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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07
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KNOWING PARROTS.
One Knew How to Mediate and the other
Prophesicd His Death.

One Knew How to Mediate and the other
Prophesicd His Death.
Jim, who came from Mexico, is a
wise bird. just across the street lives
Il dignified brown spaniel, who rejoices
in the name of ''Curley," To vary
the mOnotony of a long summer day,
Jim will clay himself out" to entrap
the dog. First, he will whistle, using
all the varying infections usually held
out to the dog kind. If this fails, no
will call ''Curlee, Curlee, Curleen' in
his most dulcet tones, which usually
fetches the unwary animal
The meditative attitude which Jim
assumes, as the painting dog rushes
into sight, is equaled only by the in
quiring innocence OF his expression.
Presently, catching sight of tho
"green bird that talks, Curly sinks
disconsOlately homcward, deyoutly
hoping that no one has seen him.
A well-known professor Of biology,
DIR. Steere, of Michigan University,
has been spending the summer at
the Sandwich Islands for tho purpose
of collecting rare specimens. Shortly
before his return, he was presented
with a fine young parrot, that had
learned only few English expressions,
and those mostly current slang picked
up from sailors.
On the home voyage he entrusted
the bird to the care of a boy, who
promised to see it well cared for Like
most other boys, his intentions were
good but his judgment was at fault;
for he hung the bird in a small, close
room near the engine, "to keep it
warm"
The next day the professor thought
he would take look at the parrot,
and, accordingly, he was guided TO the
cage. What was his alarm and indig-
nation to find the poor creature nearly
dead with the heat.
He took it to his state-room and
made all the effort in his power to
save it. After he had worked over
the suffering bird for a few moments
it slowly raised its head. looked at
him solemnly and gaspcd: I'D sell
myself for a cent" A moment later
and poor Poll, who had, pathetically
enough, valued his condition Alright,
was dead.-Detr06 Free Press.
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SUBSCRIPTION Rooks.
A Publisher Tells How They Are IntF
duced to the Public.

