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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Our Wool Growing Interests.

The proper fostering of the wool
growing interests of the country can
not but result in establishing one Of
our heaviest branches of industry
having a direct bearing upon agri-
culture. Few people imagine how
extensive the manufactur ng of wool
into it's various forms is carried on
IN the north, northwest, and west.
Mills or factories are everywhere
springing up TO supply the immedi-
ate region. In the comparative new
State OF Iowa there arc at the pre-
sent time some ninety wooden mills,
aad in the d dining States there are
probably full us many. We ha' e
millions upon millions of acres OF
land peculiarly adapted to sheep ;
and as the Republic spreads and
j C -eases its population, all this
land vii be brought into use. So
says the Germantown Telegraph.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Timothr Seed in StandIne Corr.

Every experienced hay-raiser
knows the uncertainty Of getting q
good stand by any of the old meth
DDS of seeding timothy. Two thirds
Of the time only a partial set is OBJ
tanned, and the farmer, hoping for
improvement in the set, cuts and
rakes over the ground year after
year, getting half crop of hay, or
less, and that largely mixed with
weeds and briers, until he finds that
the weeds and briers are improving
in their set. Then he concludes to
cultivate the land in corn or some
other crop to Kill out the briers, pre-
paratory to another trial at seeding
to timothy.
I will warrant any Of the old
modes to fail two thirds of the time
to get good set and a crop-full
average crop-the first year, and I
variant two-thirds Of the efforts to
succeed in good sets and full aver
age crop the FIRST year if seeded in
| standing corn In proper manner.
The farm er should have the seeding
in view Id the preparation of the
ground for the corn crop in the
spring. The corn should be planted
and cultivated ''both ways" as farm
ers says-ground left clear and level.
Sow any time in September, stirring
the ground Immediately after (and
before too if he pleases) with harrow
or light cultivator. Cut the stocks
level with the ground as soon as the
corn is gathered-rou in winter and
| spring. W. G.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Ashes as a Cattle Feed.

One of our substantial subscribers,
in a recent conversation, gave his
experience in training neat stock
affected with the habit of eating
wood, chewing bones, &c. His cattle
were one spring affected this way ;
they became thin in flesh, refused to
eat hay, and presented a sickly ap-
pearance. He had no impression
that their food lacked the constitu-
ents for making bone, but his neigh
bors used bone meal without MOTTO
ing any good results whatever At
last he put about four bushels of
leached ashes in his barn yard, and
threw out to them about a shovelful
each day. They all ate as if with
evident relish. After turning them
out to pasture, he put one peck of
dry ashes per week on the ground
in the pasture. They ate all up,
gRawed off the grass where it had
been lying. The cattle began to
improve, gaining flesh and looking
better than they had done for sever
al years. He says this morbid ap-
pearance was unnoticed years ago,
from the fact that the ground was
new and ashy from the burning of
the woods and land clearings. Lat
terly he gives one quart of ashes
mixed with the same quantity of
salt, to twelve head of cattle about
once a week.-LiUe Stock Jour nal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
A Loving Mothers Kiss

George Brown wanted to go some
where, and his mother was not will
u lg. He tried to argue the matter.
When that would not do, he spoke
roughly, and went off, slamming the
door behind him.
Instead of saying, 1" should real
~ like to go, but if you cannot give
your consent, dear mother, I will
try to do my best to be content to
stay" instead of saying and feeling
so, he behaved in the way in which
1 have described, as too many bows
do. George was fourteen, and with
fourteen years experience of one of
the best mothers, one would have
thought better of him. But he was
a boy. What can you expect of
boys? So say some people,
Stop hear more. That night
George found thorns in his pillow.
he could not FIX it any way to go to
sleep on. He turned and tossed,
and he shook and patted it, but not
a wink of sleep for him. The thorns
kept pricking. They were the an
cry words he spoke to his mother.
My dear mother, who deserves
nothing but kindness and love and
obedience from me" he said to him
self. g can never do enough for
her yet how have I behaved, her
Oldest boy How she nursed me
through that fever !"
He would ask her to forgive him
IN the morning. But suppose some
thing should happen before morning.
de would ask her now-to-night-
this moment. George crept out of
bed, and went softly to his mothers
room
George" she said, ''ig that you ?
are you sick p for mothers, you
know, sleep with one eye and ear
open, especially when the fathers are
away, as Georges father was.
"Dear mother" he said, kneeling
at the bedside, "I could not sleep
for thinking of my rude words to you
to-day. Forgive me, mother, my
dear, good, precious mother, and
may God help me never to behave
so again"
She clasped the penitent boy in
her arms and kissed his warm cheek.
George is a big man now, but he
says that kiss was the sweetest mo-
ment of his life. His strong, healthy,
impetus nature became tempered by
n gentleness of spirit. It softened
his roughness, sweetened his temper,
and helped him on to true and no
bic Christian manhood.
Boys are sometimes ashamed to
act out their best feelings. Oh, if
they only knew what loss it is to
them not to
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
BE Not Idle.

