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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-02
Flirting as a Fine Art.

The science of society amounts to
little true art unless a certain genius
goes with the knowledge; and who viii
DENY that there is a certain natural gift
for social influence, as there is for
all beautiful arts? Some persons have
a rare social witchery who have not any
other forms of genius, and some wO-
men, of very moderate abilities IN other
respects, have an art of pleasing that
amounts to fascination. One woman In
famous attire will gather a great crowd
Of notabIes in a grand house and give
them a great supper, and all shall be
fiat and dull while some winsome Iit-
tie body, without any fashy costume
or parade, and even without rare
beauty, VIII entertain her circle of
guests IN a charming way Of her own,
and make them all at home with her
and each other. She plays upon their
various tempers and traits and assOcia-
tions as a master hand plays upon the
harp or piano I have sometimes
thought that wOmanly charm, and per
haps even what in the best sense Is
called flirting, could be made one Of
the fine arts. and consecrated TO charity,
and even to religion. That bright girl
takes that half a dozen striplings IN
hand, and touches each IN turn with
playful grace, until they are willing
eaptives to her spell, and ready to buy
her pincushions or watch chains st the
fair, or go to her church and worship
by her prayer-book. There is a line,
indeed, beyond which this flirting
ceases to be a fine art, and becomes
quite business-like and utihtarian,
practical operation in making market
and bagging a husband useful but
not always ideal result. Yet, as the
world goes, a great deal Of true mis-
sionary work is done by charming Wo-
men IN managing men IN an artistic and
legitimate way, and the Virgin Mary
has not all the work Of such interces-
sion In her hands or In her eyes, al,
though Henry Heine naughtIly caiIeo
her the counter girl Of the Cathohc
Church, who won over the Gotha HA''
Harpsr'e Weekly.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-02
True Success in Life.

Human life, my friends, is not one
. chance but a thousand The special
end you tOiled for may not be attained.
The steps you took toward that end will
prove of far greater consequence. You
are a business man, perhaps, and your
ventures have miscarried one after the
other, and now you look sadly back
through a long vista of disappointments
and defeat. But meanwhile you are
known to be a good man and true-a
kind husband and father, loyal citizen
and faithful friend, and many a man
who has passed you in the race for
wealth and fame may look with envy
upon the love and respect you have
gained by your personal character and
services. Your want of success in bu-
siness life may be due to some peculiar
lack IN yourself, or may result from
something adverse in your surround
ings, but remember that, while your
undertakings may fail over and over
again, you yourself may be a glorious
success. And here We touch upon the
true solution OF the whole difficulty.
We are miserable and sad over our fail.
ures in life, because we mistakenly iden-
tify ourselves with the special object we
have IN view. But that Is a great mis-
take. 1t Is because we cherish this su-
perfciaI philosophy of life which makes
the end supreme aud counts for nothing
the steps taken toward that end, and We
produce such shallow and dishonest
types of character at the present day
thes shoddy contractors, hash-in-the-
pan generals, sensational preachers, and
claptrap politicians. No, friends, We
have a right to count effort as we'll aa
effect. Not the result of a course of
conduct, but the motive and nature Of
it, are the all-important matter. You
cannot command success, whether the
means employed be fair or foul, but it
makes a great deal of difference to your
personal character and to your fellow
men what kind of methods you employ
The consequences of your actions are
great deal more important than the
particular end they are intended to sub
serve. 4 good end cannot justify bad
means, for these have already reacted
upon your character, and by force Of
example demoraIized others also. But,
if you fail in manliness, courags and
integrity, then all outward successes
amount to nothing. The man himself
that is the true end, and 50 far as We
fall short of that ideal, we fail. Out
ward plans depend upon q thousand
contingencies, but this inner triumph
the world can never deprive you of, be-
cause the world never gave 1t to you.
Let us hear no more sneers then at any
want of temporal success, no deprecia-
ton Of patient painstaking, or labsTious
effort. No man fails who does his duty.
If you are conscious Of a righteous pUr-
pose and the use Of honest methods,
you have succeeded already, whatever
may be the resuIt.-C W Wendte.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-02
The Dance.

