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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
The Household.

STRAWBERRY SALAD.-Pick, wash,
drain and toss crisp. tender lettuce
leaves, shred them up fine in the salad
bowl, and pour over them some straw
berry juice, and serve at once.
A NUTRITIOUS COMPOSITION = Take
equal quantities of sage and cocoa, mix
them, put a tablespoonful in a pint of
boiling water, and boil the whole to-
gether for a few minutes with constant
stirring.
STRAWBERRY GEM TARTs. - Make
large-sizad gems in the usual manner
from the fine Graham -four, being care
full not to make them too hard. When
done let then stand ten or fifteen min
utes to steam, then split open and fill
each half with strawberries with or with
ont sugar, add a spoonful of strawberry
juice if it will hold so much, and serve
at once.
ASPARAGUS ROLLs.---Boil the aspar-
agus, as usual, in boiling sailed water :;
when tender cut up the tops and all
that ia eatabe and warm over il milk,
butter rubbed in flour, yolks of raw
eggs beaten, CRATE of nutmeg, and a
small pinch of Municipalities regulated
by the amount of asparagus; have some
milk rolls with the cTumb scOoped out,
having taken off the top crust, fill the
cavity with the boiling asparagus, and
place the top crust on at once; must be
managed quickly, so as to 60 to the table
very hot.
RHUBARD JELLY.-Peel, and cut up
quite small some fresh rhubarb, put it
into preserving pan with a very little
water, and the thin rind Of half lemon
! to every pound of fruit Boil until re-
duced to a pulp. Strain the Juice, weigh
it, and allow one pound of pounded
sugar to every pound of juice Boil the
Juice, add the sugar, boil, skim. and
| when it jellies on the skinner pour into
| pots, and tie down when cool.
How To SHAPE RoLLs.-RolI on the
dough when quite light, and cut with a
| good sized cutter or tumhler. Dip a
! clean feather into melted butter and
! brush lightly over the dough that is cut
q ut; then fold each circle into a crescent,
or half moon shape prick on the top,
and place in the fat biscuit pan to rise.
! When very light, bake in hot oven full
| twenty minutes. The oven should be so
! hot that one could not hold the hand in
it long enough to count twenty.
To Cook SALT GOLDFISH. - Shred
enough fish to make pint: put it into
two quarts of water and set it where it
viii keep warm, but do not let it boil, as
boiling hsrdens salt fish. If wished for
breakfast, put it to soak the night be-
fore. In the morning pour off all the
water, renlacing it with one pint ofsweet
milk, and set on the stove. Mix one
tablespoonful of corn starch with one
tablespoonful of cold milk in bowl, beat
into this one egg and when the milk on
the stove is just ready to boil dip from it
a few tablespoonful, stirring 1t we'll
together with the egg and corn starch in
the bowl then pour all back into the
fish, add n small tablespoonful of butter
(Or less), let all boil I'D at once so rs to
thicken, and serve on buttered toast.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
Queer Picture of g Merrie England y
In the Fifteenth Century.

