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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20
usEFul ANo SUCCESSIVE.

Washington Cake: One pound of
flour, one pound of sugar, half pound
butter, six eggs, one cup sour milk, one
teaspoonful of soda, and a grated nut
meg.-TAe Household.
Grain should be fed after hav has
been eaten, and no other food or drink
should be given for some time after, so
that the grain may remain in the stom-
aeh until it is fully digested. Troy
Times.
Baking soda gives instant relief to
a burn or scald. Applied either dry or
wet to the burned part immediately, the
sense of relief is magical. It seems to
withdraw the heat and with it the pain.
Keep it in the ironing room.-jSan Fran
cisco Chronicle.
"A flock of sheep on a timothy
meadow, naked and defenseless. is a
bad sight to see. They will cut away
the bulbs which are the life of the grass.
They viii eat their heads off by eating
the roots of the timothy Cleveland
Leader.
If the strip in which pIums are to
be preserved is very hot when they are
dropped into it, they viii cook so quick
~ that they viii not lose their shape,
and if put into the cans with care, will
well repay one for taking the trouble
N. I. Post.
Avoid things that add neither to the
attractiveness or the comfort of room.
Let the walls be a good back ground to
the few really choice paintings or en-
cravings, which contribute so much to-
wards home furnishing; but do not make
them so dark that you can not see what
they are.
1t is now suggested that tests be
made of work horses as well as trotters
and runners. 1t is an excellent idea
Then we will have records for all classes
of horses. The best trotting, running.
walking and drawing records will tell
on the scale of comparison better than
all the pedigrees that can be produced.
Prairie Farmer.
For vegetable soup scrape two car
rots, an onion, quarter of a cabbage and
two turnips; cut them into pieces a lit
tie larger than dice. Put the pieces in
large saucepan, with a little butter
and water; let it cook half an hour;
then cut your potatoes in the same way;
take your meat out of the soup kettle,
skim off the grease, and put all into
your broth, and let cook another half
hour. Exchange.
The demand for mutton as an
agreeable and cheap food is steadily in
creasing. The markets of New York
alone require more than a million sheep
annually. Farmers, too, who once
used only bacon and pork, are becom-
ing mutton eaters. The convenience of
a few sheep on every farm to furnish
the family with good, wholesome food,
IS now appreciated more than few
years since.-N. 7. Tribune.
What we need on our farms are in
dependent men-men who have the
courage to leave the old beaten track
and reach out on all sides after knowI-
edge, and accept the teachings of sci
ence and the products of invention
which give them promise of greater
success. What we need is higher ed
ucation. We can not expect this of old |
heads, but our hope is in the rising
generation, who are to take up the i'm |
plements of labor as they fall from the |
hands of the fathers. Chicago Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20
CISTERNS.
The Best and Cheapest Plan to Build
Them in Corner of the Cellar.

The Best and Cheapest Plan to Build
Them in a Corner of the Cellar.
In limestone sections the well water
is hard and quite unsuitable for wash
ing. In place of it rain water is used,
and there is nothing equal to an under
ground cistern for holding a supply.
There are various ways of construct
ing good cisterns, but think the best,
and in the end the cheapest plan is to
build it in one corner of the cellar. This
can be done most cheaply when the
cellar is made; but as all the cellars
made years ago were very large, it is
an easy matter to build up a wall near
one corner, making a square bin that
VIII hold from thirty to one hundred
barrels. Ihave seen this plan frequent
ly adopted. If the old cellar wall stands
firm. remove all the outside mortar and
I'LL in with cement even with the outer
course of stone. It is best, where the
ends of the cistern wall meet the cellar
wall, to remove a few stones from the
latter at that point, extending the 9th
ers into it, thereby preventing any pos
slblllty of its giving way under heavy
pressure of water. This new wall
should be two feet lower than
LIZ OCAAaA " all 81 Ludb Tie CISIeEn
may be entered from the top at any
time. At the bottom firmly imbed a
one-lnch pipe crOssWise of the wall, and
provide it with a stop of some kind, by
means of which the water in the cistern
may be readily drawn off into the cellar
drain, and thus save the tedious opera
ton of pumping or dipping out, neces-
sary in all underground cisterns. And
just here let me urge the beneficial re-
suits of a thorough cleaning out of all
cisterns at least twice year 1t is also
an excellent plan to have the water con-
ductors so arranged that the first fall of
rain may be turned upon the ground
until the roof is thoroughly cleaned.
This, while it may seem a small matter,
is yet of great Importance, and should
not be neglected.
Rain water is the purest of all water,
and in sections where well water is poor,
or in malarial localities, it is used for
drinking purposes, being usually fl
tered through gravel or charcoal to !
remove all impurities washed from the
roof
The cistern pump should be placed in |
the sink, high enough to pump directly |
into pail If the stove is near the |
pump, water may be pumped directly |
into the reservoir by the use of a short |
pipe.-L. D. Shook, IN N. T. Erana-
iper.
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A HoRRIp JESTER.
A Provoking Husband Who MaliciousIy
Aggravated His Wife's Curiosity.

