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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
Rhubarb Culture.

Rhubarb, like currant bushes, will
grow almost anywhere and under any
treatment and consequently receives
more ill-usage than any other green
thing growing But for this reason it
should not be supposed that when grow
ing under neglect and abuse it will
do it's best and produce as abundant
crops and of equally good quality as
whep good treatment is given.
After it is once planted rhubarb re-
quires little cultivation, but it must
have at all times deep, rich soil, the
richer the better. In field culture the
roots are planted about four feet apart
each way, and cultivated like any hoed
crop. In the family garden they should
be planted two to three feet apart, in a
single row, at least four feet distant
from other plants.
1t may be raised from seed, but as
there is little reliance in the seedlings
being of the same variety as the parent
plants, division of the roots is the meth
od of propagation usually adopted.
ANY piece of DOT with bud or crown
will grow if planted about two inches
deep in mellow soil firmly pressed
around it. Roots may be planted in
autumn or early spring. Plantations
are usually renewed every four or five
years, yet when a liberal dressing OF
manure is given every fall the roots
will produce crop for an almost in
definite period. Heavy manuring.
clean cultivation, and liberal space are
the essential requisites for raising large,
succulent rhubarb. The varieties best
known are:
Linn@us, grown extensively fol
market as we'll as home use. 1t is early,
very productive, and of a brisk, spicy
flavor Its principal fault is that it
seeds so freely that unless all flower
stalks are cut off as soon as they appear
the crop deteriorates rapidly.
Victoria is later, has larger leaves and
stalks, and requires very rich, rather
heavy ground for its best development.
Paragon is a new variety, originated
in England, and now introduced here.
The stalks are bright red, heavy, and
produced in quick succession and great
abundance. 1t is earlier, of more deli
cate favor, and decidedly less acid
than any other variety we are ac-
quainted with But its most remarka-
BILE and most valuable qualification is
that it does not produce flower stalks,
to which fact its great productiveness is
mainly attributable, all the strength of
the plant being used for the develop
ment of its leaves. Garden.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
The Fashion Of Short Hair.

The fashion of cropping the hair is
fast gaining favor, both in Europe and
America, and it is quite wonderful 70
discover how many LADIES' are willing to
sacrifice their wealth of shining tresses
to a passing fancy. 1t is all very well
while the fashion lasts for the girls with
pretty faces to transform themselves
into bewitching little cupids, gut alas.
when short locks are pronounced old
stvle, what then? A smart hair-dresser
can cut off the finest, longest head of
hair in about five minutes, but the ultra
fashionable victim who is thus shorn
must remember that it will take five
years to get those shining waves back
again. The hair lying in loose, fluffy
rings all over the head is pretty sight,
but when one has become tired of 1t
and decides to let the hair grow long
again, the transition state is anything
but agreeable, when the locks grow to
about the length of eight inches, and
hang straight and stubborn behind the
ears-too Short to braid or put up in any
manner, and too long to arrange IN
montagues' or fluffy haloes about the
face. Ladies who cling to their luxu-
rant tresses, while looking, perhaps, a
little out of style, viii soon discover
that they have made a hair-breadth es-
cape from much annoyance and, per-
haps, flom the loss of considerable
temper. m 7. Evening Past
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