A Publisher Tells How They Are Intro
dueed to the Public.
''What class of books do you find
sells the best?n
well, it has been the result of our
experience that the American people
are at heart religious. If they're not
religious they're religiously inclined.
And no book we handle, be it our own
publication or the publication of some
one else which we sell on commission,
sells like the book that has a religious
coloring. This seems rather strange
when we hear so much about Ameri-
can irreverence, butt it's u fact. Then,
again, we're a patriotic people, and
books about popular military leaders
or Presidents or Presidents wives are
acceptable and find ready sale"
''Isn't there immense profit in sub
scription books?'
mot so much as you would imagine
from the price of the books. Sub
scription books are high-priced and
many of them are not so we'll gotten
up as the books in the trade But,
you see, we send the books out over
pie. And the agents, whose work
isn't the most enviable in the world,
have to be paid enormously. As a
matter of fact, the publisher of many
a subscription book doesn't realize as
much per copy as do the publishers
who simply put their goods on the
trade. But what we lose one way we
make up another. For instance, our
sales of book are much greater than
though we simply put it on the market
and trusted to the merit of the book to
sell it. Merit cuts little figure in a
subscription book; it's the push OF
agents. Besides, the lapse of time
makes little difference; the subscription
book, as a rule, is rarely seen out OF
a private house. is rarely discussed in
newspapers, and is just as good for
selling ten years from the date of the
first issue as at first. Besides it is
possible to run very profitable sub
scription-boolz business on compare
lively small capital-that is, when you
have but one or two books. In the
trade it is different. There d man
wants quite a large catalogue, and it
all means money. I don't think | am
far from the truth when I say that
Harper Brothers have $12, 1000, 900 or
SO, 100000 bound up in stereotype
plates alone, to say nothing about
copyrights, royalties, dead stock and
the like. p"
Your prices, 1 suppose, are a purely
arbitrary matter?'
mot so much with US as with the
publishers for the trade. At the book
stores the prices-s1, 1925, $3.50 or
spare almost wholly conventional
prices, irrespective of what the book
actually costs to manufacture. We
reckon about four times the actual
cost of the book to be about the sell
ing price. Our prices, of course, are
more or less manipulated by agents.
A subscription book which in the
neighborhood of ChicagO-we never
expect city patronage sells for So is
sold on the Pacific coast at s. and in
Australia at 81 or So. But that extra
money the agents pocket. Oh, my!
yes, lots of our subscription books go
to Australia. 1t will be many a long
year before the West is as bookish as
the East, and till it is, though book
agents may be regarded as a nuisance,
the subscriptiOn-book trade will
thrive. - Chicago Ne1CS.
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from my face; and instinctively, as II
the creature had been a domestic cat,
stroked its head with my hand. 1 re-
member feeling a fearful, prayerfui,
pleading, hopeless sort of hope, that it
might accept my caress, and that I
might even gain the mothers good
will by my attentions to her young!
might better have undertaken to
tame the maddest torrent of the Sier-
ras, and have trusted myself to it's
mercies! The little spitfire gave a
snarl as it sprang back from me; and
at the instant, sudden, noiseless,
swift, the ioness leaped up. She was
on me at a bound, uttering one deep
growl, as her open jaws. with their
backward-drawn lips and glittering
teeth, closed upon my shoulder and
chung.
1t is a fearful thing to hear ones
own flesh and bone crush and crunch;
but that is what | heard with horrible
distinctness at that moment. l don't
remember so much the physical pain
l must have suffered; but l felt sort
of despairing pity of myself as lay
powerless in that cruel clutch.
What happened for the next quarter
of an hour | know only by hearsay;
for when my friends found me / was
in a swoon. My uncle was riding over
the range with a couple of visitors,
when my pony came galloping down
toward them from the hills. The di-
rection of his flight indicating the
were still further guided in their
search for me by the discovery
of my gun, some drops of blood, and
finally by the marks made by my body
trailed along the ground. Their shouts
filed the canyon as they advanced; and
the liOness must have taken alarm
while in the very act of rending me.
In her anxiety to defend her lair and
her young, she issued forth, and
showed herself on a projection of the
cliff, where a couple of well-aimed
shots brought her tumbling into the
gorge.
What my mother suffered when /
was taken home to her in a mangled,
and, as she believed, dying condition,
l would not undertake to tell, if /
could. Ny shoulder was so broken
that it never quite came into place
again; and, as you have noticed, l
carry my left arm differently from the
other, to this day.
With surgical aid and the l1indest
nursing, however, 1 recovered from
my hurts; and, strange to say, from
my spinal troubles at the same time.
The young panthers were ruthlessly
killed in the excitement of my rescue;
although I think my uncle always re-
gretted-as | did-that my critical
condition allowed no time for the cap
ture of one or two of them alive.
The mother, as l have already said
was one of the largest of her kind;
measuring four feet ten and half
inches from her nose to her tail, which
measured I forget how much more.
My uncle had her hide made into a
rug for my mother; but she never
could endure the sight of it-and no
wonder! It is now in the possession of
my Cousin Ruth. who is the wife of
merchant of San Franciseo.-J Z.
TrOUbrjdge, IN Youths Companion.
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''But what good is a deer dogP" l
asked, when Mr.. Bowser explained
this fact.
ITO run deer, Of course"
"But where are the deer?"
That's just like you! You expect
to look out of the back door and see a
dozen! propose to 60 where the deer
are. Did you ever see a kinder face
on dog?"
"He looks very simple-minded.
"Does he! Well, don't you fool
yourself. You may owe your life to
him yet. He's better than forty bur
glar-alarms. .
The canine deserved credit for one
thing. He slept soundly on the parlor
sofa all night. On the second after
noon he got out, and little terrier
weighing eleven ounces ran him three
times around the house and finally
drove him into a barrel partly filled
with plaster.
did I buy him for fighter!'
shouted Mr. Bowser, as / related the
occurrence HE run, of course. 1
bought him for a runner"
He whistled for Archimedes, as he
had named him, and the animal came
creeping in and hid under the lounge.
When routed out of that he made a
dive for Mr.. Bowser's feet, just in time
to trip him up and let him down with
jar that made the roof shake. The
scared brute then jumped into the crib
and lay down on baby's head, from
which position he was lifted to be flung
over the alley fence.
''Is that the way they run deer?" 1
asked Mr.. Bowser.
! Whose fault is it?" he demanded
''You had that dog terrified as soon as
he struck the house. 1t was his NOR
| tai fear of you which made him act So
| If you don't have something awful
happen to You I'll miss my guess"
It wasn't week before he came
home with another canine. The beast
was understood, out at the elbows and
| dOwn-hearted. When / asked what he
was good for, Mr.. Bowser replied:
IF you knew any thing about dogs
you could see at a glance. He's a rat
terrier"
docs he terrify rats?"
''Does he? In one week there won't
be rat on this whole square,
Wouldn't it be as well to stand tho
rats as the dog?"
That's you, exactly! That's a
specimen of your mercy! It's wonder
to me that such murderous feelings as
you carry in your heart don't meet
with fitting punishment.
The terrier didn't do any thing re-
markable for the first three days ex-
cept to fill up and sleep. On the fourth
day, as we were eating dinner, we
heard a row in the back yard, and as
we got to the door we saw the terrier
penned up in a corner of the yard, tail
down and eyes rolling, and a small rat
was keeping him there and having lots
of fun. The rodent skipped at sight
of us and the dog crawled under the
barn. / laughed till / fell down, but
Mr. Bowser was very stern and digni-
fed. After he had pulled the terrier
out and flung him over the fence he
came back to me and said:
care you satisfied now?"
THAT the dog is a ratter?"
mo, ma'am! Satisfied that you have
once more, out of pure malice toward
a helpless animal, driven him from
home to life of misery! It's a wonder
to me that you don't murder our childI'
Detroit Free Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07
Impure Water and Ice.

