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The Bossier banner., 1884-11-13
For Young Readers.
LITTLE WILLIE.


Little Willie Sunny head,
Only quiet when in bedl
Other tunes he's tumbling, dancing,
Or like a restive pony prancing;
Such a boy, snch boyi
Yet he's mothers S darling Joy
Mothers 3 precious Williel
Up and down, now here, now there,
Sunny-head is everywhere
Peering into dishes. hampers,
Or with kitty wildly scampers;
Such boy, such a boyi
Yet he's fathers darling Joy
Fathers precious Williet
Sometimes on an old Tin pan,
Making all the noise ne can;
Sometimes on the parlor mat,
Telling stories to the cat;
Cutching poker by the middle,
Scraping bellows for fiddle; n -
Such boy, such boy!
Yet he's everybody's joy.
Sunny-hearted Williel
-RO PesD.
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Bose.

1t all happened because mamma was
trying to cut Mother Hubbard dress
for Bessie out of too small piece of
cloth.
You see they were five miles from
town, and-she didn't want it to look too
narrow, so she had turned it upside
down, and in every conceivable way,
and yet it would not come out
There was worried pucker between
her eyes, that would not come out
either.
Ress and Edith were having o lovely
The Bossier banner., 1884-11-13

The value of the cocoanut as food
Is as yet but little understood. An in
stance of its use is found in the expert
ence of two shipwrecked sailors. They
were seven years on an island where
their only food was cocoanuts and an
occasional flying fish. They retained
good health and gained in weight.
y. Hsrata
The Bossier banner., 1884-11-13

-Vegetarianism seems to be spread
ing in London. A place has been
opened in Holborn called The Porridge
Bowl, where for sixpenee one can get
three courses of vegetable food. City
clerks, well-to-do shopmen and arti-
sans crowd the place daily, and say
that vegetables give them all that their
natures REQUIRE.
The Bossier banner., 1884-11-13
An Astonishing Story.

A dog belonging to the BIS, which
was great favorite of theirs and re-
garded as of thoroughly irreproachable
training, was charged by some of their
neighbors with worrying sheep at
night The family rebutted this charge
on the ground that the dog was fast
ened into their kitchen at night, and
and was never let out until the servants
came down in the morning.
The farmers, however, persisted that
they knew the dog well, and had seen
him going from the sheepfold, though
he had managed to escape them.
When this was Jagged so strongly as to
make itimperatiye on the B--s to take
some further steps, one of the daugh-
ters volunteered to sleep in the kitchen
and watch the dogs behavior.
When they made up the young lady's
bed, the dog seemed very restless and
strange, but by and by he settled down,
and all was silent.
A little after midnight he got up,
came to the bed, and shifted about un-
til he had satisfied himself that the lady
was not awake. Then he leaped into
the window seat, lifted the catch of
the shutters, and opened them. Then
he undid the latch of the window,
which he opened, and then disap-
peared.
After long interval he came back,
closed and fastened the window and
shutters, and finished by licking his
own feet and the marks which he had
left by springing on the floor. To the
terror of the seeming sleeper, he now
came and closely scrutinized her, but
she kept still, and he at last crept of
to his own bed.
As soon as she heard the servants
stirring, the lady rose softly and
slipped through the door. But the
guilty dog had marked her. He sprang
up and made dash at her with mos
undisguised fury. for he saw that hi:
secret was discovered and his charac
ter blasted by one whom he now re
garded as hateful spy.
Fortunately, she got the door fast II
time and at once alarmed the house
But the dog was now so furious that M
one dared to go into the kitchen, anC
at last gun was brought, pointed
| through an aperture, and he was shot
dead. From "PentlGnd ReCiSited." +"
The Bossier banner., 1884-11-13

"A very thin coat of glycerine ap-
piled on both sides will prevent q win
dow-pane from becoming obscured by
steam or hoar-frost-in fact, glycerine
may be used in this way to prevent a
film of condensed moisture gathering
on any article. Exchange.
The Bossier banner., 1884-11-13

An art critic says~that 'the wave
of popular decorative art has broken
over us and receded. !" This may be;
but it has left regular geological gar
den OF horrible looking things on the
sheFe. HiIadelphia GaA
The Bossier banner., 1884-11-13

The sheriffs in Arkansas have a
very sad time of it. During the last
six months no less than nine legally
convicted murderers were taken from
the hands of the sheriffs and hung by
public-spirited mobs. As the sherihs
get thirty dollars for each and every
execution, they are naturally indignant
at the competition of the mobs. Teras
Siftin0S.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06
WIT AND WISDOM.

