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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
A Boy Who stuck to Farming.

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When boy, from ten to fourteen years
of age, l was taught to milk and do other
" chores night and morning, before and
after school hours. My father was a
farmer as well as q politician. He pas
tured his cattle upon the meadows after
moving, and in the late autumn and
midwinter, when the ground was bare,
all the heaps or balls of debris on the
meadows or pastures were broken and
distributed by using a maui. Saturday
was vacation from school, and worked
at beating and scattering the debris on
the pasture lands, being paid by my
father ten cents a day for eight hours.
I accumulated 81, for which my father
sold me a. heifer calf and bargained to
keep it for me by my working half day
each week. This j did, and at the end
of one year I exchanged my heifer with
my father for two male calves. Almost
every day after these calves were two
weeks old occupied my spare time in
teaching them to work in the yOke-a
small one, with two bows, which friend
made for me. At two months old they
would gee and "haw as we'll as old
oxen. They were then turned to pasture
until September. When my father was
moving the grass on his salt meadows,
situated on the borders of Long Island
Sound, these calves were taken and used
to lead TIE heavier cattle team over the
meadows. Again, they were used in
midwinter to lead the team in breaking
| in his two-year Olds. AS these calves or
| young steers grew up, I taught the
near OK to let me ride him, while
/ the of OK would come along in
! his place, as often drove
my fathers stock from the pasture to the
barnyard. So much for my early "cho-
rims" and team work.
After I was thirteen my father gave
me a piece of ground each year, that l
could plant and work on shares, and if 1
wanted help 1 had to give two days of
my time to the hired mans one day. I
grew Just what my fancy and reading
dictated, and from the proceeds dressed
as we'll as any of the boys of the present
time. I always had some time to play,
and time to read, and now look back with
love and pleasant thoughts to the old
farm, and the farm hand who taught me
to use tools, to hold the pillow, and to
bring the point and heel of my scythe SC
as to level the swath clean and true
Once, when driving the OK team to the
pillow, / failed in keeping them in 8
straight liue at the end of the furrow
but danced for it when the plowma1
took the whip frem my hands and laid il
heavily over my back and legs. 1 al
ways afterwards drove the team out
straight, and l have tried to drive il
straight now over seventy years.
The remembrance of my own boyhooC
has always induced me to favor all item
of encouragement at home on the farm
and believe if it were more general!
! practiced we should have more gOoC
farmers and less broken down merchants
} or loafng, hanging-on, time-servin!
clerks, ready for anything except honor
able labor aud usefulness, belonging t.
the highest order of CREATION CoURtJ.
| GentLeDlltu
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
PArmsrs' Vacations,

Farmers, as a class, think too little of
vacations. All farmers do not work
extremely hard, nor remarkably steady
but there is often too much jogging and
plodding on the farm. 1t would be bet
ter to work a little sharper for a few
weeks, and then take a week for recrea-
tion away from the farm and its cares,
than to be ever in the same harness
even if we do not keep the traces con-
stantly stretched. Vacations are becom-
ing decidedly popular among nearly all
classes. Once we supposed they belonged
only to schools and colleges, but Judges
and lawyers have for many years had
their vacations between court terms, and
the clergy have also gradually come to
expect a few weeks of relaxation from
pastoral duties during the hot weather of
summer. Business people, especially
those living in cities, from the senior
partner down to the entity clerk, all
count upon a vacation as regularly as
does the school boy or college student.
We have long felt that most farmers
are tCO sing handed. They are too apt
b keep the reins in their own hands
constantly; too apt to do all their work
themselves, or, if they hire, they employ
help who are too unskilied to be trusted,
even for day, out of sight. There are
farmers, or men who are classed as such,
for they do nething else, who will lean
against a neighbol's fence by the hour
together and discuss the weather, crit.
else other neighbors' doings, or moan over
the rayages of squash bugs or cut worms,
which they are too lazy to destroy, who
need no vacations. They are so Z" cors ti-
tutionally tired" that resting doesn't
rest them. There is not tension enough
IN their muscles for relaxation to have
any eject. Such men never get a new idea
while 1t Is new; they are like the dull
school boy, always at the foot of the class
but there are other men who, like wea-
sells, are seldom caught asleep. Such
men are too often completely tied to their
farms, like horses to a loaded cart.
instead OF the farm being managed for
increment OF the farmer, the man and
MS whole family seem to be run for the
gOou Oh the farm, or, as Thoreau has
II; tne farmer Is endeavoring to
soIVe the problem Of a livelihood bv a
lormulA more complicated than The
farm, the farm appears to own hin, So IL
men need vacations. They need IN visit
other farmers, to learn, if possibIe ass;aT
or better methods of farming or of Ii~-;,,c.
They need 70 attend farmers conyentio1s
and organizations, to gain new ideas
omcthing to broaden and enjaree tbeil
views of life. People who always stay a
home are SIRE to see all the dark side
and shadows of their own lives. The,
need to learn and to realize tbat storm
and drouths and thunder-storns an,
freshets visit other farms besides tbai,
own; that weeds and insects thrive in al
degrees of longitude; that flies and dir
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
Breaking it Easily.

