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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
Nature OF the Brain.

1t is a law of organic life, tracea-
bic from the lowest specimens of the
animal kingdom, through all tine as
cending series, to the highest type
of the human being, that, in the as
cendiDg scale, the softer and more
fluid tissues gain on the more dense
al d solid; and that the cerebro-spi-
nal nerve tissues gains upon all o. Der
tissues. Thus man, the crowniug
work of organic creation (for the
present at least) has brain sub
stance vastly disproportionate to
that of any animal, and the brain is
composed of only one part of solid
matter to seven or eight of fluid.
A recognition of this law leads rs
to some very important practical
considerations. The capacity of any
animal or person to enjoy or suffer
is In the ratio of the cerebral devel-
opment. Hence large animal with
powerful muscles may strug le vio-
Ienily yet suffer little pain; while n
human being with weak muscles and
large "yitatiyeness, may suffer ex-
cruciating pain without manifesting
much muscular effort.
If this principle were understood,
those praiseworthy Societies for
the Prevention Of Cruelty to Ami
mails, might establish branch or
department for the benefit of human
beings; for there is IN every large
city In the world, more cruelty prac-
ticed on human beings every day in
the year, than on all the animals In
ali creation during the whole year
Another lesson deducible from
these premises IS the mis- AIKEN nc
ton about overworked brains They
cannot be overworked They suffer
little "wfar and tear. because of ex-
ercisc. Beng sofr and almost fluid /,
and having no duties but thinking
and feeling, their motions are almost
as free and frictionicss as the drops
OF water which may toss aud tumble
forever without injury.
1t is the nutTitive system that Is at
fault-the assimilaiing 'and disin e.
grating functions and not the brain,
when a person complains Of too
much head work. Let bin only
keep his vital machinery in order,
and he may work his brain to the ut
most without harming it.-FrOBt
''THE EXTERNAL SENSES IN science OF
HenAL
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
Physiology.

A great deal more attention should
be paid to the study of physiology
by both men and women. If we had
less Latin and Greek In the schools
and more physiology, the world
would be better off. It is impOssi
bic that the masses of men can be
healthy, and SO moral and successful,
without some knowledge of their
structure and of it's laws, which they
must obey or suffer. How can a
Young woman be called educated,
who is ignorant of physiology, of her
duties as mother, of the divine art
of nursing? How many men know
anything of the relations of the waste
and supply in the nervous economy?
Why, not one man in a hundred
knows even what the stomach is
made for, and the other ninety-nine
are constantly transgressing the
rules they have learned. We may
take the old parable of the apple in
the garden as an apt Illustration
of the way mems stOmachs
make havoc with their moral sense.
Not one man in a hundred knows or
suspects that God made the air to be
breathed. Every part of his house
may be reeking with miasma, the
cellar full of all evil, the partitions
clotted with dormant mischief, and
he never dreams Of it, bat goes on
mailing down his windows and list
ing his doors. If we conid only sec
the air we have once breathed over
Even the architects ofour public halls
and churches have the cIudest idea OF
Ventilation.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07

''In the hall of feasting, there was
the bloody track to his chair. So at
last, finding the notice he attracted
incOnvenient, this unfortunate lord
deemed it best to go back to his own
Hall, where, living among his faith
full old servants born In the family,
he could hush the matter up better
than elsewhere, and not be stared at
continually, or on glancing around,
see people holding uP their hands in
terror at seeing 50 bloody track be-
hind him. And so home be came,
and there he saw the bloody track
on the door step, and dolefUlly went
into the hall, and up the stairs, an
old servant Gshering him into the
chamber, and half dozen others
following behind, gazing, shuddering,
pointing with qUivering fingers,
locking horrOr-stricken into one
anOther's pale faces, and the moment
he had passed, running to get fresh
rushes, and to scour the stairs. By
and by he vanished from the cid
Hall, but not by death; for from one
generation to another, they say that
a bloody track Is seen about that
house, aud sometimes it is tracked
up into the chambers, SO freshly that
you sec he must have passed but a
short time before; and he grows wi
ser and wiser, and lonelier and lone
lier from age to age. And this is
the legend of the bloody foot steps,
which myself have seen at the Hall
door Atlantic for May.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
The Custom of Treating.

