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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-07-11
Farm nna GARDEN Noteu-

SHEEP and swine in the orchards are
recommended to exterminate the codiing
moth.
A FLOWER garden should be sunny :;
soil, rich black loan, and sheltered from
the wind.
INTERRoGATEyour soil xperimentally
and thus learn what is needed in the
form of fertilizers to produce thereon
remunerative crops.
SOME gardeners use willow twigs for
tying raspberry canes, as well IS eurrant
and gooseberry stems, to stakes.
DURING the summer the earth of the
flower garden viii need an occasional
stirring with the rake or hoe, especially
if the summer is dry.
THE health and vigor of a full-grown
OK depend greatly upon the food and
care it receives when young. If badly
reared 1t cannot be expected to become
profitable beast.
IMMEDIATELY after weaving, Young
pigs must be fed often, say six times
day, the number of feeds being gradually
diminished to three, which latter is the
proper number for stores and fsttening
pigs.
THE soil of garden, for the growth of
common species of shrubs, perennials, and
ANIMALS, should be rich loan, if anv
plants require sand it can easily be sup
piled. Peat is but little used in general
gardening, it is only required for rhodo-
dendrons, azaleas, and in the culture of
some of eur fine native plants.
Don't kill the toads. They are the
gardeners best friends, from the fact that
they are the mortal enemies of insects
and worms that depredate on garden
vegetables. Being perfectly harmless, it
is far better to carry them into the gar
den than to injure them, as is so ire
quently done by thoughtless persons.
ENGLISH authorities reckon potatoes to
be superior to Swede turnips as 200 to
C I, to beet root as 200 to 105, and to
cabbages as 200 to Is; 200 parts of raw
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The Late Queen OF SnaIn.

There are few who will not, in SYM
patty, join the circle of mourners in
Spain who are now bewailing the death
of the girl-queen, taken away in her
youth, and almost in the honeymoon of
her bridal happiness, in Madrid Wednes-
day. MOria de las Mercedes, the wife OF
Alfonso XII and Queen of Spain, was
but eighteen years OF age on Monday,
when she was lying upon that bed Of
sickness which has proved her bed of
death. But few short months ago all
Europe rang with accounts of the brill
lianoy of the marriage in the church of
the Atocha, which seemed to herald so
many years Of happiness to the welded
cousins. For, unlike 50 many royal al
iances, it was s union of affection, and
the princess was loved by all who knew
her. Her husband had looked upon
her from the first moment that his heart
had been touched with all that intensity
of sentiment so peculiar in many re-
spects to Italian and Spanish levers, and
the whole nation was gratified by his
choice, whom they knew to be, despite
the French birth of her father, so thor
oughly Spanish in all her sympathies.
Since the death in childbirth of the
Princess Charlotte of England, and the
insanity of the unhappy ex-Empress
Carlotta, of Mexico, it is the saddest
chapter In all the domestic history of
royalty.
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and M. Jansen, the famous astronomer
from Paris, are coming over to observe
the eclipse : Washington Post.
The Wandering Jew from a Hebrew
Point Of View.

Point Of View.
The legend of the Jew, says a Jewish
paper, ever wandering and never dying,
even from the cruci6xion of Jesus to
the present day, is spread over many.
European countries. The accounts,
however, as in all fables, do not agree
One version is this: When Jesus was
led to death, oppressed By the weight of
the cross, he wished to rest himself near
the gate at the house of Ahasureus. This
man, however, sailed forth and thrust
him away. Jesus turned toward him,
saying:
I" I shall rest, /" but thou shalt move on
till return"
And from that time he has had no
rest, and is obliged necessarily to wan
der about. Another version is that
given by Matthew, of Paris, monk of
the thirteenth century: When Jesus
was led from the tribunal of PLATE, to
death, the doorkeeper, named Cartafi-
lOus, pushed him from behind with his
foot, saying:
Walk on, Jesus, quickly; why dOst
thou tarry 2"
Jesus looked at him gravely, and
said:
81 walk on, but thou shall tarry till
I come"
And this man, still alive, wanders
from place to place in constant dread of
the wrath to come. A third legend adds
that this wandering Jew falls sick every
hundred years, but RECEIVERS and renews
his strength; hence it is that, after so
many centuries, he does not look much
older than a septageparian. Thus much
for the legends. No one of the ancient
authors alludes to this wanderer. The
first who reports such thing is a monk
of the thirteenth century, when, as is
known, the world was full of pious
frauds, even to disgust. However, the
story has spread far and wide, 50 that it
has become q proverb. " He runs like a
wandering Jew"
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A Difference Of Opinion.

