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The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
Farm and Household.

No animal is so hardy az TO re
quire no attention. The moro an
animal is exposed the less it will
produce either of pork, wool, NUT
ton, beef or milk.
No farmer need sit down aud ex-
pect some one to furnish him a
geady-made system or plan of con
Quoting bis farm he must make it
himself.
Farmers children acquire a
knowledge of botaLy easily, being
much among the flowers, and these
will find the knowledge useful
later.
The black walnut tree will cut a
figure on our farms in the future.
1t can be made as profitable as the
apple tree in Localities where it will
thrive at all.
Use carbolic acid in all the white
wash that may he applied, and
whitewash the interior of the sta
bles as often as it can be done, as It
renders them light and cheerful.
If little clearing, little ditch.
ing, little enriching, or little
picking up is done each year, the
farm will steadily improve. But il
the farm suffers little neglect each
year it will soon lun down.
Sunhower seeds are good for
change in feeding chickens, par
ticulqrly in the winter season. The
oil is highly stimulating and i'm
parts Il brilliant gloss to the plum
age. But If fed too often, without
being ground, they sometimes cause
hardness Of the crop.
Most wood cutting is done in
winter when trees are bare oflleaves
for the reason that this is the sea.
son of most leisure aud that telling
trees IS more suitable TO cold wealth
or than to hot But il wood is
wanted for great durability it
should be felled while in full leaf.
The lIaves help TO carry out a
great deal of moisture in the trees,
and this rapid seasoning preserves
the wood from speedy decay
Sunfower seeds are valuable
food for horses and cows as we'll as
for poultry. An occasional half
pint placed in u horses or cows
feed will prove of great benefit n
regulating bowels and making di
gestion mere active, not to mention
actual increase of flesh A half
pint twice day for two or three
weeks is said 10 be good treatment
for the heaves.
Autumn is n good time for trans.
planting a variety OF trees. Our
best lawn or street tree, the sugar
maple, should always be planted IN
the fail, as the profuse discharge
from the branches and roots cut
necessarily renders spring planting
uncertain. Most Of our fruit trees
do well under fall transplanting.
Some fruits, from some unexplained
cause, grows better when trans
planted in the spring.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
TOYS Tint Can Tnkk.

THE photograph promises to az
ford 80 much recreation to children |
as it does interest," TO grown folks"
said Mr.. p. Handy, the European
manager OF the great corporation
which now controls the photograph |
and graphophone industry, to a
NJ vii ana Express reporter. "You
have heard Of the Photographic |
doll, if you have not as yet seen
it, you can form no idea of how
naturally and charmingly it talks,
Laughs, clies and sings. This is
the FIRST step IA long line of pho
nographic toys upon which our m
ventors are now at WORT. When
these are put upon the market they
will create & wonderful sensation
Among them may be mentioned
Photographic animals. These toys
are made out OF papier mache,
pasteboard, composition and other
material, each and all of which are
strong and durable. Each animal
contains in his interior phono-
graph, which, when set in motion,
produces all the natural cries of
the original. There ia a cat that
paris, news, spits and caterwauls
in the most appro 1ed style; horse
that neighs and whinnies; dog
that barks, snaps and howls, and a
sheep th ~ beats in a way that
would deceive the mother eve. BY
using megaphonic attachment the
amount Of noise may be increased
to almost any desired extent.
Much more interesting than tue
! Photographic animals are phono-
graphic birds; we have secured
the melodies of the lark the linnet,
finch, robin and canary bird, and
can reproduce them indefinitely.
With canary birds the success is
notable. We have preserved in
metal the entire repartory of q
number Of the finest bred and
highest priced birds in the market,
and by combining the song of two
or three into one whole we have IN
artificial canary that will outsin g
any natural one whatever. The
photographic orchestra and the
Photographic minerature theatre
are other novelties soon to be pro-
duced. In the former band oil
little images, dressed up in gIarine
military colors, arc seated on the
stage as in some great concert, OF
stood around the drum major as on
a parade. The moment the pho
nograph is set going each little
musician moves his hands and
instruments in natural style, while
the cylinder inside reproduces ths
music of a lull orchestra with
startling fidelity. In the theatre
we can reproduce all the spoken
parts Of the play. Another novel
ty that is half toy add half &
luxury will be the great boon e
all mothers whose young children
insist on being sung to before go
, ing to sleep. 1t is o phonograpt
into which o lady has sung hei
best songs at her leisure, aud which
Is placed near the crib or cradle
A mere touch upon spring starts
the machinery and gives The chic
such music as be or she may want
A singular feature of tue phono.
graph is the fact that if the specs
of the mechanism be increased the
pitch of the voice it reproduces il
heightened and on the other hand
if it be slowed the pitch is lowered
AT the same time the character o
the voice is not changed 10 tn,
least. This odd peculi&rity enables
n man to hear how his voice woulC
sound if he had been born higl
tenor like Campanini or the young
girl if she had been born a basso
profundo."
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
Louise Branch.
BY SWEET HEART.

