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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-16
FRATDS DETECTED.

A good many years ago a bank mes
senger sent in for redemption a cigar
box full of scraps of money. He made
affidavit that they We're all that was
left of some money which had been
destroyed by mice. It took the experts
only a few minutes to tell that the
scraps bore no relation to each other.
Each belonged to a different note. Evil
IDENTIFY the messenger had been picking
up scraps of bills around the bank for
many years, and saving them for a
fraud on the government On another
occasion two halves of note came in
from different men in the same city
on the same day, each accompanied
by an affidavit telling how the other
half had been destroyed.
This sort of thing is going on all the
time. a few days ago one of the
clerks brought to Chief Relyea the
mangled remains of what seemed to he
i S. bill. 1t was pasted on a piece of
heavy brown paper In the lower left
hand corner the serial number was
clearly defined; in the upper right hand
corner, where the same figures should
have appeared, the note had been
scraped, SO as 10 blur the number, and
Gest with India ink the first of the fig
urcs on the number below. The two
pieces evidently had belonged to diff
ferent notes. Alone they We're value
less, because S:either was as large as
two-fifths of the original note; togeth-
or the owner had hoped to make them
appear to belong to the same note and
so get $3.50 for them. The attempt at
fraud was weak and futile.
The Treasury clerks have keen eyes,
2nd they make few mistakes. They
have been known to pass counterfeits,
and undoubtedly some counterfeit
notes have been redeemed by the treas
ury, but cases of this kind are rare
When the notes come to the redemp-
ton division cut in half, the upper
half being sent to the treasurer's office
and the lower half to the registers
Each package of half notes is marked
with the initials Of the original coun-
ter. IT has happened that the counter
in the treasurer's or registers office has
come upon a counterfeit. In that case
the original counter Las been obliged
to make up the loss to the government
because the treasury pays out the
amount of the notes on the certificate
of the first counter.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-12-16

not have been more than $25. and in
trying to beat the government out of
that amount the young man forfeited
his liberty for a year and half.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
SUBSCRIPTION: sl.OO Per Year.

say or do would keep down thtsm
strange and tender spring feelins in my
y6uhg and foolish breast. And some
times it did seem to me like if couldn't
win Miss Bessie Kate over on my side
so we could take and git married as soon
as we got old and big enough, would
lay me down and die a natural death.
Raley couldn't see how it was possible
for me to live my time out unless she
would put her little hand in mine and
give me her promise that she would
walk side by side with mc-through
good and bad reports, for better or for
tv6rse-tiH the last final shower come,
and one or the other of US had to put
up or shut up and go on across.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
LOWER RIVER FLOODS.
No Abatement in the Mad Rush
of Angry Waters.
Relief Boats Doing Noble Work In the
Rescue of the Drowned Out and Starv-
Ing People - The Situation Hourly
Growing Worse

81. LOUIS, March 2O.-Water, water.
everywhere, and not a spot of dry land
upon which % seek refuge, is the wall
that comes out of the southland. The
Cumberland and the Tennessee are
pouring mighty volumes into the Ohio
from the south, and the Wabash Is
rushing In one of the greatest floods
ever known in It's valley. All this
makes the volume of water poured into
the Mississippi from the Ohio probably
greater than ever before. At the pres
ent time, stretch of country over 100
miles long from a point 20 miles north
OF Memphis to point so miles south of
the Tennessee metropolis, issubmerged,
In places to depth of Is feet, as the
land dips or rises.
Fertile valleys in Tennessee and Ar
kansas are completely inundated, many
lives have been lost, stock drowned,
fencing and dwellings swept away,
and the inhabitants, destitute and
homeless, are left to starve or drown by
the steadily and remorselessly rising
tide.
Late reports from nearly all trib-
utary streams show rains and rapidly
rising rivers, floods from which will
soon be emptied into the Mississippi,
adLing to the danger when hurled
AGAINST the already weakened 1evees,
now patrolled hourly by armed and
desperate men, provided with sand
bags to strengthen weak places or to
close threatened crevasses, and rifles
to shoot down any miscreant who
would venture to cut the embankment
to allow the waters on his plantation
to find a vent into the lowlands of
neighbor.
The floods now partalxe of the nature
of deluge As far as the eye can see.
nothing but water meets the gaze, un-
til checked by lowering clouds on the
horizon. And still the rain falls, the
waters continue TO rise, as silently and
as fate, while shivering
women and wailing children on rail
way embankments or levees expect mo-
mentarily to be swallowed up by the
resistless tide as it swirls and gurgles
gleefully to the gulf, carrying on its
wide expanse homes of homeless ones,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
The world. Hit DO Move.

