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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
A Talk with Tom.

You want to know, Tom, what is the
first quality of manhood?
Well, listen. l am going to tell you
in one word of five letters. And L am
going to write that word in very loud
letters, as though you were deaf, so
that you may never forget it. That
word is ''truth. y
Now, then, remember, truth is the
only sure foundation on which man
hood can be erected, for otherwise, no
matter how beautiful the upper stories
may be, and no matter of how good
material they may be built, the edifice.
the character, the manhood, will be but
a sham which offers no sure refuge and
protection to those who seek it, tor it
will tumble down when the trial comes.
Alas, my boy, the world is vety full
of such shamS OF manhood in every
profession and occupation. There are
lawyers in this town who know that
they have never had any training to fit
them for their work, who vet impose
upon the people, and take their money
for giving them advice which they
know they are untitled to give. | heard
of one lately who advised his partner
''never to have anything to do with
law-books, for they would confuse his
mind"
There are ignorant physicians, who
can and do impose upon people more
ignorant than themselves. There are
preachers without number pretending
to know what they have never learned.
Don't you see that their manhood is at
best but beautiful deceit.
Now, l want you to be man, and
that you may be that. I want you first
to be thoroughly true. l hope you
would scorn to tell lie, but that is only
the beginning OF truthfulness. / want
you to despise all sham, all pretense,
all effort to seem to be otherwise than
you are. Bishop Dudley.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
Fall Feeding.

There is nothing to indicate that
either cattle or hogs will command ex-
ceptionally high prices next winter.
The present indications are that the
corn crop will be abundant and prices
moderate, so that fair profit may be
expected from feeding either class of
stock if reasonable care be used. AS
many farmers are situated the best re-
suits may be expected from compare
lively early feeding and sales. Either
beef or pork can be more cheaply made
in September or October than in De-
cember. Two things we count import
ant in this matter-to commence feed
ing as early as practicable, and to sell
as soon as the animals cease making
their gains. Both cattle and hogs that
have been CRASHED during the summer
will surely make great gain for weeks
after the commencement of feeding new
corn; and in our own practice we do
not wait for the corn to mature. At
the first both cattle and hogs not only
cat but relish and are helped by the
green-cOrn stalks, as well as by the ears.
After about sixty days for the hogs and
ninety for the cattle, the Increase
is comparatively small If one
has a crop of grain well Sc
cured there is little loss in hold
ing it, even If the price does not adj
vance; but a fat animal which is not
daily gaining in weight is a source of
loss, unless there be an advance in
price. In almost any large number of
cattle or hogs there will be found few
animals which do not thrive, and which
it will pay better to sell. at even low
price, than to feed longer; and espe-
cially with hogs, some animals will be-
come fully ready for the market much
in advance Of others. A good average
steer, thirty to thirty-six months old,
fed thirty bushels of corn in ninety to
one hundred days, should gain at least
two hundred pounds, and add one cent
per pound to- the value of the whole
carcass, aside from helping fatten hog
from the undigested corn in mis- drop
pings, and this ought to pay. While
this is very different system from that
pursued by the feeders who send the
very best cattle to our markets, yet this
fact does not make it certain that it
may not be the desirable plan of feed
ing for many farmers. We wish to
especially emphasize the fact, we'll
known as it is to most farmers, that
much better results can be obtained
from feeding during mild weather than
during the storms of winter, unless pro
vision be made to give unusually good
shelter Cleveland Leader
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
USEFUL And sUGGESTIyE.

