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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
Changing Seed.

The advantages or disadvantages at
tending a change of seed from one soil
or climate to other soils or climates suo-
gest series Of questions in practical
agriculture about which comparatively
little is known Most persons engaged
ia the culture of plants viii admit that
the value of crops is greatly influenced
by the kind of seed sown, and. so far
as they be guided by appearance, they
VIII endeavOr to secure a good sample
when making a selection for seeding
purposes. External appearances, how
ever, will not always enable one to de-
clde upon the exact value of a seed
with regard to the plant which it NAV
produce; something will be due both to
the particular soil and climate in which
the seed was grown, of which there NAV
be no external evidence, and conse-
quently it is necessary to know the eli
mate and soil in which seeds are proyn
to judge correctly of its value to you.
Tor the climate and soil in which the
seeds were grown will certainly exert
an influence, more or less pronounced,
upon the plants which are produced
from them. But how far this influence
extends, or how far it may be subserv-
lent TO the increase, the earliness, or
otherwise add to the intrinsic value of
crops, there is as yet no ascertained
knowledge, and although a great
amount of facts could be advanced to
prove that such changes occur, vet
they have not been treated so as to
bring them together in such systematic
form as would admit of dcducinp any
principle of action from their tabnlated
results. 1t may be claimed that as a
general rule. farmers pay too little at
tention TO the seed they select or pro-
cure. In fact, very few are accustomed
to give extra care in the sele elton of
grains for seeding, even with such as
are known to be well adapted to the
climate ia which they are grown. Prac-
tically, there is no doubt it is possible
to maintain a gradual Improvement
upon plants in climates entirely suited
to their growth by constantly selecting
the best and most fully developed seeds
only. On the other hand it is equally
certain thar by collecting iudiscrimi-
nately large and small, shriveled and
plump, and sowing as gathered, a grad
ual falling off will be perceived in the
crops A still more rapid reduction in
the value of crops will follow the use of
seeds procured from plants grown in
adverse climates, where they do not
reach their best condition of excellence.
The object should be to obtain seed the
most perfect of its kind, and then, with
a favorable change in climate and soil
and proper cultivation and care, the
most satisfactory results are att.tina-
bic. Look well to the selection and
preparation of the seed.-jSGl1 Francisco
Chronicle.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Eternal vigilance is the price of
clean farm.
Make war on weeds AMI all trash
about the premises. 1t is better 10 be
clean than to be sick. Troy Times.
To prevent (not cure) the attack oil
borers on fruit tress, wash the trunks
with mixture of soap and kerosene. -
Erchange.
We have read of wooden seeds, so
perfectly make as to deceive the hus-
bandman. But there never was one SO
perfectly made as to deceive the soil
Boston Budget.
No more wholesome articles of diet
can be found than fresh fruits and veg
etables in their season. They are Just
what nature demands for the system.
Farmers ReUie10.
"A western writer SAYS if he were
asked to name the ten best plants for a
strong farm hedge, he would name the
Usage orange Just ten times. And for
the best ten forest trees, he would name
the black walnut at least six or eight
times.-ALbGny J0urna'.
"A California paper advises farmers
to haul sand on to their valley lands,
and says that what manure is to the up
land that will sand prove to the land in
clined to be marshy or clavev. 1t will
increase and improve the production.
For some lands a sand bank is as de.
slrable as manure heap.
An ingenious farmer makes scare
crows out of old cans, and the like.
by rigging them up with a bit of old
iron suspended in them like the tongue
of bell, and hanging them up in a
cOrn-field where the wind will set them
ringing, making such an unusual and
unexpected noise that crows will not
dare remain in the field Chicaqo
Times.
"A new way to make tarts was acct.
dentally discovered by the writer Roll
out pie crust quite thin and cut into
three-cornered pieces, bend the edges
upward, and put a generous spoonful of
Jam on each, then cut very delicate
strips of crust, and place across like
Stats; wet the ends of the Stats and
press them firmly aga nst the edge of
The tart. Bake quickIy.-N. 7. Post.
There are many farmers children
who are taught or come to consider the
hired man their legitimate prey, and
think it very cute to play mean little
tricks upon him. Some are forever
bOthering him, while others delight in
bossing him about and showing their
authority over him. This is a matter
that parents should look to- It is a
great bore to a hired man to have half
a dozen children forever tagging after
him, hindering him in his work and dis
turbiug the rest he needs. Cleveland
Leader.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
A Word to Delicate People.