A Provoking Husband Who MaliciousIy
Aggravated His Wife's Curiosity.
He had finished his supper, lighted a
cigar, and was easily seated with his
wife in the library, when he asked:
Heard anything spicy to-day?''
''Spicy, my dear? 1 don't under
stand YOU"
''Why-why-you know. Anything
exciting; anything about anybody
anybody, you know, missing, gone
away without telling where they have
gone"
''Do you mean any elopementP'
yes, yes; that's it. I thought you
would know"
''Bless me, John, has any one eloped
any one l know-any one we know?
Tell me, quick
We'll, didn't know but that you
had heard"
mo, no; I haven't heard anything
about it Do tell me all about it,
why, my dear, thought you
But l assure you this is the first I
have heard of it
Heard of what?''
"Why, the elopement."
'What elOpement?''
The eloPement you are going to tell
me about"
Il don't know anything about any
elOpement / was only about to ask
you if you knew of any when you inter-
rupted me-.
Nov, that's too bad, John, to work
me up in that way. See, / am all of a
tremble. Hand me my smelling bottle,
please. ~ Y. Herald.
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THE SERVANTS WOULD DO 1T.
How an Enthusiastic Young Woman An
swered Her Foolish Father.

How an Enthusiastic Young Woman An
swered Her Foolish Father.
my dear" said rich father to his
only daughter, very fashionable girl,
you are about to be married and l
want to talk to you seriously
Yes, papa" she said, settling her
self on his knee.
. George is a very worthy young man
and abundantly able to take care Of YOU.
But this Is very uncertain world Mis-
fortune may come when we least ex-
Iect them, and it behooves US to be
ready at all times to meet them with a
brave and cheerful heart. If. through
aome chance, your husband should lose
his fortune and be reduced to very hum
bic circumstances, do you think that
you could accept the new order of
things and help him as true wife
should?'
How can you ask such a question.
you foolish pa, when you know how I
adore George?"
. That is all very well. the old man
continued. . but could YOU, educated
to life of luxury, as you have been.
resoIutely put aside the past and devote
yourself to household duties. such as
cooking and mending and marketing
and-and sweeping and all that sort Of
thing?"
. What a foolish, silly papa you are,
to be sure" replied the girl. plavfuIlv
tapping the bald spot on his head. land
how rldiculously YOU talk Why, the
servants would tend to all these mat
tiers Detroit Post,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20
THE WEDDING FEE.

