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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
SUMMER WOOD.
Work That Should Be Done in Early SprI1
IfNOt Completed Before.

Work That Should BE Done in Early Spring
If Not Completed Before.
How is the summer supply of wood?
Is 1t prepared or being so? We ven
ture that nine-tenths of our farmers
who depend on wood for fuel have
made but little preparation for the
needed summer supply. This is one
of the tasks that is much better done
in spring than later for several rea-
sons. During the winter and early
spring months there is not the demand
on the time of the men and boys that
there is after planting begins. If the
farmer is dependent on his wife to
chop the wood from tough logs and
knots with a dull axe, it may not seem
important to him to get the summers
wood ready. But for such men we are
not writing, and we are sorry to say
there are many of them all through
the country. But the man who expects
to do his own wood chOpping and has
allowed himself to be caught after
springs work has begun without any
wood ready for burning, sometimes
even with none at the door, knows
something of the draft on his time and
patience when the good wife comes to
field with his team and says: John,
there is no wood to cook dinner with"
He must let the team stand for fifteen
minutes in the best part of the day
while he gets up a good sweat whack-
ing up enough wood to last till night.
He is hot in body and mind before his
days work begins. Then the wood
that he has provided is not of
the best to begin with and
being freshly cut is sOggy and
will not burn well, consequently his
dinner will be delayed and poorly
cooked when it is ready. The wife
will be out of temper and he will
be cross and the dinner will not be
enjoyed.
How much better if the wood were
gotten ready during the leisure time OF
the winter when wood chOpping is good
exercise. 1t then has a chance to dry
out and is worth almost as much again
as when loaded with moisture.
Those who use wood for fuel fail to
realize the great difference in value be-
tween wet and dry wood.
All of the moisture in the wood must
be evapOrated from it in the, form of
steam, and to do this large amount of
heat is needed, much more than is
needed to raise the same amount of wa
ter to the boiling temperature. All of
this heat used in vapOrizing the water
in the wood is rendered latent or not
manifest and is of no use. To produce
this heat there must be a sufficient
quantity of wood burned before there
can be any heat utilized for heating
the room or cooking. In other words
a large proportion of wet wood is used
in drying itself before it can be of SER
vice. Now if we will give the sun and
air a chance they will do this drying
for us at no cost whatever, only give
them little time, and then the wood
will be ready to give us its full value Ia
heat OlnqGn'S RurdI World.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,

Orchards needs additional fertility
m most instances. Money spent in
manure or ashes for orchards is well
nvested.-I'roy Times.
On the small farm hog-raising pays
as well or perhaps better than on the
larger one. For the farmer of moder-
ate means hog-raising is one of the
surest and quickest ways of making
money in the average season.
Instead of putting fertilizers on the
wheat crop to help the grass, the plan
should be reversed and fertilizers of all
kinds should be put on the grass year
or two before it is ploughed for wheat
or cOrn.-IfzdiGnapOlts Sentinel.
Easy pudding: Take a can Of any
fruit you prefer and turn it into a deep
dish. Then make paste of flour and
cream, in which is a little baking pow
der first sifted. Pour over the fruit
and bake quickly. Serve with cream
or sweet sauce Cincinnati Times.
The horses teeth need attention
occasionally. The grinders do not
always wear level, and when they do
not they should be fioated or rasped to
an evenness. The horse that froths at
the mouth either has defective teeth or
a sore tOngue.-SG9a Francisco CbrO7ai-
Gle.
Graham biscuit: Three cups of
graham flour, one cup of wheat flour,
two tablespoonfuls melted butter, one
teaspoon of soda, two tablespoons
brown sugar, two teaspoons cream tar
tar, One-half saltspoon of salt, milk
enough to mix, and make into biscuit,
bake in a moderate oven.-Iibe House
hold.
-Mince griddle cakes: Chop all the
cold bits of meat you may have, of
whatever kind, cooked of course; sea-
son with salt and pepper, make grid
die batter as for pancakes, lay a spoon
full of the chopped meat and part of a
spoonful of batter over the meat; when
cooked on one side turn, and when
done serve az hot as pOssible-Arkdqg-
SdlU Traveller.
Whatever else is essential in MAX
ing a successful feeder, it is certain
that carefulness is most necessary, and
a kind sympathy with the animal con-
dition is almost equally so. 1t is not a
sign of a good feeder to see him throw
out feed promiscuOusly to the animals,
whether they eat 1t or not, or to their
condition, whether in health or out Of
health Western Rural.
"A farmer who has devoted much
attention to raising potatoes states that
it is a great advantage to have all
tubers sprouted before planting, but
the sprouts can not be too dwarf and
dark green. and it is only when the
tubers are spread out in a single layer
and in full light that shoots of this
stamp are forthcoming. They must be
in the light, and on a good day air may
be admitted freely to them.-ALbGny
Journal
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
LIQUID MANuRE.
The Necessity Of Carefully Saving This
Valuable Article.