ut is very hard, b" says Prof. TOnry,
''to convince some people that a glass
of perfectly clear, colorless water,
with no odor or taste, may be more
impure than water coming from the
kitchen sink which has been used to
wash cooking utensils, yet in many
cases 1 have found such water as to
the direct communication OF which
with a stable yard or privy vault
there could be no possible doubt. :"
This is a striking statement, but Mr..
Tonry is able to demonstrate that it is
based on a multitude of weIl-stuGicd
facts. There is no absolutely puro
water in nature. but there are limits
beyond which tho contamination OF
drinking or cooking water can not DO
safely allowed to go. The presence Of
chlorine in water indicates the kind OF
organic impurity dangerous tn health
A drop Of solution OF nitrate Of silver
IS a convenient test. If il produces in
a tumbler OF the water ia question %
white cloud, chlorine and is related
impurities are present 10 probable
dangerous extent. Boiling will, ~ q
rule, destroy disease germs. The pop
ular theory that freezing purihes
water Mr. Tonry thinks Is incorrect
pure ice. he says, lis almost as
hard TO obtain % pure water He
mentions p cago whcre typhoid fever
was traced directly 70 tLo use O. a.
pure tce.-BaIfim2rs Sun,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07
The HELPLESS MAN.

Go round the world, from pole to pole,
And tell me, II you can,
What fate so hard as hers, alas
Who weds a helpless man.
He can not ind a single thing
That he may want to use;
he can not button up his gloves;
He can not lace his shoes.
II there is mud upon his coat,
Or dust upon his hat,
He stands In helpless misery,
And mutters: Look at thatf
And wife Will hurry on 10 bring
The brush, whose place he knows
And work with all her energy
To renOvate his clothes.
His neck-tie he can ne'er adjust,
And as for using pins,
You'd think, TO see his awlSwardness,
His hands were surely fms;
And il upon the floor he drops
A button or a stud,
They're lost 10 him as if they were
Two fathoms deep in mud.
If there Is lack OF any thing,
And wife is not by,
Hen go without nor make move
To add TO the supply;
And in a great emergency,
When other backs are piled
With burdens, he viii sit around
AS helpless as a child
He can not do an errand straight,
He can not drive a nail;
in any task he undertakes
He's pretty sure to fail.
And tbs a mystery TO me
Explain IL We who can
That any girl is brave enough
To we'd a helpless man.
--JOSepbiue Pollard IL " T. Ledger.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07
Borne on the wings of the wind

The maSmata, or aerial germs of chllls and
fever and other miasmatic disease, are dis
semInated beyond the place of their origin.
Protected by HOstetters Stomach Bitters,
you may breathe them unframed. Other
wise, apprehend trouble Not only malarial
infection, but rheumatism, dyspepsia, con-
stipation, biliOusness, debility and kidney
complaints are successfully controlled by
the great preventive and remedy.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07