If could persuade all the young
people of Elmira never to treat each
other, nor to be treated, I think one
half of the danger from strong drink
would be gone. If I cannot get you
to sign the total abstinence pledge,
binding you until you are 35, would
be glad to have you promise me
three things: First, never to drink
on the sly, alone; second, never to
drink socially, treating or being
treated; third, when you drink do it
openly, and in the presence of some
man or woman whom you respect.
''Now, boys if you wish to become
generous and treat each other, why
not select some other shop beside the
liquor shop? Suppose, as you go by
the post office, you say, "Come boys,
come in and take some stamps. -
These stamps will do your friends
some real good and will cost you no
more than drinks all round. Or go
by the tailor's store and say, "Boys
come in and take a box of collars"
Walk up to the counter, free and
generous and say, "What style will
you have? Why not treat to col
lars as we'll as to drinks2 Or go by
a confectioners and propose choco-
late drsrs all round. Or say, "Boys,
'take a newspaper" Or say, "I'll
stand a jack knife all round.
How does It happen that We have
fallen into a habit almost compulsO-
ry, of social drinking? You drink
many a time when asked to, when
really you do not want 10. When a
man has treuted you, you feel mean
and indebted, and keep sort of &C
count current in your mind and
treat him. And so IT is the use of Just
that agent, which a. the very best is
dangerous one, you join hand in
hand to help each other to ruin in
stead Of hand in hand to help each
other to temperance.-[Thos. K,
Beecher.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
Drinking Habits in England.

The number of dram-shops and
drinking palaces are almost incredi.
bic. Taking the country through,
there IS a dram shop to every forty
houses, and to every 200 of the pop
ulation. Tins Is as exact aS statis-
tics. Besides this, most families
keep constantly on hand from the
wine merchants and brewers an
abundance OF private tipple. 1t is a
beer-swillinG nation. One has heard
that always, but does not realize it
until he hears the everlasting Mag
ria ot yellow bitterness rolling down
the natl nal throat. On all streets
servant gitls are flying to and fro
from public houses with tneir jugs of
porter and ale. 1t is no mild bever-
age like the German lager, but strong
stuff that muddles one IN no time,
full of all manner of poison and mas
tiness. Charles Kingsley says that
it is a common habit for the public
house keepers to buy one or two bar
rels of beer Ct the brewer, and then
to dilute and doctor 1t into three
barrels for the popular stomach
What the internal structure OF an Or
binary Englshman may be, one
would not venture to guess Not
only does he guzzle his beer, but he
has his wine whenever he can afford
it, and then be takes a night cap of
raw whiskey or brandy before de-
parting to his nightly dreams. This
seems exaggerated, but it is a sober
fact. You go to the theatre, and be-
tween acts well attired women Ii the
dress circle VIII take out a pocket
flask and refresh themselves with
brandy or port. You enter rail
way carriage, and your vis-a-vis most
unblushingly takes her flask and
sucks her sherry before your ey es.-
You are never invited out to dine,
or to an evening party, without hav-
ing all the fiery furies thrust upon
you. Exceptions to this rule are
rare. Tne man who does not drink
is voted a fapatic. There is no pub
liz opinion IN favor of temperance,
as with u.s. Quite the contrary
This is sufficiently evident from the
single TACT over one hundred millions
Dl DOu0uS-llNS nhuOi GQ luAIlOuS OF
dollars-are spent each year in Eng
land for the fluid OF which saddens
human life and inebriates the nation.
This is one of the most violent con
trast between English life and our
own; this and its attendant poverty.
How little conscience OF scrupie ex-
lists in this matter of drinking here,
may appear from this invariable hab-
it of clergymen and ministers of all
denominations to have wines and
spirits upon their tables; and your
correspondent has more than once
seen wine in more than one vestry
room after conference and other
weekday meetings, for refresEment
Of the delegates and such as desired
freely to imbibe. Even the bishop
of Manchester has, within few days
past, publicly confessed, lest TOO
stringent crusade against temper
snce should arise, that he Often re-
freshes himself alter preaching With
cup of bitter ale. All such things
would be simply scandalcus in New
England. London Letter.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
Nothing Lost, An ythi ing Gained.