Since We have had nothing in the
CITIZEN from this place in some
time | will give you few items
once more.
We are all nearly done plant ng.
Corn is looking very well consid-
ering the dry weather.
Cotton has not yet come up in
this part Of the eouAtry and will not
till it rains.
w. NJ. Montgomery lest three
fine cows on clover last wesk and
several others have lost some in the
neighborhood.
Brce Burgess, Will and Charlie
Smith have lost four fine mules this
spring and had a fine mare badly
cut on a wire fence.
Frank Randolph was very badly
kicked by mule recently. He
was struck on the side of the face
which knocked out couple of his
teeth and fractured the bridge Of
his Sc. He has about recovered.
Virgil Porter and David Briggs,
OF Pulaski, spent Saodsy with w.
NJ. Montgomery and family.
Bill Oliver aud Miss Lillian Har-
well are visiting s L. Harwell, of
Prospect, this week
u iss Matte Harwell spent this
week with Miss Annie Oliver,
Some of The boys had their stools
knocked out from under them at a
party last week. Look out boys
and don't get crippled next time.
Success TO the CErIz EN-.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16

Many of the recognized au,hori-
ties in evil as well as military cir
c.es say, "The malarial disease is
most dangerous IN that the kidneys
are most liable to break down. .
Such men as Dscosts, Atkinson and
Pepper, professors in our leading
medical schools, and Soldaton, Sur.
geon Gen. in the Russian army, and
Woodward, Surgeon Gen. In our
American army, speak OF malaiia as
complication of chronic Rright's
disease. The kidneys must be kept
free from disease anil the poisonous
germs of malaria; they must act
normally in cleansing the blood, for
So gallons of it passes through them
every hour. People in mslarial b.
calities recover from both the cause
and effect of malaria by usi e
Warmers Safe Cure. Every person
in the spring or fall, who has either
kidney disease or malaria, should
use Warmers Safe Cure as pre-
cautiopary measure,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
Another Robinson Crusoe.

Prof Lee, of Bowdoin college
who accompanied the Albatross
expedition rs q naturalist, tells oil
a curious experience 10 the South
Pacific ocean. Years ago the
Ecuador government planted .
convict colony on Charles Island.
one of the Galapagos group. The
c0nvicts revolted killed the COVER
Nor and escaped, leaving behind
pigs, cattle, donkeys and horses.
Since that time ne one was thought
to live there, and at Chatham
Island, another of the group, the
Afbatross party were told that
Charles Island was entirely desert
ed. They were, therefore, rather
surprised when they visited Charles
Island to come upSn o man nearly
naked, carrying pig on his back.
He was quite as surprised as they,
and was at first in great fear, bat
finally they got him to talk. His
hair and beard had grown to great
length, and be had lost al, notion
OF time. He said that some years
before he had come from Chatham
Island with d party IN search of
valuable moss, that be had desert
ed h IS companions, who had gone
off without him, and since that
time he had beel alone on the
island. He had lived on fruits
and herbs, had captured wild cattle
by setting traps for them, killed
them with spear made by tying
his pocket knife to stick, and
from their hides made a hot. He
vas glad TO see the men again, and
asked TO be taken back to Chatham
winch was granted, of course.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
.Eoonomy on the Far,,.