The Necessity Of Carefully Saving This
Valuable Article.
The Agricultural Gazette says English
farming in some sections has reached a
point where the losing of liquid ma
nures may mean ruin. It appears
strange that while liquid manure is
known to be the most valuable, most of
the time spent in devising means for
handling and utilizing has been devoted
to the management of solids. We
know the composition of liquid ma
nures, but few can tell the amount
yielded by the animal or how different
foods affect its quality. 1t is well
known that when the animals are fed
upon certain substances, such as vege-
tables, silage or other succulent matter,
the quantity of urine is greatly in
creased. Doubtless the inferiority of
certain manures is at least partially
made up by the increased quantity and
quality of urine. How to save such an
unmanageable article is a great prob
lem Where many cattle are kept it
viii surely pay to construct drains
leading to a pit or cistern, into which
the liquid may run. We know of one
farm where this product is conducted
to the basement, into a hogshead, set
On wheels, where it can be dragged out
and sprinkled over grass land ABB
sOrbents, such as sawdust. sand, straw,
moss or sea-weed can be used to save
much of this valuable product-too
valuable by far to run to waste.-Rur1J
Ne10 Yorker.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
CHARITY ABUSED.
A Corpse That Counted the Money Con.
trIbuted to Bury 1t.


NAAu.J clfeClAl.
Several days ago a pretty little woman
went to one of the Methodist churches in
southwest Baltimore and asked for money
to bury her dead husband. She gave her
name as Hester Green and said she was
ashamed to ask the city TO bury him. Two
worthy ladies were sent out to investigate
the case. They went to q house on Parkin
street. There was Grape on the door, all
the blinds were closed, and the stiffness of
death brooded over the place. They
entered the house. In ono corner of a
darkened room lay corpse; near It was
the wife bowed down in grief. The ladies
looked at the body, then comforted the
bereaved woman.
The pathetic story so touched the hearts
of the brethren that seventeen dollars was
raised to give him Christian burial. Next
day one of the ladies who had Investigate
ed the case went to the house and found
the wife little more resigned to the viii
of God" as she expressed it, and the
corpse still there. The moneyw left and
the lady departed with the consciousness
of having done a good deed. She found
after walking few squares that she had
left her umbrella. She returned to get it,,
opened the door, and there sat the corpse
counting the money and clinking one dol
lar against another to see that it was not
counterfeit. The lady was thunderstruck,
and, although she was sold, was deter
mined not to be beaten out of seventeen
dollars, so she compelled the corpse to re-
turn the money that had been contributed
for the purpose of burying him like a
Christian
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
A stOve-POkers Terrible Deed.

