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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-07
WIT AND WISDOM.

Great wealth comes by destiny;
moderate wealth by industry. Y
Herald.
"A little child's foot event to Sleep"
as the expression goes. She tried to
walk, but couldn't, and said: Papa,
can t walk, my foot is so dizzy"
CLARA Morris, the actress, dis
charged her gardener because he kissed
to desire the entirety of this mundane
sphere Boston Globe.
Take as much care of your money
as you can if your means are linn ted,
but don't try to save your smiles or
kind words The more liberal you are
with these the more you will have.
What do you consider the most
attractive phases of country life?"
The faces of the country girls was
the quick reply.-B1trltngto Free
Press.
Now, children, about what shall
talk to-night?'' asked prosy Sunday
school superintendent. about three
minutes, said little girl. The witty
answer convulsed the church with
laughtcr.-M Y. Tribune.
There is just as much family gov
eminent now as ever there was-just as
much as in the days of our fathers and
grandfathers. The only difference is
that then the old folks did the govern
ing; now it is done by the young ones!
N Y. Graphic.
Mother, said the High-school
girl, who had been listening to the con-
versation of the family physician, Il
don't believe DR.. Bluepill is Orth odox."
NO" replied the old lady, ''he's been
a homeopathic ever since he began to
practice. = oil city Derrick.
Where in the world have you
been?" demanded a wife of her hus-
band. "It's nearly three o clock in the
morning." Il know, (hic) it is, my
dear. But I cannot tell a lie. I've
been working at the Office well, I
can tell Te,' she replied, sharply,
1.-The moment 1 hear it, and
Then the fur few.-N. 7. San.
An intoxicated husband, on reach
ing home, seized an umbrella from the
rack, opened 1t and proceeded to his
wife's bedroom. Are you crazv?''
exclaimed the grieved and indignant
matrOn. mo" replied he in an I'M
steady voice, ''but-hic -hic--I sup
posed there d be a storm, so L ve--hic-
come prePdEeo 4OL IT, CfttCet90 Ito
Nrae.
The girl with soft gray eyes and
ripping brown hair. who walked all
over your poor, fluttering heart at the
charity ball, has just finished a crazy
quilt containing ,064 pieces of neck
ties and hat-linings. put together with
q, $50 stitches. And her poor old
father fastens on his suspenders with
long nail, a piece of swine, a sharp
stick, and one regularly ordained but
Burlington Ra'0keye.
Look here, now" exclaimed the
young man, looking aghast at the
mirror, you've gone and shaved of
mustache! Wouldn't have had it done
for fifty dollars Il beg your pardon"
said the barber, ''but really, you know.
1 didn't notice that you wore one. "
Then the young man looked a great
awful look at that wretched barber and
went out into the open air of day and
longed to be a red-handed murderer
Boston Trans cript.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-07
UsEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Never throw feed on the ground for
cattle 20 dirty and scramble for.
-Moldy and unventilated cellars will
spoil butter or milky 7. Herald.
of ali fruits, tho apple is perhaps
the most valua lie. 1t is whole some; it
clogs the appetite less than any other
fruit; it may be eaten daily, yet be ever
acceptable Chicago Tribune.
Enough corn and potatoes are
every year destroyed by the cultivator,
because. the hills are a few inches out of
the way, to pay extra wages for good
workmen who will plant as corn aud
potatoes should be planted. - Prairie
Farmer.
To Wash Silk Neckties: To one
pint of rain water add teaspoonful of
9Thite honey and one of hartshorn.
After washing the ties do not squeeze,
but let them drip, and when nearly dry
press between the folds of q CLOTH
Exchange.
"A hens heart beats $50 times
minute. Fowls consume of air, ac-
cording to their weight, in the proper
ton of ten to seven as compared to
cattle and horses. Keep this in mind,
and see to it that your fowls have plenty
of fresh air.
-BrOiled potatoes is a new dish. Cut
cold boiled potatoes in slices a third of
an inch thick. Dip them in melted but
ter and fine bread crumbs. Place in a
double brOiler and broil over fire that
is not too hot. Garnish with parsley
and serve on a hot dish, or season with
salt and pepper, toast until a delicate
brown, arrange on a hot dish and sea-
son with butter.-N Y. Times.
"A writer in an Eastern paper says
that a rose-bush may be layered with
little trouble, and then tells how to do
1t. Make a narrow trench, three or
four inches deep, where a good, we'll
grown shoot can be bent into it. After
blooming, in June, cut a slit in the
shoot, selected at the point where it
it will touch the soil, press some soil
into the cut. bend the cane down to the
bottom of the trench, and fasten it there
with some pegs, and cover it well with
soil. By fall it will be a rooted plant,
and can be cut away and transplanted.
Chicago Times.
Hon. Cassius M. Clay, in the Ohio
Farmer says the potato is not a native
OF South America, but grows wild along
the table-lands- of the Rocky Mountains.
1t is not a ''tuber'' but bulb" The
eyes, he adds, are perfe gems of ova,
having the stems, leaves flowers and
roots in embryo. Every eye may be
safely cut off and planted separately.
He says the potato is not a root
swelled' or otherwise but is the fruit
of an underground stem (stamen) which
is no more like root that it is like
sheep. Mr.. Clay has the actual hardi-
hood to assert chat all the nice meth
DDS of cutting from the eye toward the
stem end is delusion and founded on
errOri'
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-07
General McCIelIan's Ancestral Elm