Love is better than doctrine, yet
false doctrine will always destroy pure
love.
An Indiana schoOl-teacher arrested
a man for kissing her without permits
sion. Verdict-NOt guilty on account
of insanity Chicago Tribune.
"A young lady who was blamed for
allowing her glove to be discovered in
young mans pocket stated that she
had no hand in it.-N. 7. Graphic.
A good man and a wise man may
at times be angry with the world, and
at times grieved at it, but no man is
ever discontinued with the world if he
does his duty in it.
-''Distrust that man who tells you to
distrust," says Ella Wheeler. And so
we do, Mrs. Wilcox. But, on the other
hand, must we trust the man who tells
us to trust? Not by a jug full.
riStO10R Herald.
why, how you've changed; would
not know you from Adam" Hang
the luck" ''Why do you say that?"
''Well, I'm tired of hearing so much
about that fellow that looks like me. -
Rochester Post Express.
Infinite toll would not enable you
to sweep away mist; but by ascending
a little, you may often look over it al
together. So it is with our moral i'm
provement; we wrestle fiercely with a
vicious habit, which would have no
hold upon US if we assembled into a
higher moral atmOsphere.-N. Y. ITjb-
une.
Yes" said the high-school girl to
Amy. 81 think Adolphus must be tax
ing lessons in color, for Iheard Jim say
this morning that he saw him decorat-
ing the municipality with vermiliOn. y"
Doing what, Mildred?" asked Amy.
''Wen, Jim said painting the town
red,' but that expression is too vulgar,
you know. oil CITY Derrick.
Have YOU ever experienced ex-
IRENE cold, discovered that your senses
were becoming numb, and delicious
| languor stealing over you that you were
powerless to shake off? / have" so
have /, often ''Where?1 'In Bos-
ton. I used to call on Boston girl
twice a week"
The Dimple on Her Chin.
The poet wrote a sonnet,
''ro the Dimple on Her Chin"
And sent it to paper,
With request they'd put it in"
Next morning he was frantic,
And he swOre it was a sin,
When he found his sonnet headed:
| ITO the Pimple on Her Chin:
lingo
THE worst is over" said the doc
tor, putting his watch in his pocket and
| preparing to leave the room. No, it
isn't" suddenly came from the emacia-
| ted Crimsonbeak, opening his eyes and
| raising himself on his pillow. ''Why!
| What do YOU mean?'' exclaimed the
surprised physician. ''Why, I mean
that the worst won't be over until get
your bill out of the way. y Yonkers
| Statesman.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06
ROOFS FOR FARM BUILDINGS
An Engineers Advice About a Matter o
Importance to Farmers.

An Engineers Advice About a Matter of
Importance to Farmers.
A wet coat will ruin sheep which
would frislz with comfort and happiness
out of doors when the temperature is
down to zero. 1t is very much the
same with other acknowledgements in
cIuded-hence the need of good roofs.
The styles, INTELLECTUALLY considered,
have always varied with the climate.
In rainless and hot regions roofs were
always fiat, and were made a sort of
retired open-air room or apartment.
The Greek roof has a very low pitch,
rising from each side to the center. As
one goes north to where the rain is
more abundant and snow falls heavily,
the pitch becomes sleeper and sleeper
until the gothic had its ''knife-edged''
roofs, in which the rafters were longer
than the width of the span. Our pred
,ecessors probably know something, al
though they had no railroads or tel
ephOnes.
AS rule fiat roofs are the most ex-
pensive of all. In a rather long eX-
perience [ do not remember one that
was satisfactory unless it was wholly
covered with sheet lead and then the
weight made a very heavy framework
under it necessary. Nor is it the cheap
est to build, for the necessary labor to
make it water-tight costs more than
the extra lumber in a roof with one
fourth pitch. But when one has flat
roof and will give the necessary care
to keep it in good repair, gas-tar with
the tar roofng-felt, makes the next best
covering to tin. / rather think a tin
roof well painted will be found cheaper
at the end of ten years than felt root
which may be put on free of cost.
1t is useless to put anything under
the felt in the hope to avoid tearing
this by the shrinkage of the boards. II
must be nailed anyhow, and as it is not
elastic it will always tear out where il
is nailed. Gas tar should always be
boiled before it is put on, and it should
be put on hot. 1t then makes thin coat
which docs not crack so easily as .
thick one and will hold more absorbent
Hydraulic cement is the best absorbent
far better than sand, because it is much
finer, and containing some alkali
forms q chemical union with the acid
of the tar and makes a firm, stony
covering. 1t should be busted over
the hot tar as this is put on, until it i
in excess and leaves a surface to wasl
off But if l were asked advice about
fiat roofs / would say, ''don' In
Engineer, tn ". 7. Tribune
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06
FARMER oRuDaE.