Women are not all timid, especially In
the presence of men. A woman may
climb right up the side of wall and hang
on to the dado by her teeth at sight of
poor little, hungry, inoffensive mouse, and
q few minutes aTterward knock man end
over appetite for making an insulting re-
mark in her presence. Down at Rochester,
Ind, Mrs. Gilkinson keeps boarding
house, and the other day a man named
Stiles, while drunk, called upon her and
demanded lodging. She mildly suggested
that he pay for lodging that he previously
had, when he gave her a very insulting
answer. She Immediately smote him over
the head with a stove-poker which was
concealed among the folds of her dress,
and now Stiles is no more. The coroner's
jury acquitted the woman, and now it is
safe to say that a man will pause and re-
feet for soma time before insulting her.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
BAD DEBTS.
How the Uniformed Company Proposes e.
Collect Them.


lHorneIIsvilIe IN. " Letter.
sfWe intend to make life very pleasana
Tor the man who owes small bills around
Ahis town that he is able to pay but won't,'s
said w. Fl. Reynolds, manager Of the
Uniformed Collection Company. "We are
In the field to collect accounts from Just
such customers, and If there Is one who
doesn't come down after we have turn ed
all our batteries on him, he's a man that
dynamite wouldn't rattle.
"The way the Uniformed Collection
Company works is this: Such persons as
desire our services become subscribers to
our plan, and pay a fee or bonus Of one
dollar. We furnish each subscriber with
blanks which he fills out and sends
10 his delinquent debtors, with a
ytatement of their accounts. The
blank is simply request for
them to remit the amount, with the
declaration that if they do not their cases
viii be turned over to Uniformed Collec-
lion Company. When the company re-
ceives a case a collector is sent at once to
the debtor to solicit payment of the amount
due. If he still refuses to pay, we send an
other collector, who wears a striking uni
form, with the word Collector in very
distinct letters on the band of his hat.
This collector visits the debtor three sue
cessive days at his house or place of busi-
ness. If the third visit does not result in
obtaining the money, the collector wears
hat on the band of which are the words:
Collector of Bad Debts.' His orders are
to call on the debtor daily and demand
payment of the claim or claims against
him. These calls soon attract the atten-
ton of the neighbors and become the talk
of the town, 1t has got to be a case
hardened old pensoner in the con-
fdence of his butcher and baker and
candle-stick maker who can boldly face
more than half dozen calls from the gem
tleman with the suggestive hatband, and
the consequence is that an arrangement
satisfactory to the creditor is always eff
fected. We charge the creditor ten or fif-
teen per cent. of the amount collected, as
the case may be, and everybody is happy
but the man who has come down with the
skids. This method of collecting bad debts
is no experiment. We have tried it in a
hundred different places and never lost a
case yet. The system originated in Can
ada. We have had several collectors very
neatly done up by irate debtors, but our
men expect that, and assume all such risks
when they enter our employ. If collector
is disabled we put bigger man right on
in his place, and it has got to be a very
sultry day when we let a man rest easy
while we've got bill against him."
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02

sional brief leave OF absence. OF course he
must sleep at the engine house. Upstairs
is a dormitory, containing bed for each
man, on which he sleeps in more or less
comfort and in about the same attire, bar
ring boots in which he appears in public.
When an alarm is sounded at night an en-
CINE house is no place for stranger. He
is likely to be knocked down by hustling
fireman whose eyes are only half open, or he
might fan through the trap doOr and break
his neck. To the stranger an engine house
at such moment is a scene of the widest
confusion. But not so to the firemen.
Though only half awake, they scramble
from their beds, mechanically but quickly
draw on their boots and then make a run
and dive through an opening in thefioOr.
There are three of these openings. and in
each is "a brass tube or pole extending from
the ground floor nearly to the roof. This
is the firemans grand staircase when he is
in a hurry. Entwining himself about the
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02