in moving lawns, allow a gradual
higher growth as autumn approaches,
so as to have thick mass for enduring
winter.
Skeletons, 1.-Two eggs, three
tablespoon 'uls of sugar and one table
spoonful of butter. Flour TO make very
stiff, roll very thin and cut in fancy
shapes. Budget.
1t is a common trick of some dis
honest implement manufacturers to sell
their machines cheaply, but to make
them of poor materials, and then take
their profits in selling repairs. Detroit
Post.
Cream Crackers: One quart OF
packed -four, two teaspoonfuls of cream
of tartar one of soda, small piece of
lard, one coffee cup of cream and what
milk may be needed to mix it. Bake
in muffin rings.-TIbe Household.
"A cows cud is no part of its system
it is part of its food, which is brought
up to the mouth from the paunch by a
muscular action, the reverse of swal-
lowing, and is then chewed over again.
The common expression closing the
cud'' is misleading. There is nothing
to be lost, excepting tho activity of tho
stomach by which these portions of the
food are forced up to be remasticated.
In case of indigestion or other disease
the stomach does not act in this way,
and the COW stops chewing her cud un-
til restored to health. Prairie Farmer
Farmers generally have not watched
or studied the effects of change Of feed
as corrective of ailments in stock
The condition of the system may be
more effectually and safely controlled
by food than by condition powders or
any of the many patent nostrums
Throw physic to the dogs but not to
the stock. We have laxative foods and
constipating foods. If the farmer who
feeds his horses and pigs every day,
himself, is at all observing, he will vary
the feed to suit the condition of the ami
NAL, and not wait until the animals
system is hopelessly deranged. Ohio
Farmer.
The question among some farmers
in regard to heaYeS in horses is whether
the trouble is completely durable. In
reply to an inquiry correspondent of
the Nebraska FqTn1cr states that he has
known complete cures to be effected in
this. manner. Take quart of new
milk and stir into it a teaspoonful OF
aqua FORTS, which will curdle or thicken
the milk. Stir this into the oats which
are fed at noon for three days; then
stop three days, and repeat. Although
this remedy is simple, states the cores
pondent, it has effected cure in the
most difficult cases wherever tried
Indianapolis Journal.
i must tell how 1 mended up my
buckets Several of them around the
yard and barn were useless because the
piece holding the bail had come off from
one or both sides. l cut from old boot
tops pieces of leather about two inches
wide and three long, punched a hole in
them to admit the hook of the bail, and
tackled one firmly on each side of the
bucket. One old bucket that had lost both
side-pieces and handle, / made fit for
common use again by lacking piece of
hoop across the top and wrapping it
around with old cloth. 1t is not hand
some, but it does very well for carrying
corn, apples and such things. Toledo
blade.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
Some New Geography.

OF what is the surface of the, earth
composed?
OF corner lots. mighty poor roads,
railroad tracks, base ball gr0u nds,
cricket fields and skating Kinks.
What portion of the globe is waterP
About three-f ourths. Sometimes they
add little gin and nothing to it.
What is a town.
A town is a considerable collection of
houses and inhabitants, with four or
five men who 'trun the party" and
lend money at fifteen per cent. interest.
What is a city?
A city is an incorporated town, with
a Mayor, who believes the whole world
shakes when he happens to fall flat on
cross walk.
What is commerce?
Borrowing five dollars for a day or
two and lodging the lender for a year
or two.
Name the different racesP
Horse race, boat race. bicycle race
and racing around to find a man to in
dorse your note.
Into how many classes is mankind di-
vided?
Six: being enlightened, civilized, half
civilized, savage, too utter, not worth a
cent, and Indian agents.
What nations are called enlightened?
Those who have the most wars and
the worst laws, and produce the worst
criminals.
How many motions has the earthP
That's according to how you mix your
drinks and which way you go home.
What is the earth axis?
The lines passing between New York
and San Francisco.
What causes day and night?
Day is caused by night getting tired
out. Night is caused by erybody
taking the street cars and going homie
to supper.
Why is a map?
map is n drawing TO show the jury
where Smith stood when Jones gave
him lift under the eye.
What is a mariners compass?
A Jug holding four gallons. - San
Francisco Nea0S Letter.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
Youths Department.
d SIMPLE TALE, IN TWO ACTS.