The cabinet meeting yesterday was
disturbed by very bitter quarrel be-
tween the secretary of war and
the secretary of the navy. This
quarrel, which is the first that has
marred the harmony OF the pleasant
cabinet meetings, grew out of dispute
between the two secretaries about line
of battle, the secretary insisting that it
was chalk mark drawn on the ground
by the generals, which the opposing
parties toed" when they began fight
ing, while the secretary of the navy said
it was a MANILA thawser that tied the
flagship to the despatch boat, to keep it
from running away during a battle
THaWkeye.
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SOUTHERN FARM AND HOME.


A writer in the Lancaster Farmer SAYS
" I have been improving my corn by
selecting the first ears that get ripe and
this is my seventh year since L began
this practice, always planting the largest
and best developed ears. For the last
seven years have rejected the tips and
butts Of the ears, and Smelling off all the
grains that are not well developed. To-
day l have as good, sound well-developed
ears as any man can raise, and filed to
the very tip. 80 much so that there ia no
room for another grain. I have also
made my corn much earlier by gathering
the first ears that get ripe. The reason
why l reject the tip grains is this, they
are not 80 we'll developed and will not
come up so strong and make SO rank a
growth"
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The shepherd dog naturally loves the
care of stock, especially of sheep, and
their natural instinct, heightened by
training, makes them among the most
intelligent and useful dogs that we now
have any knowledge Of Large focks of
sheep are often guarded, miles away, by
one or two of these dogs, and a single
dog, assisting a man, can drive the flock
easier than half a dosen men. From
this education il has no wish to leave
the flock, and Just as another dog will
defend its master, man, so will this the
sheep. On the approach of a stranger
the dog Immediately advances, barking,
and the sheep all cluster in his rear, as If
around the Oldest ram. Away from the
flock they seem timid with regard TO
other dogs, but when with their charge,
neither domesticated nor wild dogs dare
venture to attack them.
These dogs can be readily taught to
bring home the flock at certain hour in
the evening. TheiE most troublesome
fault, when young, is their desire to play
with the sheep, and in doing 50, they
sometimes gallop their charges unmerci-
fully.
In training the shepherd dog, COM
mence when not more than six months
olO. Inc DcSJ piaCo W Tram u pup - On
the read. Teach him first TO mind your
word. Nearly all directions to the
pup should be given by a motion of the
hand in the direction that you wish
him to go, and always accompany the
voice by motion of the hand. After
your pup has learned to mind the word
and is trained to march back and forth
from one side of the Rock to the ether at
the sweep Of your hand, commence to
teach him to pass up the side of the
flock. To do this, make a motion with
your hand up the side you wish him TO
go, throwing your arm out as you would
TO direct a man beyond the reach of
your voice, and call out "away upl" IN
til he gets hold of your meaning. To
teach him to go clear round flock and
SO turn them towards you, repeat the
motion OF sending him mp the side until
he gets partly round the head of the
flock and then call him down on the OPP
posite side. After he has once learned to
90 round the flock, sweep of the arm
back and when he has got to his place
keep an eve on him and sing out at
times, 'sDrive them upp To train hiEa
to bark whenever you wish, make a fuss
yourself and SO get him excited and then
sing out, "Speak to themi"
We are often surprised that there are
not more of these valuable dogs on all
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The need of reform in spelling ws

The need of reform in spelling wss
much more urgent formerly than now.
Benjamin Franklin, writing to his sister
on July 8. 1886, in answer to her COM
plant that she was unable to spell cor
rectly, sent her the following story: ga
gentleman received a letter in which
were these words: "Not finding Brown
at hom delivered your meseg to his VI"
The gentleman finding it bad spelling,
and therefore not very Ineligible, called
his lady to help him read it. Between
them they picked cut the meaning of
all but the vi, which they could not
understand, The lady proposed calling
her cham bermaid. because Betty, says
she, has the best knsck at reading bad
spelling of any one 1 know. Betty
came, and was surprised that neither
Sir nor Madam could tell what yf was.
Why says she, yf spells wife; what
else can it spell?' And, indeed, it is a
much better, as well as q shorter method
of spelling wife. than doubleycu, i, ef, e.,
which, in reality, spell doubleyouifeY."
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MY MOTHER.


