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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
SelfMade Men.


From the Philadelphia Ledger.
| Self-made men, in the common ac-
ceptation of the term, are those who,
with but few outward opportunities,
have by their own unaided energies
risen to acknowledged greatness. There
is some danger, however, lest in be-
slowing this appellation exclusively
upon such persons we convey the i'm
preston that those who possess the ad-
vantages Of instruction, training and
! assistance, cannot be self-made. 1t is
a truth which Is sometimes overlooked
that whatever there Is valuable or ex-
cellent about man, comes primarily
from his own capacity, energy and in
dustry. The most abundant advan-
tage and the NEST generous education
can never supply the lack of brains, or
Implant innate power, or compel un-
firing perseverance. If they could,
there might be some justice in regard
ing the academy or university as the
rival of self-education, and in distin-
gushing rigidly between the self-made
man and the cOllege-made man. As
it is, every one whose life amounts to
anything at all is self-made in the true
sense, whether he be favored with out
ward helps or not. He must not only
supply the foundation of capacity to
learn, but must also furnish q cOutin-
ual relay of power in the form of assid-
uous and patient labor. If he fail in
this, no system of instruction, however
admirable, no corps Of teachers, how
ever able, no amount of wealth, how
ever judiciously expended, can ever
avail to give him significance as a
scholar. He must be self made, if
made at all, though he be surrounded
from infancy with every appliance
that money, affection or wisdom can
suggest.
The same thing holds good of excel
lence in all other pursuits. If a man
is to become superior mechanic, OF
merchant, or physician or artist, he
must be self made whatever be his ad-
vantages OF training or instruction. The
force to overcome obstacles and the
courage to face difficulty, the ability
to form wise plans and the energy to
execute them, the patience to wait for
success, and the industry to secure it,
must all come from within. Without
these, it is of no avail that the boy be
placed i'll the best mercantile house,
that the apprentice be trained by the
most skillful artisan, that the medical
student be prepared by the most learn
ed professors. 1t will all end in disap-
pointment and failure, if he put not
his own shoulder to the wheel, with a
vital power that no outside influences
can supply.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
FGmpnrancG.
The Cost and Power Of the Liquor
Traffic.

The Cincinnati Gazette states that
it has from carefully prepared data
calculations to show that there are six
miles of drinking houses wiTldn three
miles Of the courthouse, of that city,
allowing only ten feet to each saloon ;
that 81 ,6S7, 900 arc annually paid fer
malt liquors and 100000 for the
other kinds; or s30.12 per capita efF
timating the population at 5O0,O0U
The estimate for Nashville on this
basis for 10000 people, CT one-tenth of
that of Cincinnati, would he sI,OO0,-
600.
The Gazette goes on 10 state thSt
the money paid for liquors drank ~
the city Is double the entire sum paiti
in taxes to the State, county and city ;
that Z per cent. on the expenditure
for drink would support the public
schools; that 3 per cent. Is more than
sufficient to support all the churches
in the county of Hamilton. 1t Is
sufficient to buy bread for three mil
lions of people. IteXceeds the eXpend-
itures for bread, groceries and meat ::
1t robs women and children of bread
and the amount of drink represents the
amount of pauperism and crime of the
entire country.
it states further that as political
power it can and does rule the city
that it knows if it ever
permits the city government to slip
from its hands it is liable to suffer, that
the retail trade Of these millions is
headed by the manufacturing interest
and capital. And as a consequence
there is hardly 4 ward in the city in
which a saloon-keeper who sells liquor
contrary 10 law and who pays taxes,
cannot defeat the largest tax payer for
any municipal office.
Verify, as Jefferson said; this is a
great sore ON the body polite. Yet
the enlightened people of Ohio will
rise when matters come to the worst,
and purge that city of its foul and pu-
trid elements and put it on sound
basis.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
Lightning Trains of the Future.