an old friend, and leader in church in /
terests, and thought, natural enough.
I'd come right over"
Don't take it hard of me, joking,
with YOU" said Martha, but it is kind
of amusing when you come to look sti
and see how stories get made up and set
going out of nothing. Every one of 'eln
thinks they tell the truth, and first thing
you know there's a lie travelling about
fast as lightning" and she turned to
her neglected washing, as if no time
must be lost.
Il can't get back before two. I'm
sorry l happened to trouble you on an
announcement day, I'm sure" said Mrs.
Peak, humbly. "Pll step down the
street for awhile and do few errands,
and you mustn't let me put you out.
just a cup of tea and taste of bread
and butter'll be all [ ask for,' and
Martha nodded and told her aunt not 10
worry, and 20 have as good time as
she could.
The old lady's pride had met with a
sad dOwnfall-she did not know how to
face the people at home. But luckily
she was saved the first acknowledge
ment. as Asa Fales had reached Peter
sham before her and had found Mr..
Daniel johnson briskly at work by the
garden trellis covering his grape-vines.
He had prudently avoided any refer
ence to the next world, and, indeed,
had learned the falseness of the story
from Petersham man whom he had met
on the road. So he entered at once
upon the project of buying the pine
woods between Gaytown and Hollis,
and found to his great satisfaction that
his old friend would be glad to join him
if the affair could be well arranged.
Mrs. Peak herself met Mr.. johnson,
and could hardly look him in the face
when she asked for his health. And
when the neighbOrs came in one after
another that evening after she was
again comfortably established at home
she said: - You may laugh at me al
you have a mind to, butt don't NEAR
to need another lesson like this-I think
it's a good deal better to mind what
we've got to do instead of Twin on wha
folks have got to say; but it's hard tC
teach an old dog new tricks. and suppose
| shall always like to hear what news
there is a-GOin'. $ q. Jetcett, IL
YOuth'S COMPANION.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
50 Fighting Weeds. -

We meet frequently with this heading
to paragraphs in exchanges. 1t con
veys a wrong lesson, as commonly used.
Simple and quiet determination is bet
ter. If weeds are allowed to get foot
in height. warfare is then begun and
carried on to an indefinite length of
time, and the weeds often come OIL vic
torious. The usual cause of this failure
is in attempting to cultivate too much
land with a small force. The result is
an enormous growth of weeds, a cbOk-
ing and diminutiOn of the crop, and
supply of noxious seeds to fill the soil
and last years. The weeds get entire
possession in this way and the crops
have an unequal chance until another
blowing checks them temporarily.
The remedy is a we'll arranged plan
for going over the ground once a week,
in all hOed crops, sweeping the surface,
killing all weeds before they come up.
All this work is more than paid for in
the increased growth of the crops by
this continued stirring, provided the
right tools are employed. Take the
corn crop for instance. The pillow and
the harrow will prepare clean, mellow
bed of earth before planting. If the
field is inverted sod, it may be reduced
to a state of fine pulverization with the
Acme harrow, or a disc harrow, the fin
ish being given with any smoothing har-
row. BY planting the seed an inch and
a half or two inches deep. in the shall
low furrow made by the marker, a
fine slant-tooth harrow may be passed
over both before and after the
plants are up without injury to them.
The operation may be continued once
a week until the corn is a foot high.
If Y,la - ha
but they will be erect again in a day
or two. After this a shallow cultivator
may be run between the rows till the
corn is as high as the horse s back
This work, properly performed, will
leave the field as clean as a floor-the
small slant teeth killing the sprouting
seed in the row and among the plants
as well as over the whole surface; and
the subsequent cultivating keeping the
spaces clean between the rows. We
have never seen cleaner fields than
such as were treated in this way, and
the cost of this labor, first and last, was
less than the old hand-hOeing.
But it must not be forgotten that the
first attempt viii be a failure if the ne
cessary work is intermitted and the
| necessary to keep them constant
" under the surface. There must be no
''ighting," but suppression and ex-
termination.
The potato crop may be treated in
! the same way until the plants are five OF
six inches high, after which the leaves
would be somewhat lacerated with the
harrow. Carrots, beets and turnips are
| too small in early growth and require
| clean soil in advance, with frequent
! passing of the cultivatOr between the
rows, which, as they become larger by
growth. require a cultivator. that may be
| Contracted in breadth. 1.-THE CultttGtor.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
Widows Ways.

