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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-04-18

The full name is omitted, as the writer
may be living, as is also the name of the
noted southern woman who sent the fol-
lowing letter to Jefferson Davis in the
latter part Of February, 1861. The letter
is well written, and the reader can ap-
preciate the thrill that went through the
enthusiastic writer when she wrote the
words:
OsYkA Pike County, No., Feb. 20, 1861.
The Hon. jefferson Davis President of the Be-
loved Southern Congress:
Being a daughter Of the south, take the liberty
in sending you the model of flag which l only
hope may be received with warm feelings. The
white ground is an emblem of innocence; the blue
ring, lasting love; the center, red on which Is
placed a cross represents q Christian nation; the
crescent over the cross is our southern Confeder-
acy and the green stars represent the states
and as all these are placed in ring, they repre-
sent one union In the southern Confederacy mover
to be broken-the name I have chosen Is the
UNITED Southern Banner"
Please excuse the great liberty have taken In
writing to you, but, like Gen. Washington, you
are now looked upon as the father of the south,
and know will excuse oil tho liberties the south
ern daughters take
May God bless the southern Confederacy, and
whichever model is taken for O banner may his
rich blessings ever rest upon 1t. Is the sincere
wish OF Mrs
The women of the Southern Confed-
eracy were as strong in the support Of the
government as the men. They contrib
uted to it by every form of self sacrifice,
and the tales of their heroism would
make fortune for skillful novelist.
From these designs and hundreds of
others the committee finally made re-
port for flag. This report was read on
the 9th of March, 1861, and, after long
preamble 1t stated that the flag of the
Confederate States Of America should
consist of red field with white space
running horizontal to the center equal
to one-third the width of the flag. The
union was to be blue, and was to extend
through the upper red stripe and white
stripe, and in this union there was to be
acircle Of white stars, in number as many
as the states in the Confederacy. When
the report was read four designs of this
flag, made of cotton cambria and of full
size, were hung upon the walls of the
convention at Montgomery. The con-
vention adopted them, and thus the
''stars and bars" were born.
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Where Men Lose Their Nerye.