Without being actual dyspeptics, a
great many people suffer from what is
| termed weak digestion. The symptoms
of such a condition of stomach and in
testines are only too well known: the
feeling of uneasinesS after eating. with
probably some degree of distension and
tlatulence, acid eructations, consultation
or the reverse, or the one state alter
mating with another, discomfortng or
alarming sensations about the region of
the heart swimming in the head, noises
IN the ears, sleeplessness, non-refresh-
ing slumber. general ennui and weari-
ness, and lastly, nervous symptoms of
any or all kinds, not the least distress
ing of which may be some of the many
phobias that a-tlict people with weak
dlgestlons, from cardiphobia to hydro
phobia- have had patients whom
no amount OF reasoning would convince
that they were not suffering from heart
disease; others who suffered-they said
from incipient sOftening of the brain;
some who had no lungs; others minus
liver.
Il don't believe" a patient told me
only the day before yesterday, that /
have an ounce of liver left"
Wen, such people, at all events, have
my sincere sympathy, and my advice to
them in the matter of diet is somewhat
as follows
Eat moderately: on no account take
what may be called full meal. Take
food whenever hungry; for instance,
have breakfast Immediately after get
ting up, merely going out of doors for
five minutes previously. If hungry at
twelve, have a cup of cocoatina; dune
at two o'clock off tender Joint, or
steak, or chop. with potatoes sparingly
and greens, a little soup, and tapioca or
rice pudding. No pastry, or sweets, or
cheese. Take no fluid until you have
nearly finished the solids Vary the
food every day. Fish only if quite di-
gestible, which it oftentimes is not; no
veal or pork, but mutton, beef. game
and fowl. Fruit before breakfast, but
not after dinner.-HGrper' Weeklv.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
Cutting Women,s Noses.

The horrible crime of mutilating wo-
men by cutting off their noses is so
common in Bombay as to call for the
most stringent repression. and nothing
we imagine, will repress it but the free
use of the lash. In the sessions ending
yesterday, Mr.. Justice Scott had to hear
three-we might say five-of these
cases, one after the other. He post
pOned his sentences for week, and we
were in hopes that ne would in each
case order the criminals to be logged
within an ace of their lives.
Eventually, however, he sentenced
them severally to what he had ascer-
tanned to be the usual punishment, three
years rigorous Imprisonment. We are
inclined To regret that the learned ses-
sions Judge, new as he is to the country,
did not throw precedent over altogeth-
er. Surely there are cases in which
the lash would be at once the most
fitting punishment and the best de-
terrent
Estimated by the misery inflicted,
even the most severe penalties would
seem too trivial, and if the law does not
permit of flogging in the cases of such
cruel mutilation, the law should be al
tered. The miserable women who are
mutllated in this way are, of course,
rendered Mucous ever atterWaru, and
because they are women it is simply
impossible to calculate the misery and
degradation that they will experience
during the rest of their lives. No amount
of Imprisonment among the lower
classes will eradicate a crime that is
still evidently a customary form of mar
ital punishment among the lower class
es. But a wholesome terror of the
cato -nine-tails is common to the de-
graded classes all the world over
Times Of India.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04