Seven long years had slipped by als
most unbeknowance to me, when oncst
upon a time I was took down with a
mighty bad hotnesiek spell, and didn't
have blessed thing to do but light out
and return back home to the old settle
1nent. By this time you must Tecollect
that the ecotton-headed, hatchet-faceted,
yearlin boy had come up to be right
likely 1ookin young man, with few
side whiskers on his face. store-bought
clothes on his back, and three or four
sweethearts on his mince
To me the old familiar scenes around
the settlement looked plum natural ex-
ceptin on1y that everything did look
powerful little and swunk UP in my
sight. Miss Nan Biggers-the same
little dried up old maid-Has teachin
school in the same old log schooEhouse
over at the Cross Roads. One night the
school give big exhibition as usual
for the grand windup, and for the sake
of old times put on my Sunday duds
and went to see the show.
Yes, bless your soul, Miss Bessie Kate
Simpkins she was there, primped clean
out of sight and dressed in an inch of
her life At the same time the violets
and yellow jessamines and honeysuckles
were bloomin wild and plentiful over
there on Caney Branch, whilst the ma
tive air was sweet with the breath of
spring. But yet still somehow them
strange and tender spring feelins which
use to have wouldn't come back only
as silly tale that was told. Miss Bessie
Kate wore a little bunch of violets i'm
her hair that night, but time had took
out all the curls, and the blue in hel
eyes didn't match with the blue in the
yiolets amy more. The schoolgirl was
gone, and in her place there stood q
grown-up woman-jest \ plain, female,
human womaIl-and the longer | looked
at her that night the more felt like
it didn't make continental durn bit
of difference if we never did hang our
rags on the same peg together.
And to-day, as think and write OF
the days that have come and went since
1 got into my first love scrape over at
the cross roads schoolhouse, Miss Bes-
sic Kate Simpldns holds her place
amongst the old maids of the settle
ment. I reckon, Ito doubts, she is good
and sweet. She knits socks and makes
quilts for the poor and needy and visits
around amongst the sick and the suffer-
in. But she has shielded her teeth and
her hair is turnin gray. do raley and
truly hope she is as happy as happy
could be, but she don't look it to me.
Well, in the due fullness of time, /
struck up acquaintance with the prit-
tiest and the best and the sweetest little
woman in the world and for many years
we have been mixin clothes for better or
for worse. In my own plain, humble
way, run the farm and write for tht
newspapers, love my country and serve
my day and generation. She keeps the
house and tends to the children and the
flowers and the chickens and the gar
den. Maybe we amt as young and
handsome as we use to be, but yet we
can sing old songs together-we can be
sweethearts forever-whilst the violets
andyellowje aminesand honeysuckles
bloom onset a year every spring oyes
there on Caney branch.
But in the mainline, you must rec
ollect the sun stands still and the world
hit do move.
RTrETTS SANDERS
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