The gap between New York and
Philadelphia is the stretch over which
American railroad engineers puzzle
their wits to increase the speed of
trains, Just as the run between Liver
pool and London, in England has been
the one to which English railroad en-
gineers have given their attention
since the days of Brunei. At the
present the ''Flying Dutcl m IN" the
express from London to Liverpool, is
a faster train than any on the stretch
of railroad from New York to Phila-
delphia. In a recent paper read in
Philadelphia, Barnet LIE Van, rail
road engineer, predicts that in five
years the two American cities Will be
but ninety minutes apart, a speed
which will require more than a mile a
minute. The full time now required
is two hours, and the extra thirty
minutes is to be saved by the Hudson
River tunnel, alterations in the rail
road, Strengthening and sinking its
track where it goes through cities, and
the construction of heavier locomO-
tiVeS.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
The Feminine Mouth.

a person who has made tho femi-
nine mouth the subject of much study
volunteers his conclusions to males
with sweethearts. They are as follows ::
If her mouth is very small there is not
much mind but overmuch shallow SEN
timent. If she possesses a very large
mouth, she will possess a good brain,
but the trouble is kissing it. Large
mouths put q man to an artistic test !;
he Will be driven to his wits end
whether to begin at one corner and
conclude on the other, or to make Il
heroic dash at the middle and endeav-
or to reach both corners. But if you
are Il kissing artist it can be covered
Licely enough. If your sweetheart
has a coarsely-formed mouth she will
be sensual and full of strong points of
character, and will raise Il row in the
iamily. If she has 4 delicately formed
mouth, with rounded lips and of a vel
vety color, she will have much sensi-
bility and perfection of character, but
not astonish you by her brilliancY of
conception or execution. 1t is good
MOUTH because it is kissable and sub
missive.- Sh: Il bluelipped or thin
tipped women they will bore you to
deathwith lite azure OF w mans righ. ;,
theorize while you want voJr dinner,
II spoil your temper wit Z -olr red-hot,
1CC!Gilg TONGUES.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
THE TWO MYSTERIES.

We know not what it is, dear, this sleep SO
deep and still,
The folded hands, the awful calm, the cheek
so pale and chill;
The lids that cannot lift again, though we
may call and call,
The strange white solitude of peace that
settles over all.
We know not what il means, dear, this desc
lateheart pain,
The dread to take our daily way; and walk
in it again.
We know not to what sphere the loved who
leave us go,
Nor why we are left to wander still, nor why
We do not know;
But this we know: Our loved and lost, if
they should come this day
Should come and ask us, "What is life ?" not
one of us could say,
Life is a mystery, as deep as ever death can
be;
Yet, o how sweet it is to us-this life We
live and see!
Then might they say-these vanished ones
blessed is the thought,
$50 death is sweet to us, beloved, though We
may tell you naught;
We may not tell it to the qaick, this mys-
terry of death"
The child who enters life comes not with
knowledge or intent
So those who enter death must go as little
children sent.
Nothing is known. But believe that God
is overhead.
And as life is to the living, SO death is to
the dead. Ata'y Mapes Dodge
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
SlOuchy Wives.
Prof. Payne.

Prof. Payne.
AS to slouchy wivas, l have no chari-
tv for them. l would ignore their exist
ence if could. Many wonder at the
great reluctance on the part of the
young men of to-day marrying; but
when l see the frowsy heads, the un-
tidy, unbecoming dresses of the wives
of the young men who are married, l
cease to wnodcr. 1t is little singu-
lar that women think it necessary be-
fore marriage to FIX up" and look al
ways at their best to win and keep the
loves of their sweet hearts, but think
it altogether unnecessary after marri-
age. Were women as particular to
keep themselves looking becoming and
to be always in the best Of hunor
when rs sweethcaris, We would
have fewer slighted and misused wives
in our land. And a tidy, painstaking
wife will make n husband less careless
and sIouchY. A man with a slouchy
wife, he he naturally ever so '-starch, "
never cares much for his own appear
ance.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
Keep Ahead.

