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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17
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ment ever put the fxments on me, Mis-
ter President, in somethin better than
thirty years-which in the main time
have run and sold and climbed up
around barrels on top of barrels, and
hit the finest in the woods-was up
there in the hills amongst the head
waters of Caney Branch. Me and Bud
Travis had went over that mornin and
made a little run-which we both then
felt rich and branched off into game or
draw poker. By-and-by l heard the
Raiders comm, but 1 couldn't bulge
marry inch right then. There was four
teen dollars and six bits in the pot, Mis-
ter President, and kelt four aces, with
flushes barred. Presently Bud called
rae to a show down, and jest as I throwed
my hand to the pack and raked in the
pile the Raiders closed in on us with
their papers on compliment.
'But that was the onlyest time in the
history of the Cyclone Streak that Black
Jack Virgins ever got caught with his
finger in his mouth, as it were. mem
ton these things, Mister President, in
orderment to let you know that the
boys of Cyclone Streak are hot stuff
and hard to handle.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17
The Way to Stop 1t.


"Finally at last, Mister President, the
way to stop the free and unlimited dis
tillment of moonshine sperits and wild
cat whisky in Cyclone Streak-unbe-
knowance to the general government
is to sail in and stop it. You want
man for General Raider that can
bunch the machinery and round up the
sinners and wipe out the whole entire
business at one fell clatter, as it were.
And in that case you can git my COM
pany, Mister President.
''The way you run it now the general
government will pick UP man now and
then, and smash still here and there.
But that won't stop the business. The
bows don't give a continental durn for
those slight interruptions. Some will
come and some will go, whilst the free
and unlimited distillment of sperlts-ot-
cats-a-fghtin will go on forever In Cy'
clone Streak. Bud Travis says he can
make a trade with the general gov
ernment to spend six months in Jail
every wear, and if they will give him
six months to run his business in Cy-
clone Streak he can beat six cent Cotton
clean out of sight. And Bud ought to
know, Mister President.
$50 long as a man can take bushel OK
corn and run two dollars worth OF
ky-unbeknowance to the governs
ment-they boys don't particlars mind
them little annual visitations from the
city Raiders. But if you ralesx mean
business, Mister President-if you want
a man for General Raider that can.
dreene Cyclone Streak as dry as
powder house before. Christmas, am
the hucl&.eberry you are huntin for.
| 'Yours Truly.
BLACK JACK WIGGINs." 1
.P. S.-Mind you now, Mister Presi-
dent, don't essentially believe it is
any of your official business what the
people do with the corn which grows on
| their own native soil. And in case you
don't need me as General Raider for
Cyclone Streak, I do most fervently
hope the boys will run 300 barrels be-
fore Christmas-and all unbeknowance
to the general government.
"'B. ]. W."
Now as for me, don't know what the
president will think or say or do wher
he reads that secont letter from Cyclone
Streak. But at any rates, it amt my
funeral and won't have to ride fee
formost at the head of the procession
RUFUS SANDERS.
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"BLACK JACK WIGGINS. !"
THE SUCCESSFUL SOLDIER
He Mast Be Natural Leader OF
Armed Men.

He Mast Be Natural Leader OF
Armed Men.
Lord Wellesley is reported to have az
serted recently that while soldier
by nature might be benefited to an
almost incalculable degree by educa-
ton and training, a man who lacks sol
dierlv instincts can never become sue
cessful leader of armed men. In sup
port of these views the British general
is reported to have said that one of the
most thoroughly equipped general oin-
GERS in the English army during the
Crimean war, a man of superior eouca-
ton and training, was one OF the most
impractical officers of his grade in the
Queens forces. This officer, he said,
had been faithful student, was blessed
with a good memory, and possessed
remarkably fine conception OF the
greater operations of war as taught by
the books, but with it all was the most
dismal failure as an officer in all the
British army.
The remarks of Lord Wellesley will
serve to recall to the military student
some of the excentricities of the IA
nous Prussian officer, Gen. Ruchel.
This gentleman possessed exceptionally
great attainments and stood high in the
estimation of military men as an au-
thority and instructor. Eventually
however, with all his great learning
and ability, he brought upon hlmsen,
while at the head of the military school
at Potsdam, the ridicule of the world
by teaching that the fright shoulder
forward" was the secret of military
success. In other words that the
oblioue order was the infallible rule Tor
| gaining battles. The battle OF jena,
| the scholarly old general thought, could
have been saved to the Prussians, If the
command to advance the right shoulder
had been given at the proper time, and
an oblique line created to meet the
enemy.
The greatest successes in life, 1t may
be remarked, usually come to the man
who feels that he is pursuing the line
of least resistance in his business or
profession, and is well qualified by ma
ture as well as by attainment, for what
he is doing. The leader of armed men
is no exception to this rule, and the man
who feels that he lacks in soldierly quail
tiles, or has this fact made apparent tc
him by want of success, should at once
in the interests of his government anc
humanity as well, seek some other neio
of labor Military Gazette, Chicago.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17
The !asA.!. CONSUMPTION
CAN b CURE.