widows are queer" said the thin
man with the cold tea scheme, as he
scratched his nose with the point of a
Barlow knife; There is something
about them that is not to be found in
any other portion of the human race"
Overflow of electricity, p'rhaps, "
sententiOusly suggested the thin man
without shirt collar.
P'rhaps."
" While the husband is alive he acts
as a sort of ground wire that they can
discharge their excess of the element
through, continued the thin man, in
the style of one who has long studied
and philosophical upon a subject of
deep personal importance. +" A woman
possesses much more electricity than a
man. 1t is a necessity for the serious
mission of life she fulfills. This fire.
quently accumulates, like an excess of
steam, and then she has to blow off. -
You have found it so?' sympa-
thetically asked the man with the cold
tea scheme.
. 1t has struck me that way" replied
the thin man with a sigh.
''YOU are ground wire, perhaps?"
Il am no ground wire, - answered the
| thin man in a low, subdued tone of
/ voice.
! 4 nave OCCotolOldlAN lOIlCCu IlldU ,JOu
| looked as though Won had been struck
by lightning, but what | referred to was
a woman without her ground wire-a
widow. There is something wonder
fully fascinating about them. They
seem to belong to the fraternity; to
have taken all the degrees, as | may
say, ana can give man the sign and
grip and claim full fellowship. If l
may be allowed the expression, they
know exactly how to tickle him under
the chin right where his chin is most
ticklish. And then they have the nerve
to do it. There is where they hold such
an advantage over the unmarried girls
that come in competition with them.
While your miss is blushing and putting
a fellow to all sorts of desperate at
tempts to make himself agreeable, your
widow is quietly making him think he
is the handsOmest and smartest man in
the world. You see she puts him in
good humor with himself and then he is
sure to be in good humor with her.
She knows to an ounce Just how
much tiattery Il man will take from a
woman, and she also knows that this
earth does not contain the full amount.
She is the terror of her sex. The mar
ried women are afraid of her, for she
knows too much. and the girls detest
Ter, for they feel she Is rival in the
field with tactics of which they are in
in sublime ignorance. Naturally the
unhappy position eXCites sympathy, and
the men view her as q sacred trust be-
queathed to them by some departed
ground wire that they are bound to re-
spect, Then they are so coy. com
Portable and confidential like. They
tell you all their little woes and trOu-
bles, and hopes and annoyances, and
the first thing you know they make you
feel like a father to them.
In fact they are so warm and com
forting as widows that man"
That's enough" broke in the thin
man. Don't go any farther. Your
picture is a pretty one. Don't spoil
it with a bad frame. As widows they
are angels, but
LAS wives, what are they?"
well, I'm married to one and no
at liberty to say Pittsburgh Chron
, | icle
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Fat hens lay small eggs.

Fat hens lay small eggs.
-Prune regularly once a year.
Pear trees require a very rich soil
-Churn often if you want good but
ter.
Feed growing chicks all they viii
eat.
Raise plenty of carrots Tor your
horses.
Imperfect sailing causes streaky
butter.
Apple trees should be muIched in
dry weather
Give the stock little bone meal
occasionally.
Hungry rats will eat harness. Hang
it out of their reach.
Perfect and continuous smothering
will eradicate Canada thistles.
"A clean clover sod plowed about
four inches deep will raise a big crop
of corn-N Y. Herald.
An exchange says:~ IAN animal
ready to die from Over-feed, or stolen
visit to the feed-bin, may be saved by a
dose of four to six quarts of bread
yeast"
Prom every quarter comes the
evidence of usefulness of skim milk for
laying hens, and farmers who have not
tried it should give it a hearing this
spring. Hens will consume an i'm
mense quantity of it if allowed a full
supply. Prairie Farmer.
-Tepid water with little borax dis
solved in it is good to wash table linen
in. Nice table clothes and napkins
should not be allowed to become really
much soiled, so that they will require
vigorous rubbing with soaU or in hot
water.-N Y. Post.
Take care of your horses tails. II
is not half the trouble to tie up their
tails before starting from the stable
that it is to clean them after they have
become covered with mud. Besides
the dirt coming in contact with the hair
makes it harsh and brittle, and con-
sequently is injurious.
Ham toast Melt in a stew-pan d
small piece of butter till little brown.
Put in as much fnely-minced ham as
will cover the amount of toast you wish
to serve. Add enough beef broth or
cream to slightly moisten, and when
quite hot, stir in quickly one or two
beaten eggs. Place the mixture on
pieces of moistened and buttered toast,
cut into any shape you fancy.-TrOy
Times
To ornament the top of loaf OF
chocolate cake, make little white
frosting, and, after spreading the
chocolate frosting over the cake, make
scollops or rings with the white; if it is
made little sitter with sugar than the
chocolate frosting, it will keep its
shape perfectly, and will add very
much to the good appearance of the
cake; it may be put on with a spoon,
very carefully, or you can make little
funnel of stiff, white paper, and drop
| it through that. Boston Globe.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
Susan B. AnthOny's Experience.

