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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26
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A Woman Wheat Grower.

Widow Crow is farming 5000
acres. She averaged nine sacks to
the acre, amounting to about 1000
tons. She sold at $3l lon and
banked 100000 for her crop. She
has taken a partner for convenience
and that gives her superintendent
in the field; but she remains the
boss, bank and brain of the enter
prise. She OWES one combined bar
vester, which will cut. thrtsh and
sack thirty acres day. When her
crop was ready for. the sickle she
started her machine, hired -four
more, and the five went marching
around her golden felds-20 men
and 100 horses cutting, threshing
and sacking $50 acres of wheat
each day. 1t kept five men busy
sewing up the sacks of grain a:
they came from the separator; five
drove each "a horse team, fv'
tended each sickle, and the othe
five attended each to separator
In minute the standing grain i
in tue sack ready for transportation
Los Angeles Elk.
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The One-Horse Farmer,

The editor of the Nevastota( Tex
as Tablet loaded his shooting iron
not long ago and went cunning out
on the prairie. Having bagged q
one-horse farmer he holds him up
to view as follows:
The one-horse farmer has a life
long ambition to gain a reputation
for wearing dirty shirt.
He will alarm the neighborhood
by getting up two hours before day
and then sit around and not 60 to
work until after sun-up.
He will ride around q week look
ing for two dollar hog.
He will complain of hard times,
then tear his pants climbing fence
where gate ought to be.
HE will pay three dollars for q
new bride and then let the call
chew it to pieces before Sunday.
He will get all his neighbors te
help in getting a cow out of the
bog, then let her die for the want o
atten tion.
Stock will get in and destroy his
crops at place in his fence that h'
has been putting off fixing for si1
moL this.
He will sprain his back lifting
something to show how strong
be is.
He will talk all day Sunday OF
what he knows of farming then rid
around the neighborhood Monda.
hunting seed potatoes.
He will 60 in his shirt sleeves OF
Ia cold day to show how much b.
can stand and then return home a
night and occupy two-thirds of tn
fireplace till bed time.
| He will ridicule the mechanism o
a corn planter, then go out ant
smash his thumb mailing a boar
on the fence.
He will 60 to town on Saturda
and come back with fifty cent.
worth Of coffee, a paper of pins an
a dollars worth of chewing tobacco
| He is economical, economy is hi
forte, he will save ten cents wort
of axle grease and ruin the spindl
of $40 wagon.
He won't subscribe for a news
paper, but will borrow from hi
friend and forget to return it.
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Why Some Farmers Do Not Succeed.

There are a great many reasons
why some farmers do not succeed.
Most persons are thankful to be re-
minded of things they already know
when it will make them mend their
ways. "P," in Progressive Farmer
gives a long list Of reasons why
some farmers do not succeed. Broth
er Farmer as you read this, check
off the caps that would ft you:
They are not active and indus
trious. They are slothful in every
thing. They do not keep up with
improvements. They are wed ded to
old methods. They give no atten-
ton to details. aTbey think small
things not important. They take
no pleasure in their work. They
regard work as misfortune. They
weigh and measure stingily. They
are wasteful and improvident. They
are fretful and impatient They ruin
stock by low fencing. They
let their gates sag and fall down.
They will not make compost. They
let their fowls roost IN trees and on
the fence. They have no shelter for
stock. They do not curry theiI
horses. They leave their plows in
the field. They hang the harness in
the dust. They put off greasing the
wagon. They starve the calf and
milk the cow. They let their pigs
sleep in the dust. They go to town
without business. They are penny
wise and pound foolish. They dc
not know that the besti is the cheap
sat. They have no method or sys-
TEN. They 60 too often to ''see q
man." They have no ear for home
enterprise. They never use paint
on the farm. They plant very
late in the spring. They stack fod
der in the field. They prop the barn
door with rail. They let the
horse stand in the rain. They lei
the hoops fall from the tubs. They
neglect to trim the fruit trees. They
milk the cows late 10 the day
They do not su bscribe for The CIT
yZEN
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Market Gardening.