IT Is a strange pisture-fi1ll of deep
shadows-this England of the fifteenth
century, as portrayed by the clumsy
hands OF chronicleTs, and those more
faithful hmners, the writer's of the Pas
ton letters. Amid the frequent appari-
tons OF armies may be dimly deserted
the growing independence of parlia-
ments, and the Importance of units Of
labor, banded together and protected by
charters often bought at a high price
from necessitous sOvereigns. The laborer
was perhaps in material comfort not very
much worse off than he has been since,
but then there was no peace or repose
from incessant tumult. Owners of
beeves and sheep and fields of golden
grain were only too glad to get their corn
cut, and their beasts slaughtered sailed,
and safely bestowed behind four walls,
whence marauders might not win them
without a costly struggle. The afinals
of the PASTOR family tell us that a state
OF private war between a great lord and
one or more of his liegemen or neighbOrs
was regarded as 30 unusual phenomenon
If the small suffered from FREQUENT op-
preston, the great were no better off.
for those who escaped the field of battle
were only reserved for the headsman.
Such Intelligence as existed was devoted
to the career of arms-the church having
SUNK into Ignorance and. sloth, in which
the spectre of LOllardry by turns stalked
abroad and skunk into bvways, awaiting
the day when the voice of Luther shou q
| repeat In thunder the timid murmurs of
Wicliff and his followers, whose utter
anoes could by no means be done away
with and abolished. An age of igno-
range was naturally superstitiOus Adam
of Usk tells us of the burning Of the
first hereto in Smithfeld, and we also
see that worthy ecclesiastic, LAWYER, and
politician-ohe of the foremost men of
mis- time-marveliug at the spontaneous
| ringing of the four bells at the corners of
St Edwards shrine at Westminster; at
the strange flow of blood from the sprirg
into which the head of LIewellyn.ap-
Gryffud had been thrown at the comet
which foretold the death of Clan
Galeazzo VIscOnti, Duke of Milan; and
| the apparitiou in the air Of the arms OF
| that pOtentate, to wit, ga serpent azure,
swallowing a naked man, guIes, on s field
argent" But as darkness, like light, is
rarely absolutely complete, it is possible
to descry through the mirk the Brilliant
soldier of AgincOurt, Sir John Fastolf-
from whom Shakespeare was once
absurdly supposed to have drawn his i'm.
mortal Falstaf'-Humphrey, Duke OIL
Gloucester, John Tiptoft, the butcher
Earl of Worcester, and Antony Wood
! vile, busily engaged in collecting manu-
| scripts; work to which the Duke o.
! Bedford contributed in IawIess but whole
sale fashion by Selling the royal library
at Paris, and carrying it off to this
country during his regency.-AU TIN
! Year Round.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
FARM AND GARDEN,
Cheese vs.. Meat

1t is little singular that, in these hard
times, when every one is trying to econo-
miZe, that more cheese is not eaten. So
much has been said and written bychem-
lists about the relative value of cheese
and meat that we all must have seen
some comparisons of their values as food.
with the balance always on the side of
cheese, when each is reckoned at its
usual market quotation. Another argu-
fnent In favor of cheese is that it requires
no cooking or other preparation, but is
always ready for food. Bread is termed
the staff of life. Most properly, it seems
60 me, we might add to it cheese and
milk. 1t might be useful, to confirm
what chemistry declares, if some one
interested were to try the experiment
of diet composed largely of cheese, in
some of our charitable institutions,
reform schools or peor-houses. We have
them all around us to support, and if we
could maintain them equally well, or
perhaps better, by some changes .ot this
nature, would it not be an object to do
so? If our taxes were a little lighter
could we not bear it comfortably When
q poor, unfortunate beggar calls at my
door for food, L give him bread and
cheese. He manifests many thanks for
this. and | have repeatedly heard the
remark, " Nobody gives me cheese F'-
Scientific Farmer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
What spaniard Thinks of the Capitol

The Epoca of Madrid gives up a whole
page to letter from Senior Alfredo EscO-
bar describing the capitol at Washington.
1t may be worth while for our readers to
know what an intelligent foreigner from
a land in which the art of architecture
has wrought some of its grandcst and
some of it's glOOmiest marvels thinks of
the pride of Washington. He does full
justice to its exceptional site, but or the
building he says the Capitol at Wash
ington surprises, but it does not fascinate
Born of different schools of art and dit
erent Dationaities, and In a country
where art has no temples and the useful
takes precedence over the beautiful, it
could not be expected to be either Par
thenon or a Vatican. But
when the critic passes judgment on thc
first verses of a child ne does it induI-
gently, and the capitol is the work of a
nation in its childhood. The
esplanade in front is as grand as the es-
planade of the exposition, or as the grand
stand at Epson. Seen from afar or from
the west, the capitol resembles the royal
palace at Madrid, used as a basement for
the escuriai; seen from the cast it re-
sembles the Madeleine at Paris thrice
magnified and crowned with the cupola
bar thinks little of GreenOugh's Wash
ingtOn, and still less of the other scuIp
lures about the building, but he cordially
admires the great bronze doors of Ran
dolph Rogers cast by Muller at Munich,
and thinks them the best of all the de-
tails of the building. He is severe upon
the low and narrow entrances, and upon
the absence of anything like a really
grand and ample stairway, and thinks
the dome more appropriate to railway
station than to a national legislative hall
of the first rank. But, as he rather sar-
castically observes: american travellers
who visit the capitol never dream for a
moment of troubling themselves about
the merit of the frescoes which adorn its
cupola. The guide-book tells them that
these frescOes cover Ave thousand square
feet and cost fifty thousand dollars, and
that is all they care to know.
II Rome, London and St. Petersburg
possess fiuer domes than Washington,
neither of them possess the electrical
batteries which illuminate the night ses-
sions OF congress. To be sure, any dome
in the world might easily possess these,
whilst Washington could not get posses
sion of such frescoes as those which adorn
the vatican, nor yet OF such dome as
that of st. Peters, even if Washington
should build brand-new capitol"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05