Susan B. Anthony has been relating
to a correspondent some of her expert
ences. DENYING that the story that
anyone asked if Senator Anthony, of
Rhode Island, was her son, she said that
something Just as funny did occur to
her "a lady was introduced to her at
a reception, and she said: I'm so glad
to meet, Mrs. Anthony. l saw your
husband in the Senate to-day He was
pointed out to me as one of the nOta-
bes, and liked him so much'-that
was an actual fact. But the meanest
thing that was ever said about me, -
continued Miss Anthony, twas in a
Western paper soon after our conven-
ton. 1t was a story about my having
a poodle dog and carrying it in my
arms, and it said that took it to the
convention and held it in my lap, and
when got up to speak it curled down
at my feet. There is not a word of
truth in it" do you own d0g?"
No, and 1 never had one. 1 never
even spoke to one.' But, did the
President squeeze your hand?" Il
must tellyou how that was. When
had finished my speech to him at the
White House that day he said in the
politest manner possible that he be-
Heved the women ought to have what
ever they wanted. said: Let's shake
hands on that, Mr.. President and he
took hold of my hand and held it while
he was making his reply. It was only
minute or So" But did he squeeze
it?' He didn't squeeze it a bit. That
was all there was to it, Miss An
thony," adds the correspondent, will
remain here a few weeks longer doing
missionary work among the Congress-
men. She is very popular with every
body, even with the most violent oppo-
nent of woman suffrage, and is ALWAYS
a great favorite with children. - Wash
tn1t0R Letter.
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Calculated ON That.

There was man walking up and
down in the Union Depot the other day
who was SO tall and thin as to
attract general attention. He finally
approached Officer Button with an in
quiry about trains, and the officer made
bold to inquire if it was case of tape
worm.
mo, sir - was the emphatic answer.
81 am training for prize-fght,'
"Indeed! Who are you going to
fight"
"Slugger Sullivan, unless he backs
OUT
MY dear friend" said the officer, as
tears of sympathy stood in his eyes. III
John Sullivan should hit you a body
blow he would send his fist cl, ar
through you 50 that half his arm would
appear on the other side
Exactly, sir That's what I have
calculated on With my ribs and YER
tebrp holding his hand ia 4 | have him
at disadvantage and l will hammer
him good and solid. Ycs, sir, Let him
jam his fist through my body and the
stakes are mine !''-Dctro1 Free Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

DIR. Emin Bey found a colony Of
Akkas during his recent travels in
Africa. They were pigmies, the
tallest of them not exceeding four
feet, the average for men being about
three feet. They are regular little
savages, and fight with desperation
when aroused. The color of their skin
ranges from a clear yellow to a glis-
tening red, and their bodies are Gov
hair They usually live in the forests,
without other shelter than that Afforded
by the trees; yet their chief often has a
hut built, and surrounded with other
huts for the married members of his
tribe.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24
TO OUR REApERs.

The proprietors Of ALLCoCK's Porous
PLAsTERs and BRANDRETH's PILLS will
publish for the next few weeks in this
paper some of the many cures that these
remedies have effected.
If you are in need of medicine give them
a trial. They guarantee them to be made
of the purest and best drugs that money
can buy, powerful to cure, yet perfectly
harmless.
ALLCoCK's Porous PLASTER is the stand
ard of excellence and like all good things
largely initiated. The public is especially
cautioned against all so-called porous plas-
tiers, none of which contain the healing
gums that Allcock's does, but are made
from poor and cheap materials and simply
gotten up to sell on the reputation of the
genuine article.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

PALPTT ALTON or rapid beating ofthe heart
followed by p ,riods of complete cessation
is caused chiefly by nervousness and bad
blood. If the disease is neglected it is liza
BILE to result seriously, especially at a time
of sudden excitement. Purify the blood
strengthen the muscular and nervous sys
tenn, governing the heart, by using DR.
Guysott's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla
and you will soon be rid of every trace Of
the affection.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

