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How to bs a Magnetic Girl.

From the New York World. c
''Do you remember the cane test9 A
man takes the article and holds it be-
fore him at arms length with a hand
tightly gripping each end OF it. and en-
deavors to stand still after have
placed my hand gently upon it. Let
us try it. Take the stick
| did so, hracing myself as rigidly AZ
an iron bar. The young woman laid
the palm CT one white hand lightly
upon the rod, and after moment |
| felt rny self swaying to and fro, then
jerked violently forward, thrown back
and yanked promiscuously about the
apartment until l was entirely out of
breath and began to feel very red in
the face. l sat down putting and
painting, while my fair hostess giggled
gleefuly. The thing Was as great a
mystery to me RS ever and | confess
ed the fact so soon as had recovered
sufficient breath to- express myself in
| words.
cit is very simple" laughed my friend.
~ may have accomplished it by
means of magnetism, bms / will show
you how TO do it without Take the
cane and brace yourself again. You
see you are in q perfectly rigid posi-.
ton, with every muscle strained to it's
| utmost tension. Consequently the
| slightest pressure from rae upon the.
stick, whether that pressGre be mag
netic or rot, is bound tu throw you
| off your equilibrium. NoSwI place my
| open palm upon the article, and L
need only use.the slightest pressure to
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SLUGGER SULLIVAN.
What Makes His Heart Ache-His Merry,
Trainer.

| What Makes His Heart Ache-His Seryy
! Trainer.
| New York Letter to San Francisco Argo
There is something attractive about
Sullivan's style despite his toughness
and naughty contemptfo for the rules ol
English grammar He was in town q
few nights ago with Pat Sheedy, his
manager, and he received the homage
OF the town with his customary seren
ity. Only one ething annoyed him, and
that was the allegation in q morning
paper that he was afraid OF Mitchell
on account OF a superstition that had
haunted him ever since the English
man got in a knock down blow or
him at Madison Square Garden
| three Or four years ago.
What makes my heart ache" said
the mighty slugger, looking me very
hard in the eye, "is d. way d public
goes on about that little mill. Did ]
bes' Mitchell, or DIN ]? l done him
brown an licked i'm till a. perlice
stopped d tight. Whad den? Every
| uddel chump in d. hull country goes
| on maxim remarks bout Mitchell
doin' me up. Whad's the bes.' test oi
a straight tighter?-the hull NV tn gate
money to so to tn winner, nin't dat
so? Ii n man is sure lie kin win won
he fight fur d hull prize and take d.
chances on all or nothin'? Wv course.
Wen. III fight any man in d world on
dem conditions. | don't care whad' s
his color, his size, OF his welght-I'll
give hlnS every advantage and fight fur
d hull receipts er u blank Kin yo'
lind man on de tace Of d earth
that'll do the same wild me? Nix. The
man don live what II take d. chances +"
Here the champion leaned back and
stared harder yet. His argument was
| conclusive and he knew it. After a
short pause ne shook his big hand to
emphasize his words, and continued:
'Mitchell's good man and a plucky
one, but y kin betcher life he don
come here an spar me, the winners
to take d. hull gatssmoney. Not he.
he gifts his percentage, win or lose in
d match, on July tift' !, or else he won
come. An yit he has d nerve to go
on talkin' bout my bein' afraid Nv
himi 1t makes me scss in my heart,
dat's what it does
Mr.. Pat Sheedy has, and always
has had. q remarkable influence over
Sullivan. shcedy is gambler by oc.
cupation, and his worst enemy will
admit that he's as square as a die.
The story goes that Sullivan once
made g feint TO strike Sheedy during
the one and only dispute they ever
had. AS the champion drew back his
fist, the smooth-faced and unemotion,
al gambler leaned forward until his
face was Within half loot csthe an.
cry pugilist.
Il don't fight that way, john" he
said, quietly. when make up my
mind to fight you, you re gone. You
know me. never run a bluff, but
this is q fair wsprning, and the only
one you'll ever receive"
Sullivan looked: into the eye OF the
man about whom,so many stories o
extraordinary nerve and quickness
are recorded, now dropped his hand
They get along capi5ally now.
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An oa,tburst OF Oratory.
n, the Salt I,al,e Tribl,ns.