A wise and judicious writer truly
says there is n fault we all condemn
in the young and in others, and too
often indulge in, without remorse,
ourselves. That fault is idLeness.
There is a busy idIeness, which
sometimes blinds US to its nature
we seem to ourselves, Eand perhaps
to others, to be occupied; but what
is the result of it alp What Han
nah Moore calls ga quiet and dull
Hitting away of time" whether itba
IN improbable small talk, or in
constant idle reading, or sauntering
over some useless piece of work." is
surely mot redeeming the time"
and yet how many days and hours
are thus unprofitably wasted and
neither ourselves nor others benefit
ted. All women who have much
leisure are liable to this fault and
besides it's own sinfulness, for surely
waste of time is q sin, it encourages
weak, Unenergetic frame of mind,
and is apt to produce either apathetic
content In trifling occupation, or a
restless desire for excitement or
amusement, to help on the weary
time these trifes cannot kill; and
those who have their time entirely at
their own disposal, with perhaps no
definite duty to occupy them, should
guard resolutely against waste of
time. Make duty for yourselves; FIX
hours for your different occupations;
do with your might whatever your
hands find to do and carefully, con-
scientiously ascertain which of your
empioyments is not worthy of ali this
care; have n motive, a reason for all
you do, and frequently examine
yourselves as to what you are doing,
and surely you will find time too
precious to be squandered, Or fritter-
ed, or idled away.-Our Home Jour
nal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
The Government of Children.

We do not say anything very orig
inal when we say that the chief OBJ
ject in the government of children
should be to teach a child to govern
himself. We know that most peo-
pie think differently, or rather they
believe differently. One cannot dig
Nifty their mental processes with the
name of thinking. Most people be-
lieve, or at least feel, that the bust
ness they have in hand in the gov
eminent of children IS to conform
the child's will to their own. What
is falsely called family government
is in most families q selfish struggle
between TIE wilfulness of the parent
and the wilfulness of the child-a
struggle between the strong and the
weak-in which the weak goes down.
"But have I not a right to be
obeyed ? asks some indignant par
emit who has read thus far. We an
sNer that your very question betrays
the selfshness of your demand. You
are thinking of your right, and not
of the child's good Half your fail
ure lies lust there. And if you in
sist on a categorical answer to your
question in regard to your right, we
answer with more indignation than
you asked it, that you have no right
to exact obedience unless you exact
the obedience for the child's good
instead of for your pleasure. Mark,
we dc not Say that the child, except
in fragrant cases, has a right to re-
fuse obedience. The child has no
right to Judge of your motives or of
your wisdom. But you have no gen.
eral right to exercise your authority
for the mere sake of being Obeyed.
For, let US repeat, the chief object
of family government should be to
teach a child to do without your
authority.
Mr.. Beecher has said, In his quaint
way, that there is just as much fami-
ly government now as there was for
merly, but that more of it is in the
hands of the children, which is a
matter not to be regretted. The
shoot must one day be severed from
the parent stem; the sooner it gets
roots enough to live by itself the bet
ter. If you have a child capable Of
governing himself at fifteen, rejoice.
Throw the reins upon his neck, and
let him go his gait. Self-govern-
ment is only learned by exercise.
But if you wall child IN, and Cir
cumvent him always by the res
traints of your own will, how shall
he ever learn TO stand alone?
We have seen a pine-tree that
grew tall and slender in a dense
forest, bolstered on every hand by
its fellows, so that it did not need TO
acquire hardness of fibre. And then
when a road was cut through the
forest, we have seen that self-same
slender, supple, upright tree left
standing without support upon one
side. And at the first wind it bent
itself down across the road, making
itself into a bow from sheer lack of
strength to stand up. And we have
seen young men checked and gov
erned like infants-never allowed
to stand upon their own responsible
ity we have often seen these weak
ly-upright young men, when left
without the suppoat of authority,
fall from lack of moral stamina.
They had never learned to stand
alone. Government in the family
should be administered like brandy
in the family-it is to be reserved
for cases of necessity.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Homes in the West.