Degraded as is the modern ballet, we
must not forget that the ballet properly
so called Is the parent Of all rePresen-
tative art. Before man wrote and
painted signs, he danced. Before music
and singing and the plastic arts there
were pantomimic dances ; among almost
all the earliest nations dancing of some
kind entered into the rites and cere-
monies Of religion, nay, entered large
" into social and political life, for there
were dances of war, and of triumph,
and OF pleasure.
The Jewish records are full of allu-
sions to the dance-David dancing be-
fore the ark, Jephthah's and Herodias's s
daughters dancing III Joy and festlvlty.
Moses and Miriam dancing to songs of
triumph and the Greek chorus itself
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-02
WoKIAN's WORLD.
LOVE WILL NOT FORGET.

The bard may miss the wreath Of fame
That other temples bind around,
And wounds and valOr vainly claim
The praise that gIoryz trumpets sound.
Though wrapped in self the world pass by,
And song and deed be coIdly met,
Life is not all ObscurIty-
For love viii never quite forget.
Some hear will catch the homey notes,
And fondly linger Ger the strain
Some heart beat high when proudly floats
The flag the soldier bore with pain
Though glory mock and fame deceive,
Though hopes may wither-cares beset,
None ali IN loneliness shall grieve-
Some loving one viii not forget,
Round hats made of kid are the lat
est novelty IN ladies' attire.
ETRUsCAN cloth Is a new dress materi-
al woven from linen thread.
Women are seldom sailors, but then
they sometimes command smaclls.
FANS of =elephantine dimensions viii
be carried by our bellies this spring.
SILVER combs are supplanting the
high-backed tortoise shells in popular
favor.
RED is the fashionable color in hair
at present. Golden has gone "out"
completely.
Mrs. HARDNESS, of Surgeons con
gregation, in London, teaches a Bible
class of 900 women.
TIE new style of bonnet is a cross
between a locomotive smoke-stack and
a custard-cup.
Miss SARAH w. BARTON, an American
girl, is to be the prima-donna Of opera
in Warsaw next season.
A WASHINGTON belle can speak five
different languages, but couldn't bake
a loaf of bread to save her life.
An exchange asks 8 Where does the
cotton go?" We know where a good
deal of it goes, but don't like to tell.
The lady who is followed by train
of admirers need not be astonished at
remarks on the hustle behind her.
MISS MARY RALsToN, native sf
Iowa, is one of the bellies of Washing
ton. Her back hair Is sixty-hve inches
long.
cit seems to me that Mrs. C.'s hair
was nearly gray year ago. " g Yes,
nearly" - But now 1t Is perfectly
black. "Ah, yes you know she has
lost her husband since then.
AN editor says We are living at
this moment under an absolute despot-
ism" We suspect he married the
wrong woman.
MODERN brides now wear two wells,
one of long tulle, falling down the
back, and a shorter one, cut pointed,
worn over the face.
New JERSEY servant girls hire by the
month. Those who 'have beaux" get
50, and those who haven't get s12. Only
one IN five hundred gets S12.
THE Boston GLo5e believes that no
young woman should be permitted TO
marry until she can bake a worsted dog
and serve up a slipper pattern in style.
ONE Of the best paying saw mills in
Green Bay is owned by a woman, who
knocked the head sawyer down when he
proposed marriage to her
MoDRsrY induces a Quaker couple IN
Ida county, Iowa, to get married at
three o'clock IN the morning, so that no
body would come to the wedding.
TIE newest French shoe Is of black
silk, embroidered with beads and lacing
at the side high above the ankle, It
has thin sole, and a small, fat heel.
A YOUNG lady recently. on being re-
quested 20 sing "The Maidens Pray
er," Immediately favored IA Rockford
audience with 50 Mother, Bfay 1 Go Out
to Swim p
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-02
Grains in Work.