pet stock that made the farm TEEN with
bedded in the soil could only be torn
up by washing away the ground in
which they grew. Still the waters con-
tinue to rise.
The lower Mississippi situation is
hourly growing worse. Death and de-
struction are abroad throughout the
valley. The river is rising from Cairo
to New Orleans.
The levee at Modoc landing, Ark,
gave way Thursday night and the peo-
pie in that vicinity fed for their lives.
The government corps, who had Ia
bored hard to save the levee, were at
once taken to Old Town, several miles
below, with 5000 sand bags, to protect
the levee there. The men are working
under the most discouraging condi-
tions, the rain falling in torrents and
undoing their work as fast as it is done.
The entire levee between Helena, Ark,
which is 80 miles above Modoc landing,
and Relief is reported to be doomed to
destruction. North Helena is sub
merged, although the town proper is
thought to be in no danger.
Seventeen persons were reported
drowned so miles below Caruthersville,
Mo-, where the levee is said to have
gone to pieces. Near Charlottesville the
levee was maliciously cut and govern
ment engineers were dispatched to re-
pair the break.
A negro woman named Eta Nix and
her four children were drowned near
Marion, Ark, where 400 helpless flood
victims were rescued Wednesday and
taken to Memphis.
The river rose three-tenths of foot
at Memphis, and as rain has fallen in
cessantly for SO hours in west Tennes-
see and east Arkansas the rise promises
to continue.
The relief boats sent out from Mem
phis are doing noble work. Six hun
dred people were rescued yesterday on
the Arkansas side of the river and
taken to Memphis, but there are flood
districts so situated that the relief boats
can not reach the stricken ones.
On Island 80 100 sufferers and con-
siderable live stock were rescued by
the steamer ItaSca- Neither man nor
beast had tasted food for over "a hours.
Human beings and helpless brutes are
huddled together awaiting assistance
all along the Iron Mountain and Kan
sas City, Fort Scott & Gulf tracks.
Five hundred people were forced to
fee from the floods in Dyer and Obion
counties, Tennessee. The legislature
of that state has been appealed to for
help, as there were 1000 destitute refu-
gees in Memphis last night, and more
arriving every hour
A crevasse appeared at Glendale,
Miss, Thursday, a few miles below
Helena, Ark. The whole delta country
viii suffer. The water will flood the
country and return to the Mississippi
through the Yazoo.
The Arkansas river rose over three
feet yesterday at Fort Smith and Lit
ta Book, and Is nearing tbs high-water
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
when the Honeysuckies Bloom.


But, by gracious, the fresh tie1ets
that put up along in the spring of the
year most in generally always bring
back to me some scandlous sad and
stormy rec6l1eetions of the dim and
dusty past They put me IN mind of
the first sweetheart ever had in this
green and wicked world here below, and
no matter till yet if 1 try my level
blamdest 1 can't shut out the picture
of that little bunch of calico and rib
bons which first made pluperfect idiot
out of me.
At that time was nothin more than
a cotton-headed, hatchet-faceted year
lin boy, as fresh and green as my ma
tive woods and hills, and as shy as the
flowers that bloom in the spring. Us
boys and girls all went to the school
together over at the old cross roads
schoolhouse. What we learnt in re-
CARDS to books was raley nothin much
to speak of, but the times we saw and
the fun we had was gracious plenty.
It was right along there about that
time when 1 fell heels over appetite
in love with Miss Bessie Kate Simpkins
which she was then the biggest girl
in school, and to my mind the prittiest
and most loveliest thing that ever wore
flowers in her hair, or left her foot
prints on the broad bosom of Gods
green earth. Now, white people, the
way 1 did love that girl was a caution
and sin do reckon. She was way yon-
der older than me, and it stands to rea-
SON now that didn't cross her mind
more than three times day, but loved
her jest the same and jest as hard. l
didn't have the face to sidle up clost
to her and tell her so. But I would
hang around and look on and say nothin
and love her, by gatlins, till sometimes
1T did seem to me like my heart would
break and split wide open.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
Arcanum Omcers.

The Grand Council of Tennessee,
Royal Arcanum, met at Nashville last
week. Following are the grand officers
elected: Regent, S. L. Finley, Memphis;
yice-regent, E. b. Zeigler, Knoxville;
orator, John W. Cowan, Nashville; sec
retary, w. II. Gray, Nashville; treas
urer. Louis David, Knoxville; chaplain.
Rev. w. C. Clark, Shelbyville; guide,
August Schardt, Nashville; warden, 81
N. White, Bellbuckle; sentry, c. L.
Faulkner, Nashville. The membership
Of the order January was 4.075, net
gain of per cent over the previous
year. The grand treasurer's report
showed a balance on hand of 81, 35S. 81
The report of the State medical exam
iner showed 439 applications and 20 re-
iections during the year.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
mark, as the result of three days heavy

