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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
Going Back to Farms.

Just alter the war, when inflated
prices painted pictures of fortunes in all
kinds OF city and town vocations-when
banking, insurance and the agency BUSH
ness were supposed to yield wealth almost
without limit, and when it was believed
that fortunes could be made by merely
organizing some kind of stock company
and putting the shares on the market.
there was general focking of Young
men from farms to cities and towns. 10
get rich without labor. But that delu-
sion has ended in bitterness and disap-
pointment to thousands all over the
land, and proved that the game OF living
by the wits is one that very few can
thrive at. We are beginning to realize
that farming possesses one pre-eminent
merritt will yield living, if nothing
more, and that is more than can be said
OF many city pursuits. 1t is generally
esteemed a plodding, unromantic busi~
ness but this 8 Offset by its exemp ion
from the harassments and tragic features
that too often mark the painful and
exhausting struggle for the maintenance
OF credit and social position in city lie
1t squiTes but small capital to 90 to
farming This offers a simple solution
to the livelihood problem to all who are
willing TO work. and it ID gratifying 20
find inst the tact is beginning to be real
lied by many weary OF roionged idlepess
in Cities ST. Louis Republican.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
The nappy MOment in a Bor.s Lie

There Is a time in the life OF every
boy when his spirits are buoyed on
waves of unadulterated felicity, and
that time is on a fine braciDg morning
when the circus comes to town and is
giving its pageant.
In the country the boy who is COM
PEELED to go to school ont.sis eventful day
feels what he considers a punishment
more keeniy than does a forger his We
merited five years in Sing Sing. As he
sits and cons his hateful lessons he feels
as mean as does the man who buys q
dollar and a hall new silk scarf by ga
light and discovers on the following
morning that it is grassgreen.
His melancholy is not soothed by the
soul-melting strains of 'Lanigan's BalI'
or "Grandfather's Clock" The happy
boy is the one who can follow the high
" cOlored wagons from street to street
and marvel st their c.ntents.
It is one of the happiest moments of
his life. He drives his hands into his
pockets, pushes his cap on his head, and
marches aloLg as proudly as though be
were Alexander wadiBg up TO his neck in
human gore. His thoughts Will never
be known, but they are pretty respect
able in regard to fight and general sym
metry.
Then he goes to learn the occult mys-
terry which surrounds the creation of a
tent. His spirits are now the acme OF
human bliss. That afternoon he goes to
the circus, and the junk man gets three
stove-lids and a copper bott0med pre-
serve kettle for twenty-five GEMS.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
what's One Bullet to a BasketfuIl

An incident occurred in the battle of
franklin which ! have never seen in
print. The sanguinary battle was at its
height, and now and then a soldier who
would not face the music, and, holding
to the idea that distance lends en-.
chantment," on all such occasions would
exhibit his faith in the idea by taking
" leg bail y for the rear. These cases
were getting too numerous toward the
close of the battle, and Gel. B, A.
A. G.. of the brigade, was sent back to
the rear to intercept those seeking for
safety and return them TO their respect
i've posts Of duty.
Col. B. said he halted one fellow
who was making tracks for some place
of safety with all the energy Of despair.
Halt ! say, and return to your
command u
The flying son of Mars took no notice
of the command.
Haiti say, and go back to. your
post y
The soldier paid 40 attention to him.
The colonel now became exasperated,
and yelled out:
" If you don't turn and 90 back TO
your command, viii shoot you, air."
% Shoot and be hanged What's ore
bullet to a basketful
Col. B. let him 90, and after the
battle told the incident as a good joke.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13