INC morning fifty years ago.
~ fragrant blossoms, AMI the air
~ rs spelibound with the pc cume rare,
~pon farm horse, large ,trd lean,
Anu la1y with its double load,
A sui nrOWucd youth and maid were seen,
1oeEing along the winding road.
Blue were the arches OF the skies.
nut 9luer were the inaidon's eyes:
Inc qewdrops on tho grass were bright
1nt brighter was the loving light
LnAt spanked meath the lOng-frinwed ia
Mhefe those bright eyes Of blue were hid.
fns-g9pwn the shoulders brown and bare
M9iled the soft waves Of golden hair,
Where, almost strangled with the spray,
Inc sun willing sufferer lay.
il was the fairest sight, ] wecn.
mat the young man had ever seen,
Andt with his features an a-glOw,
me happy fellow told her so.
And she. without the least surprise
AooAed on him with those heavenly eyes,
S4M underneath that shade Of tan,
Inc handsome features Of a man.
And- with Joy but rarely known,
enc drew that dear face to her own,
And, by her bridal bonnet hid
can not tell you what she didl
No on they rode. untn. among
Inc newborn leaves with dewdrops hung,
Inc parsonage, arrnyed I'm white,
Teers Out-a moro than welcome sight.
Inen' with cloud upon his face
" hat shall we do he turned TO say,
- HhOuld he refuse to take her pay
FROM what Is I'm the pillow cascY"
And, CHANGING down, his eyes surveyed
LMe pillow case before him laid,
whose contents, reaching to its hem
might purchase endless joys for them.
The maiden answered: LET us wait;
no borrow trouble where's the ucedYf
Ihen ut the parsons squcakinR gate
matted the more than willing steed.
Down from the horse the bridegroom spr11nr-
INC latchless gutc behind him swung.
The kmOckor OF that startled door
struck as Il never was before,
0EUMXNN ts.NI L.
fright;
And there, with bushes on his check
30 bashiul he could hardly speak
Inc parson met their wondering sight
The groom goes in, his errnnd tells,
ana as the parSOn mods, he leans
II w q er inc window sill, and yclls-
come IN He says he'll take the beans!'
ON, how she jumped with one clad bound
she and the benn-bag reached the ground.
linen claspiug with each dimpled arm
Ahc precious product Of the farm
rhe bears II through tho open door
and down upon the pnrlor floor
dumps the best beans vines ever boro
An, happy were their songs that day.
W hcni man and wife, they rode awavi
But happier this chorus, still
Which echoed through the woodland sceDos.
1od bless the priest of Whitiusvillel
NVu Dless the man who took the heansl'
Ii NJ. StTeeter ia Boston Transcript.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

The United States Methodist Epis-
eopal Church has ninety-seyen confer
ences and includes $4,000 clergy and
1850, 600 members.
They are complaining In Texas that
| all the professors for the State Uniyer-
sity are chosen from other States, and
that only the porters and bell-ringers
are taken from home.-C Chicago Jour
nal.
Rev. James White was recently
| installed minister of the Presbyterian
| Church, Stonebridge, Monaghan. Ire
land, in succession to his father. who
| presided over the congregation for
fifty-four years. The church was
| founded nearly two hundred years ago
by Patrick Dunlop, from Kirkeowan,
Scotland.
Out Of $50 Congregational churches
in Massachusetts, 163 have responsive
reading in some form; in 100 the peo-
pie unite with the pastor in repeating
the Lord 5 Prayer; in sixty-one there IS
chanting in some form, generally the
Glory be to the Father. =" and in ten
the Apostles, Greed is repeated.-Bos-
ton Post.
The English Baptist Handbook for
the current year reports that while the
last ten years there has been a decrease
in the number of Baptist churches in En-
gland the number of scholars in Baptist
Sunday-schools has increased by about
10000 Its total number of scholars
now is 437, 1877 over against 3O4, 8O2
church members.
The Baptists of Italy have united
under the name of 1.-THE Christian
Apostolic Baptist Union of Italy,
Rev. James Wall, of the English Bap-
lists, is President, and DR.. TAYLOR.
American, Vice-President. Evangeliz-
ing committees have been formed. a
paper is to be published and a hvmn
and tune book Immediately prepared.
A missionary in Georgia writes:
I'm five years have organized 231
Sunday-schools, with teachers and
scholars; visited and aided "a schools,
having 1859 teachers and scholars; de-
hVered 1851 addresses; visited $685.
families; distributed 3,401 Bibles and
Iestaments, and other publications to
the value of 1902; travelled "a, $50 miles
In my own conveyance. ~. 7. ErGns-
liner.
The librarian of the Young Mems
Christian Association in New York is
thus quoted: 1--WE are now keeping open
on Sunday afternoon and evening. and
the library at such times is well patron
lied. We give out no fiction, but re-
strict the reading to more substantial
matter, such as the Bible, history and
theological treatises. There is a demand
for light reading, but we do not respond
to it.
"A year ago, say the Congregation
alist, at the completion of fifty years
from the establishment of the first Con-
0reOatioOal church in AuctyaIia n crrop5
jubilee was celebrated at Sidney, and
an effort was begun to raise fund of
$4,000 for UNCONVENTIONAL purposes.
At the expiration of a year $50, 900 has
already been secured. The money is to
be used in paying debts on churches, and
establishing fund for aged and infirm
ministers.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20
AN DOLLHOUSE.
Directions for Building. and How to Pack
Ice So It wiz Keep.