In this universe of matter there is
just as much and 10 more than in
the beginning. So it in respect TO
the planet We inhabit. New plan
cts come into view from a small seed
and even the great trees of Califor-
MIA spring from a little germ. To
attain these immense magnitudes it
seems as though they originated ma
terially out of nothing. BuC after
all, there is but just certain amount
or number of particles in existence,
perpetually placed in new relations.
They are animal today; in the air
next; absorbed by the roots the next
imprisoned in the coal bed-set at
liberty by fire and away they go in
a ceaseless round of activity-for-
ever too, for aught we know to the
contrary.
How is it possible to get rid of
matter? By what process can it be
ennihilated? If it has been from ev-
eriasiipg, why may it not remain to
everlasting2
Such are natural questions still
there must be a beginning, which pre-
supposes an agent-a volition to be-
gin. Genesis explains that which
philosophers, reasoning from no es-
tablished foundation, manage very
poorly. Thus, T" In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth. "
Any attempt to go behind that de-
claratiOn only makes the subject more
bewildering.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
Ireland.

The report of the Register Gene
eral Of Ireland for 1871 just published,
shows a net decrease Of 25,547 acres
in the quantity of land under culti-
vation below the previous returns
Potatoes had increased by 1851
acres, mangeI wurtzel by 6,940 acres,
aud hay by 55,1 1913 acres. All the
other crops show a decrease: wheat
by Is, 1896 acres, oats I3,903 acres,
barley 1906 acres, rye 242 acres,
turnips 12,024 acres, cabbage 1871
acres, and fax IS, 240 acres. In the
estimated total produce of the prin'
cipal cereal crops there was a de-
crease Of 2,247, ,536 bushels. Pota-
toes had decreased by !, ,424 S04 tons,
cabbage ii, ,3GG tons, fax 7,S4I tons,
and hay IL, ,919 TINS The only crops
that exhibit an increase are turnlps
3O4, $50 tons, and maDgel wurtzel
108,G48 tons. The emigration re-
turns Tor 1871 show that the num-
Der of emigrants who left Irish ports
In that year was 72,O04, a decrease
Of !, ,476 compared with 1870. The
number of males who emiRrated was
Al ,924, and the number Of females
was 30,0S0.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
The MOney-Test of Piety.

It may sound ungracious to some
ears, but it is none the less true,
that the mOney-test is the best cri-
terion of mans religion. Some
times, indeed, we may find O man
who is willing to contribute liberal
ly to a cause for which he is unWil-
ling to make any other sacrifice
We sOmetimes-perhaps frequently
find men who seem to think that
if they will only pay handsomely in
to the treasury of the Church, they
need not trouble themselves about
living according to her requirements.
But while we concede that there are
cases like these, we will contend for
the general rule, that the best pay
ers are the best Christians. OF course
there are in every Chr rch very good
mem bers whose means are limited,
and of whom much could not be ex-
pected. But if they be earnest and zeal
Gus, they will prove it by their lib
erality, even though they be poor;
for it is the manner, rather than the
amount, which indicates the spirit.
Every one who has had any expert
ence in business, knows that there
are men who pay largely who do not
deserve to be called paymastors.-
They pay only when they cannot
help it, and then with such a show
of reluctance that it is evident they
bad much rather no. do so. So there
are men who contribute to the
Church largely who are net classi-
fed as LIBERAL givers. They show too
plainly tina. other motives than the
cause of Crist urge them to yield of
their substance. Sometimes the
ocffiers who have this business in
charge to make collections, have to
operate on the baser feeling of their
nature in order to get from them the
amounts which their means warrant
them to give.
Now, q man who has a genuine
zeal for the welfare and prosperity
of his Church, will need no stimula-
ting to induce hun TO give pecunia-
ry aid toward building her up. If
the Lord has blessed him with an
abundance, he is willing of that to
lend to Him, instead of seeking to
avoid calls on his purse, he is ever
looking out to see where his money
may be proftably invested for the
Masters service. If he be pvor,
there is still no tagging, The mite
that ne is able to contribute, is paid
IN with promptness and pleasures.
He does not wait TO be asked, nor
exposes deacons to the unpleasant
duty of asking him for his quota
time and again. He knows that such
delinquency void make them feel
as unpleasantly as it would him, and
though pride is not his ruling mo-
tive, he does have too much
pride to wait to be pushed into do
ing his duty.
The man who gives to his Church
as largely as his means will allow,
will, AS a general thing, enjoy his
Church privileges. He viii feel that
it is his Church; that he has an in
terest in all that she has and is
His pastor and his brethren will all
be dearer to him when he feels that
he and they are all engaged in one
common work, and that he has aid
ed It's furtherance as far as his abil-
ity will allow - Index and Baptist.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
The Amnesty Bill.