From, the Salt Lake Tribune.
, Old; Colenel Zell, a5;tDe time 7si,en
Grant was, up for the presidency, and
whea the Democratic watchwortG was
"Arything to beat Grant" was ad-
dressing AN enthusiastic meeting of
Con.stocle Republicans when g.. Dem
ocLat, who was changing orgto the
ve.ge of the crowd" sang out: Its
easy tallsin', Colonel, but well show
yousoaaething next Fall" Tine Ccl-
onel was Southern Union man
of! the ultra school, and 3
admirsr of Grant. He at once
wheeled about, and with ap-
lifted bands, hair nristling and eyes
\ flashing fire cried cat: "Buifd worm
fencs. round a winter supply of Sum
mer weather, ski.a the clouds frora the
sky with a teaspoon; catch u Athunder.
bolt in bladder; break a hurri
cane TO harness; grouEsd sluice ag
earthquake; bake hell III an icshousst
lassoo on avalanche; fig clout on The
crater OF an active volcano; aive al
| the stars in nail kegs hang out The
ocean on a grapevine 10 dry put thu
| sky to soak on n gound; unbuckle the
beiiy-ba OF eternity, and paste 'Te
Let on the sun and moon, but never
| sir-never for a moment delude your
self with the idea that you can bea
| Grant,"
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yours. We want Bancroft. When

yours. We want Bancroft. When
and where did you see him last?"
/ felt the ground suddenly slipping
from under my feet. The whole hor.
ror OF my situation flashed upon me.
Mabel spoke up; Frank" she said
"when | saw that number in the paper
this afternoon l knew that it waa
Bancroft. Icould not keep silent aft.
er such q dreadful thing, and / felt
that this was perhaps the way open
to break your connection with that
wretch. So l put on my things and
came down here. It was for both oul
sakes. o, Frank, tell the gentleman
all you know OF that man and let us
at least get our skirts clear OF this aw-
full crime"
The chief looked at ME fixedly. Tn.
der certain circumstances mans
BRAIN will work like lightning. In All
instant had formulated plan.
"Have you q private room?"
asked.
Eyes" he replied, .'come this way. ("
"Wait here" I said to Mabel; ''do
not be alarmed will tell him ALL"
When the chief closed the door oil
the inner room said to him very
calmly:
There is no such man as Bancroft
He is a mere creation OF my poor
wife's fancy" said.
Explain yourself" ;"
~ will. Ii you will make the most
trifiing inquiries you will find that nc
such person as Bancroft ever existed.
Did she tell you he used to work in
Reeds tea Store?"
ayes, believe she did"
"Well, inquire at Reeds ard you
will learn that he never had such a
man in his employ. The fact is, my
wife exhibits at times certain signs O..
alteration. This imaginary mar
Bancroft is the most noticeable one
| had hoped, sir, to keep this secret
locked forever in my own breast, but
these circumstances force me, ofcourse,
to make confession of it to you.
trust, as gentleman, you will not be.
tray this melancholy confidence. My
physician has warned me not to dis.
turb the hallucination, else l would
have warned you in the other room.
Isuppose she told you, among other
things, that Bancroft once thrust a
billiard cue down a clergy
throat"
Eyes, she did say something about
that?"
"Well, how preposterous that's! Do
you want further proof? What would
a clergyman be doing around a billiard
saloon?"
I The chief was convinced. 81 noticed
something queer about her eye," he
said, grasping my hand sympatheti-
cally. Depend upon me to keep
num-"
Mabel was anxiously waiting our
coming.
"1t is all right. Mrs. styne," SAID the
chief. "Your husband has told me
every thing and you can 60 now. I'm
much oblidged to you"
She cried little on the way home
and wanted to be sure | was not ang
ry. "Where has that monster gomez"
she asked.
"He has fed" replied, "and will
never bother us again"
And he never has Chicago Tribune
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Al Bosss Love for His Mothcr:

0fEall the love affairs in the world,
none caa'surpass the true love of.nbig
boy for his mother 1t is a love pure
end nozzle, honorable in the highest de-
gree to both. | do not mean merely ID
intifuiaffectior | mean a love which
makessa boy gallant to has motherf SAY
ing plainly to everybody that heisfair.
" in love with her. Next to the love.
ofher husband, nothing SO crowns. 81
woman S life with hon ar as this seoos,il
love, this devotion other SON to her.
And never knew boy to. turn
out badly who beganby falling inleMe.
withhis mother. Anyman might tall
in love with a fresh saced girl, .anls the
man, thatls gallant 30 the sirlmay FOR
get the worn and weary wifl. But the
big boy who is lover of hismothe,. mt
middle age is n true knight, who will
love his wife as mach in che. sere- leaf
Autumn as he did IN the daisied Spring.
There is nothing so beautifully ci,iv-
slroas as the lovs of a lajg boy FOR his
mother.
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Positions in Sleep.
New York Journal.

| New York Journal.
"It is quite interesting to 90 through
O large hospital at night when most OF
the patients are sleeping and note the
variety OF positions in which they let
'balmy sleep knit up the ragged sleeve
OF care" said noted physician the
other day.
"What is considered the most health
ful position?' "Well, should say that
a really healthy person does not keep
one position all night. He rests first
on one side, then on the other, and
probably sleeps on his back and in
notifications OF these positions. Many
physicians say it Injuries the liver to
sleep constantly on the right side, is
bad for the heart to sleep on the left
side, and most people have the night
mare or sleep too heavily If they rest
on the back"
! 1t has been considered the most po-
etical to sleep on the side, with one
hand placed under the cheek, but re-
Gently it has come that such posi-
ton makes the face wrinkled, and so
all pretty girls have given up the Gus
tom. Another pretty position is to
! throw the arms carelessly over the
head, and many fall naturally int the
habit, but it has been found that sleep
ing constantly with the hands overthe
head throws the lungs into an unnat-
ural position and eventually weakens
them
A fond mother, having q pretty
daughter who has fallen into this
| error, binds the latter's arms to her
waist with pale blue silk elastic every
| evening and hopes iii time to cure her
| Of the dangerous habit.
| ''1n the days when was q baby"
said an old gentleman speaking on the
| subject, my nurse never allowed me
The freedom OF my crib as children
nowadays. l was put to sleep on n
hard mattress without pillow and
| my shoulders and heels were fastened
! TO strip OF stiff linen, running the
| .ength OF the bed, so that my back
would be fat and straight
| Some people have u curious habit
of sleeping with their knees almost up
TO the chin, while others stretch out
'ull length. Both positions are not
considered the best by physicians
/ Take a healthy child offour OF five,
anu Wnen lle Is SOCnd asleep study MS
| attitude and you will find it the most
natural and comfortable" said a little
mother who has several children.
'"rhey will rest partly on the back and
partly on the side. The hands will fall
carelessly at the sides and the whole
body will curve slightly"
Il remember" he continued, "when
a child that l had bad habit OF
sleeping curled up like ball, but !
was cured OF the habit by my brother.
why Sis, if you were to die in that
position, we never could get you into
a decent coffin; you'd have to be buried
in q cheese-box!' he said. The horror
OF q cheese e-box coffin effected All in
stant cure"
AT the military school in Paris the
students are ordered to sleep on the
right side, and at West Point the same
rule is in force.
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Life's Baseball Vocabulary,

A favorite pitcher The. beer Jug.
A base hit-slassged hy . footpad. !
Not ont-A PRISONER at the Tombs.
a good strike The ear drivers.
The champion catcaer-Tha belle of
Newport.
The home stretch-Young America
under the maternal slipper.
A; a heavy battes--Restaarant wheat.
lllsh hall-The Charity.
A bad score-The, liquor dealers
s,i,h'a Home run-small boy chased by tho
short s,op-Brake stop, on a T@enty-tais.,,
31erymllow many n baseball leagues
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Call a man a anr in 5ustost and the