A +. Noyes, Beaver Dam, in a
paper on Economy on the Farm"
quoted maxims from the early his
tory of China down to modern
times intended 70 inspire The spir-
it CT economy in the young. He held
that true economy is that which is
taught in the home, so cultivating
the growing minds that they under
stand how to compreh end and ap
preciate the good, the beautiful and
the useful, and to use them pre- p
er'y aud judiclously. The miser
ly-minded are not true economist i.
1t Is not economy to deny ones
self or his family the comforts Of
life, or the proper appliances for
performing all necessary work. 1t
is economy to have the best :arm
machinery, and practice the most
thorough cultivation of the sol.
One OF tue best sys;elns Of econo
my or the farm is that which not
only maintains fertility, but keeps
it constantly increasing in The soil
even thong considerable nu'l Y
may be required at the start. 1t is
good economy to put hay in the
barn or to stack, few hours be
fore Gre THINKS it dry eaough grass
juice will not hurt the hay or the
man; it is grain juice which caus-
90 the most Irou BILE One of the
best species Of economy is TO keep
a gentle horse for use by the wife
and daughters, that they may the
better enjoy and appreciate life.
Have tho best appliances for dping
all work and and comfortable pls-
ces for the stove. 1t pays sad is
good econ omy.-Orange j u d d
Farmer.
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Y OIL. 81


At the recent farmers institute
in Albany, DR.. III xamer. an expert
gardner Of long experience, now ed
ltor Of the Agricu!tu-ist, gave a
grand talk on the Farmers Gar
den." Here are some OF mis- good
polhts: To the mind OF the average
farmers the garden is nuisance,
and on most farms, this is true.
A small plot inclosed by /. fence RI
wall, too small to do any oil thc work
of cultivation by horse power, the
only work ever done there is on
rainy days, when us too wet to
work in the field The average val
ne of all the field crops in the coun
try is not much above fifteen dol
lars per acre. But who can begin
to estimate the value of good gar
den where all variety of fruits and
vegetable are grown And the
home market Of the family table
will take them all at highest pri-
ces. To the old chestn at Of 80
many farmers that "the press OF
more important work on the farm"
makes it impossible for them TO
have a good garden, the Doctor re
piled: "Take an acre Of your best
land, and devote il to garden pur
poses; plan the planting so that
the horse and cultivator can be
made To do most of the work, and
then hire 4 man just to take care
of the garden.
Those Of it's products that are
used in the family will more than
pay his wages, any surpls can be
sold and be turned TO o clear profit,
while fully two thirds of the mans
time can be devoted to general
farm work, thus giving extra labor
without cost"
l am satisfied the doctor is right
for friend of mine, having half
acre city lot, bought his fertilizers,
hired the land plowed, and planted
thereon twenty six dollars worth
Of plants and seeds. He kept az
account of all money paid out for
labor, plants, seeds, manure, etc
for five years, and charged his fam
lily at market rates for all fruits
and vegetables consumed. He too
me that this half-acre paid him {
profit of $l60 annually. And sucl
half acre should be on every
farm. The family will appreciate
it, and it will help largely to re
duce the butchers and grocers
bills.
Ask the busy, Woodworking
farmer who has very poor garden
or none at all, simply because h
has go much else to attend TO, wha
he is working so hard for, and The
answer will be, ito make = living;'
that is, producing crops to sell
that he may have cash to pay hi
taxes with, keep up ordinary re-
pairs, and purchase food for sci
and family-which, of course, Il
right and proper. Yet, when hi
can be made to realize that three
acres of ordinary farm crops WI
have to be grown and sold t(
bring money enough to purchase
TODD products equal in value TO
his family table to what he car
purchase in one-half acre garden
the complete garden will find it
place on every farm, even if othe
things must be neglected. Whe
a mistake to grow and sell crop
at Wholesale and then turn arounC
and take the cash and buy at re
tail for our family when 80 nuci
can be produced st home.-Hart.
ford Courant.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
About housekeeping.