/ WAS troubled with Chronic Catarrh and
gathering in my head, was very deaf at
times, had discharges from my ears, and
was unable to breathe through my nose.
Before the second bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm was exhausted l was cured, and to-
day enjoy sound health. e. j. CoRBIN,
923 Chestnut street, Field Manager, Pbila-
delphia Publishing House, Pa.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

OPINION OF DIR. MOTT, LATE GOV
EMINENT CHEMIST, ON ALLCOCK'S
POROUS PLASTER.
My investigation Of ALLcoCK's Porous
PLASTER shows it to contain UdludbIe and
essential Ingredients not present in any
other Plaster. These ingredients are 50
perfectly proportioned that the ALLCoCK's
Porous PLASTER will not cause BtiSters or
EUcessiUe Irritation, and find it superior
to and more efficient than any other Plas-
ter. HENRY A. Mort, JR., PHI D., F. C.S.
Professor of Chemistry NY. Med. College, cto-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

The Texas Courier Record Of Medt-
cine says that certain elderly colored
women have ga habit of chewing pins
as a solace for trouble" The occa-
sional swallowing of one of them does
not appear to lie attended with danger.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

D. r. LOCKE, Petroleum v Nasty, editor
Toledo " Blade" wri es: / had on n
forefnger of my right hand 'run-round.'
The finger became swollen to nearly twice
its natural size. A friend gave me HEM
RVS CARBoLIC SALvE, and in twenty min
utes the pain had subsidized. The inham-
mation left the finger in a day"
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Everywhere are refusing to take white,
laFdy looking butter except at grease"
prices. Consumers want nothing but gilt
edged butter, and buyers therefore recon-
mend their patrons to keep uniform color
throughout the year by using the Improved
Butter Color made by Wells, Richardson
e. Co., Burlington, Vt. 1t is the only color
that can be relied on to never injure tho
butter, and to always give the perfect color.
Sold by druggists and merchants.
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Developments in cancer treatment.

Mr.. W. H. Gilbert, Albany, Ca, says:
A gentleman named Moore, near this
city, had an eating cancer on his face,
which had eaten away his nose and his
under lip, and had extended puntil it had
nearly reached his eye. The cancer was
eating his gums and had rendered his teeth
so loose that he thought they might at any
time drop out. He has been taking SwIFT's
SPECIFIC about three months, and its effect
has been wonderful. 1t has driven the poi
son from his system, the cancer has healed
greatly his teeth have become strong again,
and he thinks he has been rescued from an
awful death. He is the most enthusiastic
man / ever saw"
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free. The SWIFT SPECIFIC Co,
Drawer 8, Atlanta. Ga,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

IT is truly wonderful TO see how the namo
Of Mrs. Pinkham is a household word
among the wives and mothers of our land.
Alike i'm the luxurious homes Of our great
citios and in the humble cabins OF the re-
mote frontier one wOman's deeds have
borne their Kindly fruit in health for others.
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Cream Sponge Cake: Break two
eggs in a coffee cup; beat them well. then
pour in enough sweet cream to fill the
cup and beat again. Then to this add
one cup of sugar, one cup and a halt
of flour, in which two teaspoons of bak-
ing powder have been thoroughly
stirred. The Household
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

A POET has written a poem entitled
Lady Moon" This explains what the
man in the moon has been doing up there
so long.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

Iowa is said to be out of debt.-Phild-
delphid Call. That's the result of so many
people settling there.-HarJOrd Sunday
journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

1T is a remarkable fact that however we'll
young ladies may be versed in grammar,
very lew are able TO decline matrimOny.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

SOME of the agricultural papers are
printed on Hoe presses. And a number
of them rake in a great deal of money,
too.-A. Y Granite.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

No MATTER how many people are dis
posed to kick whenever any noise Is made,
they never complain about the racket made
by the dinner bell.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-04-24

oman over bored !" exclaimed the office
boy as his boss vainly endeavored to re-
flute the arguments of a book-agent.-N T.
Journal