The President this afternoon sign
ed the bill to remove the political
disabilities imposed by the XVIII
Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States. This provides
that no person shall be a Senator
or Representative IN Congress,
or electOr of President or Vice
President, or hold any Office, civil
or military, under the United States
or under any State, who having pre-
vlously taken the oath as a member
Of Congress, or as an officer of the
United States, or as a member of
any State Legislature, or as an exec
tive or judicial official of any State,
to support the Constitution of the
United States shall have been en-
gagged in insurrection or rebellion
against the same, or give aid and
comfort to the enemies thereof
Congress has, by the bill just pass
ed, which obtained the requisite two
thirds vote in each House, remove d
the disabilities OF all persons whom
soever, except Senators and Repre-
sentatives of the Thirty-Sixth and
Thirty Seventh Congress, and Off
GERS in the judicial, military and ma
val service of the United States,
heads of Departments and Foreign
Ministers of the Uuited States.
The exceptions will, it is supposed,
cover less than two hundred cases,
including JeffeI son Davis and John
G. Breckineidge.
THE AMNESTY BILL.
The following is the text of the
Amnesty bill as passed by Congress,
and signed by the President:
An Act TO remove the political disa-
bilities imposed by the fourteenth
article of the amendments to the
Constitution of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted Stat of America in Congress
assembled (two-thirds of each House
coDcurring therein, that all politi-
cal disabilities imposed by the third
section of the fourteenth article OF
amendments of the Constitution of
the United States are hereby removed
from all persons whatsoever, except
Senators and Representative of the
hirty-sixth and Thirty-sevgnth
Congresses, officers in the judicial,
military and naval service of the
United States, head of departments,
and foIeign Ministers of tie Uuited
States.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
A clever old lady, apparently ju

A clever old lady, apparently just
arrived on a train from the country,
entered one of the refreshment
rooms at the Springfield Railroad
station the other day, and gazed ca
gerly about the apartment as though
searching for something. At last a
waiter inquired what she was look
ing for, and she replied that she
left her parasol on the settee, and
was trying to find it. A general
search commenced, and lasted for
some time. Finally one of the wait
ers asked the old dame when she
left it, to which she answered after
counting up on her fingers, "Well, IT
was just three years ago last Fourth
Of July" There was a general roar,
much to the astonishment Of the old
lady, who went away with a very
puzzled look upon her countenance.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
Kindness to Children.

The rod is relic of baIbsrism,
and it should be made unlawful to
use it, not only in schools, but in the
house as we'll It Is drubtful if III
the most aggravated case of wicked
ness its use will balance o. offset one
of the many casos where it is made
to serve the ends of cruelty, or is
used on nervous. sensivile children,
through a mistaken puritanic sever-
ty. Mrs. Hunt, in her charming
bits of Travel" in Italy and other
foreign countries
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
TENDER AND TRUE

IIo stole from its nesS I'm nv golucn hair
4 knot Of ribbon blue
lie placed on my ham jewel rare.
A. Whispered soft as she held il there
Tender and tTue-adieu, adieu
The almond was bending with blossom white.
-, The roses blushed ihi Ough the dew:
Ine violet smiled in the glowing light
anu nc was happy and hope was bright
Tender and true-adieu, adieu
They brought my soldier home 10 me
And my knot Of ribbon blue:
But the cruel wound on the brow WAS hid
By-the Nag dropped over the coffin I'D.
Tender and true Rdicu, adieu
The alHond flowers in the brcczs e shake
The roses etill blush through the dew
But the spttngtime Of b0pe will never awake
ana the lone, lone heart will walt till it break
Tender and true-adieu, adieui
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07
To Parents.