Hartford is literary, but not geo.
graphical When the bronze image OF
H. Wells found its present resting
place on Bushnell Park, this inscription
was chiselled into the base: Horace
Wells, who discovered Anasthesia-"
And a pretty society girl, happening
to pass that way, read the inscription
and wrestled with the problem therein
suggested until she reached home; and
then, with her brows knotted with
perplexity. she said to her sister:
Mile. where 81 ASasthessa g"-P4eb,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07

CONSUMPTION may be avoided by the timely
Pixies TOothache Drops Cure in one minute.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07

''BEHIND closed doors"-the sale Of beer
on Sunday. Post.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07

An EXTENDED POPULARITY. BrOlCn's BrOn-
chtGL IrocheS have for many years been the
most popular article in use for relieving
Coughs and Throat troubles.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07

THE upper ten includes the winning nine
and the umpire.-Puch
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07

CoNJUGAL love can not be preserved in
fam ly jars.-Ieras SDttngs
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07

IL afflicted with Sore Eyes use DIR. Isaac
FhomDson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it25c.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07
THE MARKETS.

A WHITE lie-watered milk Harrington
Fyeg Press
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q Noted Divine Saws:

81 have been using TUFTS Liver Pills
for Dyspepsia. Weak Stomach and
COsfiveness, with which 1 have long
been afflicted.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1888-12-07

Gold, silver. Bronze. coppsr. Only 70 cents..
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10
An Exclamation.

What is this nervous trouble" with
which so many seem now to be af-
flicted? III you will remember a few
years ago the word Malaria was com.
paratively unknown,-to-day it is as
common as any word in the English
language, yet this word covers only
the meaning of another word used b,
our forefathers in times past. So il
is with nervous diseases, as they anG
Malaria are intended to cover what
our grandfathers called Billiousness
and all are caused by troubles tina
arise from q diseased condition of The
Liver which in performing its func
tions finding it cannot dispose of tn,
bile through the ordinary channel il
compelled to pass it off through th'
system, causing nervous troubles
lIalaria, Bilious Fever, etc. Yol
who are suffering can well appreciat,
cure. We recommend Green's Au
gust Flower. Its cures are mar
yelOus,
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10
Catarrhal Dancers.
ATRDSOAP

To be freed from the dangers of suffocation
while lying down; to breathe freely, sleep
soundly and undisturbed to rise refreshed.
head clear, brain active and free from pain
or ache; to know that no poisonous, putrid
matter defiles the breath and rots away the
delicate machinery of smell. taste and hear
ing to feel that the system does not, through
its veins and arteries, suck up the poison that
IS sure to undermine and destroy. is indeed a
blessing beyond all other human enjoyments.
To purchase immunity from such fate
should be the object of all afflicted, But those
who have tried many remedies and physi-
clans despair Of relief or cure,
SANFORD'5 RADICAL CURE meets every
phase of Catarrh. from simple head cold to
the most loathsome and destructive stages.
1t is local and constitutional. Instant in re
lieving, permanent in curing, safe, economi-
cal and never-failing.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE consists of one
bottle Of the RADICAL CURE, one box of CA
TARRHAL SOLVENT, and one IMPROVED
INHALER, all wrapped in one package, with
treatise and directions, and sold by all drug
gists for Sl.00. POTTER DRUG & CHEMICAL
Co., BOSTON.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10
PERSONAL MENTION.

Clark Loughery is down from
Knappa.
Fred Newell and wife are expected
to arrive home this morning.
Geo. A. Crofutt, we'll known as the
editor of Overland Tours" paid this
office visit yesterday, and spoke in
glowing terms of the magnificence of
the Columbia river, and the promis-
ing future of Astoria.
DIR. Gibbons returned to Oakland,
Cal, on the Elder yesterday. Dur
ing his stay the DIR. has been engaged
in botanical research in Clatsop
county, and takes a fine collection OF
several hundred specimens home with
him.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10
What A Pretty Baby,