The market gardener wherever
he is located is compelled to exert
himself to the utmost to get profit
out of his business. He makes a
good profit because he tries to. AS
a rule the land he uses is the most
valuable of land. To make such
land pay "a profit upon the invest
ment he must grow the best pro-
ducts and get them into market at
the proper time. He cannot do his
work in a slipshod manner. Now,
as farmers we can learn much from
the market gardener if we will. It
is often remarked that in the west
we do not farm as c,ose as they do
in the east. That is true. In the
east they are under the necessity
of farming close. Their land is not
naturally as fertile as ours. But if
we would only pattern after our
eastern brethren In this particular
it would be greatly to our profit.
What is the use of keeping 100
acres when we do not want to grow
more than, under a better system,
could be grown on 80 acres. What
ever amount of land we cultivate,
let US cultivate 1t thoroughly. Let
Us do just what the market garde-
ner does, make every foot and inch
do its best. Then if we do not want
all the land we have, sell off the sur
plus.-W estern Rural,
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The Household,

To prevent clothes from taking
fire, in the lsst rinse water add two
Dances of pulverized alum. All
children's dresses should be thus
treated.
Make the halls inviting to the
corners in, and remem DER that pic
lures placed there are not wasted,
as the first impression one receives
upon entering house is lasting
one.
Turpentine mixed with carbolic
acid and kept in open vessels about
the room will, it is said, greatly les
sen the risk of conta9ion in scarlet
fever, diphtheria and other kindred
diseases.
Packing boxes may be placed one
above another and shelved and cur
tanned, or small ones may be psd.
ded like ottomans and used for
seats and cases to hold bed linen or
undertaking.
A SEAsoNABLE DRInK.--The Juice
CT lemon, mixed with four times
as m lch water, unsugared and
drank just before bedtime, will do
more to counteract malarial infu-
,ences and correct "a surplusage OF
bile than a dozen blue pills.
GRAPE JELLY.-Is also quite as
desirable as anything in the jelly
line. A person recovering from
sickness will relish grape jelly al
most before ali other sauces, and,
if possible, i: is we'll to have some
on hand Tor this purpose if no other
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EarlV Fattening,

If the hogs are expected 10 be
fatted on one month feeding of new
corn, now is the time to lay the
foundation for that quick work.
The clover and other grasses put
the system in fine condition to di-
gest and turn to pork at light
ming rate; but the work will be
more speedily done if they have
some grain while on grass. Suffi-
cient should be given to keep them
we'll rounded up; and it is we'll to
remember the fact that the grain
fed at this time is slowed away as
pork, and not consumed to keep up
animal heat. 1t is out Of reason to
expect to fat grass hog, and fl
him up with lard on one month
feeding in the fall.
There is an unusual effort on the
part of farmers to make a heavy
corn crop this year. If their expec
tations arc realized, the first fattet
hogs will bring the most money
for the supply of corn rules, NOR
than anything else, the price O
hogs For this reason we promp
our readers to take good care t.
have their hogs come to tue new
corn crop in good shape. In cas-
the corn crop is short there will b.
a gain BY this management, for tn
hogs will be the sooner ready 70
market, making a saving in the linn
tied supply of corn.
1t is acknowledged by all shrewt
and far seeing farmers that the tru
road to make the most money GU
of the sbqealers is to push then
from the start as fast as consisten
with health.-Stockman and Far
| mer.
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What to Teach Her,

At a social gathering some one
proposed this question: what
shall l teach my daughter?" The
following replies we handed in:
Teach her that 100 cents make a
dollar.
s-sTeach her how to arrange the
parlor and library.
Teach her to say "no" and mean
it, or eyes" and stick to it.
Teach her how to wear a calico
dress and wear it like a queen.
Teach her how to sew on buttons,
darn stockings and mend gloves.
Teach her how to dress for health
and comfort as well as COR appear
ance.
Teach her how to cultivate flowers
ard to keep the kitchen neat and
clean.
Teach her to make the neatest
room in the house.
Teach her to have nothing to do
with Incorporate or dissolute
your men.
Teach her that tight lacing is
uncomely as well as injurious to
health
Teach her to regard the morals
and habits, and not money, in Sc
Letting her associates.
Teach her to observe the old
rule: A place for everything and
everything in its place.
Teach her that music, drawing
and painting are real accomplish
ments in the home, and are not to
be neglected if there be time and
money for their use.
Teach sher that mostaaimportant
truism: That the more she lives
within her income the more she
will save and the further she will
will get away from the epoor house.
Teach her that a good, steady,
church going mechanic, farmer,
clerk or teacher without e cent is
worth more than forty loafers or
non producers in broadcloth.
Teach her to embrace every OPP
portunity for reading, and to select
such books as will give her the use
full and practical information in
order to makes the progress in ear
lier as well as later home and school
life.
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Causes of Infectious Diseases,