Back through the lapse Of lonely years,
of light and shade, and bitter tears,
/ seem TO hear
Nv mothers voice, soft, sweet and low
Ny mothers voice, ali well know
It's cadence dear.
Oft sitting, when the night-bird wings
His homeward fight, and softly sings
A Plaintive song,
Then mem oTywaves her magic wand,
And SUNNI onsfrom the silent land
Dear ones long ago.
Again stand by mothers knee,
Again her sainted face see,
Az in dream.
Then asks my heart, with voice OF tears,
For her; Elasl tie sad, sad years
Lie dark between.
OH mother, from that sphere divine,
On wings Of light cleave realms Of time,
Come thou to me.
II for only little space,
That May look on thy dear face;
One moment see,
As once saw, thy tender eyes,
That know not tears in Paradise,
Grieved no more.
l watch for thee, OF mother, dear;
listen, and seem to hear
Thy songs hOat Ger
That lonely river, deep and wide,
Which darkly rolls its Stygian tide
From shore to shore,
Silent and deep through lonely years,
Swolien with bitter farewell tears
Forever more.
Trusting, III wait while life lasts here,
Till in that grand, immortal sphere,
Where sorroWs cease,
We meet, and on thy loving breast
My weary head shall be at rest
In perfect peace.
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potatoes and It's of boiled are equal to
100 parts of hay. An acre of good pots-
toes yield 600 pounds of gluten, albu-
men and casein, producing muscle; 8, $50
pounds of starch, gum, sugar and fat,
with q, $50 pounds of water 100 pounds
contain II of starch, gum and sugar, 81
of gluten, albumen and casein and
pound of oil.
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CRAMPS and pains in the stomach OF
bowels, or in any part of the body, no mat
ter how severe or what the cause, can be
relieved by Johnson's Anodyne Liniment
used internally and externally.
More than twenty years ago we bad chills
and fever, and the recollection of it max
us shake, even now. But this disease no
longer terrifes us. Parsons PurgatiVe Pills
aYe q snre nreYentiYe.
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. WLHoFT's Tonic "A SAFE, SURE
AND SCIENTIFIC CURE THE unprecedented
sale OF this wOrld-renowned medicine proves
incontestibly that no remedy has superseded
the use of this reliable Tonic. No spleen
has been found so hard as not to yield to its
sOttening influence, and no liver SO hyper
trophied as not to give up its long retained
bilious secretiOns, and no Chill or Fever has
yet refused to fall into line. Wheelock,
t1nlay & Co, Projectors, New Orleans.
For sale BY all Drupgists.
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The Greatest Discovery OF the age
is Dr.. Tobias' celebrated Venetian Laniment
30 years before the public, and warranted to cure
Diarrhes, Dysentery, Collie, and SpssmB, taken In
ternally, and Group, Chronic Rheumatism, Bore
failed. family win ever be without It alter 0Doe
giving IT q fair trial. PTice, 90 cts DE-. TOBIAS
VENETIAN HORSE LINLMEET, In Pint Bottles,
at One Dollar is warranted superior to any otheE
NO PAY, for the cure Of Colo, Cuts. Bruises, Old
Sores, etc. Sold by all DrugZiBts.. DePot-19 Park
Place, New York.
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More Barns.
A good barn is the next most impor-
tant improvement on q farm. A man
never began to live right, nor to accu-
mulate means until he has barn ample
enough to protect his STOCK, hay, grain,
implements, etc. Instead of building a
barn himself, of later days it is getting
to be fashionable to FIRST mortgage the
fssm for 1000 or$ 1000, then build a
barn by hiring everything done. When
the barn is built, it is neglected to be in
sured-burned up the mortgage sweeps
the farm, and the man moves to town to
become drayman, an insurance agent or
salOonkeeper.
More barns are the great want; but we
fear to urge our farmers to action, al
most certain they will hire it done in
stead of doing it themselves, To build
barn forty by sixty feet, with a good
nine-feet basement, it only needs 8 few
days of good mechanic to lay out the
work. The owner, his sons, or regular
workOn the farm, do all the balance. The
times and the circumstances demand
that the farmers should do most of the
work on their own farm buildings, their
sleds, harrows, yokes and smaller wooden
implements. The mortgages on our
recorders from all parts of this state that
mortgages, both real and chattel, being
recorded, are nearly double that of any
former period of our history. We must
go 10 work. Quit hiring SO much, but
push forward the needed work by the
help on the farm. From November to
April, go to almost any farmers house,
and you will be informed that the man
of the farm has gone to town. This is SO
much so. that Eheriffs, constables, asses
sors, or any other business man, instead
of going to the farmer at his house, now
goes to town, and waits for him on the
street corners. This practice must
cease, or many farmers will cease to
be owners of the soil. There must
be more staying at home, and closer
attention to business. There has been
an unwholesome departure from
the practice of the past. Too much
hiring for the amount of crops raised.
Too much expended in travel, visiting,
carriages, musical instruments, and ex-
pensive clothing. Too many agricultu-
raj implements purchased and left to rot
on the prairies.
These things, with no barns to protect
the stock, the hay, the implements, OF
the grain, and it is no wonder many OF
| our farmers are on the down grade.
Commence at once to build a good barn
but contract no additional debts in its
erection. The production and harvest
ing the crops only take half the year.
Let the other half be closely devoted to
improving the farm. Build barn, and
if you do not know how, take time and
learn the use of tools in that enter prise.
Many farmers do not know anything for
the reason they never try to- Iowa
| State Register.
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AMERICAN ORGANS AT THE PARIS