Woodstock, Conn, has an elm which
was set out on the day of the battle of
Lexington by the grandmother of Gen
eraI George B. Mcclellan. 1t was under
this tree that the General made a recent
speech upon the Mcclellan ancestry, the
occasion being his visit to Henry q.
Bowen's annual Woodstock celebration.
1t was General McClellan's first visit to
the home of his childhood in forty
years.
The tree is very large, some of its
silky green limbs shooting over $50
feet into the air. 1t is the largest elm
in the State, next to the one that Long
fellow embalmed in poetry at Norwich
Town. Since McClellan's visit one of
the lower limbs of the tree have fallen,
owing to the great weight of the leaves
on it. 1t extended almost directly in
horizontal course from the trunk, and
was eighty feet long. 1t Joined the
trunk forty feet above the ground, and
it did not break wholly away 1t now
forms huge ladder into the forks of the
tree.
Another famous Connecticut tree Is
the beautiful oak of Danbury. It stands
on a road just out of Danbury, and is
the largest and most perfect oak in the
State. 1t is perfect cone, 112 high, p
feet in circumference at the base, and
II feet at the first limb. Its branches
spread 100 feet--N J. Sun,
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


General Conway, of Brooklyn, es-
tablished l, 500 free schools in Louisi-
ana. Few are left.-N. ]. Times.
-Laselle Seminary, near Boston,
gave the two best bread-bakers among
the girls miniature golden loaf each
Boston Transcript.
The English courts have decided
that school-teachers have no right to
impose lessons upon pupils TO be
learned out of school hours.
There are 209, 387 school children
in the State of Nebraska, and the APP
portionment of the school fund shows
1903, 404. 35 to be distributed for their
benefit Chicago Times.
The New York State Sunda
School Association held its annual
meeting in Oswego recently. 1t is esti-
mated that there are 600, 900 children
in the State who do not attend Sunday
school.-N. 7. Tribune.
The american journal Of Education
says: ''Some think country school an
insignificant thing, but they are mis-
taken. The country schools will edu-
cate a majority of the children in the
future as they have done in the past. -
The Protestant ministers of New
England will meet in New Haven in
May, 1885, to take part in the Ameri-
can Congress of Churches, an organi-
zation formed in Pittsfield, Mass, June
Is. The object of this Congress is to
promote Christian unity.
A young Hebrew openly embraced
Christianity at the Boston Industrial
Home recently, and local paper says
this is believed to be the first instance
in the history of iBoston's ecclesiastical
activity of Israelites responding to di-
rect missionary labor on their behalf.
The COngregdtio7gdliSt laments that
too many church members now act as
if they regarded membership in the
church as but a sort of insurance against
eternal death, which is good so long as
the policy has not been formally can
celed for palpable breach of contract"
Writing of the Pan-Presbyterian
Council at Belfast, a correspondent OF
the Glasgow Herald says: 1.-The Yam
KEGS muster about third of the whole
convention, and they are its most active,
lively and interesting members. Their
vigor, or ginality and humor are mex
haustible.''
Prejudice against educating the
female sex is always great in Moham-
uGQdn anu 14lIlNDO COaubA iCSj DuL TIC
persistence and zeal of the self-deny-
ing female missionaries have finally
broken through Eastern custom and
tradition. and there is now a growing
demand for girls schools in British In
dia, at least.
At the recent celebration of its
tenth anniversary the Prussian Bible
Society reported that up to the begin
ming of the present year il had dis
tributed 1888, 254 Bibles and 1928, 597
New Testaments. During the past year
the British and Foreign Society, which
has an office in Berlin, distributed in
Germany 50, 400 Bibles, as against
50, $50 Bibles, and 1874 New Tesla
ments published by the Prussian Soci-
ETY..
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-07
4 HOME PICTURE.