j. A. Slocum, Nj. c. the Great
Chemist and Scientist, Will Send
Free, to the Afflicted, Three
Bottles of His Newly Discov.
cred Remedies to Cure
Consumption and all
Lung Troubles
Confident that he has discovered a
reliable cure for consumption and all
bronchial, throat and lung diseases,
general decline and weakness, loss of
flesh and all conditions of wasting,
and to make its great merits known,
he will send, free, three bottles to
any reader of the BULLETIN who
NAV be suffering.
Already this ''ucw scientific course 81 medicine"
has permanently cured thousands Of apparently
hopeless cases
Whieh he owe. 90 humanity-to donate his inialll'
bic cure.
He has proved the dreaded consumption to be
rurabIa disease b-vond any doubt, and has on hle
In his American and European laboratories testi.
tl0nialS Of experience from those benefited and
cured. in all parts Of the world.
n,n't DELAY until il is too late. Consumption
uninterrupted, means speedy and certain S. deelh
Adde'S T. A. Slocum, N. &, 9S Pine street, New
York aud when writing the doctor, please "
sxpreSs and Iostoffce address, and also menuoE
re..a:as this article in the BOLIVAR BULLETIN
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17
THE CYCLONE STREAK.
Where the Boys Do Max "Sperits-
of-Cats-a- Fight1n."
Black Jack Virgins Wants to Be Gem
eraI Revenue Raider-His Letter
to the President-Death OF
"Rufus Sanders"
A Foil MURDER.

IA Birmingham (Ala) dispatch OF Au-
gust 25 gives the sad news of the death by
assassination at Greenville of Francis B.
Lloyd, the writer of the Rufus Sanders
letters. Mr.. Lloyd. while walking along the
road. was shot and instantly killed from
ambush, receiving two loads OF puckshot
in his body The dispatch says no cause
for the cowardly act had been given, but
it was supposed to have grown out of pri-
vate grudge between the victim ana MS
murderer, Deceased was member OF the
Alabama legislature from Butler county.
He was for several years CITY eoltor oI t%e
Montgomery Advertiser. The following
letter is probably the last Rufus san
ders' article written by Mr.. Lloyd.1:
Gray Dick, our old shawl-neck
rooster. had come around and stood on
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17

which meant that somebody was COM
in-and itchin on the off side, which
meant that it was man per-
son comm. So consequentially no
body didn't fall over in faint, and it
want in the leastwise astonishin to me
when Black Jack Wiggins, of Cyclone
Streak, rid up and hailed at the horse
rack about supper time that night.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17

the front doorstep
last Tuesday morn
in and crowed loud
and long and man
nish, like as if he
was right fresh mar
ried to the most
loveliest pullet in
t h e settlement.
Mother lowed her
nose had been itchin
powerful that day
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17