Is it a boy or girl? How often do
we hear this remark and question.
Yes. it is pretty baby, bnt how bad its
mother looks. She looks as if she were
going right down. She is so thin and
yellow, and her face is covered with
wrinkles and blotches. She seems so
nervous and irritable too; but it is easy
to account for her condition. Child
birth has left her with prolapsus or other
disbursements, poisoned blood, and a
disordered state of the stomach and
bowels. The best thing she can do is
to use at once DIR. Pierce'S Favorite
Prescription which has been prepared
for the express need of women III that
condition. All druggists.
DIR. Pierce's Pellets-cleanse and reg
ulate 1.-THE stomach, bowels and system
generally. % cents a vial one dose.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10

An authority on milk states that
careful experiments show that the
evening milk contains more solids
than that drawn in the morning, due,
perhaps, to greater variety of food
being allowed during the day. How
ever that may be, some have declared
their intention of rejecting some As.
toria milk, both morning aud evening
owing to the large amount of solid
matter present in it.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10
For First Place.

A great amount of political engineer
ing will be done by friends of candidates
to secure for their man the first place on
the ticket, and the best man will prob
ably secure the coveted place. Then if
indOrsed by the majority of the people,
the election is assured. Electric BitterS
has been put to the front, its merits
passed upon, has been indorSed. and
unanimously given the first place
among remedies peculiarly adapted to
the Ielief and cure OF all Diseases of
Kidneys, Liver and Stomach. Electric
Bhters, being guaranteed, is safe in
vestNent. Price 5Oc and 81 per bottle
at .Jno. c. Dement'S Drug Store.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10

The CIatsop Road and Construc-
ton company has about finished the
work in hand. The new plank from
the old Seaside cannery to the Point
and the macadamized portion beyond
to the milk ranch make a safe drive
that is an agreeable contrast to the
road which it replaces.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10

On the Danube which arrived iu
Portland from Victoria last Monday
came a young Chinese she named
Hee. Hee was refused liberty to land
by collector Abraham and so she
through her attorney obtained a writ
Of habeas corpus which brought Hee
on shore.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10

Industry Lodge, No. 8, A. o. U. W.,
of Portland, have completed arrange
ments for the reception of Seaside
Lodge, No. II. on their visit to Port
land next Monday morning. The
programme is elaborate, creditable to
the entertainers and a compliment to
the entertained.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10

The East Portland city council are
in great trouble. They've lost a
sewer. 1t has sunk out of sight and
out of reach. It's different in As
toria. We have to climb over the
sewers here.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10

Road overseer Bartoldes has force
of men at work on the road between
the Walluski ferry and Osborn's
place. VIM. Chance operating at this
end of the road by interviewing those
subject to road tax, supplies him with
considerable moral, physical, and
financial support. The work done on
the road this season has made great
improvement.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10
Misleading Directions.

A writer on domestic economy, in
giving instructions for keeping eggs
fresh, says: Lay with the small end
down." He does not specify whether
this direction is for the hen or the
housewife.-St. Louis HumOriSt.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10
Portland & Coast s. s. Co
Time Carl

For October, November and December
1888.
Gray's Harbor-Thursday, October 4
II, IS, and 25. November /, s, 10, %, and
%. December G, 13, 20, and 81.
ShOalwater Bay-0ctober 4. and IS
November l, 10, and 90. December 13
and q.
Tillamook-Monday, October /, Is
and %. November II, and 26. Decem
Der 10, and "a.
Steamer leaves Portland, from foot Of
Q street at p. NJ. on above dates. AS
toria, 6 A. NJ. the following morning.
Freight received every day until F. M
The Company reserves the right tC
change time and place of sailing.
F. r. STRONG,
President.
C.P. UPsHUR. Astoria Agent.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10
ADYICETO MOTHERS

MRS. WINSLOw's SOOTHING SYRUP
should always be used for children
teething. 1t sOothes the child, sOftens
the gums. allays all pain, cures wind
cholic, and is the best remedy for diar-
rhea. Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10

Ludlow's Ladies' $500 Fine Shoes
also Flexible Hand turned French Kids
at p. j. GOCDMAN's.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10

All the patent medicines advertised
in this paper, together with the choicest
perfumery, and toilet articles, etc. can
be bought at the lowest prices, Mt j. W
COnn's drug store. opposite Or'ident
hotel, Astoria.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-10-10

. Yesterday was a great day for TOM
cod. the boys all getting fine strings
OF fish.