One of the grand secrets OF. success
in life is TO keep ahead in all ways pos
sible. If you once fall behind, it may
be very difficult to make up the head
way which Is lost. One who begins
with putting by his earnings, however
small, and keeps it up for u number Of
years, is likely to become rich before
he dies. One who inhcrits property,
and goes on year by year spending Il
little more than his income, will be
come poor if he lives long enough.
Living beyond their means has brought
mulitudes of persons to ruin in our
generation. 1t is the cause of nine
tenths of all the defalcations which
have disgraced the age. Bankers and
business men in general do not often
help themselves to other peoples mon
ey- until their own fund begins to fall
of, ,and their expenditures exceed their
receipts. a man who is in debt
walks in the midst of perils. 1t can
not but impair a mans sclf-respect to
knew that he is living Mt the expense
of others. 1t is also very desirable
that We should keep somewhat ahead
in our work. This may not be posi-
bic in all cases as, for instance, when
mans work is assigned to certain
ized hours, like that of the operative
mill. But there are certain classes Of
people who can choose their time for
the work which they are called to do,
and amongst them there some who in
VHria hlv mt off the tasIZ ASST rnpd them
as long as possible, and then come to
its performance hurried, perplexed,
anxious, confused-in such a state of
mind as certainly units them for do
ing their best work. Get ahead and
keep ahead, and your success is toler-
9 hlv sure
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08

The spots on Jupiter don't trouble
s)me young men half Us much as the
spots ON thcir last summers trousers.
An ordinary woman's waist Is thirty
inches around. An ordinary mans
arm IS shout thirty inches long. How
How admirable are thy works, Oh, ,
Nature! !!
a physician says chewing gum is
made Of myrospernum taluefernun. ,
We suspected as much all along. That
is what makcs'i it 50 tough and elastic
-Eorristown Herald.
A couple of New York City rcpor-
ters spent the night i'll u cell with 4
man who was" doomed to bG hanged IN
Couhectiout recently, and in the morn
ing the prisoner was Ierfcctly willing
TO die
"Will yoii kiss me on the porch" she
sang sweetly, but the young man who
feigned flame evidently Thought il as
convenient TO deposit the thfSg OH her
lips and did so, making nQlse ssIFalf
OhIy ny COW IdLilS mo caILIpaiI
4 yaung lady who ceriti6 IN last week
to advertise for kitchen help said, with
sigh; and s. wiring of. her dainty
glovdl hands, "Of, I do hope we'll
get eiic soon; for it does almost bEea!.,
nv heart to see mother wash dishts,
with her rheumatism, t,'6. .0-McGtegos
News.
YouiE men should never lose pres,
enGe Of mind. ri trying situation
when you take the girl you love to
picnic, and you Wdhder away togethe
to commune with nature, and she SUD
denly exclaims, "Ok. George, there
an ant down nv back" don't stanG
still with your mouth open :, don't faint;
don't go for the girls mother: go for
tn a.,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08

Don't grow old and rusty and cross,
afraid of nonsence and fun. Tolerate
the follies and crudities of youth.
Gray hairs and wrinkles you cannot
escape, but you need not grow old in
feeling unless you choose. And so
long as your age is only on the outside
you will win confidence from the young
and find your life all the brighter for
contact with theirs. But you have
too many grave thoughts, too many
weighty anXieties and duties, too much
to do to make this trihing possible, you
say. The very resaon, my friend, why
you should cultivate fun, nonsense,
lightness Of heart, cause you need them
so much, because you are weary with
thinking" Then do try to be young,
even if you have to be foolish i'll so do
ing. One cannot be wise al the time
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
ersOnal. Ticknor & Co., the well

ersOna1. Ticknor & Co., the well
known Merchant Tailor of st. Louis
u established in 1857 will upon request
send tree by mail, Il full line of Samples of
piece goods, their rules for self measurment
prices, etc, thus enabling you to order from
them clothing of late styles and perfect fit
The postal facilities now are such that a
whole suit OF clothes can be sent by mail at
very small cost and with perfect safety.
Ticllnor & Co. refer to thousands of their
customers whom they have thus supplied
during the past twenty-five .ars. dec lift
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
Hearth and Home.

The parental HEARTH, that raIlying-
place Of the affections. 1t was the policy
of the good old gentleman to make his
children feel that HOME was the happiest
place in the world; and I value this
delicious bome-feeling as one Of the choicest
gifts q parent can bestow.-WAsHINGTo
IRVING.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
THE IEATH
Male and FGma1
NST E..
POCAHONTAS, TENNESSEE.