Old Farmer GrudVc WINS determined to trudgc
In the same old way thi,t HIS father went;
To toll and TO slave 20 pinch and 20 save,
Nor 20 spend ON pleas nae a single cent.
Ills tools wore few, and rusty, too,
For want Oh the ncediul drop OF ONs
That cronky and slow they were forced to go,
And added much TO his daily toll.
His crops were scant, for ho would not plant
Enough to cover his narrow Ucid;
Bun rrumblcd and growicd and always
scowled
AT harvest over the mcagcr yield.
And from the paltry store on the thrcshing
floor,
From gaping NOW and neglected hin,
Would voices cry as he passed them by:
You can't take out what you don't put in!'
Old Farmer Grudrp was doloful drudgo,
And 90 his dwelling and ON his land
Twas plain to be seen he WAS shrewd and
keen
There was little wool, there was little food;
Oh, bare. indeed, was the pantry shelf
Since he took no heed 20 uuOthCrs need,
So he was warmed and well fed himself.
Tho wife, q Is truo, would shimp and screw,
Piece and patch and some way plan,
As woman will with, amazing skill,
Who ls tied FOR life 70 o. sttngy man.
But, oh, how she sighed for the things denied :
Tho hQons and comfort, and larger life
or which she dreamed, and for which she
sChcwad
when conscntlng TO be Farmer Grudge's
wife.
But Farmer Grudge not an inch would bulge
From the path his penuriOus father trod
But. though very rich would work i'm n ditch
All day, and at dusk i'm n corner nod;
And his girls and boys, bcreft Of the joys
That others had, were disposed TO roam,
And to spend, pTofuse, nor put TO use
The lessons they had been taught at home.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06
SHELTER FOR STOCK.
Proper Protection Necessary to Keep Ami
mails in Good Condition.

Proper Protection Necessary to Keep AMI
mails in Good Condition.
Those farmers who have large corn.
fields into which they turn stock to for
age during winter, ought to build sheds
for their protection, unless there are
belts of forests near by, to which they
can retreat to pass the night, and shell
ter themselves from pitiless storms of
rain and snow during the day. Where
lumber ab0unds, sheds may be built in
cheap way, and if of ample breadth,
and open only to the south, they will
prove passable protection, even in the
worst weather. They ought to be
placed in such positions as to be easily
reached by the animals feeding in the
most distant parts of the field, so that
after eating and drinking they are not
obliged to travel a long distance for
shelter.
If it is intended to cultivate the field
in corn for q number of successive
years, it would be best to make the
sheds close-boarded up all round, and
Single the roofs. They might also be
constructed so high as to make storage
room enough directly over the cattle to
hold sufficient cOrn-stalks or hay to
fodder them in the worst weather, and
thus supersede the necessity OF their go
ing out during such time for forage.
This would be a great comfort to the
stock, and enable them to keep in much
better condition than if exposed to rain
and snow while feeding.
Cheaper sheds may be made of hori-
zontal logs, or perpendicular poles, and
the roofs matched with straw or coarse
hay. When these can not be had, corn
stalks will be better than nothing. al
though the rain and melting snow would
soon be dripping down through them.
But belts of trees would be much better
than imperfect sheds, especially if they
are evergreens. These may be set out
anywhere, if they do not already exist,
and they viii grow up with great rapid
ity by properly cultivating them the
first few years.-NatjopaL Lice Stock
,yo2tTI0I
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06
A Habit That Grows.