Did you ever notice tho conduct of
man who is forced by circumstances
TO enter fashionable millinery store
unaccompanied by o female body
guardl If not, it will be found enter
tanning.
His fellow men will pity him, but
the women will laugh at him 1t is
one of tho few positions in which mas
culinity is wholly at the mercy of the
fair sex. Said well known Fifth ave-
nue. milliner the other day:
''It may appear incredible, but
have seen men-men who have led in
battle, who habitually mount tho ros-
trum, who pass their lives in constant
friction with their fellows, or who en-
joys a reputation as favorites among
women in society-enter this place
alone to execute commissions for their
wives, and fall suddenly into the CON
dition of great, bashful, overgrowr
school boys when called upon to face
the girls and speak q piece
'Why is itl That's q metaphysical
problem. But there is always some
thing in the atmosphere of place de-
voted exclusively to the labor and per-
sonal adornment of women which
painfully disconcerts man unless he
is attended by his wife, and even then
he is by no means at his ease. AS an
instance of this, gentleman of ac-
knowledged nerve and prominent in
national politics came in here recently
to order bonnet for his wife, to be
sent home on approval. Before he
left | was really sorry for him. A
number of ladies were trying on hats,
and he became so nervous that / firm
ly believe he didn't know the colors or
the price of the bonnet he selected. He
kept fidgeting and glancing about him
like thief, and when his business was
concluded made a dash for the door
without leaving the address, SO I had
to call him back. I shouldn't wonder
if he took drink to steady himself
when he got outside.
"It's a queer thing, isn't it9"-New
York Star.
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nomespun gray or maD = Jenerson
Davis. A couple of soldiers Jagged be-
hind, and altogether there were not a
dozen people on the wharf in sight be-
side these. Mr.. Davis did not come
directly out to the boat, but loitered
there awhile in the warm sunshine of
that quiet Saturday talking to Gen.
Duncan and Mrs. Davis, with the smile
of sick man convalescent playing on
his face.
"What should the United States do
with jefferson Davis? At law he might
be hanged. Who would hang him? The
pulse of the country fluttered and every
body wanted somebody else to take the
responsibility.
"At that moment of irresolution a
man in New York obeyed an impulse
which solved the problem. Horace
Greeley took the public mind off Jefferson
Davis and became tho best abused man
in America. The most prominent man
in the north wrote his name to the bond
of security. Monday morning the United
States granite bIilding was the town
rendezvous.
AhS 6AoileA Jul "do COHipOSSQ Vi
whites and blacks. John Minor Bolts was
on the jury-a big bellied, hail fellow,
farmer, politician, twc-thirds demagogue
and one-third obstinacy, with the var
nish and veneer of eloquence over all; a
talker by profession, who boasted that he
had never read a book since boyhood,
but lived on newspapers and other slim
ulants. / saw there Charles O'Conor,
and another who next to jefferson Davis
was the cynosure of every eye-Horace
Greeley. He was to great extent the
reigning influence in that presence, and
Underwood, the judge with whom lay
the option of taking the bail, paid much
more respect to Horace Greeley's inten-
tions than to Mr.. Davis. After the bond
was signed, as Mr. Greeley stopped back
towards pillar where he had first stood,
Mr.. Davis rose from his chair with a
smile of respect and reached out his
hand, bowling like one under deep obli-
cations, and fully accepting the act in its
benevolent spirit. Mr. Greeley took the
hand without speaking, and the action
lasted only portion of moment"
Gerrit Smith, another famous Abo-
| litionist, and Charles O'Conor then went
through the formality of affixing their
names to the bond, and Jefferson Davis
then stepped forth a free man.
L. q. DE FONTAINE
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This southern cross Is found in many
of the designs, and it ranks with the
palmetto tree and the lone star as q
prominent figure. Some of the ladies
designs are very curioalss and some are
made of different colors of silk and satin
neatly stitched together and with little
stars sewed upon them. In some cases
the designers had not tliepaints to work
with, and they have made their designs
of different pieces OF coaored paper cut
into shape and pasted together. Hero
the red, white and blue predominatcs.
and the stripes and stars ia nearly every
case permit the addition & new emhlems
for the new states as they emo in. One
of the ladies' flags is eighteen inches
long, and it consists of three series of
two stripes of red, white and red above,
and below broad stripe of blue, upon
which are sewed seven white stars.
Here is a picture of design Al, which
was sent to jefferson Davis from
Coffeeville, Ala, but print cannot paint
the wrath with which the colors seem to
swear at each other. The design is large
enough to cover a good sized library
table. 1t is made of heavy drawing
paper, and is done in crayon. One part
of the ground is blue and the other part
is dirty yellow. On the broad, blue
part; which is supposed to be attached to
the pole, a big black eye is painted, and
around this, in the shape of a crescent,
which faces the front of the flag, are
seven white stars. From the eye eight
white stripes go outward, running from
the blue into the yellow and there losing
themselves. The letter which was sent
with this design is well written. 1t is
dated Feb. 23, 1861, and it is addressed
to 'Gen. Jefferson Davis" The first
paragraph prays for the prosperity OF
the Confederacy, and the remainder OF
the letter is taken up with a description
of the flag. 1t reads:
Being true southerner have taken the lib
erty to send to your care miniature flag, the
emblem Of which would like to see adopted by
our provisional congress as the ensign of our gov
ernment The emblems, as seen on the flag, were
taken from the last scene of the aurora borealis
of the 18th of September 1859 Cat nigh.).
The eye is design Of my own, and may repre-
sent, first the president watching over the nation
for the good OF the people, and, secondly, the al
seeing eye Of God by whose guardian care oil ma
tions have their existence. You can have the
flag bordered with whatever color suits YOU
fancy Very respectfully, your servant,
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That Ache In the Lack.