men in the regions around Black Jack
Virgins is the man for the place. You
needn't to have any earthly doubts IN
regards to that, Mister President The
man which knows the woods is the man
to blaze the way. In the fullness OF
time / have went the gaits myself.
know ropes. | have learnt all the
links. / woaldn't even sorter make out
like l know everything, Mister Presi-
dent. Pick me up and drop me down
60 miles from Cyclone Streak and
wouldn't know anything for certain.
I don't know a blame bit more about
our great and GROWN country at large
than your general government knows
about the lay of the land in Cyclone
Streak-which is little more tnan noth-
in. Mister President.
"Now, you mought think that some
of your fellow citizens over there IN
Cyclone Streak are runnin wildcat stills
and maxim moonshine whisky. heap
of people think that, Mister President.
The revenue raiders which the general
government sends out from town think
the same thing. But you only think it,
and they only think it, whilst L do
essentially know it. As far back as my
recollection will reich the boys IN Cy-
| clone Streak have been Tunnln Wnlte
ink and sperits-of-cats-a-fghtin, and L
am one of the boys, Mister President
Many and many a year ago learnt at
nv dear old fathers knee that the
| shuckin of the corn meant meal IN tne
barrel, and likewise also sperlts IN the
| keo. Mister President. It didn't take
me forever to find out that when the
annie blossoms bloomed and the peach
tree turned red in spots they stood for
| nlentv of sweet things in the pantry
! first. and then few drops of brandy
to make the sugar and water taste pet
ter along in the dead of winter.
"I am KNOWN to various and sundry
things that have come to pass unbe-
knowance to the general government
I can go over in the forks OF Fantnei
creek and the Patsalaggy river ano
buy the very best of goods hunoreo
nroof-15 years old-handmade with
snrino water-fine and smooth as sllF
and satin. Mister President-for two
dollars a gallon. I don't mind telllT
YOU that, jest between us girls, AS !
were. and if you can stand off the
freight 1 mought send you some sam
ples. But 1 would ruther you don
saw nothin about it around headquar
ters-particular whilst congress is II
session-for fears the whole DUR
shootin match mought move down int
Cyclone Streak. The fruit dion lurl
out much and the corn crop is ruthe
short this year, Mister President
/ Whereas, the committee on foreign re
! lations have bought new Wincheste
: rifles and passed resolution in faVo
of the free and unlimited distlllmen
of plain American whisky"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17

mine is a pitiable case" said the man
who had reached the melancholy stage az
he leaned against the bar. What a woe
it is to have a wife who has a habit Of
locking YOU out of your own house" ''You
amt one, two, three with me-" said the
other melancholy man. Mine las a ! Fabls
Of lVeking me in. in."-Pittsburgh ChTonit!s. /
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17
A New variety.

Jack-Did Miss Prim give you the
cold shoulder or the gladshand?
Chollie-Neither. She gave me thS
tilted aose.--N, Z, Pgesa.
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13 WEEKS 81 90

THE POLICE GAZETTE will be nailed; secure
a, -a,,-.si =, any address I'm the United States
THsEE Mo SIlIs on receipts ei On r Nii-L4It.
an letters money orisTas drafts, etc, must >
ADDRESSED 10 The PIOpFieto<s -, - ,ow
FFaAkli0 s. tsTe, D. l. e2SASpV - SV~'
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17
Commercial Hotel,
Grand Junction, Tenn.
D. N. MCKENZIE. ..... .PrOpE

First class service. Travelling
men receive special attention. Por-
ters meet all trains. Rates reason
able. Public patronage solicited.
The times., 1897-11-09
a1he CITY Of Kew York,

THE City Of New York arrivedin Wash
ington last night and dlsp0rted Itself upon
tiie boards at the Acade my. before highly
delighted audience, during three acts when
il was replaced by the Territory of Mon
tana. The scenery is surpassed by ruaU Of
no meIcdrama which has COM to town this
year. the representation OF Grants Tomb at
Riverside and of the famous road house,
Glare mont -un-the Hudson, being especially
fine. Another very effective scene was
that SLOWING the mountains where the
special was wrecked.
The story OF the play deals with the
adventures OF Tom Sanders, New York
boy, with various New York Characters,
who try TO ruin him In the usual ways
aud are overcome with the Customary
triumph. There were several very sue
cessfal in personations, notably that OF Max
FeirmaI, as a Hebrew, and Walter
One If the prattiest scenes is that in
which the gambler meets a broken-down
old man and, discovering that the latter
has tIaa nothing to eat for several davs,
remarks in borsey language that he is not
a saint, but he feels himself compelled
TO relieve these sufferings. The episode,
like several others in the play, seemed
to go directly to tile hearts of the spec
tators.
The audience liked the piece, and in
dulged in demonstration at proper periods
with o readiness that spoke for spontaneity
the truest teSb of en- ioyment,
The times., 1897-11-09

its graceful and intricate movements, all
heightened by color and electric effects.
Among the satellites about her Were the
Karno trio. recently imported for this
company. They gave highly amusing
and very novel sketch in grctesque COS
tune, and proved great card. VIII
Fox, a pianist of unique ability, better
known OF the vaudeville boards as Paddy
W whiski," gave fifteen minutes of bright
fun and good music. hfr. and Mrs. Arthur
Stidham appeared in a funny sketch, por
ira wing a eountryman' visit to the city,
which kept the house in roar.
Morton and Revele appeared in an
original sketch, and sang new songs i'll
rag time in ttIeir funny way. Genaro and
Bailey repeated their former successes as
negro deIineators. Leono Lewis sang her
way into prompt favor with number of
new and old songs, Henry Kesslec used his
tenor voice 10 good advantage and won
himself several well deserved recalls. The
show viii undoubtedly draw crowded
houses all the week.
The times., 1897-11-09
! NEW M1coIoe1cAL socIErr. 81
Its Organization by the Election
of Officers.