AMERICAN ORGANS AT THE PARIS
ExHIBTTIoE.-Every American visiting
our Section will conceive a legitimate
pride ct the well-merited praise which
he will hear from the great European
musical critics who constantly swarm
around Messrs. Mason & Hamlin's Cab
met Organs, and openly acknowledge
that nothing in Europe can be compared
with the Exhaust Bellows and Separate
Vibrators peculiar to American Organs,
IS especially perfected in the Mason &
Hamlin instruments.--Pdris Franco
Register, June 1, 1873.
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A sHREwD old lady said of her minis
ter. He never told lie in the pulpit. -
This is different from the experience of
the little daughter of a well known
Brooklyn dominic. He was once telling
hearers expressed their doubts. "The
little girl said: "NOw, Pop, say, is that
really true, or is it only just preaching.
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For upwards of thirty years Mrs. W1nslow' s
Soothing Syrup has been used for children
with never. falling success It c0rrects ae1dlty
of the stomach, relieves wind collie, regulates
the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhoea,
whether arising from teething or other causes.
An old and weII.tried remedy 25c. bottle.
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Gentlemen Farmers

A correspondent of the New York
Farmers club makes this spirited and
truthful defense of his order. He says
"The ambition to be a gentleman
with no knowledge of the true meaning
of the term, is taking from the farm
those who should make our best farmers,
and it is leading thousands of our young
men to their ruin in our towns and
cities. l am poor man, farmer, and
l hope a gentleman. Fifteen years of
my life was passed in the classic atmos-
phere' of printing Office, and before the
war published a paper. 1 have lived
much in towns and cities and know
something of culture and refinement.
maintain there is no better place in the
world for gentleman than on a farm.
All the appliances of culture a gentle-
man need desire are within his reach.
There is no such thing as being forced
into associations and icompanionships
outside of one of ones own home, and
there is no labor connected with farm
which can at all degrade or demoralize a
man of culture and refinement, provided
he owns the land. To all would say
Adopt farming, if your taste or inclina-
tions lead this way. 1t always was the
most respectable of vocations,' and the
only limit to the development of it and
its kindred pursuits, in utility, is the
limit of human intelligence"
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rwIr blight On Apple Trees.