be advanced In life, and incapable of
active superintendence, get the most
reliableshands you can secure, and farm
on share system, bat keep an eye your
self to its whole details. This is my system
being old and infrn-and I have sue
ceeded as well as any, and l have hands
that have been In my employment for
four years. Now we will discuss the
advantages of diversified crops In the
first place diversified crops afford the
advantage of rotation and without rota-
ting the crops 1t is impossible to keep up
the fertility Of lands, or keep them from
washing or Outlying. Corn and wheat
draw more heavily from the land than
any crops We plant, or in other words,
they are the most exhsustiug crops,
unless 1t be sugar cane and sorghum
hence corn or wheat should never be
planted on any field but one year when
IL ought to be followed for two years by
some other crops, say oats and cotton !;
let oats follow corn, and cotton follow
wheat, and corn follow oats, and then
ten acres for truck farming can be
rotated after corn, but keep your lands
under rotation all the while, 50 as to
keep them from running down or wash
| ing. Cotton is not exhaustihg to land
/ dS LluNA do COEu VI WllCG5J BuE GLG lOUR.
/ clean culture it eddires subjects it to
washing from rains even through the
winter months, for there is neither
grass or weeds left from the clean
| culture it receives to tie the land
! together aud prevent it's washing.
| A prudent farmer keeps an eve
| to the preservation and building up his
1 lands, and to do so he must adopt diver.
sifed crops and the rotating system
! Again, no farm can be made self sustain.
ing and q success without raising all the
supplies needed on IL. Your bread
! your meat, your milk and butter, youl
vegetables and stock of all kind must be
the product of your farm. If you dc
this, fifty acres IN cotton will give you
more money of your own than loco
acres IN cotton, and no supplies raised
and how much more cheerful and pros
| porous farm looks, when we see on it
| growing, corn, wheat, oats, potatoes
t1rnlps, clover and grasses, fine garden
and fruit orchard, anu to see fine horses
| colts, COWS, calves, sheep, hogs and poul
/ try of all kinds. Such looks like farm
I ing, and what farming was intended tt
| be. and when you see such a farm, YOU
will ascertain that its owner is a free anC
independent man, and lives in comfort
and all around him lives contented, anC
his cattle are all fat and sleek, thrift
! and prosperity is all around him. SucI
is the only farmer that prospers, anc
why, because he is the true farmer tina
understands his business and farms &C
cording to the rules of farmiDg--he dom
make farming a speculation, but III
makes it a practical success, relying OF
his farm for his support and income, anC
all who will adopt and pursue such
course will make farming prosperous
Farming must be diversi6ed-all cotton
and no grain, grass, stock, poultry anC
gardens neglected will break any farme
that farms on such a system.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
culture OF me mangeI wurzey.

The mangel wurzel is one of the most
profitable roots for COWS, sheep and store
hogs-they are good for pigs. The crop
rs easily grown on proper land, which
should be dry and rich. Low, moist
lands are not suitable for growing roots
of the best quality. These soils produce
3 large yield, but if mangels are grown
they are almost destitute of saccharine
matters, and other kinds of roots are
poor compared to the same kinds grown
upon firm, rich soil.
DR.. Loring states that $4,000 bushels
of mangels are worth more to a man for
has cattle and sheep than a hundred
bushels of corn, and there is no doubt
of it,
For these heets should be plowed in
the fall or early in spring for the best re-
suits, and then most thoroughly MANFRED.
If one expects or wants large crop he
must give plenty of rich food. Salt is
relished by the whole beet tribe, espe-
cially my mangol wurEsls. Itshould be
mixed with the manure and applied
with that. AS much as forty bushels
TO the acre have been used on mangels
with good effects. No one need hope
to grow large crops of roots such as we
read about now and then. unless his
ground is like a rich garden and then
when such large crops are off, the land
is poor again. The time for sowing
mangles is during the fore part of June
on good warm land. If sOwn earlier
they often grow woody, and sometimes
rot.
The amount of seed required per acre
is about four pounds, worth now at The
retail stores about sixty to seventy-five
cents per pound. The long red is the
sort usually grown, although some pre-
fer the globe variety. The rows are put
about two feet apart, but they may be
closer where the space is small and hand
cultivation Is given. In the cultivation
of roots the soil must be in the finest
filth, the Jumps all crushed and ground
to powder. a roller will not always do
this, as it presses the humps into the
ground without breaking them In some
parts a sort of cheap clod crusher is made,
and it is very good thing to have on
every farm, whether roots are grown OIL
not. 1t is made of three or four planks &
foot or 50 wideand eight feet long. They
are drawn so as to take a sweep of eighs
feet, or as wide as the planl1s are long.
The front under-edge of each plank Is
beveed off a little so that the Jumps and
earth viii not be pushed forward. They
are fastened together by trotting some
strong pieces across at each end, which
are made slightly rocking on the under
side. A chain is hitched at each end
and the team to the chain, then Jump on
and 60 ahead. This grinds the humps
hne instead Of pressing them into the
ground. Some straight slabs from &
saw mill are almost as good as plank
Detroit Free Press
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
A Contrast.