nt 11 viz GA ~A@l 0NGN&
raids,
The Cumberland river continues to
rise at Nashville, Tenn, submerging
the lowlnnds everywhere in its valley.
Paducah, KY, is an island, the Ohio
lowering about the so mark. ALI west
Kentucky streams are raging torrents,
devastating property far and wide:
The Tennessee river continues ON a
rampage in Alabama, rising two inches
an hour at Florence.
From Helena, Ark, as far as West
over there is d levee which has done
service since the days of 1882, the last
break, which occurred March, 1880,
from that day until now the govern
ment has expended some S225, 900. That
expenditure has been a safeguard to
over /, 900, 900 acres of the richest land in
the world. Leaving Helena at 2:15 D. M
the levees were followed the entire
distance to Modoe, which is SO miles
below Helena Capt. E. D. Pillow,
who has been fighting the mighty Fe-
thief 6f Waters for the past 25 years,
has a force of 300 men working from
the box factory to Long Lake. The
levee, which has narrow apex nearly
three miles, has been guarded with a
row of sacks filed with sand, which
Will protect the levee for that distance.
He is assisted by Mr.. T. II. Rice, who
has for the last Is years been levee
builder.
Throughout the Memphis territory
there has been scarcely e ray of sum
shine since last Sunday morning, and
few and brief let-ups in the rainfall.
Thursday night it rained hard and had
been doing so all day. A half-inch rise
on the Memphis gauge means an enor-
mouse volume Of water pouring down,
since it covers a surface of at least 80
miles.
The Memphis relief committee wired
Gov. Jones of Arkansas, calling atten-
ton to the condition of refugees from
his state, asking for state aid and also
suggesting that he wire Arkansas con-
gresSmen to seek government aid. This
was the governors reply: "There
are no funds at my disposal for
relief of food sufferers. lean do moth
ing to aid you." Upon receipt of this
response the committee issued an open
letter to merchants, farmers and citi-
zens of Mississippi, Arkansas and
Tennessee, asking aid IN maintenance
of refugees and their live stock.
Says Memphis special: Along the
river there are also hundreds of people
driven from their homes, most of them
taking refuge at Dyersburg and other
railroad towns of this section. Most
of these people saved practically
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

make inc think way back to my young
and gailiH days.1 could shet my eyes
and see the old log sefieolhouse, where
we went to school togethef--Whefe us
boys and girls would often go a-rovin
after sweet shrubs, yellow jessamines
and sich like. Consequentially me and
mother we got youAg onset more.
played like we was sweethearts, and
pitched in and pulled whole passle OF
the freshest and most sweetest flowers
in the woods.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
He nrona Into Poetry.

Finally ait last it seems to me like
couldn't stand it no longer. One morn
in / got up soon and lit out for the
schooIhouse ahead of the main crowd.
On the way 1 stopped over there on
Caney Branch and pulled large and
lovely bunch of flowers sweet yiolets,
and yellow jessamines, and honey
suckles, and the like of that. Then |
took my seat with pen in hand and writ
some poetry-which / then tied the
paper to the flowers and laid them in
Miss Bessie Kate's desk, so she would
find them there when she come to
school. Lookin back to-day, can't
make no brags about that poetry, but
anyhow / set down two or three verses
as follows:
Roses red, violets blue.
Sugar is sweet and
So are you."
"If you love me like
love you,
No knife can cut
Our love in two"
Through many a sigh
And many a tear,
Say won't you be
My honey dear?"
Well, 1 didn't even have sand enough
to sign my full and proper name to the
sweet stuff had writ. But when Miss
Bessie Kate come and found all them
flowers and things in her desk, nobody
didn't have to run and tell her who had
left the signs. If she didn't know the
handwritin reckon she lowed I was
about the onlyest boy in school that was
Ii -, 4 he
didn't do a blessed thing but put a few
of the violets in her hair and throw the
rest, poetry and all, into the big fire.
place. Man sir, it made my weary,
achin heart beat high and fast to see her
wearin of them violets-which Ihad got
over there on Caney BraTch-in her
curly brown hair, and they matched
with her eyes to a mats bristle, too. But
then at recess tremendous sad and
suddent change come over the general
spirit of my dreams, when Miss Bessie
Kate come to me foamin' furious mad,
and told me that she wouldn't take any
lowed if ever dared to do SO any more
she would jest naturally slap the bad
taste out of my mouth.
What was worse and still more of it,
she was good and sweet enough to tell
me to my face, in cold, sober earnest,
and in plain United States language,
that I was undoubtedly the most ugliest
livin mortal she had ever laid eyes upon
since the day and hour when she was
born.
But nevertheless, notwithstandin,
and in spite of all that, loved the girl
-dadblame it, loved her more con-
slant and fervent than town hog loves
slops. Naturally, of course, ! haa to
love her from long taw--on the dead
quiet, as it were-and lay low and say
pothin about It. But nothin she could
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
madison PresbYtery.