woke the echoes Of the old rookery with
fifty-three alarms.
One second before you pulled the lever az
the corner Of Clark and Madison streets
500 men and more than $50 horses wers
sitting or standing at ease in three doson
ennine-houses. Perchance the men were
playing cards or reading the Herald, and
the horses no doubt were contentedly
munching hay in their stalls. Within one
second after you pulled the lever 500 men
and more than 150s.herses were in a state
of exciting activity.
The same electric current which tapped
che small gong in the central Office and
registered ss3G" upon the tape performs
the Office in every engine house in the city.
Almost simultaneously the 900 gong
repeater strikes the large gong in every
house, filings open the doors of every
horse-stall. and sends men and beasts fly
ing to their posts. The horses know their
places quite as well as the men, and are al
most as quickly at their stations under the
hanging harness. Two men stand ready
to receive them "Snap" go the two col
lars about the animals necks, the men
spring to their seats upon the en-
gines, and all is done. Within sevea
or eight seconds from the instant
the lever OF box SO was pulled three
dozen steamers, a dozen hook and ladder
trucks and as many chemicals, besides hose
carts. are ready to rush into the street and
away to the fire. AS soon as the alarm is
finished all of the machines in the district
rush out, with foot-gong Changing and
sparks streaming in their rear, while the
others stand ready to follow on call. Fire
is not kept under the steamer boilers while
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
rninrnrm.h Maiden

A bright-eyed little girl OF nine years was
on board Kansas Pacific train bound for
Denver. She had never before been beyond
the limits Of her Eastern home and mani
Tested unusual interest in all she saw.
The wide plains and prairie dogs inter
ested her, but she was most anxious to see
a genuine specimen of that purely Western
product-a cowboy.
The train was waiting at a station in
Kansas when the longed-for cowboy APP
peared. He was n typical specimen-wide
sombrero, leather breeches, red flannel
shirt, a belt filled with knives and pistols
and desperate-lOoking character gener-
ally.
There is a cowboy for you" whispered
a gentleman to the little girl.
stWhat! that?" she asked, in unieigned
surprise and evident disappointment.
why I always thought n cowboy was
part boy and part cow."-Detroit Free
Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02

smooth tube he drops to the bottom like a
falling brick. First one and then another
plunges down, and woe to the man who
fails to keep up with the procession.
The CREASED pole originated in the Chr
cago Fire Department, being the invention
Of Captain Kineon. who was killed last
year while the department was responding
to an alarm from box Al, corner of Dear
born and Monroe streets. Captain Kineon
never patented the device, as he might
easily and profitably have done. At first
the poles were made of wood, but they
shvered up to dangerous extent, and had
to be abandoned. Metal tubes are now in
use for this purpose in the best fire depart
ments OF this country and Europe, and are
even used in some hotels to enable servants
to quickly descend from one floor to an.
other.
Ii is the use OF the sliding pole which
makes it possible for the sleeping firemen
to rouse, dress, descend to the ground
floor, and take their places ready for the
word Ego" within fifteen seconds after you
pull the lever at the corner Of Clark and
Madison streets.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02

open the door and seize the lever. By so
doing you will not attract as much atten-
ton rs YOU did in the old days when You
ran through the streets crying fire! firei"
to the full capacity OF your lungs, rousing
housewives aud maid servants and bark
ing dogs, but you viii accomplish more.
and with greater ease. You don't feel so
much like hero as YOU did when you ran
to the village house, threw open the
clumsy doors, yelled with all your might,
and by the aid Of several hali-awuke COM
patriots finally succeeded in pushing and
hauling a wheezy old hand-engine or
awkward hook and ladder truck into
the street. but with less exertion you
do society a much greater service.
BY pulling that little lever you set
ina motion a toothed wheel release
marvellous power, and as with a magician's
wand, give life unto wonderful system.
No man can tell you what electricity is, but
It's works are manifest. 1t is a faithful
servant, perfectly trained, always ready,
ever speedy. In this case it takes the form
Of q telegraph message, the message being
the number Of the box, and flies away YER
itably on lightnings wings. The toothed
wheel knows nothing but the numbers " y
and 6, " but this it knows well. IL never
makes a mistake. Mistakes might cost
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars apiece,
and there is tradition that some such
blunder once had something to do with the
burning of "a city of 800, 600 inhabitants.
This simple message flies to a room on the
ground floor of the City Hall, where two
men always stand ready to receive it.
Though not a welcome guest, it is prompt
" received and well taken care of.
Upon a table forty feet long, covered
with hundreds OF Geographic keys and
saunders, the electric current leaps, strik-
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
Aunt Nancy Warren's Love.
rIIIinnia State Registrar