ACT FIRST.
Dear grandmamma, write to say,
tAnd you'll be glad ] know,l
Chat am coming, Saturday,
To spend week or so.
Tn coming, too, without mamma;
You know I'm eight years odd
And you will see how good III be-
~ do as am told!
III hep you lots about your work
There's SO much l can do
I'll weed the garden, hunt for eggs,
And feed the chickens, too.
And may be I will be so good
You Il keep me there till rail-:
Or, better still, perhaps you'll say
can I go home at all!
Now, grandmanma please don't forget
To meet me at the train
For I'll he sure to c0me-unloss
1t should cloud up and rain?
ACT SECOND.
Dear mamma, please put on your things
And take the next express;
/ want to go back home again
I'm very sick, guess!
Ny grandma's very good to me,
But grandma isn't you;
And l forget, when 1 came hero,
I'd got TO steep here too!
Last night eric myself to sleep,
wanted you so Dad!
To-day / can not play or eat
I feel SO very sad.
Please, mamma, come for don't see
How can bear to wait!
You Il find me with my hat and sack
out by the garden gate.
And grandma will not care a bit
II you should come, ! know;
Because I'm your own little girl,
And l do love you SOL
Sarah +. Eastman, in Golden Days.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
Irrigating Farms with Sewage.

The sewage farm at Pullman, Ill,
owned by the Pullman Car Company
and irrigated with the sewage from the
town OF Pullman, has come into promi-
nent notice since it was visited and re.
ported upon by members of the late
nurserymen's meeting at Chicago. This
farm consists of about one hundred and
sixty acres under cultivation, and the
sewage carried from the village of
5000 inhabitants by the immense Cor
liss engine is applied at the rate of
about 200, 600 gallons to twelve acres.
The first year of the experiment re-
suits were not entirely satisfactory,
there being many obstacles to contend
with, but last year the management
claim to have cleared about SO, O0) on
100 acres of land irrigated with the
sewage. The crops grown were prin-
cipally late garden vegetables, such as
celery, cabbage and potatoes.
Sewage irrigation is by no means a
new idea. In Edinburgh, Scotland,
sewage has been successfully applied
to tillable lands for nearly one hundred
years. The sewage of Edinburgh is
largely distributed over meadow lands
that lie below the city. and the grass
thus irrigated, cut every few weeks,
from April to November, is said to be
admirably adapted to mich COWS.
There are also a number of successful
sewage farms in England and Wales.
A recent report from Paris contrib
utes some interesting facts in relation
to the methods employed at GenneviI-
liers for utilizing the sewage of Paris.
This year 1,4S2 acres of land are being
irrigated. The soil is cultivated in ridg-
es, separated by burrows made by ruE-
ming the pillow each way; the sewage
water is conducted through these fur
rows. The sewage-wate by the way,
is run over the land in winter as well
as during the summer season. In addi-
ton to the fertilizing elements con-
tanned it is claimed that sewage-water
Is beneficial in freeing the land from
various insect pests.-M Y. Horld,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
She Went or in the Rain.

A very innocent-looking old man who
who had been waiting twenty-eight
hours for a Lake Superior boat, and
who was told to be ut the foot of
Woodward avenue at noon yesterday,
came 5 touching down to the wharf
about four o'clock p. NJ, and mildly
queried:
so the boat isn't in yetp''
"In! Why, she's come and gone!
Got in before noon and laid three
hours"
mercy! but 1 was to go on tina,
boatr'
Didn't the agent tell you when to
Gomez"
Yes, he said at noon, but I was
looking around town, and it sot in to
rain, and / supposed she'd wait until
after it cleared up. You don't mean
she went off in the shower?"
''Ye s. she did "
Right in the pouring ramp"
Eyes, sir
''Lai SUI, but I wouldn't have be-
lieved they'd do it, Mebbe it's Just as
we'll l didn't go, for I've nothing but
this old umbrella, and gettin' wet allus
brings on the rheumatis. ''-Detr0I Free
Press
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

No WOMAN can live without some share
of physical suffering: but many accept as
inevitable great amount of pain which
can be avoided. Lydia Z. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound was invented by one who
understood its need, and had the rare skill
to provide a simple, yet admirably effect
i've remedy.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
Evenings at Home.