An Albany physician, says q con.
temporary, declares that Americans
suffer moro generally from Bright's
disease and nervous diseases than
any other people, and he says
tho reason Is that Americans Sit
down so pcrsistingly at their work.
Hc says: Americans are the great
est sitters / ever knew. While Eng
lishmen, Germans and Frenchmen
walk and exercise, an American busi-
ness man will go to his Office, take his
seat in his chair and sit there all day
without giving any relief TO tho ten
sion of the muscles Of the back. Tho
result is that these muscles surround
ing tho kidneys become soft and
flabby. They lose their vitality. The
kidneys themselves soon become weak
and debilitated. II Americans would
exercise more, il they would stand at
their desks rather than sit, we would
hear less Of Bright's disease. / knew
of New York man who had suffered
for some years from nervous prostra-
ton until it was recommended to him
that no have desk at which he could
stand TO do his work. Within o year
he was one Of the healthiest men you
ever saw. His dyspepsia and kidney
trouble had disappeared, and he had an
appetite liko a paver. - Scientific
American.
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Two hours afterward the ladies Of
Montgomery had made the first Confed-
crate flag. 1t was of merino, and was
run up over the state house of Mont
gomery and loudly cheered. The stars
a battle flag. Gen. Joe Johnston says
that it was too much like the Stars and
Stripes, and that the two could not be
distinguished from each other i'm the
fighting. Gen. Beauregard saws that
after the battle of Bull Run many per-
sons of both armies thought that the
other side had put up the enemies flag
as decoy, and after this Johnston and
Beauregard decided to adopt new battle
flag. Johnston at first wanted each reg
iment to use its state colors. but this was
found impracticable and another flag
was chosen. The design as settled upon
by Johnston and Beauregard became the
battle flag of the Confederacy, and it
was afterward adopted as such by the
Confederate congress at Richmond.
This flag is known as the southern
cross. 1t had red field with two wide
blue bars running diagonally from one
corner to the other, and ON these bars
were white or gold stars equal in num-
Der to the states of the Confederacy.
This was really the flag of the Confeder-
acy, and it has more right to the name
than the stars and bars. A design SINH
lar to it was presented to the Mont
gomery convention by William Porcher
Miles, and there is such q design in this
old scrap book. The stars and hars,
however, got the preference They be-
came known the country over rs the
Confederate flag. ard they ;. - l-stsi ably
60 into history Is such. II : Letter
by Frank q. Carpenter
A colored woman testified at q trial
in Stanford, KY, that she would
have been killed had she not seen the
bullet, which was coming straight ai
Der, end lodged it."
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Monasteries and Mental Diseases.

Tho monasteries were frequent
sources of that form of mental disease
which was supposed TO be caused by
bewitchment. From the earliest
period it is evident that monastic life
tended to develop insanity. Such
cases as those of st. Anthony and st.
Augustine are typical of its effects
upon the strongest minds; but IL was
especially the converts for women
that became the great breeding beds Of
this disease. Among the large num-
bers of women and girls thus assem-
bled, many of them forced into con-
linement against their will, for tho
reason that their families could give
them no dover, subjected to the un-
satisfied longings, suspicious, biclSer-
ings, petty jealousies, envies and
hatreds, so notorious In convent life,
mental disease was not unlikely to be
| developed at any moment. Hysterical
excitement in nunneries took shapes
sometimes comical, but more gener-
ally tragical. Noteworthy it Il that
the last places where executions for
witchcraft took place were mainly in
the neighborhood of great nunneries,
and the last famous victim--of tho
hundreds of thousands executed in
Germany for this imaginary crime
was sister Anna Renata Sanger, sub
| prioress of a nunnery near Wurzburg
The same thing was seen among
young women exposed to sundry IA
natical Protestant. preachers; insanity,
both temporary and permanent, was
thus frequently developed among the
Huguenots of France, and has been
thus produced in America, from the
days of the Salem persecution down
to the camp meetings" of the present
me.-Andrew ID. White in Popular
Science Monthly.
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Daudet's Little Green Soto Boox