VIII be filthy. In this case the feet will
become disordeTed, and then the legs
will get badly out of fix and with bad
feei and legs there is not much else of
the horse 1T for anything.
Within the last ten years Colorado
has increased her flock OF sheep from 90
coo head TO over 9, coo, 600 head. This
Notwithstanding the effort to prevent the
introduction Of sheepby the cattle inter-
est. As with cattle, the means used are
very simple. The sheep are herded in
hocks OF 1000 to 2, 800 on the range by
day, and corraled at night. Mexican
sheep are worked in still greater hoeks,
even up to 5000. The best fiockmasters,
however, consider gangs of sheep over
LOO to 1000 head as not working sat
isiaetorily.
A New jersey paper says that nine
" years ago it was regarded as 8 settled
point that corn in drills gave a larger
product than IN hills, but that now, after
much discussion, it remains unsettled
The remark would not be made by any
one who had informed himself on The
subject. We have thoroughly tested
this question by measuring the results
and find almost uniformly an increase of
20 to 80 per cent. with drill corn over
hills, provided the proper distance given
for the plants. It would be easy to OBJ
tain diminished amount from the drills
if too tbinly planted or ears of-an infe-
rior quality, it too thick. John John
stOn informs US that after long experi-
ence he arrives at results precisely sim
liar to those we have mentioned.-TC oun-
try Gentleman.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
The Amazon ana Its Tribntarles


Extensive, important and profitable as
onr rivers are in respect to commerce and
development of the country, they are
wholly unequal to the rivers of South
America. The Amazon alone furnishes
host of watery resources. and is fitIv
named the Mediterranean of that CONT
nent. Together with its tributaries, it
is navigabie by steamers, according to
official reports, for IS S58 miles its av-
erage breadth in Brazil is four and one
fourth miles; it rises, when high, fifty
four feet above its ordinary level, and It's
volume Is 20 vast that sailors at sea
drink j g water and find it fresh out of
sight of land, its current being visible
five hundred miles from shore. The
volume OF the principal rivers of our
sister continent is, in proportion TO the
area drained, far greater than the volume
or rivers here, on account of increased
rainfall. The annual rainfall on our
Atlantic coast averages from forty to
forty-five inches on the coast OF Brazil,
Z 9.nches. The main channel OF The
Amazon is, for the first thousand miles
rom the ocean, nowhere less t an thiTt,
athoms Beyond the Peruvian frontier
it continues 70 be q big river more than
a thousand miles into the heart OF the
Andes, the head OF steam navi, alton
being at MayrO Peru, 1923 miles from
the Atlantic and 325 miles from lima by
the pubic roads go that it is only 331
miles rom CallaO-th port of Lima-on
the Pacific, to the head OF steam naviga-
ton on the Amazon. Peruvian railways
will soon bring steamers on the AmszOn
within one days travel of the Pacific,
and Peruvian enterprise viii speedily i'm
prove Andean communication, and open
the interior of South America to civil.
cation and commerce.
The tributaries OF the Amazon are
longer than the largest rivers in Europe.
The Madeira is navigable by steamer to
its falls, on the Bolivian frontier, over
900 miles, and above the falls its tribu-
taries furnish 4, 800 miles Of continuous
steam navigation, thus rendering COM
mercially accessible to the whole of
Bolivia and the wrstern part of the Brazil
ian province, Malto Crosse. Brazil has
lately granted a subsidy to a foreign
company to build a railway around the
falls of Madeira. The large rivers, Napo,
Maroni and Putumayo, are navigable
from the Amazon, through Ecuador and
Colombia, for almost 1000 miles beyond
the frontier of Brazil to the Andes, with
in 400 miles of Quito and Guysquil, and
so open Communication with all the
region of Ecuador east of the Cordilleras.
The Rio Negro, entering the Amazon at
Manaos, some 1, 100 miles from the At
lantic, rises near Bogota, Colembia's
capital, passes through southern Vene-
zuela very close to the Orinoco, and is a
channel of trade between Venezuela and
Brazil, while the 0iinoco is navigable
for sail and steam vessels from the ocean
to the Andes in Colombia. Thus the
Amazon and its tributaries are CONNER
cial highways for Venezuela, Colombia,
Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, and
are navigable for steamers greater dis
lance than is included in the worlds cir
cumference.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
A Marvellous Boy.
Spectator.