DO you say this world Is empty.
Happiness n mere found,
JOY myth, and love phantom.
Friendship does not here abound9
In my hearts a sacred picture
bright and fair on cloth of gold.
And for those who call life empty
the canvas viii unfold
In Quiet lovely suburb
just outside the noisy town.
BY green fields and Wild flowers bounded
A sweet cottage ncstles down.
woodblne shading broad vcrandas,
Beauty all your senses greet;
Enter with me; though a stranger,
Hospitality you'll meet.
Now the twilight hour is fading
And TO seven points the hand,
when the sound OF wheels approaching
Greet a happy little band.
Jamie on his tip-tocs standing.
Reaches papa's dressug-gOwn,
And his slippers wee Lcontinc
by his easy-chhir sets down.
Then the trio. led by mamma,
Fly 20 door with eager bound,
Haste 90 give loving welcome,
Smiles and kisses all around.
Aftcr supper comes rrcIic.
With a bTirne on each knCo.
Mamma DOUBLING as she enters,
which the nOIscst OF the three.
For some valued service given,
Jamie now bill presents;
What an air of bus ness as he:
Yes, papa, you owe ten cents"
Now the happy hour Is ended,
Willie Wrinkles at the door,
And the little fairy figures
Now their parents kncel before.
And with sweet and rcvcrcnt voices
Hear them lisp their evening prayer
. Now lay mes" sure the angels
such a sight as this must share.
In this home OF love, o FRthcrl
May Thy blessing ever stay,
And may sickness, care and sorrow
larry long upon the wav.
Mrs. J. ~. y OrcTDss, IN EOstOn TT tnscript.
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A Communicative Dentist.

A concert was recently given by some
amateur musicians at Aust n. 1t was
largely attended bv the general pub
lie. One young lady belonging to one
of the first families, with large army-
sized mouth. sang a selection from an
Italian opera, which was vociferously
applauded, particularly by a stranger
on one of the front seats. Turning to
his neighbor, with whom he was not
acquainted, the stranger said:
What beautiful teeth that young
lady has"
II am glad to hear you so say. 1t is
n high compliment to me.
''Ah! you are the young lady's father.
You have indeed a charming daugh-
ter"
tCh, no, I'm not her father"
"Her brother?''
mo. / am no relative whatever.
but Pm the dentist who fixed her mouth
up with those teeth you admire so
much. / onIy charged fourteen dol
lars for them, but they have not been
paid for yet. ''-1erGs S. tnngs.
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Good Radiance OF Rats.

Rats and mice are a natural and I'M
avOidable punishment for neglect, care
lessness, or want of skill. l once went
on farm so stocked with rats that they
fought and squealed with the pigs for a
share of their food, and at times drove
away the pigs and took possession of
the troughs. | raised the floor of the
pig-pen eighteen inches above the
ground, and laid it tight with hemlock
plank. Every hiding place inside and
outside was removed. The cOrncrib
was set on capped posts and wire net
ting was nailed around the bottom and
the caves. The sheep-pen was cleared
of every thing that could harbor YER
min. The horse stable and COW stable
were paved with Cobble stones covered
with cement and gas tar, and every
thing was let open. The barn was
built on posts eighteen inches above
the ground, and the floors were made
tight everywhere. No place was left to
the rats or mice, but the doors to go in
at, and, except the barn, no place was
left to hide in.
Then half a dozen cats were raised
and fed at milking time with regular
rations of TX. If one came to the
house it was shown the broom. For
years there was not a rat to be seen;
some mice came in with the grain or
corn from the fields. but they had a
short time before the cats bad picked
them up. l could never tell what
saved, because I never knew what
lost. But 1 saved myself a great deal
of worry; the bags were free from
holes, and the corn in the crib smelled
no more so foully of rats and mice
There is nothing better to protect grain
and meal bins than broad hoop iron
nailed on the edges on both sides, in
side or outside, as may be most conven-
lent; and hemlock plank should be
used to build them because of its sharp,
splintery nature; and, perhaps, this de-
vice might be safely used even with the
other means of prevention.-N. J.
Tribune.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-07
A Great Problem.