People always discount the future of
a lazy boy who never does more than
his stint, and is an idler whenever he is
not watched. His failure as a man is
regarded as assured.
In the sketch of a Georgia school, To-
Gated IN the pine woods, one of the
small boys is represented as sitting on
a stump with a spelling-book in his lap
and a pin in his right hand, with which
he dotted every fourth word, after re-
citing the following:
Betsy Virgins; Heneritter Bangs;
Mandy Grizzle; AIine!'' (DoO. Betsy
Virgins; Heneritter Bangs; Mandy
Grizzle; AIiner' Do0.
ASA" said Allen, one of the larger
boys, ..supposin' that Betsy Virgins
misses her word, or Heueritter Bangs
hern, or Mandy Grizzle hern, then
who's goin' to spell them, want to
know?'f
When Asa's class had spelled around
three or four times, the supposition
which Allen had suggested came to
pass. Betsy, Hcneritter and Mandy
missed the word, and Asa found him
self burdened with responsibilities he was
unprepared to meet, and was logged
Asa is a type of those boys who,
whether at school or at work, do as lit
tie as they can. Even that little must
be pressed out of them. The habit
clings to them when they become men.
They stagger under responsibilities
which trained men shoulder with ease
Opportunities come to them, but are
unimproved, because they are not pre-
pared to use them. - Youths Com
OQRE0R,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


The Garfield memorial window at
Williams College has been finished at
the cost of So, 645.
The careful reader of few good
newspapers can learn more in year
than most scholars do in their great
libraries.-F B. lSdnbOrn.
-Vassar College has graduated 596
students in the regular course. Since
the year 1867 twenty-seven of those
have died and 188 married. Pough-
beepsie Eagle.
Among the last acts of the Hygienic
Congress was a denunciation of the
modern system of education and COM
petitive examinations as eminently pre-
judicial to the health of those subjected
to it.
The Five Points Mission, Metho-
dist institution in New York served
during the last year 1920 dinners to
needy people, and sent 315 children in
to the country. The receipts in cash
and goods were $40, 617,28. N z.
Tribune.
President Barnard, of Columbia,
tried to quel cane rush the other day,
and, being inadvertently pushed by a
participant, reached out with his right
in a manner which caused the blood to
flow copiously from the freshnan's
nose.-N Y San.
The Scottish Church ReUteso gives
! the following statistics of the progress
| of the Church of Scotland: From 1850
| to 1884, the clergy increased from 121
| to PAL, parsonages from 80 to 120, and
the contributions from SIS, 520 to $780,
030. The number of Bishops remains
as at the beginning of the period.
The American Board of Missions
| whose annual meeting recently con-
| Guided at Columbus, o., reports that
of the $50, 100000 which have passed
| into its treasury not dollar has been
! lost by any loose management. The
| next meeting of the Board, being its
! seventy-fifth anniversary, viii be held
in Boston, forty churches joining in the
cordial invitation.
A sermon was recently preached by
a prominent clergyman on the ''Sin of
| Cheapness," in which he argued that
the craving for cheapness and hunting
after bargains are not only economical
| ~ false, but a cause of suffering to thou
sands of people who are oppressed in
| the factories and workshops, in order
to furnish cheap articles for the insatia-
bic public Chicago Times.
On the school-hOuse grounds of a
sub-district in Lucas County is a pump.
The neighborhood used it to such an
extent that the sub-Director locked it
| up. The public claimed he had no right
to do so, as the grounds belonged to
the public and the pump was public
| property. The Director appealed to
the State Superintendent, who decides
that a sub-Director has exclusive con
troll of a school-hOuse, and that the
grounds are a part of the school-house:
that neither can be used for any but
school purposes, nor are they for the
use of the public. The Director was
sustained. The public have no right to
the use of the pump unless by vote Of
the electors of the district.-LOgOG STATE
Re0iSfeY
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06
How Farm Animals Spread Disease.

There are many unsupported ways in
which farm animals, wild animals, and
insects spread diseases. A curious in
stance Is given in the Medical and Sur-
gtcaE Reporter of a village in which one
person in each several families W as sud
denly found to be suffering from con-
sumption of the lungs or tubercular
phthisis. Upon investigation it was
found that the disease had been spread
through the village by means of spring
chickens sold therein from private hos
pital near by where the chickens had
been reared. A patient of the hospital,
a lady, had amused herself by feeding
and petting the chickens, and had given
them the meat which she had chewed
for its juice. The spittoon used by the
patient had also been emptied near
where the chickens had been fed, and
the fowls had consumed the sputa from
it. When the fowls were examined they
were found to be badly diseased, many
had died, and most Of them had tuber-
euIar bacilli in their liyers and flesh
a. !. Times,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06
TRYING FOR TOO MUCH.
Trying for a Good Many Ears to a Stalk
and Getting None.'