now, but I'll know when we get there .
:" Very likely. 10 you know yOul
street and numbers''
"No-but it's right next to Mrs. Din.
giles house"
"And where is Mrs. Dingle's?'
''Whyl Right next to cur house"
! Well, / guess you'd better come
with me and have some supper.
Johnny was 50 greatly relieved at
Kathleen's having stopped crying that
he viii ngly followed as the man took
her up. The poor little strays had
hardly eaten the bread and milk which
was given them at the station before
both had again forgotten their troubles
in sound sic p. So sound and so dream
less was JohnnY's rest that a little hub
bub which came soon after never
aroused him, although the end of it was
that, with many an exclamation OF
''Ach-mein kindi Mein pabyt'' amid
tears, laughter, hugs and kisses, the be-
loved Kathleen, red cheeks, yellow hair
and all, was borne away.
Telephones and policemen had been
astir since Bri lget, after two hours of
active search, had carried home the
alarming news. Mamma sat with head
bowed over a crib, wondering il the cur
pillow, forgetting that there were in the
world such things as books and papers.
And Johnny, held closely in papa s
arms, was half way home on a street
car before he became awake enough to
lift his head and say:
Is this you, papaP Where's Kath.
Ieen?''
ado you mean the little girl who
was found with you? Her mother
came for her, and was almost as glad
to fnd her as l am to find you, my
boyr'
Poor Johnny laid his head down
again, with lips tightly pressed. and
quiet Ii tie tears falling. and said moth
ing more till they reached home. He
did not inten | to speak of his grief and
disappointment to mamma-indeed, he
expected she would be 20 busy writing
that Bridget would hold up her finger
with ''whisht, whisht," and put him
to bed as quietly as possible. Bat
mamma rushed to the door and gath
cred him into her arms with such tor
rent of tears and kisses and loving
words that he was astOnished out of
all his reserve, and sobbed
"Oh, mammal had a little sister
an it S gone entirely she is.''
DA4d<5Ct otOOA waiting 10 TAKE MIN 10
bed, but mamma sent her away and
undressed him herself, while he told
her about Kathleen. And when it was
all told, and the p;t;ful look settling
over his face again, she said:
How do you think I'd do for sis
ter, JohnnyP''
You, mammal Johnny laughed,
and went to sleep thinking it very
funny idea indeed.
But the next day his crib was moved
into mammals room, taking the place
of the big table covered with paper, al
though plenty of room was left for that,
too. And the piazza was turned INTO a
cnildrcn's paradise very like to Mrs.
Dingle's, and many children found
their way to it. And mamma suddenly
showed such a surprising talent for
playing games, telling stories, singing
songs and doing everything else de-
lightful to little boys, that Johnny, al
though he never ceased to think f0ndly
Of his lost Kathleen, never found time
to mourn for her. as he rOmped, shout
ed and laughed merrily about his home,
nevermOre hearing the sound of Bird
gets "Whisht, thin! whishtr '-Sid7eg
DaJTe, E9S Chicago Interior.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
SWEET PEAS.

On what is the use OF such pretty wings
~ one never, never can hy?--
Elnk ana Inc as the clouds that SD ne
La the delicate morning sky,
win n perl ume sweet a. che lilies keen
Down IN their vases 50 W. 20 and deep.
The brown bees go humming aloft.
The hummiug-birtl scars away:
Ihe butterfly blows like the lear of a rose,
ON, on IN the sunshine gay;
while you peep over the garden wall,
Looking 50 wistfuiy after them all.
Are you tired OF the company
OF the balsams 80 dull and proud?
OF the cOXcOmbs bold and the marigoll,
And the spiicr-wOrt wrapped in a cloud?
Have you not plenty Of sunshine and dew
And CROWDS OF gay gOssips 20 visit your
How you iutter, and reach, an climb
How cugor your wee faces arsi
Aye, turned 90 the light till the blind old night
Is led 20 the world by a star.
We !, it surely Is hard TO feel ones wings
And still be prisOnod ike wingless things.
Twoet, tweot," then says Parson Thrush.
Who 81 preaching mp On tree;
though you never may hy while the world
goes by,
Take heart. little flowers" says he;
For often, know. 20 tho souls that aspire,
Comes something better than their desired"
Susan Hartley StCett, IN 81. a ichO,ds
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
Toe Smart.

A young married man Of this city
discovered freshly-opened * of face
powder on his wife's toilet table 80
this complexion have we come at last, y
h said, and fuag it out of the open
window
1t alighted safely on the head of
ntleman who was going to church in
his Sunday best, and enveloped him
from head 10 foot like a spring snow
storm.
leone down and be murdered" he
yelled up to the man in the window,
shaking his fist and describing a war
dance.
Come up and I'll fight you,'
shrieked the powder magazine above.
The wife appeared as a pacificatoi;
armed with whisk-broom she descend
ed to the side walk, aud her husband
had the salts action of seeing her care
fully dust of the strange man, while
she made sooth ng apologies in invisi-
tie tones.
And the husband has concluded not
to interfere with his wife's toilet rela-
tons in the future. Detroit Free
Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
She Had a Massive Brain.


