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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-05
Stands by His People.

The following is an extract from
the speech of President Cleveland
accepting the nomination when no
titled by the national committee:
Four years ago knew that our
chief executive office, if not careful
ly guarded, migts drift little by lit.
tie away from the people to whom it
belonged, and become a perversion
of all it ought to be, but l did no!
know how much its moorings had
already been loosened. l knew
four years ago how we'll devised
were the principles of the democra-
CIV ior the successful operation of
government by the people and fol
the people, but l did not know how
absolutely necessary their applica-
ZION then was for the restoration tC
the people of their safety and pros
perity. ! knew then that abuses
and extravagances had crept intt
the management o. public affairs
but l did not know their numerous
forms nor the tenacity of thel
grasp. / knew then something o
the bitterness of partisan obstruc-
ton, but / did not know how bitter
how reckless and how shameless i
could be. / knew, too, that tn
American people were patriotic ant
lust, but did not know how grand
ly they loved their country nor hov
noble and generous they were.
shall not dwell upon the act
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Short,

AS comparison to the wordy,
windy, straddling, political platforms
Of modern times, we give below the
pointed and brief platform of the
whig party of 1874, entire, when
Clay and F:elinghuysen were the
presidential nominees. And we may
remark, in passing, that there is
some sound doctrine embraced in
this terse expression Of the princi-
pies of that party:
Resolved, That these principles may
be summed as comprising well regu-
lated national currency; tariff for
revenue to Gefray the necessary expen-
SEES of the government, and discrinina-
ting with special reference to the pro-
lection of the domestic labor of the
country; the distribution OF the pro-
ceeds from the sales OF public lands; a
single term for the presidency; reform
of executive usurpatiOns, and generally
such an administration of the affairs OF
the country as shall impart to every
branch of the public service greatest
practicable efficiency, controlled by a
well. regulated and wise economy.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-05
Farm and Preside.

Fruit on the table regularly will
do much to counterfeit the craving
for alcoholic stimulants.
Never sun feather beds. Air
them thoroughly on a Nipdy day in
a cool place. The sun draws the
oil and gives the feathers rancid
smell.
The farmer who by draining OF
extra manuring increases his crops
may not for the time seem to be
making anything, but he is lay
ing sure foundation for future sue
cess.
| Until it is shown that earth below
the five or six inches titled is des
titute Of the elements that enter
into plants it is wise to 60 deeper
particularly in what are called
heavy soils.
To take rust out of steel rub the
steel with sweet oil; in day
or two rub with finely powdered I'M.
Stacked lime until the rust all dis
appears, then oil again, roll in wool
en- and put in dry place, especial
ly if it be table cutlery.
The greatest inventions of the
world were first conceived by the
moderately educated classes. an6
the practical experience of a careful
observing farmer is often of more
value than the costly experiments
of highly-educated professors.
| To give shirt bosoms, collars anG
cuffs a glossy appearance, ounce O
white wax and two of spermacet
are melted together and a little O
CT this is put into the starch; or
sometimes little of thick solu-
ton of gum arabic is used in thu
starch, tablespoonful being
enough for pint of starch.
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Can Physical Courage Be Taught?


The practical questions involved
in this discussion are, can courage
be taught, and if so, what are the
best means of education2 Numer-
Gus experiments have been attempt
ed in this direction. l knew the
father of large family of boys who
became greatly distressed on ac-
count of the timidity shown by sew
eral of them, and set about educat-
ing them up to higher standard
of courage after a method which he
had practiced successfully with
dumb animals. He had found, for
instance, that when horse had
showed great terror at sight of a
railway train in motion, the surest
way to break him of it was to throw
him down close to the track and
confine him in that position till the
train had Numbered by. After sub
iecting the animal to this mode of
discipline two or three times it's
sense of fear was entirely overcome.
He applied similar lessons to his
boys. If one was afraid to be alone
in the dark, the father made him
wander repeatedly through attic
rooms at midnight without light
If another had a dread of the water
he compelled him to swim swift
streams and dive off high landings
The practice was disagreeably hero
ic for the boys, but the father in
sisted that it finally drove all feal
from the most timid of them. III,
proceeded upon the theory that fea
is fed by Imagination and as soor
as any one is convinced that the OBJ
iects dreaded are harmless. all fea
of them will vanish. He eviden Il.
believed, with Schiller, that tn
chief element in the sense of fea
is the unknown.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-05