The long evenings, which follow the
short days, are made in some families
the happiest of all happy times. The
cares of the day are ended: the mother S
resting-time has come; the father has
come; the father has dropped all sorts
of business worries and perplexities, and
the whole family throw themselves with
zest into the innocent pleasures of the
home circle.
It is well for the women of the house
hold to remember that the pleasant
evenings at home are strong antidotes
to the practice of looking for enjoy
ment abroad, aud seeking for pleasure
in by and forbidden places; for relaxa-
ton and recreation will be indulged in
somewhere by most men, and happy are
they who find in the home circle the
diversion they need.
A lively game, an interesting book
read aloud, or, in musical families, a
new song to be practiced, will furnish
pastime that will make an evening pass
pleasantly.
A little forethought during the day, a
little pulling of wires that need not ap-
pear, viii make the whole thing easy
and different ways and means may be
provided for making the evening hours
pass pleasantly. and the time to be look
ed forward to with pleasant anticipa-
tions.
We visited once in large family
where it was the duty of each sister. in
turn, 10 provide the evenings occupa-
ton, and there was pleasant rivalry be-
tween them as to whose evening should
be the most enjoyable The brothers en-
tered fully into the spirit of the simple
home entertainments, and were as 10th
to be obliged to spend an evening away
from home as their sisters and parents
were TO have them absent. Every one
spoke Of this family as an uncommouly
united one, for each and every member
showed such a strong attachment for
the home to which each one contributed
SO much pleasure. Signal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
-The comnlaint that +

The complaint that there was
gambling on an ocean steamer that re
Gently arrived in New York does not
reveal anything new. Probably there
is not q steamer crossing the ocean that
does not have more or less gambling
on board. Passengers who never think
of stalking money while they are ashore
indulge in it in mid-ocean to kill time
IL seems as if they might invent more
rational kind of amusement, but it is
probable that they do not care to tax
their indolent intelIeets to this extent.
IA, J., Herald,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

Mr.. George Home, one of the largest can.
uers of fish, on Columbia River, Oregon,
says that he suffered with rheumatism for
seven years, having spent six months at
Arkansas Hot Springs, and at Paso Robles
Springs, Cal, four months in every year,
without benefit. Finally he tried St
Jacobs Oil, the great pafn-cure, and in a
short time all stiffness and soreness of the
joints disappeared.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

j. w. GRAHAM, Wholesale Druggist, OF
ling DIR. WIN. HALLS BALsAM FOR THE
LUNGS, and have found it ono of the most sal
able medicines have ever had for Coughs,
Colds and Consumption"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

hG5-It is a Well Known Factl In the
Diamond Dyes more colOring is given than
in any known Dyes, and they give faster
and more brilliant colors. 10c at all drug
gists. They are a great success. Wells,
Richardson & Cos Burlington, VT.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
GIenn,s suInhur Soan

THE most verdant young man of the
period was the one who attempted TO cut
grass with DISQUALIFICATION Budget.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

DEAF mutes converse by means of signs,
because actions sneak louder than words.
Boston Transcript
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

IT makes a milk-mau's wife blush TO ask
her if her silk dress is watered.-C Chicago
Tribune.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

THE violin craze which has recently at
tackled some women was probably caused
by desire to possess a beau.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

BEWARE of green fruit. The fruit can
not help being green, but you can.-Ihita-
delphid Chronicle Herald
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

Purifies the skin. Use instead of unwhole-
some cosmetics. Hips Hair and Whisker
Dye, soc.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

THE short, hacking cough, which leads to
Consumption is cured by Piso's Cure.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

Although Canton, China, has
population of 1,5O0, 900 there is not a
newspaper in the place,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

NATURE combs the ROSTERS head, hut
man has to comb his OWN T. Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25
THE MARKETS.

IF afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaa,
Thompson's Eve Water DrugRIsts sell it. $50
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-25

EHE HFA Wfgs6 WaDes sent co D. anywhere. Whole.
~ HA ~ sale & Retail Price list free Goods glHran-
EEka 8tced. B.C.STREHI. 1j7 Wabash av- Chicago.
Ga0E0 a MONTH. Agents Wanted. 90 best
MXEhHE selling articles IN the world. sample FREE.
WEOO Address JAY BRONSON. DETROIT, Mich.
BRYANT G STRATT0M'S J Basinsss s. 1nf
ST. LOus Mo SIN students yearly. Young taught Book
keeping, Shorthand penmansp, aud assisted pOstonsl
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-01-05
Magnetic Kidney Belt
FOR MEN rs