chances are thar the nam ofthe second
part will smiis pleasantly and say,
"I'll bet you $40 yom can't prove it"
On the other hand, Il man in Texas
calls another liar he is good for at
least six months in the hospital, it,,
indeed, he sncceeds in evading the sis
lent sarcolhagus. The difference is
in the atmosphere, we suppose. Now
in the south it is not considered in
good taste or safe for the editor to
monkey with the domestic relations,
even OF e president, hence you would
look in vain in southern papers for
the silly twaddle and ulgarconmcnts
that appear Ill some OF the daily jour.
nails of the north, particularly OF New
York, concerning the marriage OF Pre-.
sidert Cleveland. Such things would
not be tolerated in ''barbarous'
Texas.-TeXas Siitings,
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The number ofiron furnaces in blast
in the United States June l was 3O9,
with a weekly capacity OF 119,77O
tons. This is q larger output than
ever before known during The same
period.
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What worship yc?p the preacher ssid;
The 81 n a I tsAsE Isl III s go
At thia and that so reverent head,
All saint like and austere.
What do you worship now?" 1 thought,
And fancy straight the question caught,
And strange sights did appear.
i An veils were dropped. and clear to view
ASAxHSM 95fetS wRsat4 yo,asS S.sS S W
What then saw; il all were true
n were batter III 4pknown;
Ss. SsaaSa @ 3 q ew lt sbs1Prss i i'll
A h, Isaw my own!
Bradford Terry in the Sunday School
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
A GOOD MEASURE.
Arbitration the Proper Method for the Set
Element of All Disagreements.

Arbitration the Proper Method for the Set
Element of All Disagreements.
A good way to make arbitration
general is for people to use it individu-
ally. 1t can be utilized in family and
in personal troubles, so as to quench
sparks that kindle fires resulting in
separation of families and in deeds of
violence and fraud. The idea of ref
erence should be taught in the schools.
Children could make profitable as well
as interesting entertainment out of ex-
ercises in it. kindergarten peace
courts could so ingram Cancellation
and arbitration into the people, that
neither war between individuals nor
nations would be thought of, much less
tolerated.
No contract of Importance should
be drawn without a clause providing
for reference. Such a clause should
be the closing one in printed forms for
contracts, a few lines, either written or
printed, stating in substance that
if any misunderstanding arise I'M
der the contract, the parties to
the same, for themselves and
their legal representatives, agree
to settle it by peaceable reference to
disinterested third parties; one Cor
more) to be chosen by the party of the
first part, and the same by the party of
the second part, and if they can not
agree, they are to call in an umpire;
that settlement to be final in the pre-
misses, and binding on all the persons
and interests involved. This then be-
comes a part of the contract, and can
be enforced as such. Further, being a
contract, it is available under the COM
mon law of contracts even in State
where there is no special legal provis-
ion for arbitration. Many, if not all,
of the chambers of commerce and
boards of trade in the great cities have
long had standing committees of arbi-
tratiOn, which save their members, and
the community at large, untold ex-
pense and friction George May POsO-
ell, i71 Century
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
THE FIRST BOYCOTT.

Terrible Manifesto Issued by the AuthOrI-
ties of "A Brazilian State.
When was the first boycott estab-
lished and in what land? Ireland has
given currency to the word and has
made popular the system of getting
even with obnoxious officials. But long
before Captain Boycott was beleaguered
in his house by the irate peasantry
whose enmity he had incurred the same
Ostracising of other landlords in other
lands had been carried into effect.
Brazil is perhaps the country which
most people would consider the least
likely to resort to the boycott, and yet
in the second. decade of the present cen
fury it had a very lively and thorough
one. Some time since a well known
gentleman, of this city, whose business
often takes him to Cuba, heard in Ha-
vana considerable talk about an extra
ordinary document which the citizens
of a Brazilian town had issued against
religion and its vOtaries on account of
a long and disastrous drought. He
tried to obtain Il copy of it, but without
avail, until within Il few days past,
when he received a clipping from a
paper with the coveted curiosity. It is
in Spanish, and the followingis trans
latiOn of it:
The official paper of the State of
MorelOs copies the following decree,
published in 1920 in the town of Gus
thanas, empire of Brazil:
To THE MAYOR OF THE Town AND DEPART
that the Supreme Maker has not acted rightly
toward this province and town; that only
once in the whole of last year ii rained 4
single shower, and that during all this winter,
in spite of ali the religious professions, no.
venas and prayers, it has not rained a single
drop, and consequently the crop of chest
nuts, on which this department is dependent
for its prosperity, has been lost;
ResOIUed, l. That if in the peremptOry term
of eight days, to he counted after the publi-
cation of this decree, rain does not fall
abundantly, nobody will go to mass or say
any prayers
2 That if the drouth shall contine eight
days more in addition the churches and chap
els will be set on fire. and missals and rosaries
and any other object of devotion will be de-
). That if finally rain does not fall on a
third term of eight days longer the clerics,
monks, nuns and sanity women will be put
to death; and at present ample time is given
to everybody TO count their sins OF every
kind and description, that thus the Supreme
Maker will certainly understand with whom
he has to deal.
This plain avOwal of direful events
to follow in the event of rain not fall
ing, appears to have had the effect of
leading the clergy to heartier invOca-
tions, for as there is no record of the
wholesale killing of these professors of
religion, it is supposed the heavens
opened and the town of Custhanus was
drenched with showers.-N. Y. Herald.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07