Blessed Is the man whose labor is of
such IInd that the work itself gives
.emplOylnent to every part of his nature.
There are many kinds of manual labor,
in the foundry, in the machine-shops,
IN the laboratory, in the builders Trade.
in those occupations by which the ne
cesslties of life are supplied, which
furnish a field for the exercise of mans
whole mind The man at the loom, the
man at the palette, the man that moIds
the vase, the man who in thosand ways
is producing objects Of art and beauty
and use, may find scope for his thought
and feeling. If Iwere a cabinet-maker,
do you suppose I should think of moth
ing but the thing I was working on? Do
you believe I could construct q cradle,
and my heart not sing a lullaby all the
time for the little ones that should bless
it, and whose eyes, looking out of it,
should be as stars shining up instead of
stars shining down, and should speak of
immortality as the heavens which de
clare the glory of God do not know how
to do it? Is it necessary that I should
saw, or plane, or rub, and do nothing
but saw and plane and rub ? Is there
no living power in q mans work ? Is
there nothing in it to stir up his imagi-
nation? If I built a mans house,
would the one question be how much I
could earn for so much work If put
my heart in my work, am [ not a bene-
factor? When a man builds a house,
if he pleases he can build it for the
good of those who are to dwell in it,
and leaves a blessing IN it but if
man, in building a house, says to him
self, every time he drives a nail, d" How
can I put poor one in instead of one
that costs more, " acting all the time
under the influence of the devil of sell
fishness in his work, do not marvel
that it is drudgery to him. I do not
marvel that he finds no incitement in it.
But if a man goes to work as if he were
called of God to do it if it is taste,
and conscience, and benevoIence, that
work in him, then his labor is all the
time a school of blessing to him.. There
is scope in the poorest mechanical en-
ployments for far more manhood than
we are accustomed to put into our work;
and one thing that blame men for is
that they put so little of the better part
of themselves into mechanical employ
ments. You think, because a man is
sitting in his study, and pursuing his
professional avocations, that he can ex-
pand and open up his mind but there
may be as many sordid men among
scholars as in any other class. Yet it is
possible in any sphere for man to put
into his work the best part of himself.
H. ". BeecHer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-02
THE EMERALDS.

One wintry afternoon in January,
away up in the bleak attic of a wretched
tenement house, a pale sad eyed woman
sat sewing. The garment upon which
she was engaged was a very rich dress.
The twilight closed III rapidly, with a
binding fall Of snow, a bitter wailing
blast, that made the windows rattle in
their casemates.-StiI the pale faced
woman stitched on
"Mother," piped a slender voice from
the cot beneath the window, "shalI you
get the fine dress done? ? Oh my mother,
I'm so hungry, if I could only have
some tea and a bit of sausage"
The mother worked on steadily for a
few moments, paused only to brush a
tear from her white cheek, then she
arose and shook out the glimmering
robe.
'"Tis done at last, she said; "now
mothers little girl can have her supper,
only be patient little longer Flora.
Ross, Ross, where are you my boy !"
A manly little fellow came out from
the little bed room beyond.
''The dress is done, Ross, " said his
mother, " and you must run home with
it as fast as ever you can. Miss Gercia
will be out Of patience, 1 know. Tell
her I couldn't finish it one moment
sooner, and ask her to give you the
money. We must have it to night.
And you can stop in at Mr.. Rays as you
come back and buy some coal, and we
must have some bread and tea, and a
mite of butter, and you must get a sau-
sage, Ross, for poor little Flora"
"TIl get 'em all mother" he said,
80 and be back in no time. You shall
have n big sausage, little sis, " he added,
turning toward the cot.
The girl nodded her curly head, and
her great wistful eyes sparkled with
delight.
"And you shall have half of it, Ross, '
she piped, in her slender, bird voice.
Hadn't you better put on your thick
jacket, my boy ?" continued his mother
''the wind cuts like a knife"
"Pshaw, little mother; don't mind
the wind" And away he went down
the creaking stairs, and out in the storm.
Miss Gracia Fontenay was IN a perfect
furore of impatience and anger. Hel
dear five hundred friends We're assembI,
ed in the halls below, and the handsome
dress had not come home. What did
that beggar woman mean by disappoint
ing her? At that moment there was &
ring at the door, and a voice in the hall.
Please tell Miss Gracia, my mother
could not finish it sooner she wants
the money to night The servant took
the handsome dress and message.
'TT never give her another stitch oi
work, " criedthe angry beauty Il ought
to have had it three hours. Here, Fan
.chon, and dress me at once, there's not
a moment to lose No, I can't pay to,
night, l havn't time. He must call to
morrow"
"But, we've no fire and nothing to eat,
and my little sister is sick, called the
boy pushing up the grand stairway.
''Shut that door, Fanchion r. com,
rhanded Miss Gracis. And the door
was closed IN his face.
Fron ths porch at the parlor window,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-02
JUSTINE. YOU LOVE ME NOT!
BY JOHN C. SAKE.