Inquiries issued to twenty-eight
medical colleges elicit the common
response that most, if not all, in
fictitious diseases are caused by the
growth of microscopic organisms. I"
But as to making bacteriology a
subject of study in the public
schools there was wide difference
of opinion. Most of the medical
schools are giving more or less at
tention TO the subject. 1t is very
evident that, as soon as possible,
our physiology and hygiene, as
taught in our colleges, when 1t is
taught at all, should include the
subject of infection and the dangers
from this class of microscopic foes
to life.
The battle of life is to be fought
out hereafter, not so much with
wild animals and huge monsters,
but with enemies 80 minute as to
escape ali ordinary means Of detec-
ton. Science says "quite number
Of special archaeological laborato-
ries are already established in con-
nection with our larger medical
schools" 1t is clear enough that
medical education should include
this subject, and in the not distant
future we shall all be students OF
Observation-Disclosures
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Our Interest Law.

The Chattanooga Times and the
Nashville Banner are advocating the
repeal Of the present interest law
and the substitution therefor of one
that will ALLOW of a conventional or
contract rate not to exceed 10 per
cent, but leaving the legal rate as
it is, at 6 per cent. This is time
ly movement and one that ought to
have the general consent, because
it will tend to the encouragement of
capital and to heavy investments in
the states. As the Banner explains,
Tennessee is one of only nine states
in the union which maintain a re-
strictive legal 6 per cent. rate of in
terest. Of the forty seven states
and territories, thirty eight allow a
contract rate of interest to a limit OF
s to 10 per cent. and over. Seven
teen of these allow 2 contract rate
of over 10 per cent, nine of which
allow any rate that may be agreed
upon between citizens negotiating
loans with each other. In this re-
spect Tennessee is behind the ma,
jority of states in adapting herself
to the progress OF the times -.Aem-
phis Appeal.
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Copgression Convention,

By virtue of the authority in me
vested as Chairman of the Democratic
Executive Committee of the 7th Con-
gresslonal District of Tennessee, a con-
vention is hereby called to meet in the
town of Centreville, Hickman county,
Tennessee, at IL o'clock NJ, Thursday,
the 9th day of August, 1888, for the
purpose of nominating a Democratic
candidate for Congress from this the
9TH Congressional District of Tenn.
Primary elections will be held at the
voting precincts of all the civil districts
of the several counties composing this
Congressional District upon Saturday
August 4th, 1888, between the hours OF
p. m. and A p. m. to elect delegates to
represent said several civil Districts in
said convention.
The delegates so elected will meet In
their respective county towns on Mon
day, Aug. 9th, 1888, for the purpose OF
organization and with power to elect
delegates to represent any civil district
which may not hold the primary cleo
ton. L, L. PADGETT,
July 8, 1888. Chairman.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

The August number of the Forum
will complete the fifth volume; and
during the two years and half
covered by these volumes both
sides of every subject of great pub
lie concern have been treated in its
pages by leaders of opinion. The
list of contributors contains the
names of more than $50 of the
foremost writer's in America,
England and France. Beginning
with the six volume new feature
will be added to the Forum (which
il also new in our periodical litera-
ture.I Every number will contain
a signed article of literary criticism
reviewing the most important re-
cent books in the several great de-
par,ments of thought, and every
writer will be a recognized authorl
ty in his department.
The Forum for August will con
tain the second of g number OF ar
ticles by Edward Atkinson or
~Problems of Wages and Produc-
ton" In this article he shows the
insular quality of British economic
thought and marks out thesway 70
American science. He show
how. under republican institutions
production is gaining on conSump
tion. and the condition Of the labor
mo class is constantly improving
and be insists that the part tn
mind will play in increasing tn
food !supply of the world has bee
left cut of reckoning. This is ia
tai fault in the Malthusian doctrin
that population will increase taste
than food production, and In hicar
dos theory of rent. The capaclt
of the earth's production unde
scientific treatmen: cannot even I
conceived. The same number wi
contain a notable comparison OF IL
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