Take all the Kidney and Liver
Medicines,
Take all the Blood purifiers,
Take all the Rheumatic remedies,
Take all the Dyspepsia and Indigestion
cures.
Take all the Agtte, Fever, and bilious
specifies,
Take all the Brain and Nerve force
TepiUerS,
Take all the Great health restorers.
In short, take all the best qualities OF
all these, and the best
Qualities of all the best medicines in
the world, and you win find that Hop
--Bitters have the best curative qualities
and powers of all -coHcentrdtcB
In them, and that they will cure when
any or all of these, singly or combined
Fail. A thorough trial viii give positive
proof of this
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it was not lead-grimed, was pallid with
fatigue.
He has only tainted, he said, as the
doctor bent over the boy.
Just so!'' said the latter, cheerily.
''He only wants a glass of sherry"
Gertrude rose from the boy to thank
his bearer, her eyes dim with happiness.
But he had turned away.
1.-The worse time was just before thsy
broke in, Gerty. 1 thought the earth
must fall again, or something happen
to prevent them reaching me" con
fided Bob to her when she visited MIN
next day in his room. The whole mat
ter was to Master Bob one for pure con
graduation, and he spent his time in
rehearsing n graphic account of the adj
venture for the benefit of his DANES
house. ''But that fellow Losford is no
end of a trump. He's been up to say
goOd-by, and l tod him what an ass
I'd made myself about him. That 5 a
comfort l heard his voice first of all,
do you know, and Mrs. Goodwin says
they wouldn't have got me out but for
him"
The likelihood of the alternative APP
peared to give him unmixed satistac-
4 don't think they would" muir
INJURED Gertrude, eagerly presenting
him with a large bunch of grapes from
a side-table. ''pll get you some more,
Bob
you bet your boots they wouldn't :.
It's pity he can't Climb. Fancy a fell
low like that with what the doctor calls
constitutional vertigon 1 can't make
it out"
And Bob fell into a brown study,
which passed into a doze; and thus re-
freshed, he was enabled to chatter with
out ceasing all dinner-time.
Gertrude stole out of the room, and,
running down stairs, found him in the
hall He had mislaid a favOrite stick.
Mr. LOsford," she began, hurriedly,
standing before him in, she knew not
what, attitude of pretty humility. 81
said something yesterday, the memory
of which is burning me with shame. ]
can not forgive myself; but will you
say you do? Bob has made amends.
Let me do so. What Il foolish girl said,
can not, have hurt you ," she pleaded,
as he made no answer.
Rather should not have hurt me, -
he replied, gravely; "yet it did, cruelty,
Miss Goodwin. But for the chance oc-
currence of last night, you would be
thinking so still. 1t was ungen3rous as
well as thoughtless.
Gertrude WINGED under each almost
cOntemptuouS word She had not bar
gained for this. Too much hurt for
tears, she murmured as she turned
away:
- am sorry
"a moment, please! From any othel
woman l should have accepted the
apology without a word. I have scolded
you that you might know what it was
like before l asked you to give me the
right to do it. Gertrude, will you be my
wife P"
And Gertrude said "Yes.''
When she had fully satisfied him upon
this point, she asked:
"And you have quite forgiven me,
Walter?"
Il shall have TO, when you have done
the pennance l order" There was a
twinkle of fun in his eyes a stranger
would not have believed could harbor
there. 1T is that you wear the bit OF
blue gent; an at dinner this evening"
The sight of which harmless speci-
men caused Bob TO blush the only blus
he was guilty of in his school days.
English MGqazine.
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Povertv and sufferine.

81 was dragged down with debt, poverty
and suffering for years, caused by sick
family and large bills for doctoring.
II was completely discouraged, until one
year ago, by the advice of my pastor, COM
menced using Hop Bitters, and IN one month
we were all we'll, and none of us have seen
a sick day since, and / want to say TO all
poor men. you can keep your families we'll
a year with Hop Bitiers for less than one
doctors visit viii cost. 1 know it"-A
WORKINGNAN.
E5S- None genuine without a bunch Of green
Hops on the white label Shun all the vile, poi
sOnous stun with Hop or Hops in their
name.
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.APTLLON
COUCH CURE.


