The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-10-27

Roland, the most remarkable woman
IF the French Revolution. Beautiful,
stately, pure, brilliant, self-sacrificing
patriotic to her hearts core, brave as
any Spartan mother, tender as brave,
she shines first in council, first in
humanity, first in sublimity Of en-
iurance, the vindication and the
prophecy of completed womanhOOd.
November 9 bears the names of Ak
cnside, of the learned Camden, of
Archbishop Sheldon, and of Paul
Standby, founder of the English school
If water-color painting, which is less
han a century old.
Novem Der 10 is memorable of the
birthday of Mohammed, greatest of
hereisarchs of Martin Luther, valiant
dogmatist and Protestant, of whom
Goethe said that he threw back the
intellectual progress of mankind for
centuries by calling in the passions of
the multitude TO decide those questions
which only the trained intellect of the
few could comprehend of Oliver
Goldsmith, that vivid and versatile
genius, that tender and merciful spirit
whose books were the delight of the
best society, and whose staircase at
his death was crowded with the home
less outcasts of the town weeping for
their one friend of Granville Sharp,
fine scholar and philanthropist, to
whom was due the decision of the
Kings Bench in I772 that slave could
not breathe upon the soil of England
and of Frederick Schiller, poet to
whom poetry was religion, and whose
life was as lofty as his song.
The llth of November is Martin
mas, the day of St. Martin, the sol
| dier-saint and apostle of the Gauls,
to whom we owe at least two service
able words, if no other obligation. AS
the world well knows, st. Martin,
while yet a soldier, was on bitterly
cold night, parted his insufficient cloak
to succor a freezing beggar. This
| garment, being tremendously preserv-
| ed, was long one of the hottest relics
of France. In war it was borne, ban
ner-wise, before the king, and always
| assured victory. In peace the oratory
which sheltered this cape, or cbdppe
was thence called the ch0peLte, and its
custodian the chdpeJGiR, whence we
derive our English chapel and chap
! lain.
November II, 1915, was born Rich
ard Baxter, author of "The Saint
! Everlasting Rest" and of "a Call to
! the Observation-Disclosures whose names
are hardly remembered ROW, but Oh
whose strong meat the piety of the
| last age was nOurished. Liberal and
| tolerant beyond the conscience of his
| time, Churchman and Puritan alike
misdOubted him, and at seventy the
infamous Jef1reys would have haC
whipped at the carts tail the man
| whom DOddridge called the English
! DemOsthenes, and who's life COleridgt
said one could afford not to have read
A curious police regulation bearing
date November II, 1909, orders the
theaters to open their doors at Ont
o'clock, p. NJ, and at two o'clock pre-
cisely to begin the performance
wether the spectators be there or not
that the play may be over by half pas
four. Fifty years later the LOndOl
playhouse opened by authority a
three O'Clock. Such custom forcibly
suggested the extreme discomfort o
the time when the roads, unlighteC
and unpaved, prowling foot-pads
midnight braWlers, and stealthy as
sassins made it unsafe for pleasure
seekers to be out after dark.
November, Ii, 354, was born ST
Augustine, greatest Of the fathers,
to whom Catholics and Protestant
alike resort for sympathy and authOri
ty. This Numidian saint was the au
thor of 232 books on theological sub
jects, besides a complete exposition o
the Psalter and the Gospel, and mum
berless epistles and homilies. He i
said, moreover, to have spent seven
teen years in the composition of hi
most elaborate work, "De Civitat
Del" But his real monument is bull
: in his tender and sOrrowful comics
sions, which have been the cemfoI
and stay of fourteen centuries c
Christian believers. Oddly enough
the ablest and boldest of the OppC
nents of St. Augustine, the famou
Pelagius, was born on the same da
with himself.
November IA is another scholar
: day, bearing, among others, the name
of Bishop Hoadley, of the DAMS
Ochlenschlager, of Sir Charles Lyel
almost the first Of the philosoph
biologists, of the many-sided Leil
: nitz-
: "a man 50 various that he seemed to be
z Not one, but all mankind's epitOme''-
of Hegel, and of Abercrombie.
= The honor roll of the 18th is sti
e longer. ''Honest Andrew MARVEL
of the stirring Roundhead times, VIII
= refused a thousand pounds for h
: vote, and borrowed a guinea of
friend for his next days dinner, WI
sang the prettiest little songs to Joal
S ma and Lucasta, and wrote scuTilol
: satires by the ream, but was alwal
4 the stanchest patriot and truest hear
J, ed gentleman; William Pitt, Earl
+, Chatham, ''the great commoner," i'd
i of the people, most brilliant OratC
D and most successful statesman
e England's long catalogue; the pc
1 Cowper; the astronomer Hersche
a the clergyman and physiOgnomi
Lavater, whom Goethe pronounce
= one of the very noblest of men A
n bertus Magnus. the famous schoo
;, man of the thirteenth century; Joh
{ Kepler, the great astronomer, WI
7 inferred the revolution of the cart
before Calico proved it; Cromwell
II Ireton; aud that dramatic compos
: Gluck.
= November 10th commentaries Il
= death of one of those sweet saints Il
stories of whose lives are among Il
. most potent influences of the Roma
. Catholic Church. Queen Margaret
= Scotland, niece of King Edward Il
4 cOnfessor, the wife of King MalcoI
u mother of that Maud who MARI,
: Henry 1, of England, and broug
. peace to the two war-tOrn nation
: was ore of those rare women of lar
, influsnce, of high aspirations,
Il blameless life, of boundless sympath
of active benevolence and wise for
l. tbouabf xvboSa luminous Y,pnCau