Col. Sidney D. Maxwell, superin-
tendent of the Cincinnati Chamber
of Commerce, in his annual report
recently made, says the consump-
ton of beer for the year ending
August 81, 1887, in Cincinnati,
Covington and Newport, aggregated
726,112 barrels, or the equivalent of
29O, 444, 800 glasses. In comment
ing upon this report the Liquor
Dealer, a saloon paper, speaks as
follows: cat five cents per glass
the total amount therefore paid
over the counter for beer alone in
these cities during the past year
was the enormous sum of $l4, 1922,
$40. Add to this the amounts paid
r vi o nous and distilled liquors and
the total becomes appalling" Even
the advocates of the saloons are
appalled, at the rapid increase OF
the ll1uor traffic.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

The Sioux, as rule, deposit
their dead GA scaholds OF poles or
the branches of trees. Once in a
grove near the river passed a
large tree with a dead Indian child
dashed to one of it's branches. How
peaceful the little slumberer seemed
to rest in its quiet sylvan tomb
among the birds and blossoms.
The dreamy murmur Of a waterfall
in a neighboring gorge seemed a
fitting requiem for the silent sleep
er.-Detroit Free Press.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

DIR. ]. G. Hatch, an old physician
of over forty years experience, re-
cnmmends the following treatment
for lockjav, having successfully
tried it on himself and others; If
any person is threatened or taken
with lockjaw from Injuries received
on the hands, feet, arms or legs, do
not wait for q doctor. bnt put the
injured part into the following pre-
paration: Put hot wood ashes in
to water as hot as can be borne; if
the injured part can not be put into
the water, then wet thick folded
cloths 10 the water and apply them
to the part as soon 20 possible, and
at the same time bathe the back
bone from the neck down with some
powerful laxative stimulant, say
cayenne pepper and water or mus
tard (good vinegar is better thar
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Give as God Hath Prospered,

Some money is needed in this
community just now for building
and improving church houses.
For the benefit of those who are
able to give much and give but lit
tie we commend the following from
the pen of Rev. w. o. Toby: Many
christians want to sit and enjoy a
repetition Of the first Pentecost
while unwilling to give any money
or suffer any self-denial for the no ore
general coming of the promised
outpouring. 1t wonld seem to be
great privilege for a christian sit
ting idly and stingily at home to be
decorated with a cloven tongue like
as of fire and be able to astonish
his neighbors with u great story of
his enioyments. But it is a greater
privilege to give as God hath pros
pered, for the promotion of the out
pouring of the Spirit of God upon
all fesh.-Rev. W. o. Toby.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

Farmers should improve their
premises and their families by i'm
proving their gardens. Some must
begin or it will never be done. The
world will never Use en- masse for
its own improvement. Whatever
is done must be commenced by in
dividual effort, and the example of
individuals and their success will
accomplish the object. But success
does not always Immediately crown
our efforts. Perseverance is its
harbinger, and in no pursuit is per-
severance more necessary than in
the culture of the soil, particularly
the garden. Be not discouraged,
then, if your first efforts meet with
failures, but go cheerfully on, and
in due time you will reap the re-
ward of your labors.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

The quantity of butter manufac-
tured and used In this country i 8
about 100000 lbs, and of cheese
100000 lbs. The value of our
dairy products for the last year wa S
nearly $50O,OO0,000. This is 800
900, 1000 more than the value of our
annual wheat yield, while it closely
approximates that of our corn crop,
which is the most valuable oil our
farm products.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

