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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-03
SOrghum-Sugar.

The manufacture of sugar from
sorghum has recently received fresh
impetus, owing to the great number of
experiments which have been made
with view of discovering some pro-
cess by which good sugar could be
guaranteed. Within the past year
there have been at least four scientific
gentlemen engaged in persecting ma
chinery and testing various ways of
extracting the juice of the cane in such
a manner as to remove all substances
which have prevented Northern
sor ghun-growers from being success
fuI in wears past. Two processes have
been patented, and it is now asserted
that a first-class article of merchantable
sugar can be made from sorghum. A
practical illustration of the fact will be
afforded undoubtedly during the Tres-
ent year, and if the Objectionable mat
ter can be separated from the juice
while in course of manufacture, the
growth of sorghum and the manufact-
ure of sugar will eventually become a
great industry.
Upland clay or sandy soil is better
adapted TO cane culture than loamy or
bottom lands On low lands the cane
is more prolific, but the uplands make
mp in excellence of quality what they
lose in quantity. There is nothing diff
ficult in growing cane. Anybody who
can successfully grow Indian corn can
grow sorghum cane, and with improved
methods and machinery the profit on
cane growing will be much greater
than on corn. The cost of raising an
acre of corn is not far from eight dol
lars, and as a question of fact the fod-
der for ensilage purposes is more valu-
able than an equal quantity of corn
fodder.
Small farmers will raise cane and at
tempt to make their own sugar, but in
this they will find no profit It cannot
be long before large central mills are
built, where the growers can get their
cane ground, and when these mills are
once successfully started the advocates
of sorghum culture look for great re-
suits. CHICAGO Tribune.
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Fighting the Weak.

Lord Granville expression of regret
in the House of Lords that England
should be compelled to ''use force
/ against the weak apropos of the
bombarlment of the Egyptian forts, is
a curious illustration of the way in
which certain kind of cant survives
for indefinite periods the facts to which
it owed its origin. Reluctance to
attack the weak was a product of
medieval chivalry, and was cultivated
in the days when fighting was consid-
cred a good thing in itself and valued
much for its spectacular effects. 1t
fingers still in the dueling and boxing
rules, which place the scOnbatants as
far as possible on terms of strict equal
ity, and it every now and then comes
up in attempts to justify misdireetiOn of
political sympathy, as when during our
Rebellion English Tories used to pres
tend that they sided with the South
because it was the weaker party, and
thought Captain Winslow acted unfairly
because in the fight with the Alabama
he protected his engines and boilers by
hanging his chain cables over the side.
But it has ne place whatever in modern
political ethics, Nations do not now
fight for fun or to show how brave they
are. They fight to- have their way
about something. So far, too, from
regretting that an enemy is weak
when they attack him, they openly
rejoice in it. In fact, they try to
weaken him, or wait till they think he
is weak, before they attack him. just
as it is fatal fault in a modern General
not to be strongest at the point of COLI
sion with the enemy, it is a fatal fault
in modern statesman to 90 to war I'M
less he has allies, or has some advantage
over the enemy in numbers, orresOurces,
or armament Finally, it is nearly al
ways the weak whom modern Powers
go to war with. They seldom attack
their match, and always do so with
great reluctance. In fact. they consider
it barbarous to do so. Their improved
weapons are nearly always used against
communities which do not possess them.
All England wars since 1915 have been
against the very weak. She keeps Ire
land because Ireland is weak, and holds
India because the Hindoos are weak.
and bullies Turkey because Turkey is
weak. Weakness among nations has a
touch of immortality about ir, because
national strength comes from national
virtue. 1t is the product of industry,
order, fOrethOught, love of country,
determination and persistence. It is
these things which make nations able to
thrash the weak; It is the absence of
them which prepares the weak for the
thrashing. The fittest survive, even
more surely among nations than among
individuals. N T. Post
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-03
The Wit Of the Parry.