Mr.. Watterson is we'll pleased
with the result at Chicago and ex-
presses, as be says, a certain sense
of Relief. The republicans, in the
opinion of Mr.. Watterson, have
missed the one combination which
was full of promise to ithem and
menace to US. The solution of their
dilemma and the strategy of the
situation was a union of Depew and
Harrison on the same ticket, and
an aggressive fight for the two dem
ocratic stongbolds of New and In
diana. As they failed to see the
benefit of this combination and
profit by it, Watterson is confident
ly serene and happy.
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Mack Grimn's Prison,

Near GAINESVILLE, in the neighbor-
ing county, Allen, there lives man
whose life has been indeed a most
unusual one. He was born an i'm
beetle, and as he grew older and
stronger he became violent and had
to be confined. His name is Mack
Griffin, and at the age of Is be was
placed in a cabin built in the cor
ner of the yard where his parents
lived. The cabin was bailt espec-
iallv for him and he was placed in
1t and kept in conf lement, never
permitted to leave the house. 1t is
said that he would allow nobody,
not even the members of his family,
to come near him, except bis sister,
who would bring him his meals and
sweep up his room.
While she was in the room he
would lump into bed and sit down
and watch her until she bad left.
He is now g. years old, and
his hair is as white as snow. He has
never been outside the house since
he was put in it but once, that was
when it was torn down to be rebuilt.
He has been in that house which
has no window in it, with the door
barred, for fifty years; and has never
bad communication with sny hu.
man except some:ofthe members OF
the family who take him MS meals
and arrange his bed.
There are several of the family
who can 60 into the room with safe
ty, but the sight of a stranger fills
him with horror, and causes bis
wild nature to assert itself and he
raves and gives vent to the most IN
earthly screams and hideous noises
They never go into the house, be
cause he would attack them most
viciously the moment they crossed
the threshold.
The family are compelled 90 re-
move the bed from the room every
day as he would tear it into shreds'
They can leave nothing in the room
with him for it would be destroyed
He cannot be induced for momen
to leave his cabin, and if the door
was left standing open be would no
come out. His has indeed been al
unusual, lot while at the same time
most unfortunate one.-bo"iine
Green Times.
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Tariff Reform.

Upon this question the Shelby
vile Gazette asserts that the posi-.
ton of the democratic party is hon
est as well as courageous. No par
ty ought to win by running away
from its principles. No party of
honest men ought to win by false
pretenses. Now the democratic
party honestly believe that the enor-
nous and demoralizing surplus in
the treasury should be -reduced
through tariff reform, and that this
can only be done by reducing the
taxes on the necessities of the peo-
pie and essentials for manufacture
This is really the democratic policy
and TO it we regard the party as
fully committed by the re-nomina
ton of Grover Cleveland.
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80
Tennessee Politics.