By JOHN G. SAKE.
I know, Justine, you speak me fair
As often as we meet;
Aud tits "a luxury, I swear,
To hear a voice so sweet;
And yet it does not please me quite,
The civil way you've got;
For me you're something too polite
Justine, you love me not!
I know, Justine, you never scoId
At aUght that I may do;
If I am passionate, or cold,
'Tis all the same to you.
81 charming temper" say the men,
To smooth a husbands lOt :"
wish 'twere Tuffied now and then
Justine, yOu love me not. 4
I know, Justine, you wear a smile
As beamiug as the sun;
But who suppOses all the while
1t shines for only Oue2
Though azure skies are fair to see,
transient cloudy spot
In yours would promise more to me
Justine, you love me not!
1 know, Justine, you make my name
Your euIogistic theme,
And say-if any chance to blame
You hold me in esteem.
Such words, for all their kindly scope,
Delight me not jOt:
Just so you would have praised the Pope
Justine, you love me not!
7 know, JustiHe-for I have heard
What friendly voices tell
You do not blush to say the word,
"YOu like me passing well ;"
And thus the fatal sound hear
That seals my lonely jot;
There's nothing now to hope or fear
Justine, you love me not!
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Out.

Every night Here it is half past
I o'clock It's a wonder yoa come
home at ALL What-do-you-think
"a woman-is made for? I do believe
if a robber was to come and carry me
off you wouldn't care one cent. What
is it you say? "City Council business
must be attended to r City Council
businessl How do I know you go to
the City Council? Does the City Coun-
Gil meet every night ? They don't
meet but once a week in-New York.
But I suppose Rome is a more imPor-
tant place. Oh yes-out every night.
Twelve o'cIock-one o'clOck-two
o'clock. Here I stay with the child
ren, all alone-lying awake half OF the
night waiting for you. Couldn't come
home anv sooner? OF course you
.cou9dn't if You didn't want to. But 1
know something you think 1 don't but
I do. That 1 do. wish l didn't.
Where were you Monday night? Tel
me that The Marshal told me the
Citv Council didn't meet that night
Now what have you got to say ?
Couldn't get a quorum :" Well if
YOU couldn't, why didn't you. come
home? Out every night-hunting
-for-a-quorum. Bet you wouldn't
HINT for me this late if was missing.
Where were you Thursday night and
Friday night? There was a show in
town wasn't there? Do you always
put on your best vest and a clean shirt
to 60 to the Council? What did you
buy that bottle Of hair oil for, and hide
it? OIL for your hone, indeed /!
Who ever heard Of hair OIL for whot-
stone So YOU think l didn't see you
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-02
THE NEwsBOY's DEBT.

Extract from Poem by II. R. HUDSON.
Sir, II you please, my brother Jim
The one you give the bill, you know
He couldn't bring the money, Sir,
Because his back was hurted so.
He didn't mean to keep the 'clange;'
He got ruined over, up the street;
One wheel went right across his back,
And t'other fore-vheel mashed his feet.
"They stopped the horses just in time,
And then they took him up for dead,
And all that day and yesterday
He wasn't rightly in his head,
ssThey took him to the hospital
One Of the newsb1ys knew twas Jim
And I went too, because, you see,
We two are brothers, 7 and him.
"He had that money IN his hand,
Aud never saw it any more.
Indeed, he didn't mean to steal
He never lost cent before.
He was afraid that you might think
He meant to keep it, any way;
This morning. when they brought him to,
He cried because he couldn't pay.
Z" He made me fetch his jacket here;
It's torn and dirtied pretty bad;
It's only fit to sell for rags,
But then, YOU know, it's all he had!
'when he gets welI-it won't be long
II you viii call the money lent,
He says he'll work his fingers of
But what he'll pay you every cent"
And then he cast rueful glance
At the soiled jacket where It lay.
'No, no, my boy Take back the coat.
Your brothers badly hurt, you say?
Where did they take him? just run out
And call a cab, then wait for me.
Why, I would give a thousand coats,
And pounds for such boy as he!'
A half hour after this we stood
Together IN tine crowded wards,
And the nurse checked the hasty steps
That fell too loudly on the boards.
And scarce believed her when she said,
Smoothing away the tangled hair
From brow and cheek, % The boy is dead"
Dead &? dead SO soon? How fair he looked!
One streak of sunshine his hair.
Poor lad Well, it is warm in heaven:
No need of . change and jackets there.
And something rising in my throat
Made it hard for me to speak,
I turned away, and left tear
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-02
FOREEGN LNTELLEGENCE

