in a very Helen of
personal charms. In Grimm, the ex-
quisite princess has to wed frog which
turns into an adorable prince. When
the lovely maiden is to be trans
formed into an odious object, .toads
fall from her mouth when she
speaks. Yet in folklore, frogs are uni
formly benefcent. One brings the
queen her Rosebriar daughter, another,
fat old frog, makes Cummings for
tune for him.-Gentleman' Magazine.
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Brirht An,war Of Artist Mast.

One of the brightest answers the Clover
club, of Philadelphia, ever received to
its invitation was from the pen of
Thomas Mast. BE was asked to revel in
clover in January. In. response he sent
picture of himself, muffied to the ears,
and sitting on a snow bank, with the
Thermometer at Morrist0wn, N. J.-his
home registering zero. In front Of him
was rabbit suspiciously cycling figure
four trap baited with a four-leafed
clover. The upper part of the trap con-
sisted of the clubs Invitation card,
weighted by hat with a brick in it.
Mast has his finger at one side of his nose,
and was saying: Clover this time OF
year? No, thanksi"-Exchange = =
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HEART TO HEART.

How many lips have uttered one sweet
word,
Ever the sweetest word in any tOnguel
How many listening hearts have wildly
stirred,
While burning bushes to the soft cheeks
sprung,
And dear eyes, deepening with a light
divine,
Were lifted up, as thine are now to
mine
How oft the night, with silence and per
fume,
Has hushed the world that heart might
speak to h art
And made in each dim haunt of leafy
gloom
A TRUSTING place where love might meet
and part,
And kisses fall unseen on lips and brow,
As on thine, sweet, my kisses hnger
Charles H. Hildreth.
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ANATURAL aoRN sroRY-TELLeR.


A Startling suggestion--The African as n
Novelist 1000 Years Hence.
"A lady Of Philadelphia" makes the
somewhat startling and novel suggestion
that -the great American novelist" who
is always coming, may prove after he
has got here to be of African descent.
The great American novel" she urges
in Lppincott's Magazine, viii not be
written by the typical American Of the
present day, the merely Europeanized
American, or Yankee" but by the
American who is to replace the Yam
kee"-a new combination Of the many
nationalities that the country has abb
sorbed; so the African might as well un-
dertake the task of writing the novel as
anybody else.
For it, she argues, he is particularly
well qualified. He has given the coun-
try its only national original music-an
else is e growth from Handel and Bee
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A Safety Seat for Ladies'.

Ladies in San Francisco do not con-
slider themselves born to blush unseen.
It is not enough for them to look out of
the windows of their houses-they must
needs sit outside of them altogether. To
this end a safety seat for ladies has been
constructed, and is at present in full
vogue. The front of San Francisco
house fitted with the new invention must
present rather a curious spectacle; but
one, no doubt, which the male popula-
ton of that city regards with apprecia-
tive interest," Enquirer.
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A Punishment for His Audaeity.

The American dies from overwork and
anxiety. When he is years old he be-
gins school with the determination to be
at the head of the class. He will out
run, outjump, and lick any boy of his
size. He enters upon. condition to
strain that is perpetual. As he goes on
it gets worse. He must be in politics at
20, rich at 80, great at 40, and if he
measurably succeeds he is decaying at
so, and dead at go. He ought to be
dead. 1t is a fitting punishment for his
audacity and his steady violation of the
laws of Chicago Times.
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4 Pel.oaoa. Fsa.sosae o Pe@sra.Ia.

A Poisonous Pedagogue Of Pomerania.
A landed proprietor Of the Prussian
province of Pomerania has preferred a
curious charge against a school-teacher
of Stargard. That pedagogue, who had
served the family in the capacity of q
private tutor, was so incurably addicted
to the use of tobacco that he smoked his
strong cigars in the presence of his young
pupils, who at last were simultaneously
stricken with a mysterious disease. One
of the children died, and a committee of
physicians diagnosed the complaint as
nicotosis, marasmus caused by the
poisonous principle Of tobacco smoke
DR.. Felix L. Oswald. tea aa
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Novel Organizations of Young People.


A novel church organization with an
excellent purpose, but with a very clumsy
name, has been set on foot in Brooklyn
in connection with ST. Luke's Episcopal
church. 1t is called the "Neaniskoi,"
which is Greek word conveying the
idea of young men just budding into
manhood. The youths who compose
this society are pledged against pro-
family, intemperance and impurity of
life. They promise to abstain from visit
ing places of evil resort, of whatever
grade, and they declare their intention
of extending, as far as means and in
fuence win permit, religious education
and culture among their associates.
Among the young ladies a society of
somewhat similar purpose has been
organized, also bearing a clumsy Greek
title. This is called the "Ergetai, /" which
means the lady workers. Orleans
Times-D Democrat. el
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There is photograph of the late Alex
ander H. Stephens in the possession of
Maj. Lamar Cobb, of Athens, Ca, in
which the southern statesman is repre-
scented as sitting with legs crossed and
the bottoms of both feet resting squarely
upon the floor. This was a favorite po-
sition of Mr.. Stephens, and it is said that
no one has yet been able to rival him in
this acrobatic feat.-Chicago Times.
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The Cross a Pre-Christian Symbol

The cross is said to be pre-Christian
sacred symbol. In the British museum
a colossal tablet from Nimroud displays
a cross hanging from the breast of Tig-
lath Pileser. DIR. Schlieman found this
figure on terra Gotta disks at Troy,
dating, as he supposes, from a period of
about $500 years before Christ.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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valuable Qualities of Paper Hats.

Paper is about to monopolize another
branch of industry, which is no less a
one than making a gentleman's head
gear. By a new process of manipulation,
hats more serviceable and finer than
anything now on the market are made
of wood pulp. They are impervious to
water and not wanting in flexibility. 1t
is believed that felt hats will have to
take back seat as soon as these new
hats can be placed in the market in suffi-
Gent numbers to supply the demand.
They are certain to revolutionize the
hatter's trade, as they can be moulded
into any shape or style desired and col
ored to meet the taste of the public.
They can be made to represent a glossy
or happy ppearance.-Boston Budget.
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Tunnel Between England and Ireland.
A question likely soon to come 60 the
fore is the practicability of tunneling be-
tween England and Ireland. At one
point the distance is under twenty-five
miles-EXchange
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The Din,inutive Cattle OF Florida.

Probably in no state in the Union will
more diminutive cattle be found than in
Florida, and they are not only small, but
exceptionally light, because of the mea-
ger browsing they get-their grazing adj
vantages are a myth in the territory vis-
tied by the writer.-Cor. Cincinnati En-
uuirer.
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U111lD lVl tlI9 ~ = u 'll7111-l " o-7ll7s
An agent of the government of New
foundland has been buying live black
game for the purpose of stocking the
Newfoundland woods with this gigantic
grouse. He has had difficulty in procur-
ing many, however, and reports that the
excessive rigor of the past winter in Scam
dinavia has made game scarce.-New
York Sun. ~
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Largest of the Egyptian Pyramids.

The largest of the Egyptian pyramids
is $40 feet high, 693 feet on the sides,
and its base covers eleven acres. The
LAYERS of stone are 2OS in number; many
stones are 80 feet long, feet broad and
3 feet thick.-Chicago Journal.
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A semi-DIiIlcnnial Colebrat,on,

Switzerland looks with scorn on beg
carly little centennial celebration. Next
July she will have the semi-nillennial
celebration, when a monument viii be
erected on the battlefield near Lucerne,
where Arnold WinkelreiG made way for
liberty and died. Chicago Journal.