We have always entertained the belief
that the fool of medieval times was a
dull fellow, in spite of the Immortality
he has won with the help of literature.
We do not feel as If we could get along
without Touchstone or Wanda, and
yet were we to come face to face with
counterparts of the originals they would
doubtless prove terribly insipid and
tedious. Still we always prefer the
professional fool to the amateur fool,
just as we prefer the professional actor
to his amateur imitator, one leading
reason being that the former aims to
give effect to the studied fancies of
others, while the latter expects to make
q reputation upon unstudied essays at
witticism of his own. Animation, spright-
illness, a lively fancy and crispness or
quaintness in the methods of express
ing even commonplace ideas are al
ways welcome to any well regulated
social circle. But the more it can be
distributed the better it is likely to wear,
and the less likely are vanity and silli-
ness to become prominent. At every
railroad station, in every picnic party,
upon every summer steamboat, one
sees little knots of people that seem to
have surrendered to a single individual
RESPONSIBILITY
party. If the individual thus tacitly
selected has some exciting experiences
to relate or some valuable information
to impart, and his or her hearers like
TO take in that sort of thing upon a sum-
mer day, letting the scenery fit by I'M
noticed, or the fish and berries remain.
unmolested in brook and on bush, it is
not for others TO complain, and GER
tainly we have not a word to say.
But that is not the kind of entertain
ment that is being dispensed in most
cases. The wit of the party is holding
forth. He wears a smirk of sweet self.
consciousness enjoys the belief that he
is person of distinction in his circle,
and means to justify the reputation that
he has, or thinks he has, if it bores ev-
erybody within hearing distance except
his little convention of admirers. He.
catches on to little bits of suggestiveness
all around him. He can wreathe pun
around a spittoon, or murder a poet on.
a mountain, and he will never stop as
long as there comes at intervals to his
grateful ears the guffaw or the giggle,
that needs very little printing after it is
once started. The man or woman who
is thoroughly impressed with the idea
that he or she is a fountain of wit to be
played on all special occasions, if not
Oftener, is in imminent danger of be-
coming q nuisance. They should see
whether the fountain has head high
enough to justify this lavish expendi-
ture of mental brilliants, as rare as dia-
monds, or whether they are not cheap
limitations brought up by force-pump.
Even too much of pure wit is over-stim-
ulating. A continuous stream of sham
wit is positively and quickly nauseating.
ROskO77 Past i.--
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USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


in Germany during the slippery
season temporary calks are used for
horse shoes. Two sharp-pointed studs
/ an inch long are screwed into holes left
1 in the shoes, and when the horse enters
1 the stable they are taken out and but
| ton screwed into their place, thereby
preventing all damage to the horse and
keeping the screw holes from filling.
Cultivate frogs, toads and lizards.
Put them in your gardens, and as the
evening approaches they will hop from
their hiding p aces and snuggle down
in some convenient spot near the gutter,
or where they know there viii be plenty
of food. The ants, reaches, mosquitoes,
etc, they consume in the night Is mar
velous, and thus they keep down the
insect pests.
1t is said, and we see no reason 10
doubt it. that if a cucumber vine is
trained to run up stake on which a
few stubs of limbs have been left along
its whole length, the crop will be enor-
nous. By this plan the vines not only
occupy less space but are afforded OPP
portunity to follow their natural habit
or climbing up, instead of running on
the ground.-M 7. Herald
-Vermin on fowls and about hen
roosts viii leave headquarters by inject
ing from a syringe a weak steep IN water
of pennyroyal herb tea Drive this weak
steep thoroughly over the roosts and the
poultry and it will cleanse them from
ice. Several varieties of flies an
noy and suck blood from horses and
other animals. Pennyroyal steep will
drive them away if the animal is washed
with it.-Anlericd1s C1tltirdt0r.
To Know Ripe Water Melons: The
Christian I3ateUige1lcer says that when
the melon begins to change color in
side, and its seeds turn black, a small
speck, scale or blister begins to appear
on the outer circle or rind. These are
multiplied and enlarged as the fruit ma
lures. A ripe melon will show them
thickly over the surface. A partial de-
velopment only indicates half-ripened
fruit. A full crop of blisters reveals its
perfect ripeness.
"A farmer of my acquaintance whose
business is chiefly raising hogs, had one
acre of artichokes two or three years
ago; he now has six acres and talks of
planting four more. He says that in
some years one acre of artichokes is
worth three of corn, and that a small
piece, according to the number of hogs,
will any year be worth the same area of
corn. Some use the tops as sized; horses
and cattle both seem to relish them.
Farm and Garden.
Dreamed Cabbage: Slice as for cold
slaw, and stew in covered saucepan
tall tender; drain it, return to sauce
pan, add gill or more of rich cream,
one ounce of butter, pepper and salt 10
taste; let simmer two or three minutes,
then serve. Milk may be used by add
ing a little more butter; or have deep
spider hot, put in the sliced cabbage,
pour quickly over it a pint of boiling
water, cover close and cook for ten min
utes, then pour off water, and add half
pint of rich milk. When the milk
boils stir in teaspoonful of flour, moist
ened with little milk; season, cook
moment and serve. Chicago Journal.
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Preparing Land for a Garden.