A miner when we will call Hughes
fell down a Wine in one of the Comstock
mines several years ago and was killed.
His companions gathered up his remains,
and. putting them in an express wagon,
started for his home. Another miner,
fine. good-hearted fellow, was sent on
ahead to bear the sad news to the
bereaved family. All the way along he
was discussing with himself as to how he
should tell the terrible story so as not to
crush the unfortunate household; but
he reached the house before having set
tied definitely upon his plan. Meeting
Mrs. Hughes at the door he accOsted her
in the usual manner of an acquaintance,
and then said (:
Where's George to-day, Ms.
Hughes 2"
He's at work in the mine, as usual,
thank you sir" replied the woman.
q How is he feeling to-day ?' was the
next question. The news bearer was
becoming desperate. He was q brave
man who would not have feared a caviDg
drift or delayed blast, whose heart was
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
AT THE BAR.
'rwho speaks for thisman1" From the great white

''who speaks for thisman7" From the great white
Throne,
Yelled in lis roseate Clouds the voice came FORTH
Before il stood parted soul alone,
And rolling east, and west, and south. and nOrtni
The mighty accents summoned quick and dead:
tsHho speaks ior this man ere his doom be said 2"
ShizerinE he listened, for his earthly life
Had passed in dull unnotsd calm away;
He brought no glory to its daily strife,
No wreath of fame OF genius merry ray
Weak. lone, ungIfted, quiet and obscure,
Born in the shadow, dying mid the poor.
10. from ths solemn cOnceurse hushed and dinns
The widows prayer, the orphans blessing rose
The struggier told Of trouble shared by him,
The lonely OF cheeTed hours and softeneo woes
And like chorus spoke the crashed and sac
''He gave "a all he could, and what be hadi
And little words of loving kindness said,
And tender thoughts, and help in time Of neei'
Sprang up like leaves by soft spring showers Ied,
In some waste corner, sown by chsnee-1u seeu )
In grateful wonder heard the modest soUl,
Such trihes gathered TO so blest v hoie'
o, We. by circumstances strong letters Dounds
The store SO little AID the hand so frail,
Do but the best ye can for all around
Let sympathy be true nor courage fail;
Winning among your neighbor5 poor and weak
Some witness at your trial hour 10 speak.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
TIE CUSTER BATTLEFIELD.
4 Literal GOIgOtha Where wolves Have
Fed and Left Only Cleaning
and Broken Skeletons.
Letter in Chicago Times of AUGUST 90.

Letter in Chicago Times of August 20.
Crossing the river at the lower ford,
the battlefield is approached upa gently
sloping hillside, rank with sage brush,
cactus, and very poor grass. The sun
beams with great brightness and warmth
that is almost sitting, while an oppres-
sive stiffness prevails, save as it is now
and then broken by the melancholy
chirp of some sympathetic bird. In
Indian file our party of eight moved up
the trail to the crest of the hill, where
we suddenly came upon six bone heaps,
with piece of tepee pole sticking in the
ground at each pile, as a sort of burlesque
monument. Upon Ons of the stakes
hangs a white sombreo pierced with two
bullets, and covered with clotted blood.
The carcasses of two horses lie together,
and behind them a large quantity of
cartridge shell, indicating that the poor
brutes were killed by their riders and
converted into breast works. Down the
incline few yards, and near the head of
the canon, are several piles of bones
dumped together like lot of garbage,
and at the center of the collection APP
pears a crude board cross, lettered as
follows;
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30

SO tender that he did not know how to
tell woman of her husbands death.
With some show of surprise Mrs.
Hughes answered the last question
d" About as well as he generally does, 1
believe"
The man was desperate, and, not
knowing what to say, he hlurted out:
" I'll bet you ten dollars he's dead, and
here comes the body in wagon"
He swallowed big lump in his throat
and wiped piece of porphyry out of his
left eye with his shirt sleeve. Afterward
in talking over the matter with his COM
rades he said it was the greatest trial he
had ever experienced, and that thereafter
when man was killed they might call on
SOMEBODY else to tell the news Gold He'll
(Neul Nelrs.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
TOPICS FOR THE FARM.
Too Long whImetrees on PIOws.