The Madison preshytery of the Cum
berland Presbyterian Church held an
interesting session at Hickory Valley
in Hardeman county, last week. The
territory embraces the counties OF Mad
ison, Hardeman, McNairy, Chester,
Henderson, Decatur and part of Hardin.
There are fifty-four churches and
eighteen ministers. Rev. J. HI. Miller,
synodical missionary, was present. He
said that the Cumberland Presby terian
Church is Tennessee institution, hav-
ing originated in this State. 1t Dos
bss membership 2s5,o00
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
Time, the Good Physician.


"Onest boy and then a man, accord
in to Aunt Nancy Newton and the Scrip
lures. Life is full of trials and troubles
and tribulations, but time is a powerful
good doctor.
So the years come and went, and the
world wagged on her way. The boys
and girls and the people in general
changed, as all things change here. By
and-by in the run Of time gotto feelin
my oats considerab bic, packed up few
dyels and lit out and went west to git
rich and grow up with the country.
At first it was like s1Ieddin eye teeth and
payin taxes, but gradually by degrees
I come to the conclusion that mouGht
maybe somehow manage to live few
YEARS longer without Miss Bessie Kate
for my side partner and my honey dear.
Then few more years stacked up in
the dead and dreamy past-afew more
springtimes when the violets and yel-
low jessamines and honeysuclzles
bloofned-thetn strange and tender
spring feelins wore off. and by that time
Ididn'tgive acontinentfal durn whether
1 ever got Miss Bessie Kate for my
owh1yest own or not.
E6w in the main time I had been
bruisin around promiscus, and the
world was GROWN bigger and bigger in
my eyes every day. I had seen so many
sights, and mixed up and mingled with
so mafly various ndsundry people, and
had so much fun one way and another,
till the old log schoofhouse at the Gross
Roads and the girl with curly brown
hair and blue eyes didn't poster my
mind more than oncst a year-which
of course that was along in the spring,
when the violets and yellow jessamines
and honeysuck1es were in full bloom
over there OH Caney Branch.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
Obion Presbytery.

The Obion Presbytery of the Cumbers
land Presbyterian Church met at Nus
Bush last week. One licentiate, five
candidates and twenty congrega-
tional representatives were present
Two candidates for the ministry were
received. New Bethlehem, Dyer coun-
ty, was selected as the place for the
next meeting of the presbytery.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
Resumed Operations.

The Southern Spoke and Rim Com
pany have started up their big factory
at Humboldt, which gives employment
to thirty or forty men. The factory was
closed down several months ago on ac-
count of dull trade. Many hearts
leaped with joy when the big whistle
called the men to long idle machines.
There Is materiaLenough on the grounds
for six months run.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
rohacoo ractorx Destroyed.

Tho tobacco factory belonging to and
run bv w. e. Mebane, and located three
miles northeast of Huntingdon, was.
with It's full contents, destroyed by fire
last week. There were several thou
sand pounds of tobacco destroyed and
the loss was total. as he carried no in
surance. Mr.. Mebane thinks the origin
of the fire the work of an incendiary.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26

for red sassafrass
root to make some
spring tea for the
little folks. With
the sun shinit warm
and pleasant, and
the birds singin, and
the bees ht1mmin--
bless the heavens if
the general circum-
ference OF The sur
IL
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
A Man Missing.

Robert Lewis, proprietsr of an cleo
trio belt appliance, of Chattanooga, has
been missing for three weeks. He left
Chattanooga to look after an agency at
Junction City. and since that time he
has not been heard from. His family is
greatly alarmed about him.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
Bridge Approach washed Away.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March 20.-A dis
patch from Wickliffe, KY, says that a
part of the approach to the bridge over
the Ohio at East Cairo, KY, has been
washed away, delayi~g traffic on the
Illinois Central. Mof1 damage is ex-
pected. The river is rising here with
10 feet on the fallA
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
bicycle Riding I'm Japan.

The city of Kobe, Japan, has issued
a set of regulations governing the use
of bicycles in it's streets They ara
much the same as those adopted in this
country, except that riding for pleasure
is prohibited after dark
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-03-26
Charged with Embezzlement.

H. A. Hardison, travelling salesman
for Cheek, Webb & Co., Nashville. was
arrested last week charged with the
embezzlement of S700 of the firms
money. lie was collector for the firm
and got the money in this way.