A large proportion of farmers declare
that vegetable gardens are Improbable,
that they require large amount of work,
and make a poor return for it. The
truth is many excellent farmers are very
poor gardeners. They are experts in
raising corn, potatoes and small grains,
but they do not understand how TO pro-
duce the ordinary garden vegetables.
They think the land for a garden re-
quires no special preparation, and no
special manuring. 1t does require both.
The spot selected for a garden should
be well drained, and it is well to have it
slope toward the south or southeast
The soil should be free from weeds, and
the seeds that will produce them. Land
that has long been in cultivated crops is
not in a condition for garden unless it
is very highly MANFRED Even then it
is likely to be Objectionable as it is like
~ to be weedy. In many respects it is
better to break a piece of sod for gar
den the summer before it is planted
The blowing should be well done and
sufficiently early to insure the rotting of
the sod. If the spot is some distance
from the farm buildings it will not be
likely 20 be visited by fowls and require
no fence to protect it A garden spot
should be literally manured, and The
materials used for fertilizing should be
well rotted. 1t is best to apply the ma
nure the fall before the ground is planted,
SO it can be incorporated with the soil.
If the manure is spread on inverted sod
it will help rot it, while the seeds it con
tains will terminate, and the plants
they produce can be hilled with har-
row or other implement. Land which
requires as much labor as a garden
should be very rich 1t should receive
as much as fifty wagon-loads of stable
manure to the acre in order to be as pro-
ductive as most market gardens in the
vicinity of large cities are Chicago
Times.
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-In London as heen fonnded q na.

In London has. been founded a ma
tional society for the suppression of ju-
veuile smoking. One of the leaders in
the movement is the eminent teetotaler,
DR.. Benjamin Ward Richardson. Let
ters in approval of the society's aims
were read from the Earl Of Aberdeen,
Mr.. Samuel Morley, and others. DIR.
Richardson said the use of tobacco by
the young was grave and increasing
evil, and that the effects of it on them
were destructive both to mind and body.
He was convinced that the need for the
society was large and real.
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s2OO.OO RewnIrd

VIII be paid for the detection and conviction
of any person dealing in bogus or imitation
HoP BITTERs, especially Bltters with the word
HOP or HOPS I'm their name, that is intended
TO cheat the public, or for nything pretend
ing to be the same as HOP BITTERs The
genuine has cluster of GREEI HoPs (notfca
this) printed on the white label, and is the
best medicine on earth, especially for Kidney,
Liver and Nervous Diseases. Beware of ali
formulas or recipes of HOP BITTERs published
in papers or for sale, as they are frauds and
swindles- Whoever deals in any but this
genuine will be prosecuted gss#g g
HOP BITTERs M'F'e. Co, Rochester. N. z.
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The Volta Belt Co., Marshall, Mich, WIN
send DR.. Dyes celebrated Electro-Voltaic
Belts and Appliances, on trial for thirty days,
to men young or Old who are afflicted with
troubles, guaranteeing complete restoration
Of vitality and manhood. Address as above.
n. B.-No risk 10 incurred, an thirty days
trial ID allowed
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-03