Trying for a Good Many Ears to Stalk
and Getting None"
A Farmer writes: Last year a friend
sent me an ear of a variety of sweet
corn which he has been growing for
several years, in the effort to get kind
that will produce several ears upon one
stalk. This seed was planted in the
usual way, and of the whole planting
there is not one good ear, but every
stalk has several nubbins Some have
five or six, and the average is four, but
not one good for anything. This seems
to me to be trying for too much.
have found my best crops of corn to
have one good ear to a stalk. Last
year had 80 bushels and a little over
of shelled corn to the acre, and there
were very few double ears. Some years
ago / planted mammoth sweet corn as
an experiment, six feet apart each way,
and but one stalk to a hill, and had ears
averaging two pounds in weight; some
were nearly three pounds in weight, 10
inches long and II inches in circumfer-
ence. These ears sold for % cents each
for seed making, at the rate Of over
$500 to the acre. My evergreen sweet
corn this year, planted near this new
kind. has over 10000 ears to the acre,
equal to SO an acre, at only - cents
per 100 ears, while the new corn is
quite worthless excepting for fodder. l
believe the efforts made to improve corn
by getting many ears upon stalk TO
be in the wrong direction, and the adj
vice 50 often given in agricultural pa
pers to care for seed ears from stalks
that have two or more upon them 70
be wrong and mischievous. The most
covetous farmer, in the way of large
crops, ought to be satisfied with one ear
to a stalk and three stalks to hill, and
5000 hills to an acre, which IS about
by 81 feet apart. and gives sufficient
room to grow larger ears. This num-
Der Of ears would give from 80 to 100
bushels Of grain per acre, which should
satisfy any reasonable man. This is
better than trying for good many ears
to a stalk and getting none. ~ I.
Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06

MEssRs. HoUcK & BARNIE, managers of
the Baltimore (Sid.) Baseball Club, state,
as the opinion of all baseball players
and no set of mon are more susceptible to
sprains, bruises, aches and pains-that st.
Jacobs Oil, the Great German Remedy,
is the best cure ever used, and they Jointly
acknowledge its merits.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06

In letter from HON. MRS. Perry, Castle
GRey, Limerick, Ireland, BROWNS BRoN-
CHIAL TROCHEs are thus referred to: "Hav-
ing brought your Bronchial Troches' with
me when 1 came to reside hero, l found
that after had given them away to those
[ considered required them, the poor peo-
Coughs. Colds. and Throat Diseases they
have no equal. Sold only in b0Ies.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06

JAMES BEECHER, M. D., of Sigourney, 1a.r
Aays: f'For several years l have been using
DR. IyH. HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS
and in almost every case throughout my
practice 1 have had entire success. have
used and prescribed hundreds of bottles
since 1 was surgeon OF Hospital No. q
Louisville, KY"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06

The Schenectady On. " Usion
tells SAD story of how tive lives were
blasted by ny's mi step. a couple
were married two years ago, and have
lived happily until few days ago. A
rev mornings since a fly fell into the
wife's coffee, wa pulled ont by her
husband, ard ac identally tossed upon
her plate. She became angry, got her
bonnet, and left the house. Her father
has since removed her effects to her
parents home. The separation is final.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06

The two islands in the Straits of
Sunda, Steers and Ca'meyer, which
sprang up last year at the time OF the
krakatoa eruption, have again been
swallowed up by the se@.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06
vnnnr No.. Rcad III.

THE VOTTATC BELT Co, OF MarshaII1 Mich,l
offer to send their celebrated ELECTRO Vol
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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06

At a recent display of grapes oy
the California State Agricultural Com.
mission ninety-three varieties of choice
wine grapes were exhibited
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06

WAGGIsu WILL wants to know whethe
or not, wien horse stops suddenly IN th'
street, it shows its bringing up"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06

WHEN did George Washington take his
first ride? When he took a hack at the
cherry tree.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-06

tSPEAK1NG of spots on the sum- said
Mrs. Partington, ''nIy sons face is fairly
covered with fTeckles ~