of Officers.
The first regular meeting of the Wash
ington Theological Society was held in the
botanical laboratory of Columbian Univer
Sity yesterday Afternoon. This is 4 new
organiza tion. in which those who are en-
gagged IN the study of fungi, either from
scientific or gastIonomic standpoint, are
expected to take an interest.
Yesterdays meeting was devoted to i
display of various species of fungi, the
greater number of which the ladies Of the
society brought, and the designation Of
names. These specimens consisted of many
rinds some that We're good and whole
some for food and some that were deadly
enemies the stoinaehs ofman and woman
kind.
Philadelphia and Boston are said 20 be the
pioneers in societies of this description, and
they are popular there. The Washington
organization, though Just born, promises TO
be equally popular. Already it has twenty
five members. There are about twenty
ladies' in it now, and their number, as Well
as the number of men, is expected 10 grow
largely ard speedily.
Mr.. Thomas A. Williams, of the AgFicul-
tural department. an authority on fungi
and gentleman who is deeply hsorbed
in their study, is president, and Mr.. Y. X
Chestnut, student in the line, is secretary
Miss Mary Fuller, OF the Interior Depart
ment library, also an enthusiast, is corre-
spondent secretary, and Mrs Thomas A.
Williams is curator.
1t is she intention of the society 10 make
frequent field excursions for the purpose
cf gathering specimens of Fungi. which
events are expected TO bring the members
much knowledge and pleasure.
The times., 1897-11-09
..r.onrted Into Conrt.o

Marie DreSSler, versatile, ma gnetic and
acrobaric, frollicked her way through many
amusing situations at the Columbia last
night, aud the verdict Of the large audience
was expressed in smiles, laughter and ap-
plause from the beginning Oi her court
ship until her triRmphal exit from the
divorce court with the same man She me
there to try and lose. As Dottie Dimple,
an actress. Miss DresSler made even d
greater hit than she did here as Flo, Of
the music halls, i'll The Lady SIavey,"
in that ane had greater opportunity To
amuse ny injecting her own mirth-pro-
rohlpg nersonaIity INTO the play and get
ting at once on good terms with the audi
enee.
The story of the farce is amusing and
is punctuated freely with stua tions that
rroduch hearty laughter. After the first
laugh things are kept so warm that frost
could not settle there even in the Klon
tike. In John c. Rice Miss Dressler has
found a delight correspondent in her case
against the public, and the audience holds
him equally guilty for their maltreated
risibilities. In the musical specialties at
the close OF the first act he does an ex-
ceedingly clever grotesqde hornplpe in con-
neetion with his song, Why I Became a
Sailor
Maud Huth won hearty encores with her
amusing and tuneful coon songs, Rama.
Jam, want that man and IF that amt
winning home and score ed another hit
Immediately aTtefward with Billy Clifford
iii leaiiing the cake walk that brought the
first act 10 m uIToarious close. The re
mainder Of the cast had congenial roles
and the choruses We're very pleasing.
Miss Eyangelina Cisneros, accompanied by
Mrs. Marcias and her son, occupied box
dnriEg the performance, and was made the
subject of toast by Miss Dresser during
tiie dinner scene in the second act, and wa.
afterwards tosseda bouquet Which had been
handed ovet the footlights TO Miss Bressler.
The times., 1897-11-09
REV. JAMES MANY THE PASTOR.
To Take Charge of East Washington
Heights Bautist Church.

council composed of nearly all the
Baptist ministers of the city met at the
Calvary Baptist Church yesterday to con
slider the application of Rev. James W
Many for ordination to the pastcrate 81
the East Washington Heights Church. 4fteJ
the usual preliminary formaliUies, the young
pastor was questioned by the ministers to
ascertain his capabilities and fitness Tor
the charge. Tie result was eminently sat,s
factory, and the application was unani.
mouay granted. Mr.. Many is a young, ener.
getie man. and ha IS already achieved high
reputati ti6n as a hard worker.
The congregation worshiping at the East
Washington Heights Church have been anx-
ious to secure the services OF Mr.. Mary
for some time past. and under his pastorate
the church anticipates a season OF renewed
prosperity.
The times., 1897-11-09
Dollie and Milton MOBILES.