''My dear" said Mrs. Van Shoddy
TO her husband, Il have never seen
Niagara Falls in my Il and would like
very much to see them.
u hen you will have to make a
stealthy visit to them. my dear" an
swered the husband. ''for, YOU know,
it IS dreadfully fashionable to 60
81 ht-seeing in our own country and
we can't afford to break our set. -
But the cholera is i'll Europe, and
as we can not 90 there this summer.
wouldn it be Just the thing to 90 on a
Canadian tour and Icould see the ais
from the { anadIan side?'
"'N by, my dear, that's the very thing.
What headpiece you have! l would
never have thought of such a plan. A
Canadian tour! That will make us the
envy our neighbors. -
And it was settled.-SOmeruiilc Jour.
nal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
Profit on Chickens.

He who adopts the poultry business
as his principal employment and de-
ponds upon it for livelihood must not
forget what his business is. If before
entering into it you sat down and care
fully counted the cost, as any wise per-
son should do, and decided that on YOUR
few acres of worn out, worthless land
you could raise 81 800 worth of chick
ems more easily than you could raise
500 pounds of hay and twenty bushels
of potatoes, don't forget the conclusion
you have thus carefully arrived at.
Don't imagine you are farmer, for you
are not. Don't leave your chicks to
shift for themselves while you turn
those few spears of hay or hoe those
few hills of potatoes. Remember your
business is to raise chicks and fight
hawks and crows, and not TO raise pOta-
toes and fight potato bugs. Ii you have
time to fake all necessary care of your
chicks and also time to hoe potatoes,
and if it is settled that chicks are more
profitable than potatoes, then the obvi-
Gus conclusion is that you have not
enough chicks to employ your time to
the best advantage, and you had better
set more hens as soon as possible. N
J. Herald
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04

IHGIo 10 Oue young woman at the
seashore who dIsregards prevailing
fash Ons and overstates her age. 1t is
added, however, that she is not in her
right mind. Persons who ride past a
certain cottage see on the piaz a a fig
ure clad in the garments of hundred
years ago. A near view of the ia in
dictates about twenty-five years. She
is unique monomaniac. She firmly
believes that she has been dead CEN
fury. Her de. usiOn had a start in her
conversion to spiritualism. She became
deeply interested in the naturalization
of spirits, and for time deemed her.
self a medium. Then the idea took
possession of her mind that She was the
permanently re-embodied form Of a
spirit viii had long ago departed from
mortal clay. Under this craze she
deems it suitable to dress in the STYLES
which were in vogue at the time of her
previous human existence. In all 9TH
er matters she is sane and well-be.
haVed.-N. !. Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
Feeding to Meet Requirements Of Mus
cular EXertiOn.

1t requires much more astuteness of
Judgment to feed the working or driv-
ing horses correctly than it does to
graduate the fuel to the requirements of
a steam engine; for in the case of over
feeding the engine, it is simply ques-
tion of opening a stop-cock to let of
surplus steam, and perhaps, after a
while, the renewal of the fire-b box, while
in the horses case, troublesome indi-
gestiOn may come of a single oYerfeed,
and frequent occurrences OF this may
impair digestion beyond hope of recov-
cry, as, in the case of the horse, the
difficulty can not be met by putting in
new lining, or speaking figuratively, by
replacing the old fire box with a new
one.
There is a liability of detracting from
the muscular force if the slightest dis
turbance is caused by excessive feed
ing, because the establishing internally
of fermentation is followed quickly by
aclditY and hatulency; and when these
are present the brain loses its power as
a battery, and the muscles part with
their tOnjcity, becoming lax and inef1i-
cient 1t should not be forgotten that,
like ourselves, the horse has a brain
which is, equally with our own, subject
to ftful periods of depression, these
IdhlL8 Origin IIOul disturbed ulOeSblOu.
1t is not duly considered, generally,
that it is necessary, in order to secure
the full physical force that a given ami
NAL may possess, to feed with view
to keeping up the spirits, as a horse can
show but little muscular vigor unless
his brain be clear of the effect which
comes of debility from scant feeding, or
sluggishness from being overfed.
If too much fuel is put in the fire-box
of an engine, a part of this can be with
drawn, but whom the horse is gorged
with food, all must go through the d.
gestive organs in the regular way, as
there is no stop-cock or safety-valve
through which a portion of the surplus
can be renIov, d. The horse is even de-
MED the ability given to some animals,
to throw up their food when this does
not agree with them. The total capac-
ity of a horses stomach is only three
gallons at most, and as he has no such
store-house for surplus, bulky food as
the OK has, we are admonished that be-
ing a rapidly-moving machine under
the usual requirements, this faculty for
propulsion can only be obtained in the
highest degree by skillful feeding. The
giving of food to the race-horse and the
trOtter has long since been reduced to a
system. but in the case of the driving
horse, any one, as a rule, is thought |
to do it. National Lire Stock |
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
Something Serious.