TEBT1MONtALS.
MRS. W. X. STDLEY. No. 1913 Ellis avenue Chicago.
ILL., says: We have used Papillon Cough Cure for
all kinds Of coughs in families. We have never
known case Of whooplng cough that the syrup failed
70 cure. We recommend IL 10 every and wish ev-
cry family had bottle Of f. on hand"
MRS. MARY =. KICHAHDs, No. 357 Ellis avenue,
writes June 30, 1882: owe you many thanks for the
courtcsy last Saturday evening ia acnding me the
medicine so ouch wished for. ] was FIRST enabled
TO try your whooping cough remedy pnpillon Cough
Cure) through the Kindness N my neiRhbor. Mrs. "
X sidiey, and u gave such great relief 20 my little
girl that when tho second child attacked coy
cfed the same relief for her. know Of othermed
cine which 80 much mitigated malady generally 90
distressing and feel very appTcoiatiyc Of my good
fortune IA obtaining g."
MHs. NJ. d. DAvIs. No. sss5 Ellis avenue. and Mrs
Jas III. buchanan, No. 1881 Kills avenue also recon-
mend PaplHon Cough Cure for who0pinR cough; IL
cured their children, one infant only few weeks
old, whom another parOzysn would have choHed to
denfh as rs life had been for hours deHpnired Of
1t is harmless vegetable syrup very delicious. and
is for sale by al druggists.
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Once Every Day.

"Ha!''
ssLook!'
MAN climbing one of the electric
light towers
Crowd gathers!
Heads thrown back!
Eyes follow him.
More crowd!
Hell fall''
"No he won't"'
Crowd increases.
"Ahl he's-r'
No he ain'tr'
(Gets safely to the top; Penews car
bons; starts to descend.)
Har'
" Stand clearl''
Going to fallp'
"Non'
"Yest'
'Seei
"Hap'
''All rightn'
(Man descends in safety
''Humphi Anybody could do rs!
Must be fools to stand around here this
way. Detroit Free Press.
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Hardened Liver.

Five years ago broke down with kidney
and liver complaint and rheumatism.
Since then l have been unable to beab0ut
at all My liver became hard like wood (;
my limbs were pulled up and filled with
water
All the best physicians agreed that moth"
ing could cure mo / resolved to try Hop
Btters; have used seven bottles; the hard
ness has all gone from my liver, the swell
ing from my limbs, and it has iD0TIcd a
miracle in my case; otherwise would have
been now in my grave. J. w. MoREY,
Buffalo, Oct. 1, 1881.
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"MR. Brooks, near Albany, was hope
lessly afflicted with Cancer. It had eaten
through his nose into his mouth and THROAT.
The time of his death was only n question
of a very short time. He prayed for death,
his suffering was so great. S. S. S. has
had a wonderful effect on him. His i'm
provement is so great that we all feel sure
of his being perfectly cured in time"
w. II. GEnBERT, Albany, Ga.
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No LADY of refinement likes to resort TO
superficial devices to supply a becoming
health alone that lights the countenance
and brings back fresh tints to the faded
cheek. Ii anything on earth will do this,
it is Mrs. Lydia f. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, which has already brought
health TO multitudes with whom all other
means had failed.
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There is no dissent from the decision of
candid and capable dairymen, that the I'M
proved Butter Color of Wells, Richardson
& Co., Burlington, VT, is the best in the
world. Such men as A. w. Cheever, of
Massachusetts, E. d. Mason, Vermont,
Francis A. Hoffman, Wisconsin, use it,
and recommend it as superior to all others.
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Buchu-paiba." Quick, complete cure, all
annoying Kidney and Urinary Diseases, 81.
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Domestic postage in Mexico is
higher than foreign, and there is not a
postal-card in the country. Previous to
the first of last January there was a
Postas-card in use costing three cents,
but it could only be used in sending to
foreign countries and mailed only at
the office whore purchased.
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THE professional thief is the only man
who believes in doing everything exclu-
sively upon his own hook.
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AN anxious inquirer asks: Who're is
che best place for saltwater bathingF' In
the saltwater, dear friend.
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PUBLIC speakers and singers use Piso'
Cure for hoarseness and weak lungs.
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THE MARKETS.

Trough on Coughs, 15o., at Druggists. Com
Dlete cure CouGhs. Hoarseness, Sore Throat
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Skinny Men. "Welis' Health Remover" re-
stores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, 81.
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AN appropriate sign for dilapidated
cIock-"Hands off"
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OARsMEN might appropriately be termed
"Knights of the rowed."