The approaching political cam
paign, or rather campaigns, in this
state, will be of exciting local and
national interest. There will be two
distinct elections, the first on the I'd
day of August for county officers;
the second in November for state
officers and presidential electors.
Party lines will be closely drawn
in every county 10 the state. The
republicans at the local election will
have full list of candidates for ev-
cry county office. The fact is the
republicans seem to be very much
impressed with the vain idea that
they are going to gain possession,
not only of the local offices in a
great many counties, but the legis-
lative and executive branches of the
state government. The absorbing
and special Feature in the August
election is the fact that the legisla-
ture then chosen will have to elect
a United States senator to succeed
the Hon. Isham G. Harris. The
republicans are not so particular
whom they nominate or elect to the
Legislature so far as the senator
ship is concerned. With the dem
ocrats it is quite different, for
there are already two avowed and
popular candidates on their side
for the place.
While Senator Harris and Mr. At
klns are the only two announced
candidates for the position, there
are already audible whispering that
a dark horse is likely to come
sbetwixt the pair" and "reap the
reward of their controversy" The
only name mentioned in this con-
nection 30 far Is that of Ex-Gov.
Albert Marks. The fact is there
may be several dark horses before
the winner is named.
AS stated above, the republicans
are going to make a strenuous eff
fort to carry the state both in To-
cal and national contests, but they
will be met with the most solid and
irwin chile front the democracy of
this state has been able to present
at any election within the past de-.
cade. This statement may meet
with criticism on account of the
late memorable state convention at
Nashville but that is exactly what
the statement is based upon.
Gov. Taylor is SO per cent. strong
er to-day with the people than he
was two years ago. The opposition
candidates to him in the con VEN
ton are all excellent gentlemen,
any one of whom would have ad-
mirably discharged the executive
duties for the state. The result,
however, showed that the young
governor was stronger with the
people than all of them combined.
He will be his own successor be-
You'd all question by not less than
% 900 majority; and if the republi-
cans do not put out very strong
man, one who can hold the East
Tennessee republicans together, the
majority is quite likely to be
double the above fgures.-Corres-
pondence St. Louis Republican.
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Strawberry" Blondes.

The popular jest about the neces-
sary contingulty ofred headed ghls
and white horses is by no means
modern, but in its recent revival it
has swept over the country as a
novelty. Some of us remem Der
that our grandfathers used joculary
to assert it to the wondering ears of
yonth as well attested fact. In all
likelihood the saying took its origin
in the old English game called,
sometimes, "the game of the road"
but more often "ups and downs"
which is still favorite among chill
dren and travelling statesmen in
Great Britain. One party takes the
sup" side of the street or road and
the other the down." counting one
for every ordinary object and five
for white horse IA piebald count
ing as Whitley until a certain num-
Der agreed upon carries off the vic
tory, but q red headed woman or a
donkey wins the game at once.
Another explanation refers the
phrase to north of Ireland SUPER
stition that the sight of red-head-
ed girl brings i'll luck to the be-
holder unless he retraces his steps
TO the starting point; but if he sees
q white horse at any point on his
backward progress the spell is ipso
facto reverted. In the midland
counties of England, on the other
hand, it is i'll luck to meet white
horse without splitting at it. In
Wexford an odd cure for whooping
cough is suggested by current su-
perstition. The patient trudges
along the road until he meets pie
bald horse and shouts out to the
rider: "Hello, man on the piebald
horse, what is good for the whoop-
ing coughY" and no matter how alb
surd the remedy suggested he will
certainly be cured. In Scotland to
dream of white horse foretells the
coming of letter.
The prejudice against red hair is
as widespread and deeprooted as
it is unaccountable. Tradition as
signs reddish hair to both Absalom
and Judas. Thus Rosalind ICON
planning of her hus bands tardiness)
pettishly exclaims: "His own hair
Is of assembling color!" and is an
swered by Celia: Somewhat
browner than Judas" Marston,
also, in his "Insatiate Countess"
says: 81 ever thought by his red
beard he would prove Judas; here
am l bought and Sold"
But Leonardo da Vinci, it may be
noted In passing, paints Judas with
black hair in fresco, "The Last
Judgment"
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na the Motley of the administrative

and the policy of the administration
now drawing to its close. Its re-
cord is open to every citizen of TIM
land. And yet l will not be denied
the privilege of asserting at this
time that in the exercise OF the
functions of the high trust confded
to me. have yielded obedience on
ly to the constitution and the SOL
emn oath of my Office. l have done
those things which, in the light of
the understanding God has given
me, seemed most conducive to the
welfare of my countrymen and the
promotion of good government. l
would net if could for myself nor
TO. you avoid single consequence
of fair Interpretation OF my course.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-05