"Aunt Nancy Warren, who was one
hundred years old the other day, had
quite a romance when girl. When she
was not quite twelve years old she mar
ried Alexander Warren. Her maiden
name was Mace, she having been the
daughter of Ezekiel Mace. Her mother
had diod, and her father remarked, and
her step-mother and step-brother and
sisters had led her such a life as to
cause her to run away from her fathers
house. On the 10Th of December, 1902,
she and young Warren set out for Indi-
ana, and brought up at what is now called
Evansville. Fearing that her irate father
would pursue her andstake her back, the
couple consulted a lawyer, who advised
them to get married at once, which they
did
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
He Deaed Deaths Bolt.
Esan FRANCISCO chroniele. ]

A very remarkable thing in connection
with the frightful death of George r.
Tribon, who was killed by a runaway
team in Portland on Thursday, was that
on the day previous to his death he is re.
ported to have said to an acquaintance in
a fit of dependency: 81 hope every man
in Portland win be struck dead before ten
o'clock tomorrow" ''Do you make no
exceptions?'' was asked. "Come to think
of it, 1 might except mysel f." was the
reply. Before ten o'clock the next morn
ing he was struck down himself, while the
rest lived.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
[Tampa lFla.) Tribune. !

A friend sends US the following: 81 had
q dream; a silver wire stretched from
Heaven to earth. A former earthly assoc
ctate of mine communicated the following
through the Heavenly telephone: st. Peter
sat nodding beside the golden gates, when
q maiden with timid knock sought ad.
mission. what claim have you on
Heaven?' asked the saint. Dropping her
head until her bangs pointed earthwards
she answered: 4 am from Florida, and
just sweet sixteen Enter said the
saint; 'enter,' and ne threw wide open the
gates, for when girl in Florida is sixteen
she ig both girl and angel"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
The Sinner and the Silver Boz
[Boston Pilot

There is a story of brigand who went
TO confession, as Spanish brigands DO, and
who seeing a little silver box in the sleeve
of the priest, relapsed and stole it. 81 ac-
cuse myself, father,'' said he Immediately,
"of having stolen a box" "Well, lay son,
you must restore it." "Woui you like it,
father?' 81? no." replied the confessor,
offended at the suggestion. 1.-THE thing
is" resumed the penitent ''that 1 have
offered it to its owner, and he has refused
it." "Oh! then in that case, my son, you
have done all that is necessary, and may
keep it with a clear conscience"
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02

No words Of ours can tell the benefit to be derived
from Hood sarsaparfIla, II you need good spring
medicine 1t VIII strain al impurities from the blood
rouse the torpid liver. invigoTate the digestive
organs. and impart life to every function Of the
body We only ask you try gle bottle to prove
the positive merits Of Hoods sarsapar as an honest
and reliable medicine.
:" I think Hoods sarsaparf.ia Is the best medicine
for general debility there Is and for the good II has
done me ehecrfuIly recommend It." J. Sullivan, 80
Brown st., Rochester ". T..
have used Hoods sarsapari1la for blood purifier
IN my family several years. and can not speak too
highly OF f." J. e. COLLINS Pfqua, D.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02
"No Physlo. Sir. in Nrinei.,

a good story comes from a boys board
ing-school in Jersey" The diet was mo-
notonous and constipating, and the learned
Principal decided to introduce some old
style physic in the apple-sauce, and await
the happy results. One bright lad the
smartest in school, discovered the secret
mine in his sauce, and pushing back his
plate, shouted to the pedagogue, "No
physic, air, in mine. My dad told me to
use nuthin' but DR. Pierce's Pleasant Purg-
alive Pellets and they are a doing their
duty like a charm'' They are anti-bilious,
and purely vegete '&a.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-04-02

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