At no former time in the history Of
our country has there been so deep, so
widespread, and so intelligent an inter
est felt in the matter of migration and
Western settlement as now. The rapid
construction of railroads which pene-
trate the fertile but hitherto unOccupied
areas of our new Northeastern States
and Territories, thus rendering accessi-
BILE and valuable millions of acres of
land which would otherwise have lain
waste for scores Of years, has given a
wonderful impetus to the Westward tide
of population.
4 large portion of both foreign and
American migration will henceforth
naturally and inevitably flow into that
new Northwest, now for the first made
accessible by the building of the North
ern Pacific Railroad. The best of cOun-
try traversed by the route of this thor
oughfare WISCONSIN, Minnesota, Da-
kota, Montana, Idaho, Washington,
and Oregon) has such characteristics of
soil and climate as to render its speedy
settlement and prosperous cultivation
certain.
The Northern Pacific Company is
now selling its lands in Minnesota, and
the facilities and helps which it furnishes
| to settlers and colonies greatly reduce
where they do not wholly remove the
s'hardships" of pioneer life. For ex-
| ample transportation at reduced rates Is
| furnished from nearly all parts of the
! country to the line of the II. p. Road,
| and if a settler buys forty acres or more
/ of railroad land he and his whole family
are carried free over the n. P. Road
when going to settle. Then at three
| different points, on the road, large and
/
| built and fitted up with cOnveniences
| for single persons, families and colonies.
| Settlers, no matter whether they locate
| on free Government homesteads or pur-
| chase railroad lands, enter these recep
ton houses on leaving the cars and use
| them free of charge, as a temporary
! home while engaged in selecting land
and building dwellings of their own.
The company has fixed low prices on
| its lands, gives seven years credit TO
| purchasers, and receives in payment at
| ten per cent. premium its own first
| mortgage bonds which are now selling
at par, and which are favorite invest
ments throughout the country.
There are now few localities in the
West where good Government lands fol
free homestead entry can be found neal
| to railroads and markets. The North
ern Pacific Railroad mas been SO recent
ly built through Minnesota, that Their,
are, close to its line, plenty of public
lands of the finest quality awaiting
homestead settlement; and they are be
ing rapidly taken. Large numbers o.
soldiers who, under the new laws o
Congress, obtain free homesteads of Isl
acres near railroads, by one and tive
years residence are locating on the linz
of the Northern Pacific. Soldiers anC
all others who think of seeking homes
in the West can obtain full information
maps, copy of homestead laws, ETC., b,
addressing Land Department Northern
Pacific r. r. Co., st. Paul, MINI.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Flowing Twice for Wheat.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette writes eff any one will
break his ground deeply and thor
oughly two or thee times during the
spring and summer, the extra
amount of wheat per acre will pay
for blowing. and leave a handsome
profit besides. I have tested this
practice several times, with the most
satisfactory results. In 1851 I had
a field of sixteen acres of like fertil-
ity. I expected to plant half of the
field in corn, but for some reason I
did not. In the half that had been
plowed for corn after the ground
had been broke, the weeds grew
more rapidly. Consequently, I broke
it again the Goth of June. On the
1st of September following 1 plowed
the entire field and sowed in wheat.
The result was as follows: The half
which had only received the single
blowing yielding per acre thirteen
bushels and eighteen pounds the
half that received three breakings
yielded per acre twenty-three bush
els and forty pounds, which made a
difference of more than ten bushels
per acre. At one dollar per bushel
this would pay for the extra plow-
ing, and leave q net profit of six
dollars per acre besides"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
India Rubber Carriages.