DAIGCt1onS TOT buUdLnEs and How to Pack
Ice So 1t VIII Keep.
We can best answer numerous in
quiries about building an ice-house bv
giving description of one we put up
for our own use few years ago. The
locality selected was one affording facil-
tiles for drainage, was well shaded by
trees and conveniently near the house
The surface being sandy was leYeled
and four by six inch sills, fourteen feet
long, were laid down and halved to-
gether at the corners. The plates Of
the same length, of two by four inch
stuff, were put together in the same
manner. Studs two by four, and thir-
teen feet long, were mortised into the
sills and spiked to the plates every
eighteen inches. The roof, a square
pitch, is covered with ten-inch boards,
two inches apart, and other boards of
the same width nailed on as battens.
Hemlock boards, nailed horizontally on
both sides of the studs, cover the sides
and ends, the four-inch space between
the outer and inner siding being filed
with saw-dust. There is a door at the
ground level, and another just above,
both being practically double by means
of horizontal boards placed on the in
side as the house is filed. The roof
projects over the sides about foot and
the spaces between that and the plates
are left open to afford ventilation. A
layer of sawdust four inches or more
thick was laid on the ground, and the
blocks of ice stacked upon it as closely
as possible. The top of the ice is COW
esed with layer of marsh hav about
two feet thick. This house, if filed I'D
to the roof, would hold about sixty tons.
When half filled there has been a con-
siderable quantity Of ice left over each
year, though It has been used Tery free
" The cost of the house IS small. -
american Agr5calturtst.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

A kindness can never be concealed,
not even by repaying it.
If all would realize that cruelty is
as bitter to others as it is to themselves,
there would be less of it practiced.
To be happy the passion must be
cheerful and gay, not gloomy and mel
ancholy; propensity to hope and Joy
is real riches; one to fear and sorrow,
real poverty.-HWn1e.
- There is nothing impossible to the
determined spirit, says a philosopher
Evidently that philosopher never tried
to reach up behind his shoulder to get
hold of the end of broken suspender.
-jS0n1erCjLLe Journal.
=" What's the price of this two-foot
rule?' asked a carpenters boy in a
hardware store, one morning. Thirty
six cents" was the reply. . Well, it's
too high. Why, I can get much
longer two-foot rule for half that.
Have you any good reason why
you won't believe the witnessP" asked
the justice. Eyes, SIR isn't he hon
est in money mattersP'' Eyes, sir :"
Doesn't he pay his bills and keep his
prOmises?" ''Yes, sir" Then what
is it?' He's a fisherman. IN z
Graphic.
You can do anything, if you have
patience" said an uncle who had made
fortune to his nephew, who had nearly
spent one. ''Water may be carried in
a sieve, if you only wait" ''How
long?" asked the penitent spendthrift.
''IlIl 1t freezes" was the cold reply
N. 7. Independent.
On one of the first very warm DAYS
little girl with pretty but close sun
bonnet on went out to ''pick fowers.''
Her curly hair was clinging close to her
pink, sweaty little forehead as she came
in, clutching in her rosy fingers a few
'fnnocents," two or three half-grown
vtOlets, and some short grass. She
threw off her sun-bonnet, and said:
''Oh, mamma, it's dwefful warm. fink
it's mos time to pick fans. '-Hdrper's
BGzar.
Pa" said a Boston urchin of
S.. couldn't Daniel Webster knock out
Sullivan in three roundsP' The Bos-
ton father did not look surprised, as
perhaps New York father would. but
said: mot much, my lad 'sWas
Dan an n. g. slugger, pap" Daniel
Webster wasn't slugger at all, my
boy. What are you talking about?''
''Ite was slugger! What did that
man you were talking with call him the
great expounder' for, then?" = Ea-
change.
Il love your daughter, sir. - said
bashful swain to his staA.ly company's
parent before he had mentioned the
subject to the girl. I'm glad to hear
you say so, was the old gentleman $
response. 'Good; give me your hand
on that!' exclaimed the pleasure-seek-
er. ''Well, hadn't you better ask my
daughter for hers tirst?' was the wise
suggestion. The young man decided |
that he had, and Immediately sought |
the girl to see if he would suitor.-
YO3lEerS Statesman
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a Boon Comnanion.