Daudet, the famous French novelist,
has kept for years and years n little
green note book, full of crowded notes
and confused erasures, with tho gen
eral heading, ''Thc South" Every
thing belonging to his native region
has been stored up there, its climate,
moods, accents, gestures, frenzies and
ebullitions. He has found his materials
everywhere, in himself foremost and
in his family and i'll tho recollections
of his childhood, kept fresh in that
strange memory Of his, where each
sensation records and stereotypes itself
as soon as it is experienced. Down in
that green volume has gone every
thing from local songs, proverbs,
phrases, to the cries of the water car
riers and fruit sellers, and the very
meanings OF the sick, whose ills arc
all magniiied and multiplied by that
excessive southern imagination. The
crimes Of the region find record there,
the outbursts of passion, drunken, but
not with wine, which battle and hor-
rify the judges who, reared in cooler
climates, do not know what TO make
of the extravagant testimony which is
brought into their courts. From that
little book have issued ''Tartarin de
Tarascon,n ''Numa Roumestan" and
''Tartarin sur les Alpes," and it is full
of hints for other volumes as yet un-
written, even for grave history, if
Daudet can trust one ambitious entry
Napoleon, n man of the south, in
whom the whole race may be summed
up. p."-Providencc Journal.
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GIRL AND GOLD.
rt Is Sometimes the One and Sometimes
| the Other That Makes Jewelry Crock.

rt Is Sometimes the One and Sometimes
the Other That Makes Jewelry Crock.
Every ieweler has doubtless net
with many curious incidents In his
business career, but think that an ex-
perience of mine is worth relating.
Shortly after the holidays there came
into my place O pleasant hammered
young man who expressed a desire to
look at some gold necklaces. II is need
less to say that sold him one 1t was
Ia carats and very pretty. Two days
later the door was flung open and In
rushed the same young man, boiling
with rage He threw the necklace on
the counter, demanded the return OF
his money, and threatened to expose
me as swindler. 1t took half an hour
To learn his story.
1t seems that after presenting the
necklace to his lady love he had taken
her to a reception ornamented with
his present. After the first dance there
was commotion in one corner of the
room, and the rivals of our customers
best girl were tittering among them
selves and whispering about her.
Tho young lady looked in the glass
and almost tainted at the sight Hel
beautiful neck was almost black from
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lN HEROEs, MEMORY.

Fiowers to Decorate Their Graves on April
decentralization of the Living.
"Sorrow for the dead" says Irving,
"is the only sorrow from which we re-
fuse to be divorced; yet in time even that
sorrow becomes sweet and pensive
memory" In such a spirit does the
southron approach the 26th of April, the
Confederate Decoration day. Time has
softened our sorrows, time has cast a
mild halo about the memory of the
heroic dead. We honor them in pensive
quiet, but without the keen pangs of the
days of war. 1t is, indeed, a melancholy
pleasure TO honor the dead, but on such
n day it is most fitting to add few
words about our living heroes.
II is not becoming to boast, but the
south may, with modest pride, point to
the subsequent career of her great sol
diers who survived, and ask: Where, in
all history, did the leaders in any unsuc-
cessful revolution maintain higher at
titude of moral dignity or achieve such
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JEFFERSON DAVIS.
SOME EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF The
CONFEDERATE CHIEF.