1t is said that a Connecticut COM
pany is putting up a factory for the
building OF carrisg made entirely
OF India-rubber except the axle and
ties A decided superiority is claim
ed for the material over wood. Why
cannot the same principle be ap-
piled to the construction of railroad
lrs? With such car in case of a
smash up" there could be no
splintering-the great cause of
wounds and loss Of life in such
calamities,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
The Steam PIOW,

The steam pillow has always keen
favoIably received in Louisiana. Mr..
E. Lawrence, one of the most prac-
teal and progressive planters of
that State, has recently addressed a
long letter to the Department of
Agriculture, giving the results of
experiments with this pillow, and the
conclusions which they have led him
to adopt. Mr.. Lawrence claims the
advantages of the steam pillow to be
the little tiEoe consumed in getting
in the crop the ease with which
deep blowing and subsoiling is per-
formed, aud which gives an increased
production, and the extent of land
that can be cultivated. There is a
very fair prospect that these plows,
though not answering all the re-
quirements of their more sanguine
friends, will come into more general
use in America for the breaking up
of level land, and especially of the
vast unobstructed surfaces of the
Western prairies. In England,
companies have been formed which
transport these plo from farm to
farm by contract with the farmers.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
EPITAPHS.

All reverence unto Epitaphs,
For high or for the lowly,
Whenever they on graves are writ
By truth. Rnd 90 made holy.
Such make, in their deep earnestness,
The living grander-hearted,
And keep the souls, though freed from time
Still from our souls impaired.
And many are the Epitaphs
In prose or in verse flowing.
And silent sacred music there
On board or marble glowing
Oh. heavenly the influence,
Angels unseen around US,
While often white robes, like their own,
Seem to have softly wound US.
Some Epitaphs shrine in their hearts
Beauty divinely tender,
And some throne the sublime in all
Eternity's own splendor;
But one there is that marries both
Sublimity and Beauty;
Within one little line it lives
He tried TO do his duty!
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

THE only scientific, rational and sue
cessfal mode of treating Catarrh in the
head, that has been devised, consists IN
APPLYING DR.. Sage's Catarrh Remedy
with DR.. Pierce's Nasal Douche (the
only method of reaching the upper
chambers of the nOse) and taking DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as
Constitutional treatment. To this
thorough course of treatment the disease
Yields as surely as FIRE is extinguished
bv water. The Douche and two medi-
cines for % by all druggists. 59l.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Sold by all Druggists.
Natural Decay-Proteet the systeu


The human body is a machine. and therefore
cannot endure forever: bat, like watch or a sew
ing machine, it Will last much longer If properly
regulated and daily repaired, than if pains were
taken TO keep it in order. The great object of
every one who desires a long and healthy life
should be put his body condition TO resist the
Iife-threntening influences by which all
more or less surrounded: and no invigOrant and
corrective at present known so effectively answers
this purpose the vitalizing elixir which. under
the unpretendinS name of HOstetterHs Stomach
Bitters. has been for more than twenty years the
standard tonic of America In crowded cities,
where the atmosphere IL contaminated with the
efTluvia iuseparable from large populations in
maTShy regions, where the sOggy soil reeSs with
miRsnla On the prairieS and in the forests. where
rottEg weeds aud grasses, or decunpOstng leaves
in short. in every locality where malaria exists
this antidOte is urgently needed
Fever and ague. bilious feVers, dysentery, COnges-
tinn of he liver, jaundice, rheumatism, and all
diseases which are generated by infected air, i'm
d IRE water. sudden changes OF temperature
may be svcrted by strengthening and regulating
the system in advance with Hostetters Btters
Autumn is always season Of peril, especially to
weak, susceptible organizations. Even the more
by the humid atmOsdhere, loaded with deleteriOus
gases produced by vegetable decay. The fall is n
period Of the year when the renovation and regu-
tation Of the living machine is peculiarly import
ant and the BtteTs should therefore be taken daily
al this critical season
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