The fall term begins on the first Monday
in September 1880, and continues forty
weeks consecutively.
Board can be obtained in the Institute
building, or in private families, at very rea-
sonable rates. Facilities to compare with
any other School of the same grade in West
Tennessee.
Miss Mamie Smith, of Bolivar, is in
charge of the Musical Department, which
she is conducting with energy and skill.
Pocahontas is beautifully situated on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad, about
midway between Grand Junction and Cor
inth Twenty-eight pupils can be accomo-
dated with board in the Institute, under the
watch-care of the teachers. For further
particulars address,
d. w. & G. J. LEATH,
May Is, 1850. Pocahontas, Tenn.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
The Negro and the GrOgshOp.

The New York Times publishes the
letter of correspondent III which,
speaking of the great mortality
amongst the colOred race in the cotton
States, it is said Intoxicating liquors
are killing them off by the thousands
and their enslavement to the saloon
traffic causes them more suffering, mis-
cry and death than the slavery from
which they have escaped.
The New York Temperance Adyo4
cate publishes extracts from this letter
and asks who will come to the rescue
Of these ignorant and perishing vic
tins Of the drink traffic.
The better informed of the coI0rc1
race know full well the destiny Of their
race, under the continued operation of
the traffic, and are entitled to CREDIT
for the efforts they are making iii some
quarters to arrest it, The destructive
effects of this drink traffic on their in
dustry, their morals, and their lives,
have no doubt much to do with the 10
cal option laws now in existence III
Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi and North
Carolina. These laws though slow in
coming into operation and feeble i'll
execution, are doing much good i'll re
ducing taxation and litigation and
crime and disease amongst all class
eS.
There are Numbers of men in every
community, white men and coiored
men, who viii starve their families
and steal and murder to ges money to
buy whisky with, and the more con-
venient it Is made to them the more
they will have.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
Special Notice,

have Row in full operation a first-class
corn Mill and will grind for the public if
desired. Grinding days Wednesdays and
Saturdays. Mill on Northwest corner of
Court Square, Bolivar, Tenn.
w. II. REYNOLDS.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08
Non-Resident Notice.
In the County Court of Hardeman
County Tennessee. No.1154.R.D.

W. V. Murphy and WIFE Susan V. VIM Hudson
and wife, Caroline; Ellhu McCartcr and wife,
Betsy Jane; J. J. Luttrell Mat Luttrell, Petition
to sell land for division James G. LUttreil Mary
Barber; Julia Barber; Jennie Barber; Josephine
Barber; James IordOn and wife, Mary J.; John
I,uttrcll and his Guardian, W. 7. r. Thompson /;
Tennie Luttrell; Milton LuttTeu; Joseph Shad-
wick and wife, Martha; Presley A. Armstrong and
wife Frances; Buchanan Barber; The unknown
heirs OF John Barber, deceased The unknown
heirs OF Lucinda Carter, deceased; The unknown
heirs of Albert LUttrell deceased
IN this cause il appearing from tie petition which
is sworn 10 that the Defendants, Milton LuttFeli
Joseph Shadwick and wife, Martha Shadwick !;
Presley a. Armstrong and wife, Frances Arm
strong; Buchanan Barber; The heirs Of John Bar
ber deceased, whose names are not known and
after diligcnt inquiry cannot be asccrtained; The
heirs of Lucinda Carter deceased whose names are
unknown and after diligent inquiry cannot be as
certained The heirs OF Albert Luttrcl. deceased,
whose names are unknown and after diligent in
quiry cannot be aSccrIained, are n6n-residents OF
the State of Tennessee. Ii is therefore ordered
that they enter their appearance herein, Ut the
Court House in the town of Bolivar, Monday the
Second day Of August, 1880, at County Court for
Hardeman County, Tenn. plead answer or demur to
the petition in this cause hy within the first
three days OF said Court or the same will be taken
for confessed them aud for hearing er Dlrs
And that copy OF this order be published for
four successive weeks in the BOLIVAR BULLETIN a
newspaper published in Bolivar, Tennessee.
This "a June 1850. W. c. DOR1ON, C and II.
a N Lambeth, Jr., Solicitor tor Petitioners.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08

Never expose your disappointments
to the world.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08

Culture of the intellect without
religion in the heart is only civilized
barbarism and disguised animalism.
-Bunscu.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08