1 have always been slow to believe in
that term blight. 1t seems too much
like "lucky or unlucky," too much like
chance. Have not many of our readers
noticed for years, about this time of year,
their orchard trees all blackened by dead
twigs and leaves over their tops, side,
branches, ETC., known as the twig blight
/ have read, inquired, and examined for
the cause, getting no better or more
satisfactory answer than blight" This
spring, however, found the worm in the
buds at work. Before, I always looked
too late; he had gone, and his only trace
looked like a natural pithiness of the
twig. He must be looked for in twigs
barely turning yellow, for, before the sap
dries, he is gone to the earth, suppose.
Only the present years growth is ever
affected, because the eggs are deposited
(when the trees are dormant) in the buds,
both terminal and lateral, and the Larvae
is at work when the twigs have grown on
terminals Ak to eight inches in the base
of the twig or old bud, where he cuts
off the sap supply, and the twig blights.
Whether the eggs are deposited in the
fall or early spring 1 can't say or who
does it have not seen. Would like to
know how to stop this work.
If any one notices any pear blight this
year, please report it. l don't believe
there will be any this year, Prairie
Farmer.
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our western farms.-~[Quincy Western
Agriculturist.
Yhen shnII en-. IL en-

The Detroit Free Press says on this
point: First we answer, while it is
grass, and not after it is hay, Let sc cut
and cure" be the watchword and not
'cure and cut" We have not at hand
any chemical analysis showing the COM
parative quality of grass cut at various
dates in its ripening, but this fact is in
disputable, that all kinds of stock relish
hay that is cut before the stalks are
woody better than that which is cured
before it is moved, and there is little
doubt but there is all the nutriment in
the stalk that will get there if cut Just
as the seed begins to form and after the
pollen has dropped from the blossoms
With clover hay this is very important.
In the management of timothy there is
some testimony in opposition to cutting
very early. Levi Bartlett, an agricul-
tural writer of long reputation, said
many years ago that timothy, having a
bulbous root, must not be moved off
until there is good store of nutriment in
the bulb to secure a vigorous after
growth, but when he states the time of
cutting he puts it as "when the seed is
IN the milk state and just before the
bloom is she'd"
On the other hand a writer in the
Practical Farmer says:
There may be advantages in cutting
timothy before the seed Iipsns, but to
my mind the disadvantages oVerbalance
them. Stock may like the greener hay
better, but l have never seen it demon~
strated that it is better for them. I
have before me an analysis of this grass
by good authority, which shows that
there is nearly double the amount of
real nutriment in timethy when cut
ripe than there is when cut green. l
can put my hay in the barn the same
day it is cut, and have no fears of musty,
burnt hay. Then a large quantity of
seed falls to the ground in harvesting
and keeps the meadow renewed every
year. | am positive that this alone will
pay for leaving the crop until portion
of the seed ripens. Another argument
in favor of ripened grass is that it suffers
less injury by being cut. If timothy is
cut green about July l, serious damage
to the roots follows from the hot sun of
summer. l do not believe in moving
too closely. Very little nutriment can
be obtained from an inch of the butts
that might be left, and which would
furnish the necessary shade for the
ground and protection to the young
plants. Moving too early and too close
has ruined many meadow.
Over against this we wish to place the
fact that religh goes a great way with
man or beast aud food goes farther when
1t is in the right state TO please the
palate. If we can strike the medium
and cut according to Mr.. Barlett's plan,
we save the plants and make good hay.
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ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN, and it is
best to be always prepared for them. suf>
ferers from Cuts, Burns, Scalds, Wounds,
Bruises and Sprains, viii find Immediate
relief in the use of GRACE's SALvE, which
also cures Old Sores, Felons, Corns, Ulcers, &c.
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Perfection In Cocker.

ticles designed for kitchen use is that of
Dooley's Yeast Powder. With very little
experience the housewife or cook is always
sure of delicious biscuits, rolls, bread, cake,
etc. every time.
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would friends
of
of the
The DAILY Columns; price
post paid, So cents month, or $3.50 year. =
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WE want to know if our invitation to
the peace congress entities Us to more
than five hundred pounds of baggage.
We never like TO start out on a long
efurney without taking an extra pair of
shoes along st. Louis Journal.