EDITOR CITIZEN: 1 attended a
missionary meeting not long since /;
was very much interested in the
proceedings but more particularly
in one of the brethren telling how
he saved his missionary money; l
think he said he saved all the eggs
laid on Sunday which amounted to
about six dozen and eat them him
self and then paid the sixty cents
over to the missionary cause; but
gave the hens no credit for laying
them, but as he had to go about two
and half miles to cackle for them,
| guess they thought they were well
paid. Now the point l wish to
make is this. As live some dis.
lance from the church could not pay
the proceeds of my missionary hens
quietly over to some missionary
agent, without having to 90 five OF
ten miles to. csckle for them;
think the bible says we must no,
let our right hand know what ou1
left hand does. / don't know wha,
| would do about saving Sunday
eggs as my hens do not lay on Sun
day. They generally lay two the
day before or the day after.
A SrRccRIprD
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Literary Notes.

In Belford's Magazine for July
Frank Hurd concludes his discus.
sion on Tariff Reform. "a Plea for
the Negro" bearing on the same
subject, by Mr.. Philpott, and "a
Farmers View" on the surplus and
tariff reform by Sol. Putnam, which
also appear in that number show
that the conductors of the Maya
zine are sincere in their endeavors
for free trade.
Mrs. Cleveland, lately referred to
as "the only democrat in Amercs
more popular than our president"
has poem addressed to her by
Mrs. Sarah M. B. Piat,, in Bel
lords Magazine for July.
The fiction in Beliord's Magazine
for July Includes complete move
by Gertrude Garrison, eni TILED
"The Wrong Man." Captain Ke-
meys has story called "Old Ra-
ven;" and bright satire on socla
life is contributed by Miss Eliza
beth Marbury.
Dom Piatt, the editor, sgives
graphic and striking sketch O
Senator Ingalls, Record" be
sides some attention to Sam Ran.
dallism," "Ingersoll on Coo king,
the great tariff debate, etc., etc.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-05

If we carry the Pacific slope as
we ought to on Harrison's record on
the Chinese cheap labor bill of 'S2,
we shall be richer than in 1884 by
seventeen votes-eight from Califor-
ifornla, three from Oregon, three
from Nevada and three from Colo
orado. But besides these we
should carry some or all of the fol-
lowing north western states-Min-
nesota with 7 votes, Iowa with
Ii, Wisconsin with II and Michi-
gan with l3, making in all Al votes.
The democratic party should make
a strong effort to capture the tariff
reform farmers of those states
whose denunciation of protection in
any guise has been loud, long and
persstent.-Appeal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-05
The Domestic system

A young girl carrying a bundle
entered an intelligence Office on
Jefferson avenue and asked the
agent to find her a situation.
81 thought you had one," Mrs.
G. wasn't that good place /
sent you to?"
"She said-the lady did when she
hired me here-there was only two
of them in the family. 1t wasn't
right in her to desave a poor girl
an | wouldn't stay"
"Isn't she very particular about
the number in the family2" asked q
third party present Of the intelli.
gence agent.
ono! She did just right if the la.
dy deceived her. Tell me about 1t,
Luella."
"She told you there was only two
in the family and when 1 got there
I heard 9 baby crying. 1 didn't
ask no questions but waited to see
was it hers. At tea time there was
a woman came in with her husband,
and 1 knew the way he acted be
lived there, and he did; he was her
brother. Then there was two young
clerks came up from the store an
she said, says she: They ain't in
the family, they don't roof here,
they only eat breakfast and supper.
When 1 sot down to eat my supper
it was nearly 8 o'clock and a strange
woman came down stairs and sat
down to eat. She said she was q
wet nurse. So this morning 1 told
Mrs. - that l didn't hire for no
boarding house at So a week and, as
she hadn't told me the truth about
it, I wouldn't stay, and l didn't"
Wouldn't she give you any more
wagesw
"That she wouldn't"
"Now that's q sample of what a
poor girl has to put up WITH" said
the agent, whose sympathies seemed
to be with the girls. zone of the
best girls l have hired out in q
small family at low wages. She
was not strong and objected to gen
eral house work on account of the
washing. A real nice.spoken lady
engaged her and told her she al
ways helped the girls on washdays.
She said she prepared the meals,
washed the dishes and swept. But
when washday came she shut her
self up all day and never went near
the kitchen. Now is that the way
a lady should treat q poor girli
Besides that she put three weeks
wash on her.
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The Stock Pea.