Parents run the risk of losing the
love OF their children who put aside
their trivial questions as of no con-
sequence. An interrogation Foint
symboljzes the life Of childhood
"Whys" and whats" are the keys
with which we unlock the treasury
of the world. The boys number
less questions often seem trivial, but
the wis=st parent will never turn
them of unanswered. if he can an
swer it. 1t his rich opportunity OF
teaching. He is met halfway, and
there is all difference between truth
on an eager mind aud an uninteres-
ted one. The little fellow helping
you to your work, and pelting you
with endless questions, may learn as
much in a half hour, as in week
when his body is a prisoner N a
school-room and his thoughts are
out of doors Exchange.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07

Ladies some times do not value
their husbands as they ought. They
not untrequently learn the value of
Il good husband for the first time by
the loss of him. Yet the husband
is the very roof tree of the edifice-
the keystone called home. He is
the bread winner of the famil ly-its
defense and its glory-the begin
ming and ending of the golden chain
Of life which surrounds tits coun-
sellor, lawgiyer, and its king
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07

Genius, like the lark, is very apt
to despisc its post upon the earth,
and wasted its time IN hutterlng ana
quavering among the clouds; but
common sense is the humble fowl
which picks up the barley eorns, ana
crows and fatteuz st leisure.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-06-07

Depend upon yourself; ridin
upon the shoulders Of another IS
dangerous and foolish. IF you arc
not cast off into disagreeabie place,
you might be let down in avery ug-
Iv manner, when you 4ie.;st expect it.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-01-16
Financial nnd Con,nercinI.

COLUMBIA, 8. c., January Is. -Snl.s
OF cotton, to-day. At. bales middline
200.
New YORK. January l5.-Receipts at
all ports, "a, 500 bales, against liO. CPS
last week, and l30,O three weeks since.
Total receipts since September, 1871. .49S
bales. against 1,900.55l for correspond
ing period previous to this year. d..
crease since September 1st, 329, O54 bales.
Exports from all ports for week, 82.l24
bales, against 9S. 500 the same tim. last
year. Total exports for expired portion
OF cotton year, S2l, ,1S0 bales, npaiust
i,056, O62 same time last year. Stock at
all ports, 1876. 1868 bales. against $40. .6l5
same date last year. Stock ut interior
towns, 93, 944 bales. against 1874 last
year. Cotton in Liverpool. 542, 900 bales.
against $500 last year. Amount of
american cotton aaont for Great Britain.
138. OOO bales. against 200, 900 last year.
Indian cotton afont for Europe, 248. 600
bales, against $1,000 last year. Less
rain fallen during the week, and alto.
gether, the weather has been more fa.
yorable for picking operations, which
are now progressing with renewed vieor
III many sections.
LONDON, January 15-3. p. M.-Ame.
rlcan securities quiet and steady. Con-
sols 9224. Bonds 91zS.
FRANKFORT, January 15. Bonds 96L.
PARIS. January Is -Rentes 56f. 22c.
L1vERpooh. january 1852. M.-Cot
ton opened quiet aud stcady-nplunds
lO5G; Orleans 1917.
LIVERPOOL. January 10 Evening"
Cotton closed steady -nplauds lO36: Or.
lo"ns 10H; sales $4,000; speculation and
export 4.U00.
New York. January 15-Noon.-Snles
of cotton for future delivery, SATURDAY,
evening. 1900 bales, as follows: Janunry
2l56. 2iIa. 81 GIG; February 81.
81 .lG. 2l7s. 2l2i. II IL l6. 81 'l3 l6;
March 22 7 IL. 1925. - S 16. 2214. 22as;
a, Apr! 223a, ~ ZIG. 22 ll.l6; May
~ l!.l6. 2234. Stocks strong and
steady. Governments dull aud steudy.
Money easy, at 6. Gold stendy, at 81.
Exchauge--long 9>S; short 91. Flour
aud corn dull und unchanged Wheut