Too Long WhIme trees ON PIOws.
Most plowmen have so long white.
trees that it is often lmpracticable to
make any pillow work satisfactorily.
Excellent plows are denounced as
worthless, and rejected, simply because
the double whiffletree or the OK yoke
was too long. Yet the plOwman never
suspects wherein consists the true cause
of the difficulty. Our own practice
from boyhood has been to make double
whif1etrees for ploughing never more
than two feet between the points of at
tachment of the singletrees, which were
about twenty-three inches in length.
When it was desirable to pillow narrow
furrow-slices, the singletrees were at
tached only twenty-five inches apart.
Let plowman attempt to pillow with
a double tree six feet in length, and he
will readily understand why a pillow
will not run correctly when Che double
tree is too long. The plough will be
drawn to far from the furrOw to the I'M
ploughed ground, unless the plowman
makes a constant effort to prevent the
implement from cutting a furrow-slice
wider than can be properly turned over.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30

Of course where frequent and thorough
culture is practiced; no weeds get long
enough to become troublesome; and this
alone will fully compensate for the extra
labor of going over the field a great num-
Der of times. Let those who have been
troubled with noxious weeds heretofore,
try beginning early, and then going
through their corn, potatoes and similar
crops often then see if it does not
prove to be the best and most economical
system of crIIture.-N. Y ,ieekly Sun.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
Plain Facts for Advertisers to Read and
Consider.

The Springfield Massachusetts, Daily Union
has a larger circulation in springfield and
within a radius of twenty-five miles, than any
other journal.
The Springfield HaSsach uSetts) Weekly Union
has Jaeger circulation, local and general, than
any other a0eekiy newspaper IN Ne1O England,
outside of Boston. The Union is not only the
best ADVERTISING medium, bit also the cheapest.
For terms address, Clark w. Bryan Il Co.,
Publishers, Springfield, Mass or write or apply
to any of the leading advertising agencies in
the United States and Canada. Sample copies
of either the daily or weekly Union sent free.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30

AFTER an experience Of over twenty
five years, many leading physicians acknow-
edge that the Grasfenberg MarsEalPs Uterine
CatbOIicOn is the only known certain remedy
for diseases to which women are subject. The
GrGefen5erg Vegetable Pills, the most popular
remedy of the day for billiOusness, headache,
liver complaint and diseases of digestion.
Sold by all druggists. Send for almanacs.
Graefenberg CO.. New York.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
J. J. Crittenden,
Lieut.. goth Infantry.

A leg skeleton with a foot attached
hangs over the top of the monument,
and gives a CHASTITY effect to the scene.
passing on down the ravine a few scat
tered bone heaps are seen, while frag-
ments of human and horse skeletons lie
around in great profusion. Near the CEN
ter of the pass stands, amid another col
lection of bones, a cross-shaped tablet
with this inscription:
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
Take Care OrYour Hogs.

Hogs are hogs, and pork will be pork
the coming season. 1t therefore behooves
all who can to take care of what they
have, and get all they can. Corn put
into hogs this fall will be worth near or
quite a dollar per bushel. Beside the
unusual demand, the loss in hogs in some
portions of the United States has been
fearful. Mr.. Dodge, the statistician of
the department of agriculture, reports as
the result of the investigation of losses
from diseases of swine during the past
twelve months the destruction of four
million animals, all ages, and money loss
more than twenty million dollars. One
fifth the loss occurred in Illinois. Next
in prominence are Missouri, Iowa and
Indiana, which together lost ten million
dollars. Several southern states also lost
The losses are very small in the country
bordering on the great lakes and the
Pacific coast. OF the remaining districts
West Virginia comes nearest exemption
and Ohio and the Atlantic coast states
stand better than the alluvial districts
The apparent loss is equivalent to one,
third of the sum of the exports of pork
produced last year.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30

RHEUMATISM QUICKLY CURED.-Du-
rang's Rheumatic Remedy, the great Internal
Medicine, will positively cure any case of
rheumatism on the face of the earth. Price
81 bottle six bottles, So sold by all Drug
eists. Send for circulars to Helphenstine
& Bentley. Druggists. washington. D. Q.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30

IF a word to the wise be sufficient, we
think hint to the sick and suffering will not
prove amiss. The HOME STOMACH BITTERs,
than which none are more effective in recu-
perating from bodily or mental exhaustion.
Prepared by the Home Bitters Co. st. Louis,
No
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
The
GOOD OLD
STANDBY
J he
MEXICAN MUSTANG IMMINENT,
FOR MAN AND BEAST.

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millions hare tested IT, The whole world approve
the glorious old Mustang-the Best and Cheapest
Eminent in existence 25 cents a bottle, The
Mustang Lfniment cures when nothing else will,
SOLD RY ALL MEDICINE VENDORS.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
Purity, strene,h. Economv.