The gravest apprehensions are felt in the
highest circles in Paris of an immediate civil
war The monarchists arc determined to oust
President Theirs at any cost.
The formal opening of the Vienna Exposi-
tion will be made May 1, but the buildings will
not be fully completed and everything set up
before the LIST of June.
The Barbados sugar crop is reported to
be looking wen. The estimate for this year is
10000 hogsheads, which, though equal to last
year il short Of the average. Native labor is
said to be abundant at from a to 3G cents per
day.
The Dutch Government has received dis
patches confrmatotg of the unfavorabIe news
from Sumatra. The Atchinees fight desperate
Iy, and the Dutch are assiled on all sides.
Reinforcements are going forward with all pos
sible dispatch.
The English detectives and the British
Consul at Havana have completely bafded the
efforts OF Bdwelrs friends to obtain his re-
lease. Out OF the $500, 600 obtained from the
Bank Of England by these forgeries all ! ut
$4,000 have now been recovered.
-Bidwell the alleged Bank of England for
ger, has been delivered over to the English
Consul, on the order of Captain- Ceneral Pet
man-of-war Several Of the confederates of
Bidwell, including Wilson, still in Havana.
-Havana-The Captain-G General has inform
ed the English consul that the trial of O'Kel-
ley must continue. If OKelley's guilt estab-
lished, the Captain General will exercise
clemency, but he cannot stop the course Of the
law. The Captain-GensraI has given strict
orders to treat O'Keliey with the most kindness,
and see that nothing is wanting to insure his
comfort The British Consul-General has
telegraphed to the British Consul General at
Msnzanillo. asking him to do all he can for
OKeley, and informing him that the moment
the tribunal decides. Captain General Pieltain
will act.
-Berin-The Upper House of the Prussian
Dict engaged in a debate, which lasted six
hours, on the bin regulating the training and
appointment Of clergy. Bismarck made one Of
his powerful speeches in support of the bill.
He defended the attitude the Government had
taken as fully justified by the domineering
assumptions of the priesthood. In the course
OF ms speech lac took occasion to DENY the
often repeated report that he instigated the
occupation Of Rome by the Italian Govern
ment
-LisDon-Ihe Director of the Portugal and
Brazil Telegraph Company have presented the
King witt map n an elegant easket OF the
bed OF the Atlantic over which the cable is to
be laid, with specimens Of the cable selected.
The section to extend between the Portuguese
coast and Madeira will be completed by the
manufacture in June.
London Republicans have undertaken the
prosecution Of the Carlist Committee who are
collecting funds for Don Carlos, as it is claim
81 10 Ds u violation Of international law.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-05-02
News Of the Week.
DOYN EAST,

The Commissioners to the Vienna xposi-E
tion have been suspended and Legrand b.
Cannon Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Z.
Spang, now in Vienna, and Jackson S. Schultz
VIM. II. Aspinwall, Samuel Ward, VIM t.
Blodgett and James PenwicI viii act until the
suspensions are removed, or permanent COM
missioners appointed. Scientific and honorary
commissio ioners do not come under the opera
tion of this suspension order.
The Evening Post has letter from New
Foundland, which states that there is a clause
in the charter of the New York, New Found
land and London Telegraph Company which
has passed almost unnoticed. 1t proviaes that
at the end of the first 20 years the government
Of New Foundland has the right of purchasing
the line at a valuation. The first 20 years
terminates in 1875. The compa y recently
applied to the Government to have this clause
rescinded, and their possession to be thus con-
tinued for the next 80 years. but the Govern
ment, under the most eminent legal advice in
London, claiming that they have the right to
purchase the line at the cost of the plant. with
out paying anything for good viii or valuation
of profits, have refused. The receipt of this
intelligence in London, caused the stock Of the
compay to fall from 30 pounds to IA pounds,
but after the panic abate somewhat it rose
to II pounds.
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