The Economic Society, of Beaver
County, Pa, is nearing extinction, as
the surviving members are all old and
no new ones are admitted. 1T was
founded in 1900 as an Adventist colony
by George Rapp, who brought 125 fami-
lies of converts from Germany. They
broke their marriage ties, pooled their
money, amounting to $4,000, and
lived in communism. But if their num-
Der has dwindled their property has not,
and the society now owns IS, 600. 600. A
man who seeded years ago, leaving
his money behind, now sues for $50, 600
as his share, and if he gets it, similar lit
igation viii soon almost empty the Econ
omite treasury. y. Sun.
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The best way 30 increase the appetite, assisS
digestion. cause the food TO assimilate prop
erly, and the absOrbents to take up nourish-
ment, induce full and regular evacuation, pro-
duce easy expectoration, and stopdecay of the
lungs, heart, liver, urinary and digestive
organs and purify the blood, is by using that
Queen of health called Dr. Guysott's Yellow
Dock and Sarsaparilla. Leading physicians
recommend it 80 a true strengthened, a sure
reviver and perfect health renewer. It Is COM
posed of harmless yet effective vegetable
tonics and will not harm the most delicate.
being especially adapted to enfeebled consti-
buttons and infants.
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THE NIGHT BEFORE THE NOW
ING.

o, the night before the moving.
When the warm south wind was blowing,
~ was pleasant and sweet % pass
ankle deep through flower aud grass
Grass and flowers 80 proudly blowing
On the night before the moving.
5ut when noxt my feet went straying,
wen were busy with the haying;
saw tho sharp sCythe swiftly pass
through nOdding flowers and blowing grass
LII blowing grass and flowers were lying
Underneath the hot sun-dying.
hut twas not long ere sweet content
tlllcd the meadow with WOmdrOus SCENT
And flowers and grass, as bleaching hay,
Had learned the IN Gaming of the May,
And lrhu they were so proudly blowing
On the night before the moving.
mWden, unto woman growing,
Maiden, with the loose hair moving,
With eyes blue ~ the skies above,
Face as fair as the rose OF love,
Crowned with youth aud joy and beauty,
Thou SHALT learn diViner duty.
Oft when life has fairest showing
IL IS ready for the NOV ing:
Then should trouble pain or strife
= Lay the blade to thy young life,
10 not rear; On some sweet morrow
IhOu shalt learn tho IUiiH of sorrow.
-MdrB a. Barr, bi HGTpeFs Weekly.
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sa#" Every truth has two sides: look AZ both
before committing yourself to eitheru Kid
ney- Wort challenges the closest scrutiny on is
ingredients and lbs grand results. Ii mas
nothing to fear from truth. Doctors mar dis
agree as TO the best methods and remedies for
the cure Of constipation and dtsordered liver
and kidneys. But those that have used Kid.
ney-Wort, agree that it is By far the best
medicine known. Its action Is prompt, thor
ouah and lasting.
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s. J. ri, CHATTANooaA. Tenn. q bal

8. j. p, CHATTANOOGA, Tenn: " ] have "a
valuable hen that viii insist sitting on six
eggs How can prevent her doing soql' We
have referred your letter to our poultry crit
&C. He says there are many ways to prevent
your hen from engaging In sedentary pursuits
on capital of six eggs He suggests that
you add another egg-or that you use the
eggs in custard pie, but he says If you want a
dead sure thing boil the ben.-IsEas Sifti1sgr-
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PHYSICIAN writes: "For all diseases af-
fecting the blood, liver and kidneys, brain and
nervous system, there is no combination pre-
pared for general use more beneficial than DIR.
Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsap2rilla. ]
recommend it frequently in my practice"
Why then remain a crabby dyspeptic and
nervous suffererl Why not be strong, healthy
and robust1
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-03