As an agent for resting exhaust
ed land no farm crop is better suit
ed tn the farmers of East Tennessee
than the stock pea, unless it be red
clover. In the condition of much
of our worn lands the pea is more
valuable than the clover, be-
cause it can be applied at once.
Lands need more or less of manur-
ing or inherent fertility to take a
stand of clover, and there is only
the early spring for sowing clover,
besides it needs to be nursed for the
first season. But the pea will grow
anywhere that grass or weeds will.
Though like grass or weeds it
grows all the better for enrichlng.
1t may be sown with early corn, or
by itself, or may be put in after
wheat or oats or as the corn Is laid
by. 1t is unsurpassed IS a green
food for mich COWS, makes excel
lent fodder or first rate ensilage.
AS a renovator of the soil it acts
III euC bdhC Woy tude SlOFCl uOCo.
l. 1t shades the soil and prevents it
from burning out by the hot sum
mer sun. 2. Its lower leaves fall in
great abundance, adding much veg
etable mold to the soil. 8" Its
roots extend astonishingly deep and
widely into the soil opening the way
for rain and air and leaving, as they
decay, vast quantities of vegetable
matter. president Dabney stated
in the last farmers convention that
by actual weight the pea roots
equaled the weight of the tops IN an
experiment made by him in North
Carolina. 4. Turned under green
the crop carries into the soil an ad-
ditional amount of vegetable matter
amounting to several tons per acre.
Now is a good time to put in a
pea crop. AS soon as your wheat is
cut break up the ground and SOW it
down in peas. Or as you lay by
your corn, SOW peas. If you do no,
sow peas weeds will come and eat
out the substance of your land
Knoxville Tribune.
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1t is said that she salvation arm,

1t is said that the salvation army
has decided to take a part in the
campaign. They will wear regu-
lar uniform, the men dressing in
white straw bats, red shirts lettered
Salvation Army" and dark panta-
looms; the women in gray sacks
and skirts and broad, dropping
black straw hats. Companies are
being organized all over the United
States and will turn out whenever
there is mass meeting, to march
behind the political procession, if
there be one, and to locate as close
as possible to the assemblage; there
to sing, pray, exhort and play on
their musical instruments. In
Tennessee, it is to be supposed, the
fiddle will be the chief instrument
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Social Order.

DR.. W. Fl. Stlllwell, of Humboldt,
in a paper on on "Social Order" in
the current number of The Memphis
Medical Monthly defends "the social
code whereby woman is held to a
rigid and cruel accountability for
indiscretions which, in man, are re-
garded as trivial peccadilloes and
condoned even as failings that lean
to virtues side," and proceeding
upon physiological basis he insists
that conclusion is thus rational and
irresistible that not all the wisdom
of all the worlds reformers can avail
to disannul or radically change the
immutable and essential laws of ma
ture, as manifested and enforced in
the social usages of all nations in
all the ages. DR.. Stillwell, whatever
his claims as a psychologist may be,
does not seem to have much know
ledge of the bible. If he had he
would not have been so sweeping as
he is in the last paragraph. God
Almighty, several thousand years
ago, in laying down a social code
for the jews, instructed them
through Moses to deal fairly where
sexual crimes were brought to light,
and stone the man, as well as the
woman, to death who was guilty of
fornication or adultery. AS God
made the creation of the woman
special act, it is fair to presume he
knew more about her physiology
than the doctors even yet know.
Therefore we prefer his law to the 30.
cial code to the support of which DR..
Stillwell brings the aid of his know
lege of physiology, a social code
that, wherever it has been en-
couraged has, been an encourage
ment to the libertine, and has put
woman generally in false and IN
just position. DIR. Stillwelps posi-
ton thus stands condemned by
Gods law and Gods knowledge of
the physiological conditions of both
sexes and their reciprocal obliga-
tions.-Memphis Appeal.