Mr.. Il. G. De Fontaine Relates Some In
teresting Matters Not Now Generally
Remembered Greeley and Mr..
Davis Bail Bond.
Admiral Ammen, of the United States
navy, referring to his early acquaintance
with Mr.. Davis, said recently: II first
met him in the autumn of 1917 rs SEN
ator-elect from tho state of Mississippi.
He was walking slowly on Pennsylvania
avenue. Washington, and noticeably
lame from painful wound in the foot
received in battle some eight months
previously He was erect, probably six
feet in height, pale, thin, but wiry in ap-
pearance, and weighed perhaps l30
pounds. His complexion was somewhat
bronzed and his eyes blush gray. He
was exceptionally well informed on most
of the topics usually discussed at that
time. and | can recall no one from whom
/ derived more useful information or
sound advice TIo was gentle and at
tractive, conversational on many sub
jects without being didactic, and his
habits Of life were evidently simple, his
dissipation consisting chiefly in the mod
crate smoking of cigars. | never
paid n visit to Col Davis without real
zing that had acquired some informa-
ton on military subjects, or what was
cognate to them, and other interesting
facts. In the early spring, after the
election of President Pierce and William
r. King, of Alabama, l met the latter
gentleman at the rooms of Col. Davis.
On entering, he introduced me as Cap
tain" Ammen, of the navy. / thought
proper to say that perhaps my age and
length of service should have given me
that rank, but / wished the vice presi-
dent TO know that they had not done so
and that was really. only an old passed
midshipman. Col. Davis Jocuiariy re
marked that he always felt disposed te
give rank above the actual ono as
matter of compliment"
The first of Mr.. Davis visits to the
army took place on the 2lst OF July
1861, at the first battle of Manassas
When he arrived near tho Manassas rail
road junction everything was IN cont4
| sion; there were stories of disaster to th'
southern arms and the conductor re
fused to proceed further. Mr.. Davis In
sisted. however. that he should detaei
his engine, and on this, accompanied .,
a single aid, he rode as near to the head
Quarters of Gems. Johnston and Beaure
card as il was possible TO 60. and thei
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uEN. JOSEPH WHEELER. in US lies stand
between them and the possible evil, lie;
us take hold { { tho situation with a cour.
aae that will save oil that can be saved;
lei US contend for liberty within the
Union and show 10y our faithfulneSs to
all our duties that, though our soil Is
oycrrun, the spirit of our people is honor
able and invincible." Such was tho voice
Of Lee, echoed by all.
When did the world ever Hook darker
20 man than il did to the iIoa. BenJa-
min Hill in 1865? He had been an orig
inal Union man" yet yielded, as he saw
his duty, to the voice of his state; now
all was lost and he q prisoner threatened
with summary trial and death. He came
out Of his troubles with the respect even
OF his foes and lived to contend for the
rights of his constituents through seven
teen HrouDlcd years. III congress anu On
the platform, north and south, no COM
PEELED first respect and then affection; Mt
last, fighting an incurablo disease with
all the bravery of noble nature, he con-
tinued TO labor for those who trusted
him and died only 10 be sincerely la
nentad by former foes. Ths monu-
mens fronting his late home in Atlanta
presents a statue in pure white marble,
the best emblem of his official life.
A man of less courage than Gen. Joe
Wheeler would have said In 1896, "My
life is already failure" He turned to
his work as n lawyer and planter, deter
mined to make life a success. After de
cliDinc the offered chair of philosophy
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Religion and Charity booming.

Stranger-Kissing sociablesl What
are they2
Rural Belle-They are never held
except to raise money for some great
religious or charitable object. The
young men are Rlinafolded, and on the
payment Of a fxsd sum some girl,
brought up TO him and be Is allowed
to Kiss her. He never finds out whom
he kissed; but by paying enough he
can finally Hiss eSefy girl III the
room. SO, you see, he gets the one he
wants, but he never can tell which
one it was"
II see. Is there puch activity in
religious and benevolent circles In a
town like thisi'
one Of US busy hunting up objects to
hold soclabies fOr. .S-PElladeipkla Re. e
cord.
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bflS Lttso VI tiC OiSi
dEE. BRAXToN BRAGG. IT nion and n
strangely varied career under the Con-
federacy, might well have thought that
at 80 years of age this world had little
hope for a defeated man. He lived to do
eleven more years of useful work, sig
nal eXample-but only ono OF many
thousands in the south-that whatever
differences may arise in the heat Of con-
ilict, the man who stands up bravely
against misfortune compels respect from
the honorable, even from his foes.
These few are mentioned at some
length only rs instances of the many
brave and honorable men who stood sc
firmly by their people in trouble, accept
ing Gen. Lees noble dictum: "The south
has need of all her sons" OF course TX
invidious distinction is intended with
others, but this page would not contain
even their names. The roll is one OF
honor for what they did in peace as well
as war, and one who compares it with 6
roll of the men honorably prominent il
various lines of activity will find q re
markable correspondence. Alabama's
list of ten congressman contains the
names of ten brave soldiers. The Arkan
sas list contains six, and her seventh
congressman was but 10 when the wal
ended. Georgias list of congressman j:
thicllset with the names of soldiers. Oi
North Cardinals members eight have
proved their truth in war and in peace
These are only mentioned as illustrating
how faithfully the men of the losing
cause have stood by each other, and not
as in any way rejecting on those whose
views of duty took them another way. Nc
class of men have more charity for ole
differences than the real soldiers, nortl
and south.
1t may be claimed, with modest conf
dence, that The soldiers Of the Confeder