In the autumn of the year 1914 I was
reading with private tutor, the Curate
of Wellington, Somersetshire, when q
Mr.. Bidder called upon him to exhibit
the calculating power of his little boy,
then about eight years old, who could
neither read nor write. On this occasion
he displayed great facility in the mental
handling of numbers, multiplying read
lily and correctly two figures by two, but
failing in attempting numbers of three
figures My tutor, Cambridge man,
fellow of his college, strongly recon-
mended the father not to carry his son
about the country, but to have him
properly trained at school. This advice
was not taKen, for about two years after
he was brought by his father to Cam.
bridge, and his faculty for mental caIcu-
lations tested by several able mathema-
teal men. I was present at the exami-
nations, and began it with a sum In Sim
pie addition, two rows, with twelve fig.
ures in each row. The boy gave the
correct answer Immediately. Various
questions, then, Of considerable difficulty,
Involving large numbers, were proposed
to him, al of which ne answered prompt
" and accurately. These must have &C.
cupied more than an hour. There was
then q pause. To test his memory I then
said to him; Do you remember the
sum in addition / gave you ?" To my
great surprise he repeated the twenty
four figures with only one or two mis-
takes. 1t is evident, therefore, that in
the course of two years his powers of
memory and calculation must have been
gradually developed, He could not ex-
plain the process by which he worked
out long and intricate sums. He did
not appear at all overWorked. as soon
as q question was answered ne amused
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
The Story Of 2 Cow Bell.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette sends the following story of a
law case from Floyd county, Indiana :
(" Mayfeld and FeatheriDgiIl we're we'll
tO-do farmers. One of Mayfeld's COWS
dropped a bell from her neck in the
woods. The bell was well worn and was
supposed to be worth twenty-five cents
when lost. One of FeatheringiIFs bows.
in going through the woods one day,
found cow bell. Mayield claimed that
it was his bell, and demanded it, but
Featheringill refused to give it up
Mayfeld then Teplevined it, and this
commenced a lawsuit that absorbed the
farms and personal estates of the con-
testants. Not being able TO pay lawyers
fees any longer, the lawyers refused to
serve In the case, and the Iitigants were
compelled TO compromise, which they
did by each agreeing to pay his own
costs, which amounted to over 81 800 a
side, or an aggregate of over IS, 900.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
AeRsCrErUR,L NOTES

Feed turnips to mich COWS just ate
milking The milk viii not then be
turn p-havered.
Fill up all depressions in the surface
soil around buildings, SO that there may
be no standing water, no matter how
much rain may fall.
Cooked meat chopped Up and mixed
with other feed is not only relished hv
fowls, but gives back the strength lost
during the moulting process.
Gentle treatment and rapid and close
milking viii tend to the greatest devel-
opment OF the milk in cows, while The
contrary practices viii have the 2 ae ct OF
materially reducing the quantity. Above
Slr, do not expect full returns without
furnishing an abundance of the best
feed.
Amy dairyman troubled with COWS
having sore teats should use plenty OF
Hnsesd oil before and after milking. He
will find but few, If any, sores about his
cows teats if this be done Many COWS
that are kickers would delight to be
MIXED If little linseed oil was used on
the teats. f'
No animal should be killed for food
Immediately after violent exercise. I'm
der such conditions the meat win keep
but 8 very short time, and sometimes
it is impossible to keep it sweet with sill
the salt that can be used. Hogs, es.
pecially, should be butcheied early in
the morning after quiet rest during
the night.
Ten years ago the United States and
Russia stood about even in supplying
the demands of Great Britain for wheat,
-four and corn, this country sending
10 $4,000 cwt., and Russia 10,7I9,000
cwt. Since that date, however, we have
steadily led, until last year Great Britain
took 4S 10000 cwt. from America, and
1I,169,00 cWt. from Russia.
A farmer of experience says that the
feet of a horse require more care than
the body. They need ten times IS
much, for in one respect they are almost
the entire horse. An the grooming that
can be done won't avail anything II the
horse is forced TO stand where his feet
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
Did Barnum Ever Try This
London Trutl