physicians are sometimes careless in
prescribing Opiates. ''Doctor, said an
anxious wife, don't you think that
you are giving my husband too much
morphine?'
81 guess not.
But suppose that he keeps on tax.
ing it after he gets WE'LL"
~ ell, in case he should become a
confirmed morphine eater, it would be
best for him to stop the habit.
Suppose, though, he keeps on after
the habit is formed?''
~ by, in that event it would doubt
less prove fatal.
.'Oh, well, replied the lady, 81
dIdn know Tut it m ght amount 10
something serious. ''-AThaasae0 IraU-
eLcT.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04

Fields that are red with sorreI
should be plowed as soon as possible in
order to prevent seeding. In most
cases excess of sorreI indicates a de-
ficiency in lime or potash, which are re-
quired for growing good clover. The
application of these materials will Sc
cure clover catch whose growth will
smother the sorrel while young. 1t is
this effect of these alkaline manures in
caus 'ng clover growth rather than the
direct effect of the alkali in correcting
''sourneSs' of the soil that rids Is of
sorrel. A dressing of stable manure
viii sometimes have the same effect, as
lime or Potash. So also will gypsum.
Prairie Farmer.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04

THE old custom requiring saleswornen in
dry and fancy goods stores TO stand all
day long without rest or relief is being
superseded by more humane rules in many
of our leading business houses. Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is highly
praised by those who have not yet been
freed from the old necessity for constant
standing; and is a genuine blessing in ev-
cry such case, as well as to the tired out
housekeeper who must be on her feet all
daV
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
He Lost His Grip.

Mr.. Greatheart was on the train one
day last week with his family when
Mrs. q. called his attention to an ind :
vdual in high state of excitement.
He was ev IDENTITY looking for some
thing, and the words ''valise,'' '.satch-
ei," etc, frequently escaped him.
''What IN the world is the matter
with the MANI" quer ed Mrs. Great
heart.
"Jh, he's only lost his grip, that
all, " responded Mr.. G. and his wife
never even caught on Hashi7s ton
Hdtchet.
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''For twenty Yeas and more, " re-
marks q gambler, 1--WE handled the
chips in a club-room, and I've watched
all sorts of men and seen every kind of
luck. l have known only a few big
winners, and only two men who kept it
up and protited by their good fortune.
Ca. aqo Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04
to spectators.

Advice to spectators. A commu-
nicatiOn from the Office of the Secretary
of State of Alabama asked if the Lime
/ lin Club had any ad ice to offer spec
ulators in cotton and gra n futures.
"Only few answered he President
''De man who am fule 'nuf to buck
ag in worms. weevil, rain, drouth,
sharpers, ringsters, | anics an robbers
in hopes to make a stake Orter have a
guardian 'pinted to see dat he doan'
try to swallow his elbow an choke his
self to death. Detroit Free Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04

Mr. McAulcy went by cars from
Flat Rock, o., to a town in ansas.
His dog went w tn him, but did not
like the prospect, and walked back to
his old home, which he reached In
eighteen day He not only refused TO
make friends with the tenants, but re-
fused all epicurean follies and cd in
week.-Cht, a 20 HerG d.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-09-04

The San Francisco CIronicEe de-
clares that the once great Comstock
lode is squeezed orange. and that it
has been worked for six years without
the discovery of anything of value to its
stockholders. The newspaper warns
its readers that the stocks of the mines
are worthless The bonanza dream is
DER. Yet hopeful investors have been
for ten years pouring money into the
great rat-hOles at Virginia City-al-
most returning to the ea.th the fortunes
which once We're found thofE. - CurreN..