Probably no concern in the country has
adhered more strictly TO the determination
to achieve success by the liberal use OF
printers ink than has the Brown Chemical
Company of Baltimore, Md Starting bus
mess about five years ago, they have ex-
pended over 81, 500, lin the preparation and
circulation of printed matter, more than
half of which has been paid for newspaper
advertising. All this has been done to make
known the virtues of their celebrated Iron
Bitters.
As might be expected, very large sales
have resulted from this enormous outlay,
making it about an staple in many drug
stores as Ia -four &C the corner grocery.
Like AL good things, it has been largely
initiated. They claim there are unscrupu-
lous manufacturers who cater to just this
sort of trade, and some dealers 80 lacking
in principle, that because a greater profit
can be made on fraudulent than on genu-
inc medicines, are willing to delude the
public by pushing of Iron Tonic Bitters
and other Tonic Medicines in place Of genu-
inc Browns Iron Bitters. The company,
finding these frauds practiced SO extensive
ly and all other means inadequate, have at
last determined to try q little cold law TO
put stop to them. Suits for heavy dam
ages have therefore been commenced
against Non-Secret Medicine Manufacture
ers, for selling Iron Tonic Bitters; and 9TH
ers for selling Browns Iron Tonic; a drug
gist in Baltimore, for selling Iron Tonic Bit
terS with his name upon the label, which
medicine was made by Non-Secret Medicine
Manufacturers, and also claimed as an imi-
tation. The Brown Chemical Company de-
serve success in these suits, as it is high
time those who have built up large enter
prlses to success should be protected from
those who live not by their own genius and
effort, but by copying and counterfeiting
things that have been made standard and
| valuable by others.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-07
SOCIAL COURAGE.
A Washington Society Lady's Rebuke to
Several Fashionable Callers.

A Washington Society Lady's Rebuke to
Several Fashionable Callers.
All are not ladies who wear wo-
mans dress. When the old beau in
Sheridan's comedy said, as he bowed
himself out of the parlor, Ladies', l
leave my character in your hands," he
knew his dear friends would tear it to
tatters, before the sound of the closing
hall door announced his departure.
Sir Charles Grandson and Sir Roger
de COverly may have been a little
stiff, not to say pompous, and their
old-school manners would be too de-
liberate for this fast age. But neither
they, nor their wives and daughters,
ever found fault with host or hostess,
nor would they have listened for a mo-
ment to any one censuring the person
whose hospitality they were accepting.
One of the descendants of these
cOurtly old gentlemen still lives. She
is a lady, and resides in Washington
The other day she astOunded group
of female visitors by her courageous
rebuke of their bad breeding. Among
the callers on her reception day were
several ladies who, on the previous
evening, had attended a large party
given bv a millionaire and his wife.
The party was criticised by these cali
ers, and its hostess picked to pieces.
In a lull of the conversation, they
turned to the lady on whom they were
calling, and appealed to her to confirm
their criticisms, in such a direct way
that she was forced to speak.
"Well, ladies' she answered, with
that repose of manner and calmness
of tone which are such excellent
things in women, 4 have never eaten
of her bread and salt, and, of course,
know nothing of her as a hostess. But
if l had accepted of her hospitality, ]
should know nothing unkind of her
either as a hostess or as a woman
The courage of the lady, though
magnificent, did not cause the visitors
70 prolong their call Youths Com
pdgaiOT.