One of the most extraordinary dis
closures in the trial of the Glasgow bank
directors was the fact that in one instance
eighty Thousand pounds sterling had
been advanced to bosom friend of theirs
on the value of four live elephants. 1
do not wish to add supplementary zest
to the penalties inflicted on the seven
unfortunate men, but it is certainly to
be regretted that the four (henceforth
legendary elephants should not have
been endowed with the intelligence Just
ascribed by the Indian papers to a GER
tain member of their species. The
brute had been left by his master to the
care if servant, with proper supply
of corn for its food. No sooner, how
ever, had the master taken his departure
than the servant began reducing the ra-
tions of the poor beast by one half, and
selling the other half for his O III benefit
After one months absence the master
came back his first care WIS to witness
his pets breakfast. OF course this time
the rations was entire; but, lol to the
servants confusion, the elephant had di-
vided it in two parts, eating one, whilst
it left the other Untouched, and thus de-
nounced the theft.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13

in the sheer and tsunt, or bitter sarcas m
and irony, Is q great loser. 1t is a bad
thing and 8 bad sign to be disIiked, ex-
cept by the wicked, or when it is owing
to the brave utterance of unwelcome
truth. And then the mems sibi conscio
recti, the self consciousness Of right, wiz
be sufficient consolation.
A peaceful conscience and approving
Heaven"
But, alas how many there are, and
these not called bad men, either, who,
deficient in natural civility, Will not
take the pains to be lik d, who will not
be kind and civil enough to be loved. Il
is not in them by nature, and they dc
not try to iDgraft 1t there, and so they
go through life without being loved, and
without receiving or comforting faVors
except upon their own circle Of family
friends
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
Y eseaEehes iE.lo &c Te.t 81 serip1ure.


AS it is of great importance to have
the exact meaning of the divine revela
ton to man, it is not strange that the
lives of many learned men are mainly
| devoted to the elucidation of the true
text of the original scriptures and its
exact equivalent in English.
Whilst our authorized version is. upOn
the whole, remarkably accurate and
beautiful, the learned men who made
and compiled it had not the same advan-
tages for q full and minute comprehen-
| sion of the original that is enjoyed now,
by comparison of a number of manut
scripts of greater antiquity than any to
which they had access; and as the two
earliest of these omit some small passages,
chiefly paTenthetical, which are found in
later manuscripts, it is supposed that
such passages were explana
which through the course of ages became
incorporated with the text by transcri-
bers.
In Dean Alvord's very reconcile and
reliable translation of the new testament
these are carefully pointed out, and in
| some cases they give q slight shade OF
difference to the meaning. The follow
ing are passages in Matthew's gospel:
In Chap. v:22, the words :" without a
cause" are lett out of number of the
ola versions, and the translation of the
word nsoreb (rebel) by the word fool is
considered doubtful. The Lords Prsye
, in the sixth chapter lacks the concluding
sscription of praise in all the most ans
Gent manuscripts. In Matt. Av:8, the
words draweth nigh unto Me with
their mouth and are not found in the
oldest manuscripts. The twenty-first
verse of the. seventeenth chapter, which
reads, " Howbeit this kind gOeth not out,
but by prayer and fasting" are omitted
in some old MSS, whilst others which
retain the verse leave out fasting. y
The eleventh verse of the eighteenth
chapter is not found in the most ancient
manuscripts, and it seems to have no
connection with the context. None o.
these omissions or additions affect the
sense of the Scripture, but there is one in
Chap. xviii Is which does so to some
extent. The words against thee' are
not found in the two oldest manuscripts
and. if they are lett out, the duty of a
Christian brother is greatly extended
In tie twentieth chapter OF thi Gospel.
and sixteenth verse, the words, Cor
many may be called, but few are chosen, -
which appear to have no connection with
the context, are not found in the most
ancient manuscripts Verse fourteen OF
the twenty third chapter of Matthew is
not contained in any of the most ancient
manuscripts. It was probably inserted
from Mark xii: 40, and Luke Xxx AT.
The word thew" in Matt XVI: % is
not contained in several of the ancient
manuscripts. All of the thirty-f,th
verse of Matt. xvii is omitted in the
most ancient manuscripts, except tie
first clause. What follows 'lots'' was
probably inserted from John xix: "a
These, it will be seen, are very small al.
terations in the Gospel, and only one or
two in the slightest degsee alter the teach
ing of the authorized version.-[N. Y.
Witness
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
The Advantage. of Kindness.