To be a good housekeeper should
be the highest ambition of every
wife and mother, as the prosperity
and happiness OF the family de
ponds greatly on the order and reg
ularity established within the
household. 1t is, therefore, an &C
complishment IN comparison TO
which, in its bearing on woman 8
relation to the household and fami-
ly, all others are insignificant. 1t
may truly be said to embrace oil
that tends to make perfect home
where the sweetest relations oft are
Iurtured and maintained.
1t is a mistaken idea TO suppose
that the performance OF household
labor when necessary, or kDowi-
enge of it in all positions is incom-
patible With culture, for no lady Of
the highest accomplishments should
feel that she bemeans herself by
giving her personal attention to the
comfort of her family.
The husband whose home is al
ways neat and comfortable, and
who can invite his friends To par
take of a meal in his home in the
full confidence of finding every
thing in presentable condition, n
finely appointed table, with food
daintily prepared, and served with
taste, will feel pride and exulta-
tion in the possession of a wife who
gives her home charm beyond all
else. The sons bred in such fam
lly will be moral men of good prin.
ciples ana industrious, orderly
habits and the daughters will prove
treasurers to their fortunate hus-
bands, being formed on the model
of an exemplary mother, and will
use the some means for securing
the happiness Of their own young
families, which was so succt ssfully
taught them under the patel maj
roof.
The mistress of every family
should be capable oftaking full su-
perintendenee of all household mai
te-s, and should feel pleasure in
discharging the duties pertaining
to them. Every department of her
domain, be it large or small, should
be arranged with such system that
perfect order will prevail.
Housekeeping is a fine art, and
We cannot hope to hire those will
who bring the talent necessary to
the artist for the perfection of the
work. IL is only the mistress of
the house, guided by proper sense
of duty TO her family. that can
bring the charm about her home
that springs from symstematic Ia.
Dor.
Many rules, and all OF them ex.,
cellent, are laid down for The in
struction of housekeepers, and
there are few subjects around which
cluster so many theories as Of hap
Ply home making. But, after a
careful study. they may all be
summed up N the simple plan of
systematic labor, scrupulous neat
ness, promptness and economy.
These rules, if strictly adhered to
and guided by love, cannot fail to
make of every woman a thoughtful
and energetic housekeepoT. Mrs.
u. Il. Parker, in Courier Journal.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16

Prof. Henry says: Keep the grape
vine limited; don't let it spread far
enough to be in the way OF the cul-
tivator. Prune in the fall or early
in the spring; for the farmer fail
pruning is safes. Aim to grow at
least four canes or vines to each
post. Yeu can mt always get so
many by the third or fourth year,
but aim to get them. Cut out the
oldest cane close to the ground,
each season letting one new strong
cane succeed the old one. The
three or four canes left must bear
the fruitwood; leave a, pruning
time three or four spurs or new
wood TO each of the three canes, and
cut these spurs back to two or
three buds. From these buds come
the new wood which will bear fruit.
Guard jealously to keep the vine
from .getting top-heavy keep the
fruitwooi low down on the plant.
Plants can not live without leaves
as they are the lungs of tue plant; ;
though them they breathe. II
kept cut off the plants will suffo-
cate. In dest~ Dying weeds in the lawn
in the pasture, among small fruits
or any place where it is desirable to
kill them out, KEEP the tops cut of
reasonably close to The ground and
you can get rid Of them.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
Brick Church.
BY s. A.