"MY son" said a good mother to
her young hopeful, did you wish
your teacher a happy New Year ?"
" No, ma'am," he responded. 'EWell,
why not ?" Because" said the
youth, "she's never happy unless
she's whipping some of us boys, and
I was afraid that if I wished her
happiness she'd go for me-"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

OUR IMPRUDENCE THE CAUSE OF CON-
many of US can date
the cause of our last sickness to either
a crowded room, and then coming on,
in cold air, or wearing damp clothes
causing a cough which settles upon the
lungs, producing seated pain, In the
the disease and restore health to the
system, if only used in time
Remember and call at the Drug Store
for Aliens Lung Balsam. Every family
should keep it at hand.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

THERE is no disease flesh is heir to
more troublesome to manage than rheu-
matism. 1t comes when you least ex-
pect it, and generally remains till it
gets ready to go away. The most con-
spicuOus remedy for this complaint is
Jobnsoy'8 Anod,yJ1e LiniB1e7t.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
Thirty YEARS. REMEDY !
MAGUIRPS BENNE PLANT.

This extraordinary medicine, the fame Of which
Ls spread broadcast throughout the country, is
dOubtedly superior TO any remedy ever offered TO
the public for the complaints for which IL IS intend
ed. We have In our possession testimonials fur
nished voluntarily BY Col. Long, late Chief TOpo-
graphical Engineer Bureau At Washington; General
Fitz Henry Warren. Gen. PleasantOn and others OF
the army; Father i. j. DeSmet, the celebrated Ia
dian missionary; also, officers Of the navy surgeons,
hospital stewards, commanders Of nearly every
steamer plying on the MssssPpi and tributary riv-
arg, Western Sanitary and Christian Commissions.
army chapIains and others too numerous 20 men
ton. Likewise highest encOniums OF the press
przisng valua bic medicinal qualities In the high
est terms. No other medicine has such recOmmen-
dations. We can also refer 10 his eXcelency. B.
aratz Brown, Governor or Missouri; Hon. frank
r, Blair, Jr., u. 3. Senator. and Hon. Joseph
other State officials, for which there Is no space IN
this advertisement. AGEN T6-Mckesgon q Rob
bins, Nos. 81 aud % Patton New York Sold 81
druggists and medicine dealers everywhere
=. - e. MAGUERE, Sole PropEie tors.
s. W, corner OF Olive and Second 6tss, st. LouiG,
No. Price. 20 ceRta per botale-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

Two or three doses Of iSyteridag1'8
CaUaLry Condition POWDERS will cure
horse of any common cough or cold,
and the very worst cases may be cured
in a few weeks. We know this from ex-
perience.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
4 NEw ORLEANs mother was be

A NEW ORLEANS mother was re-
Gently questioning her little girl in
geography as follows: " Who went
first through the straits of Magel-
Ian 2" Daisy quickly answered.
Sc Magellan with his squadron. B"
" What do you understand by his
squadron, Daisy The question Was
not IN the book, but Daisy was
ready for the emergency: "Oh, I
know it's one of those women that
amt quite white"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

The Memphis CgiytsttaH advocate, of the 9th of
February last said:
IF you have an ache or pain, go to Mansfield &
Higbee'S and get bottle of their ATnicR ILnmenL
1t Is an excellent remedy. We have tried Il, and
mCnd it. AnOtn valuable article, man
ufactured and sold by them, is their Creole Re
storaive for the hair. Mrs. Blew has tried It,
thinks IT has been of great benefit TO her. She
she must have more of IL.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11
W. taka dnIinht En- roforr

WE take delight in referring our
afflicted friends to the drug stores where
that most estimable medicine, DR.. S.
o. Richardson's Sherry Wine Bitters,
can be procured. We advise our friends
to use it, because we know its value in
curing Fever and Ague, diseases COM
mon in the west, and all new countries.
It should be kept at hand in every fam
lily.
Sold by all DRUGGISTS.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-10-11

A LADY teacher enquired of the
members of a class of juveniles if
any CT them could name the four
seasons. Instantly the chubby hand
Of fiva-yenr old was raised, and
promptly came the answer, pepper,
salt, vinegar, and mustard.