The great benefit that flows from the
exercise Of kindness and good humor Is
an increase Of happiness to one that is
kind and good>humored, and to the
persons toward whom kindness and good
nature are shown, and to society st
large. If happiness be in proportion to
the number of beings we love, and to
the number OF beings that love us, then
certainly the kindest and best natured
man is likely to be the happiest Tor he
It is, other things being equal, that is
the most loving and the most beloved.
And surely it is worth while to be pet,
ting happiness in so easy a way as that
1t pays trying to make people love us.
when it only costs what makes us go
much better, that is, the being
and kind.
A man that lacks kindness of feeling
and natural civility,o or that seldom speaks
of the virtues Of those about him, to
commend. but almost always of their
faults, to blame, and who INDUCES freely
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
Effects of the Penitentiary for Life
plan
Frankfort Yeoman.


There are now in the penitentiary in
the neighborhood of fifty men who are
sentenced for life. This is about one
hundred per cent. more than were ever
before in the prison at one time. It
grows out of the law which gave to the
courts the right to determine whether
a murderer should suffer death or i'm
prisonment for life. 1t is discretionary
with a jury which punishment it will
inhict after the accused is found guilty,
and the result is, IN nine cases out of ten,
that the death penalty is not enforced.
At the present rate, in the course of ten
years, there will be men enough who are
convicted for life to completely Gil the
penitentiary as it now stands. In one
view this will be calamity to the state,
but in another view it ought to be con-
sidered q blessing. Before the late re-
vision of the statutes the death penalty
only could be enforced in capital cases,
and the verdict of "guilty" was neces-
sarily followed by the gibbtt; but, I'M
fortunately, it was a rare thing that this
verdict was reached, on account of the
indisposition of juTies to infict the
penalty, aud the criminal was discharged
and allowed to go at large and commit
Uther crimes The Te7isor undertook to
cure this by giving the discretionary
power to the jury, and the number of
convictions for life since its enactment is
q good evidence of the wisdom of the
law. There will, however, be a problem
to solve before many years, and that is
what will Kentucky do with her life
pris0ners2 Either the prison system
will have to undergo q change, or we
must zee the advent of some governors
who are inclined to be very merciiul.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13

himself with whipping a top round the
room, snd when the examination was
over he said to US: 4" You have been
trying to puzzle me viii try to puzzle
you. A man found thirteen cats In the
garden. He got out his gun, fred at
them and killed seven. How many
were left p Six" was the answer.
" Wrong" he said, "none were left; the
rest ran away" / mention this to show
that he was cheerful and playful boy
when he was about ten years old, and
that his brain was not overtaxed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-03-13
Snakes and the GeranIum.

In South Africa, we are told, the geral
ium has the reputation of being guard
against snakes, which it is said, avoid
the plant as thou gh it was poisonous.
We are reminded that, though the few
ers of tie gersnium are scentless, the
leaves contain q Quantity Of volatile oil,
with more or less punsent odOrs and it
is stated that no snake viii come near a
bed of these hoWC j A missionary IN
South Africa has surrounded his Eouse
with q Gordon of geTaniums, with the
result that is never visited by these IN.
welcome intruders. The discovery of
this property in the gersnium is attribu4
to the Ksfirs.