WHnnHVlIU lU uUnU FUNDED, the fol-
loa ing diseases without medicine: PAIN THE BACK.
mrs MRAD OK LIMBS. NERVOUS DEBILITY. CMBt'
90 eYSsIAL pEBiLIrY. RERuNtrIsa, raRALS sis,
NHuEkL8la. sCiATiCA, DisRksRs oP THE KIDNEYS.
SPINAL plsvAsHs, ToEpiD LIVER. 6out. sS..mt-
nal I.iniasions. lnnDotency's Asthma,
Heart I)iscase. DSspepsia, tonstip pa
tiop, Frysip..la-. Indigestion, ft"rnfa
on Ruptur., L'.lsarrh. Piles. Epiiep~%-
When sny Debility Of the GENERATivE ORGANS
Force and Nigor. Wasting Weakness,
and all those Diseases personal nature from what
ever cause the cnut.nuous OF Magnetism per
me ting through the paris ,u,uSt restore them
ro "a heaIthy action. There Is no mis- AXE about
this appance.
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-01-05
LITERATURE.
Books.


GoD AND rus FuyURE LIYS. The keasona.
bcness of Christianity. BY Charles Nor.
bof. New York: Harper & Brothers.
Chicago: Jansen, McClurg d Co. Ottawa:
for sale by Hspcmsn Il Graham, s. 90.
God and the future life--is there rational
ground TOR belief in both %. either These
are the questions to which our author
addresses himself in the small volume
before Ms with impressive earneslness and
a force Of reasoning that to mos, fair m inds
will amount TO demonstration and hav-
ing settled these important points, there's.
onsblencss Of Christianity follows IS an
Inevitable cOrollary. Tha, there Is :. God
is reasoned out III vare,Y Of ways, and
IN none more SIMPLY than tLis: A school
boy having examined ih- stcsnl-chest
boiler, pis,on-rod, and valves of locomo.
tive and satisfied himself ,ha, they Nil work
harmonious!y together, knows that they
were the WORK of highly intelligent snd
skillful machinis, and engineer; SO the "a.
tiOnal man who con,emplales the machin
cry ot the universe must know that this
marvellous and complicated and harmoni.
ously working machine mus, have maker
God en,hroned in the universe as the ON
nipo,ent creator, infinitely wise and Just
the immortality OF the soul il the next in
evitable corollary. Otherwise what would
be the rationale OF human life, From the
momen, of mans birth but Que even, i.
certain for hlm, snd tina, is hts death. lie
Is endowed with boundlcss capacity and
desire for knowledge, and in the universe
anu even on this planet, an illimIiablt
field OF acquisition opens before him ye'
he scarcely begins to know what knowl
edge is when bodily iniirmltIes and old
age evcrtaSe him. and like The explorer OF
a strange continent arrested at Its thresh-
old, he Is only bafiied and disappointed
Thus taken by itself, human life is n fail
ure. II is full OF tolls, cares, aches and
pains, with no apparent compensations
There is ne adequate explanation or jus,i.
flcation for it, but such u can only TO dc.
duced from adding'o Il the lie heyono the
The Ottawa free trader., 1884-01-05
Washington Letter.
from our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Jan. |, lS

WASHINGTON, Jan. l, 1884
Congress has been away from Washing
ton during the holidays, but politics has
known no rest. The committees have
been discussed, and their personnel dc
nounced and praised according to the poll.
tical Or selfish bias Of the individual
The weigh, Of comment is, however, in
their favor, and II is doubtful if any c.bcl
distribution could have given So much
satisfaction anc 80 little oilense. Mr. Nor
rison. the chairman Of the Ways and
Means committee, has expressed his views
ON the tariff question through the medium
of an interview, and Mr.. Hewitt, the most
prominent Eastern member on the same
committee, has gwen his views to the
world in letter TO the Albany Argas
From their expressions it is evident that
the Western and Eastern democracy are in
practical accord on the all im portAn, ques
t,on now before the country. Their &C
cord means careful and prudent reduc-
ton Of the tariff by placing the raw