Despite the bitter cold, flowers are the
iuxuries of Russians in winter. They
are everywhere. The houses overflow
with them---howers receive you at the
door, and go with you up the stairway (:
Irish ivies, festOon balusters iardiniers
adorn the landings on every floor. In
the embrasure of the windows bananas
spread out their broad silken leaves 4;
TALBOT palms, magnOiias, camelias,
growing like trees mingle their blossoms
with the gilded vOlutes of the cornices !;
orchids hover like butterflies around
lamp-shades of crystal, porcelain and
acknowledgements terra-cotta. From
the horn-shAped vases of Japanese porce.
lain or Bohemian glass, placed in the
centre of a table or st the corner of a
sideboard, spring sheaves of superb
exotics. And all this floral splendor
thrives as in a dollhouse. Every breath
of cold air is carefully excluded. The
windows are invariably double, and the
space between the sashes is covered with
a LAYER OF fine sand, designed to absorb
moisture and prevent the frost from
slvering the panes. Twisted horns of
paper containing salt are set in it, and
sometimes the sand is concealed by a bed
OF moss. There are no outside shutters
or blinds, for they would be useless, since
the windows remain closed all the win
ter, being carefully file in around the
edges with a kind of cement Heavy
curtains of rich material still further
deaden the effect of the cold upon the
glass Shivering in the street, you are
at the pole within doors, you are trans
ported to the tropics.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
OLD BOnes.,

People who neglect their minor ailments
rarely live to make old bones. The secret of
hale and vigorous old age lies not only IN Ia k
ing care of ones health in early life, by the
observance of sanitary rules, but also by Judi
cious medication when the premonitory
symptoms of bodily disorder manifest them
elvess. Indigestion, bowel and liver com
plants, are fruitful causes of injury to the
constitution. These diseases should be, there =
fore, checked without delay. The best med
iciHe for the purpose is HOstetters Stomach
Bitters Thisstandard preparation disciplIDes
the digestive organs, gives renewed impetus
70 the bilious secretive function and exerts a
beneficial influence upon the organs of urina-
ton. 1t has no rival a remedy for and
preventive of chil!s and fever and bilious re-
mIttents, infUses vigor into the debiltated
frame,and Is an excellent appetizer and ner-
vine.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
The New Loan.

The popular subscription to the new
loan are being made with greater rapid.
ty tlan was anticipated by the secretary
of the treasury. At the outset he est.
mated that S15,0OO,0 900 would be taken
in this way, but he now thinks that the
total will considerably exceed that snn,
and may go to $50, 1000, 900, or even birb'
er. 1t is probable that the orders on the
last few days or the thirty curing which
the bonds are offered for sale at par. win
be greater than those for all the rest NJ
the time. 1t naturally takes q little
time for the merits of the loan to become
fully appreciated. The ADVANTAGES of
investing idle funds in the new bonds
will scarcely be fully got before the pub
lie by advertisements and newspaoe ar.
ticles until the thirty-day limit has
nearly expinsh.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
Mixed Perfumes.