Words s6mc,imc; wound IfulV 1.aH
swords.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-07-08

The surcst method of arriving at a
knowledge Of Gods eternal purposes
about us is to bc found IL the right Use
cf the prcs,nt moment Faber.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-01-28

1t is refreshing to see the Synod use
the word instruct" Some of our pro
minent brethren in the South are getting
so hlgh-church In their views that they
object to the use of the words %instruct,H
direct, enjoin," &C., &C., and insist on
the Assembly's using the word advise, +"
instead-an illustration of how easv If is
to 60 from one extreme to another, and
how wrong theory of the subordination
of courts will, in its full development. cut
up by the roots ecclesiastical authority and
land us in Congregationalism. Let the
good old Synod of Virginia stick to her
precedents and instruct" her constitu-
ents on vital points.
BY this instruction Of the Presbyteries
the Synod evidently means business 1t
wants Its resolutions transformed into acts,
and therefore the Presbyteries are direct
ed to see that its paper goes into Effect
Another idea, too, seems to underlie this
resolution, to wit, that the Synod does not
esteem its present action temporary ex-
pedient, but wishes the impulse now given
the work to be communicated to all its
parts and to be maintained as its ordinary
state
1t ought to be remarked in closing that
not only was this action of the Synod
most hearty and generally approved, but
that it appears to meet with very great
favor in some quarters, and has already
borne salutary fruit. 1t ought also to be
stated that the Committee which proposed
it consisted of the chairman of the Home
Mission committees of the Presbyteries
which constitute the Synod, and that the
venerable Rev Hugh A. Brown is under
stood to be the author of the report.
B. d. P
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-01-28
To the Friends of the Presbyterian
Church.
AMHERST G. H., VA, Oct. 81. i

AMHERST G. H., VA, Oct. 81, 10.
The undersigned building committee
state that they have put up the walls of
a brick church at this place, and have
covered them in with tin roof. This
leaves us without means to complete the
building, which is now pressing neces-
.sity, as we'll for the reception of the Sun
day School as for preaching the one be-
ing held, ever since its organization, in
the Court House, and the other once a
month in. the Episcopal church. We
therefore solicit your help to any amount
(however small) that you may feel free
to give; hoping, by our own endeavors
and outside aid to raise $500, which will
enable us to complete the plastering,
flooring, doors windows, pulpit and gal
lery. Very respectfully,
R. NJ Brown, J. B. RoBERTsoN
K. NJ. Brown, JR., P. NJ. CHRISTIAN,
Commjttee
Direct answer to P. NJ. Christian, Sec
retary, Amherst Court House, Va.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-01-28

worship. There are in the church fen
'men>who are able to give large amounts
there are a great many who regularly
give largely in proportion to their ability,
and the result is a large showing. This
church was never in more prosperous
condition than at the present time, so far
as mere members and financial soundness
go, but it does sorely need the outpouring
of Gods Holy Spirit. SEABoARD.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-01-28

In one town, says a correspondent Of the
NeW York Observer one fourth Of the mem
bers Of Congregational church were about to
go over in body to the Epscopalians, in order
to get away from political preacher, but to
their disgust the rector appeared as a speaker at
one Of the indignation meetings so they are
now without any spiritual place to lay their
heads
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-01-28
Pr. PLEASANT, VIVA. Jan. 10. 80.

Brother " H. c. D. - in his High Aver
ages in Smaller Churches" for Foreign
Missions-ought to have included Point
Pleasant church, Greenbrier Presbytery-
which last year contributed an average of
81 l.88. In the last three years this small
church has contributed to this cause alone
an average Of $1.34 per year, besides con
tributing to all the other causes of the
Church; showing that it is not a spasmodic
effort, but the result Of uniform method.
w T. II
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1880-01-28

There Is considerable excitement over a new
invention machine known as " Clement attach
mem" which spins cotton as it comes from the
glni at a cost not greatly exceeding that Of GIN
ming and preparing for market by the present
process If it does all that is claimed for it, it
will, by opening new channels Of industry. as
well as the increased value Of the yarn over the
raw cotton, nearly double the income from the
cotton crop to States that produce it. There are
said 70 be SIX Of the mills now at work in the
CaTollnas and Georgia Teras PresbHlerian.