Crops are needing rain very
badly. Cora especially, in fact ev
erything needs rain just now.
The recent cold nights have dam
aged the cotton to sume extent il
this section, but the farmers think
they will not have to plant over.
The irost did not damage tn,
fruit crop very much in this sec
ton though it seems to be dropping
off from some cause.
There was a large crowd 1T the
May meeting last Sunday. Rev.
Mr.. Wilson, of Pulaski, delivered d
splendid sermon in the morning.
Rev Mr.. Graves, OF -Bufords Sta
ton, preached in the evening.
Hon. r. A. f. jackson is pilot
ing an IN urance man around over
the country. If Brick Church had
few more such men as r. A. +
there would be more business done
The cholera is destroying a great
many hogs in this neighborhood.
Ben Chapman is our hoss trader.
He trades ia al! kind If sock,
mules, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs,
calves aud lambs.
We notice that Mr.. Charlie
has a sticking plaster un-
der his eye. We don't know
whether he has been lighting or
unfortunately fell down and cut
his face.
Mrs. Hattie Rothrock, of Nash
vile, who has been visiting her
mother-inlaw, Mrs. M. A. Roth
rock, returned home last Monday.
w. ii. Burgess, of this place, is
doing business for firm in Pulas-
XII.
Thos. Burgess is still visiting
Gadsden Tenn. Tom likes the air
around Gadsden.
Your humble correspondent saw
oli brother Lynn" last Sunday
He was looking as pleasant as red
apple.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
TIE Idiots Not Au Dead.

When will the idiots cease to ad
dress each other as baby? Every
scandal suit, every breach Of prom
Use case, develops this Stiffness.
The only time | ever really enjoyed
hearing a woman called baby was a
few years age on the platform of the
Leavenworth depot. Miss Susan B.
Anthony, as grim featured az tbs
unwinking Sphinx amid the sands
of Egypt, was grimly seeking pile
OF baggage for the old trunk that,
contained her vestments, when an
rreverent railroad employe came
iup and said: wv hats the matter
baby--lost your trunk| | shall
never forget the exterminsting look
of that old warrior as she turned
her spectacles on him. But that. s
the only time l ever saw or heard
a woman resent the appeilatiOD,
though she might be 80 years old
and weigh 200 pounds.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
Countru Newspapers.

Referring to the country journalist,
George Peck,..of Milwaukee, says:
When we think OF the hard drudg
cry that these enterprising, indafa-
tigable workers DO in week. AMI
the small amount of thanks and
cash they receive ia return, we fee
as though Something was wrong
somewhere. Why it, is, that II
many localities The people do no..
appreciate the Importance OF u
good new spape-, and sustain !. ~
liberal patronage. thus making i Il
better newspaper, 3 one o. tie
most unaccountable things IN the
world. We have no agent 10 call
to say what we do, bat we tell the
people in every locality where B pa
per is published, no matter how
small and insignificant the paper
may be, that every dollar they pay
it for subscriptions or Judicious
advertising puts two dollars in cas-
in their pockess. We have hgareo
on it and we know. 1t may moi
look so on its face, bat it is very
deceiving. Lots of schemes tina
look as though they had millions II
them, like the man who is sure III
can pick ont the right card in lhre'
card monte, fail to return any tain.
like millions, while other scheme
that do seem to amount tt anything
scarcely pan out whole bandfuis 0
nickels unexpectedly. And tn
country newspaper is of this class
Subscribe for your paper and pa
for it in advance and if you tell a
the end of the year that yol
haven't got your moneys wartl
then your fortune is made. 70,
can go to museum and get $500
a year as curiosity.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-05-16
Bee Spring.
BY BEGINNER.

TIE third term Of the Zee Spring
sa..,s,l el.sses wiih tso s;s,s exatai-
D-tioa May Is Ia an. II H.
Pref. j c. Goodrich, by his
sill. and mercy IS 3 tea. her. has
succeeded in building up FIRST
class school a. tsis pas,
Miss Matte Newman, enc of
Fasel,s yiile's most accomplish {!
yoang .,iies, Las charge cf the mu-
seal department " iicii is progress
ing very finely inter h'r lostruc
tim.
An address will be ,l,.iiverd on
Frida ny R'v L r A'nis, of Fay
eitavIIle, and others a.e expected.
a concert wiIi be given ',n Friday
night which will COZ s,st of dia-
logues, ehara les, r.cit -iioDs and
declamalions, vocal snl instru-
mental music,
The nei2hboring schools witt
their teachers are est c:l,ly invit
ed and woaal like t. see cur editor
"a representative cut With US
Dinner on the gronat to'h Thurs
day and Friday.