Tho proprietor Of this celebrated medicine
justly claims for 1t superiority over all rem
edies ever offered to the public for the SAFE,
CERTAIN, SPEEDY and PERMANENT cure
ofAgue and Fever, or Chills and Fever. wheth-
or Of short sr long standing. He refers to the
entire Western and Southern country to bear
him testimony 70 the truth Of the assertion
that in no case whatever will IL fail to cure II
the directions are strictly followed and carried
out. In great many cases q single dose has
been sufficient for cure, and whole families
have been cured by a single bottle, with per-
feet restoration Of the general health. II IL,
however, prudent, and in every case more cer-
tain TO cure, If fits use is continued in smaller
doses for a week or two after the dfseass has
been checked, more especially in difficult and
long-standing cases. UsuAlly this medicine
will not require any aid to keep the bowels In
good order. Should the patient, however, re-
quire acathartie medicine aft or having taken
three or four doses Of the Tonic, single dose
Of BULLS VEGETABLE FAMILY PILLS
will be sufficient.
The genuine SMITHS TONIC SYRUP must
have DRJ0HE BULLS private stamp on each
b3ttle. DIR. JOHN BULL only has the right 70
manufacture and sell the original JOHN J.
SMITHS TONIC SYRUP, Of Louisvllle, Ky.
Examine well the label on each bottle II my
private stamp ia not on each bottle DO not
purchase, or you viii be deceived.
Dir. JOHN BULL,
Manufacturer and vendeF Of
SMITHS TONIC SYRUP,
BULLS SARSAPARlLLA,
BULLS WORM DESTROYER
The Popular Remedies OF the Day.
PriBcipal Onee. SCI vain ST.. LOUISVILLE. KY.
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is one rho does hts work quickly and well.
This is what DR.. r. ". Piercefs Golden Medi-
cal Discovery does as a blood-purifer and
atrengthener, It arousea the torpid liver
purifiss the blood, and Is the best remedy for
consumption, which is scrofulous disease OF
the lungs.
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WE can assure our readers, should they re-
quirc anything of the kind, that WAREFrRLD's
BLACKBERRY BALsAM win cure the worst cases
of Diarrhea, Dysentery, or Flux. It ia pleas
ant to the tsste and perfectly safe For Sale
by all Druggists.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1882-08-03

THE Lowell Courier Is not SURPRISED that
car wheels are being made out OF paper as we
have had stationery engines" for a long
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-Thirty-one murders have been COM
naitted in Pittsylvania County, Virginia,
since 1875, and there has been but ono
hanging during the same period.-LoaL-
SSUiLle C0atTIeT-J0uTnGL.
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a Smart Man

BEEF is so scarce and high that gentleman
of this city Is having q .siEloin steak set for q
hrens -nln.-RosfQn Courier.
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is crime; and ladies can not d6ord to do
without DR.. Pierce's "Favorite Prescription -
which by preserving and restoring health, pre-
serves and restores that beauty which depends
on health
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3 You can't eat enough in a week to last you
a year, and you can't advertise on that plan
Sentinel.
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are made pallid and unattractive BY functional
Irregularities. which DR.. Pierce's g FaYorlte
Prescription viii infallibly cure Thousands
Of testimonials. By drugg.ats.
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A Boston paper calls female swind-
Ter "an impostYix. Impostrix is good.
Now bring along "heatrix," "loafrix -
and 'pickpocketrix. Baltimore AT7ler.
lean.
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SKINNY MEN. Wells Health Renewer'' re-
stores health and Yigor cures Dyspepsia 81.
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IF afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's EyeWateT, DruggIsts sell II. 25c
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Extravaganza

ANOTHER dynamite mine in Russia. Go
East, young man, and blow up With the coun-
try,
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THE Boston Transcript recommends kero-
Eene oil to take the smell o. onions out of the
breath, but doesn't state how many barrels
are necessary
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Ny boarders shall have "the fat Of the
land" she said, as she receipted for tub of
Oleomargarine.
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EEy- No woman really practices economy I'M
IaTs can he saved egerv 3ssr the Jot-
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CArTAIN 1TuRRAY calls his steamship Alaska
tho greyhound Of the Atlantic.m Shs Is
probably bark rugged -BoSt0n TTaascrlDL
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THE lah-de-dah, Notwithstanding young
man, is now styled third-class male matter.
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No MATTER how ugly nose may be, its Inn
projections are overlooked BY its owner
Boston Transcript.
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CHEAPER than blacksmithing--is Frazerls
Axle Grease. For sale everywhere. Try 1t.