Mr. John Rolfe, Champion Bicyclist Of
Australia and England, writes to the Argats
Melbourne, Australia, that in the six days
contest for the championship, after riding
eight consecutive hours each day, his limbs
became stiff and sore, and he is positive he
won the great race, and was enabled to ride
another 100 miles against time Immediately
afterward, from the wonderful effects pro-
duced by the use of st. Jacobs Oil, in train
ing and racing. He calls it his boon COM
panion, and recommends it to all athletes.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20

THE Farm, Field and Stock,mdn, of Chi
cago, is the leading agricultural paper Of
the country. The publisher IS spending
hold the distinction the paper has enioyed
for several years, of the largest circulation
among the best people. While it is agri-
cultural in name yet it has large amount
of space in each issue for home and literary
entertainment. One of the most fascinat-
ing stories ever written is now running in its
columns. Read advertisement in this Issue
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20

DIR. Mill's method of determining
the total solid matter in different wa
tiers is based on the fact that small glass
bead, with weight attached, will rise
in a saline solution of known strength,
the more slowly the greater the amount
of solvent pressure. The rate of as
cent is also dependent on the nature
of the soluble matter.-B0Sf0n Globe
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20

FROM JOHN KUHN, Lafayette, Ind, we
have the following: 60 One year ago was,
to all appearance, in the last stages of Con-
sumption. Our best physicians gave my
twenty hours. My friends then pur-
chased bottle of DR. VIM. HALLS BALsAM
FOR THE LUNGS, which benefited me. Itook
nine bottles. / am now in perfect health"
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A Team of Deer.

A curious looking team, attached to a
light blackboard, attracted the atten-
ton of a crowd of men and boys at the
junction. The team consisted of two
immense buck deer, with large antlers,
and looked as though they might out
run streak of lightning. Their har-
ness was made entirely of buckskin,
there not even being a buckle about
them. The driver and proud owner was
Digger Indian, well-known bv the
name of Buckhorn by our sportsmen.
who have visited Big Meadows for the
purpose of hunting or of fishing during
Ghe pleasant outing season. Old Buck
horn is the high Chief of the Diggers in
the neighborhood of Big Meadows or
Greenville. As a guide In that grand
sporting country he is an invaluable
acquisition to any party of campers. 1t
is said he Is moderately well of, own
ing drove of ponies and number of
cattle and sheep. This novel team of
his has been in use for several years. he
having. caught the deer when they were
small. In the winter when the ground
is covered with snow, Buckhorn bitches
his team to a sleigh and goes dashing
over the Countrywide (Cot.) Record.
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BRowN's BRONCHIAL. TRoCHEs for Coughs
and Colds: 1.-THE only al ticle which has
done me good service. 1 want nothing bet
ter."-ReU. u. II. Craig, OtisUilIe, ". Y.
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NE The Voice of the People. No family
Dyes were ever so popular as the Diamond
Dyes. They never fail. The Black is far
superior to 1ogwood. The other colors are
brilliant. Wells, Richardson & Co., Bur-
ington, VT.
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WHY is it that girls named Lille are al
ways dark brunettes and weigh a hun
dred and sixty-seven pounds ?-Oa City
Derrick.
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WHEN a young man is lingering the
cash left him by his grand father, can it bs
said he is reveling in his ancestral hauls.
-Life
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A MAN with cold in his head is like n
waterfall - he is catarrh-racked. - The
Judge.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20

COMMONLY, no matter how long it takes
a lawyer to try case, the preparation is
brief.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20

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WHEN a barber comes TO dress a dudes
head he comes To a FOOLS top. It is
period in his existence. Burlington Free
Press
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"A resident of Toronto, Canada, is
the posSessOr of a watch manufactured
in China. 1t is over one hundred and
sixty years old, and presents the appear
ance of an old-time English lever watch.
The works are constructed on a similar
plan to the more modern American
time-piece. On the case inside is the
name of the maker in Chinese char
arters.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-11-20

A PERSON who has all sorts of knowI-
edge at his fingers -ends-a. deaf-and-dumb
man.
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THE MARKETS.

If afflicted with Sore Eyes. use Dr. Isaac
IhOmpsOn.s Eve Water. DruEgists col It 25c.