These three requisites are combined in
DOOLEY'S well-known YEAST POWDER. A
few trials will convince you that 1T is not
only the best, but also the cheapest.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
SANDAL-WOOD

A positive remedy for ALI diseases tine RIdsne
BLADDER and Urinary Organs; also good
DrOpEtcaI Complaints Il never produces sick
ness, is certain and speedy in its action. 1t
fast zupersedfuE every other remedy Sixty capsules
cure in six or eight days. No other medicine can
do this.
RevFare OF mutations, tor, owing TO its great
success, many have been offered; some are most
dangerous, causing piles, etc.
DIIIdHs, Dick e. Co.'S Genuine Soft Cap
sules containing Oil OF Sandalwood, cold at al
stores Ask for circular, send for one to IS aGd
Wooster street. New York
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
ST. LOUIS.

If you feel dull drowsy. debilitatcd have frequent
headache, mouth tastes badly. poor appetite, and
tongue coated, you are suffering from torpid liver;
or biliOusness,' and nothing will cure you 50
speedily and perma nently to take SIMMONS LIVER
REGULATOR MEDICINE.
uEGET RE
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30

blessed are the peacemakers." So
thought practical woman in Rochdale,
Eng, recently, who broke up a fight by
turning scalding water down the back of
one of the contestants
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30

Byron is believed to have had the ex-
elusive aristocracy of England in view
when he spoke of society where none
intrudes."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30

A--7 Il NOT easIty earned these mes, but
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W & at the en- plOy ment that We furnish 500
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whole time the work, only your spare moments
We have agents v no are making over $40 per day
at the business. All Who engage once can make
money fast. At the present time meney cannot 81
made so easily aud rapidly at any other business
1t costs nothing to try the business. ana -
0utnt free. Address once,
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30

PuucLuaI TimePIeces Unless the bow
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perfect health is impossible Therefore, when dis
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EFFERvFsCENT SELTZER APERIENT, the most genial
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RTVERVIBW ACADEMY,
UGHHEEPi74h r. -
lTI BISBEB, A. NJ, Principal and Proprietor

Numbers its alumni by HUNDREDS 10 az NV
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THE Austin correspondent Of the
Galveston News complains that there
have been long continued and serious
frauds in the Texas land office certificates
being surreptitiously distracted. He
quotes an old attorney general of the
state as saying that there are 900 for
geries covered up in the Office, and says
that the widows and orphan children of
l 900 old time Texans have been swindled
out of their estates by land thieves,
through forgery and fraud.
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-01-23
TRfGEDY ~ HOBOKIN.


Yesterday afternoon while william Brown,
aged -, a driver ia the employ Of -Freoholcl
william Wngc-. a butcher doing business at
"a Washington street. II l0hoken. was delivering
orders in Willow street. a number of young mon
lenpcd in tho sleigh and demanded u ride.
Brown demonstrated with the roushs. and or
dercd thom oil. They refused TO 10, ana ono Of
thcm Thomas Welsh, called the driver an
offensive opithet. Brown attempted 10 put the
man Of but they res i~ted. and he sczrl
strap with which he hclahorcd W"l~h
on tic head. Welsh fell down, and upon
Z tting up he mut0rgl an oath and
his companions pntei the driver with ~nowh'l-
nnd stones Welsh tlen Au.i"l h""'-,,, ,,,,,l nj
h'""". 80" nu~-ur -irurk him ON th' lrld
and iencl him un'nns Jon tn the l;N .mrni.
l@h and his companions IN n He'd. Brown
WIS rlrrird to te J. -idNn rut DR., C4na.fn in
Hudson -tr'ot. and his skull Wis soon To- he
irn tur u. lie ro-H med cons 'luu-p AMI de-
~eriuNd bis u~-lll ni- lo met pl I"ll lnnp-
van. H. WAS then taken 90 his honr ih Suf.lk
rtr,t This rty. IN-t ni.ii b" Wd7 thhrlou-
ANA iltl' hopo7 were entertained ~ las r'-
ChiSi Donovan detailed Oni'er Kolly anl
Welsh Wl- arrested and iuliy hlnntlnd a. 'i..
ou hothr'w thr Wi--ii'. Welsh. WHO is nul,
..litHou yraI- Oi ar' cuil --"d lur ht ssh. tine
u--allint hnt -p'l tNi ho didn't wrrn t,dnn nny
lfrn. Brown supports 20 Viu W',l n.l ll"r. iNnI
hr has lr"u Wti his present DunllNrrf,r about
nine yeif-. Alr. Win. said That biuAn.W.-u.
peaecuhle, industrious. nnd sop"r young muA