Sorrow is not an accident occurr-
ing now and then-it is the very
wool which is woven into the warp
of life, and he who has not discern
ed the divine sacredness of sorrow
and the profound meaning which is
con cealed in pain, has yet to learn
what life is. The cross, manifested
as the necessity of the highest life,
alone interprets TT. w. Robert
son.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

A law has been passed in Wal
deck, Germany, forbidding the
granting of a marriage license TO
a person addicted to the liquar hab-
it. The Austrian government has
introduced into the Reichsrath a
strong measure for the prevention
of drunkenness. The reason al
legedtis the alarming deterioration
in the physique of young men en-
rolled for military service.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

The issue before the country Is
a square one. The democratic plat
form declares in favor of low taxes
upon the necessaries OF life and
high taxes upon Injuries. The re-
publican party pledges the party to
high taxes upon lood, clothing and
provisions, and declares for free
whisky and tobacco. THIS is the
issue in a nutshell.-San Francisco
Examiner.
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Congressional Primary Elec.
tiOn.

In obedience to the action of the Dem
Ocratic Executive Committee of the 18th
Congressional District, as set forth in
Chairman Padgett's call, Democratic
Primary Election is hereby called for
Saturday afternoon, Aug. 4th, 1888, In
the various civil districts of Giles coun-
ty. to choose delegates to represent
Giles county in the Congressional Con-
ventiOn called to sit at CentreVille, Aug
9th, 1888, to nominate q candidate for
Congress from this district.
hereby request the district members
of the Giles County Democratic Execu-
tive Committee to open and hold this
election, and il any district COMMITTEE
man cannot do so he will please APP
point an assistant who can.
Should no committeeman or assistant
committeeman attend for that purpose
let the election be held as nearly as pos
sible in accordance with the 3rd provis-
ion OF Sections ,049 and 1850 Code OF
Tennessee.
The polls will be opened at 2 p. M
and closed at p. M, and the officers,
judges and clerks will please certify to
me the results with their poll books.
suggest that not only delegates bn'
candidate for congress be voted fol
on tickets prepared as follows;
FOR CONGRESSMAN,
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Minister-"I understood that you
do not believe that a person is
sufficiently punished on this earth
for bis misdeedsT" Neighbor-"Oh
yes, do now; but l didn't until
heard you preach" The parson
walks on little perplexed.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

The temperature OIL the dog
days has had no depressing effect
on the conductors of Ha-pers' Mag
azine. The number for August is
as fresh and vigorous as May or
early June. Most of the staff of
well known contributors are repre-
sented in its pages, with here and
there a new name. From an artis-
tic point of view, there is no chance
for fault-finding. Abbey, Parsons,
and Thulstrup furnish some of
their best work. In fiction many
strong chapters are offered, Will
the supply Of solid reading is in no
way diminished. The frontispiece
is a haymaking scene by Abbey,
drawn to illustrate the old rhyme
about "The Leather Bottle"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

First Chicago woman-"We are
to be admitted to the church con-
ference to-day, aren't we?'
"Second Chicago woman-"No,
indeed. Didn't you hear? They
voted to keep US out"
ooh, dear! l don't know what to
do with myself this morning."
"Well, let's go around to the
court house and listen to divorce
cases. We are not shut out of that
yet -
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Trpea lODU retain tho ccars

Trees long retain the scars in
tiicted upon them by rifle balls,
aud trees are standing on the ole
Indian battle ground near Dawson
Ga, that still bear the scars of the
rifle balls fired into them during ths
fight of July, 1886. The pine tree
that one Of the soldiers ascended to
spy out the movements of the In
dians is still there.-Chicago Her
aid.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-07-26

The law of Indiana forbids the
bringing of Texas cattle into the
state between April let and and Oc-
tober 1st, under heavy fine and i'm
prisonment, and makes the owner of
them liable for civil damage that
may accrue from disregard of the
statute.
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Anxious father-"Why, what

Anxious father-"Why, what's
the matterY'
Little son-"Me an Dick was
playin', we was, Abe Lincoln an
splittin' rails, an we'en we got that
big board all chopped up mama
came out an took the wood in the
house fer kindlin'."
"But you didn't want the wood
did your"
"No-o."
"Then what are you crying forr
GIVE just found out II aim
been playin', live been workin
boo, boo"