The ingenious gentlemen who adver-
tise perfumes under fancy names, such
as the delicate delectable, or the inefable
zephyr, at half-a-crown a bottle, resem.
bic wine merchants in this respect,
that they are clever in mixing. The
last new delightful scent which Adolphus
joy fully secures for his love is only an
old mixture with new name to connect
II with a beat-race or a popular opera.
The practitioners of mixing render the
public a considerable service by provid-
ing new pleasures and suggesting to those
who have a superabundance of cash how
they may best bestow some of it to ad
vantage. The object Of this note is to
propose to the ladies of the household
the mixing OF perfumes as 3 pastime.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
ssThe sure wteuess.,,

"The nineteenth century is the age of
novels" remarks a literary histOrian-he
might have added with equal truth, " and
novel iupositiQns." Studied politeness has
been passed OF on Us for native refinement.
the forms of devotion for its esssnse, and
speculation for science, until we look ask
ance at every new person or thing, and to an
assertion of merit, invariably exclsim,
Prove it ~ In brief Satan has made him
self so omnipresent, that we lock for his
clOveu foot eve rywhere-even IN a bottle Of
medicine. Imagine lady, having a COM
plexion so sallOw that you would deny her
claims to the Caucasian type if her features
did not conform to it, purchasing bottle OF
the Golden Medical Discovery. The one
dollar is paid in the very identical manner
| in which Mr.. Taylor might be expected to
purchase lottery ticket af er his experience
with " No. 104, 163," with this difference, his
doubt would be the resJlt OF personal expe-
rience while hers would be founded on what
a certain practitioner (whO has been a whole
! ye9r trying to correct her refractory llver)
! has said concerning it. At home, she exam
ines the bottle half SusplciC uSly, tastes OF It's
contents cafefullyJ takes the prescribed dose
more carefully, and then prEtseHS 10 watch
! the result with as much anxiety as a pTacti-
toner would count the pulse beats of dy-
/ ing man. She takes another dose, and
! another, and shows the bottle to her friends,
! telling them she " feels better" Her skin
| loses its bilious tint, her eyes regain their
| lustre, her accustomed energy returns, and
| the fact that she purchases another bottle is
/ a sure witness that she has found the Golden
! Medical Discovery to be a reliable remedy
! for the disease indicated. The lady wisely
resolves that in future her estimate of any
medicine will be based upon a personal kno1nL
edge Of ats effects, and not upon what sOIite
! practitioner (whO always makes long bills
rhyme with, piils) may say of it. DR.. Pierce
is in receipt of letters from hundreds OF the
| largest wholesa and retail druggists in the
| United States stating that at the present
! time there is n greater demand for the
! Golden Medic ii Discovery and PurgatIve
! Pellets than sver before. In affections Of
the liver and blood they are unsurpassed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-07-05
When to Eat.

DR.. Austin Flint, distinguished bhys-
ician and Psychologist, does not believe
in the old rule, "Rise from the table be-
fore the hunger is fully satisfied" On
the contrary, he holds it to be an erro-
neOus maxim.
1t has been said we must "eat to live
and not live to eat" But alimentation
is more than necessity; we must eat
for something more than life, mere exist
ance. We must eat to secure the full
advantages of health, both of BODY and
mind. The child often consumes more
food than the adult man; the indolent
more than the active worker. The aver.
age quantity required at any age cannot
be standard for any individual.
There are two sources of practical
knowledge In regard to food one Is the
Instinct implanted in the individual
the second is the individual experience.
OF the twOj the first is the more trust
worthy.
Extreme hunger denotes an abnormal
| condition, while appetite denotes normal
manifestation of the needs of he system
The complete requirements of health are
that the desire for food be needed with.
out delay, and that this desire be fully
| satisfied
tie table with a good appetite is full oil
error. Another prevalent error is that
food should not be taken except at Ger
| tain fixed times.
The conditions of perfect health are
First, sufficient appetite; second, the
qualification Of normal appetite before
the want of food reaches the abnormal dc.
gree expressed by hunger; third, the
satisfaction of appetite by a proper
amount of food.
DR.. Flint indorses tue remark of a
country physician, ninety years old, who
said, l have always eaten when l
wanted food, and as much as I wanted,
and the best l could get"
a great many dyspeptics have been
made by attending lectures on health.
1t was a popular error to suppose that
the chief end of man is to watch the pro-
gress of digestion. From four to six
hours only should elapse between each
meal. Some writer has said, " The
stomach is like schoolboy; if not kept
well occupied, it isapt to bein mischief"