Notwithstanding the inclenency of the
weather the COSY BiJou contained large
audiences when the curtain rose on one
OF the most attractive programs presented
by the management this season. Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Mobiles, we'll known stars in
melodrama, made their first appea rance
here in vaudeville program ana were
given an enthusiastic welcome, hev
proved their versa tilfty in a farce en-
titled '1Bilgeyille Junction" which was
well enacted, and so filled with fun that
il Kept the house in uproar continuously
Among Others who added to the pleas
ure OF the performance We're Fredo AMI
Dale, in o novel musical comedy; Hart
and Irving. change artists and mystifiers
generally; Bingham, ventriioquist, who
presented features never seen before; Andy
Anlann. German comedian; Kittie Bing
ham, who rendered several new songs well,
and Byron G.. Jan, who repeated his
former success in illustrated songs intro
ducing his newest. Just Set Light He
is a great card and dcservedls popular.
Shafer and Randall gave character
sketch, and John Rrock told 4 number Of
stories in his happy way "on the Other
Side a farce-conedy by The Bijou com
pany, provoked roars of laughter.
The times., 1897-11-09
HELD Fon THE GRAND JURY.
Mamie Nicklens Must Answer {
Very Serious Charge.

jury OF inquest, summoned by Coroner
Carr, met at the Eighth precinct police
station at , O'Clock yesterday afternoca
to investigate the cause of the death OF
the dead colored infant found last week
in trunk in the room of Bessie E. Smith,
q colGred servant, employed by W. r.
TruNton at No. 1742 street northwest.
The jurors were william H. Mooney,
George d. Biggs, Jacob Reitersbach Charles
F. Wiley, DR.. Henry A. Dunn, and James
e. Gessford
DR.. Glazebrook, the assistant coroner;
Detective BENJAMIN f. Rhodes, DIR. Gerrge
Barrie, the family physician to Mr.. Tnuy-
ton, md Bessie Smith We're examined. The
Smith woman testified that Mamie Nick
lcnts cnmmitted malpractice. Her eyi-
tence was corrobor ated, and the jury
recommended that Mamie Nickleas be
arrested FOR the crime and held for the
ac1ion OF the grand jury.
The times., 1897-11-09
Boston symphony Concert.

The first of the series of Boston Sym
phony concerts viii be given at the La
fayette this afternoon at 4:15. Rafael
JoSeffy VIII ne the soloist. The orchestra
is this year composed of ninety musicians,
who left Boston on Sunday night by way
OF the Royal Blue Line, and arrived in
Philadelphia for last nights concert.
This morning they take the Baltimore and
Ohio to this city for matinee concert.
returning this evening by the same line
to Baltimore, where an evening perform
ance viii be given. Tomorrow night the
take the midnight train for New York,
The times., 1897-11-09

Miss cisileros and her party occupied
box at the Columbia last night and was
the recipient of pretty improlaptu COM
rlinlent from Miss Marie DressIer, which
the audience indorsed with applause.
The star had previously introduced a
toast TO the Cuban patriots. in honor o.
the presence Of the young stranger, and
upon receiving d bouquet OF flowers she
first bowed prettily to the audience AMI
then with swift uneiring aim. flung the
flowers to Miss Cisneros, who caught them
in her arms She too bowed and snarkled
and tGe audience apIGauded again.
The times., 1897-11-09
SOCIETY NOTES


Yesterday afternoon Mrs Young, wife
o. the superintendent OF the Congressional
Library, die 4 gracious thing. About 3
. clock sIln jpined those blind readers who
had h-aAed the storm 10 avail themselves
Of the privilege of tile Library, and. after
a trieadiy chat, told them that IT lad
been suggested tnat ii might be both a
pleasure and benefit To the visitors to that
s.sctoa il a series of readings Were given
them OF books that were not, and probably
neNe Ner woald be, published in finger print,
and that, by way OF a beginning, she
Wcald read To them then if they would
like ler to Do so. Naturally. her listeners
weIc charmed at the proposition, and for
au hruE or more the little group sat with
rhpt Interest as Mrs. Young read, first, an
essay on William Dean Howells and then
sl,o-r story by that author.
Mrs Young Bas "a cisar musical voice that
at times was vibrant with feeling. She
read as if she was thoroughly enjoying
both her subject and her miSsion, and no
reader couId help being touched and plea Sed
with th4. appreciation with which her ef-
forts were received. The pavilion set
apart for tie exclusive use of the blind is
a vast, beautiful room In the northwest
basement or the building The arched
walls are tinted light blue and white: the
walls are salmon pink, and the polished
floors faiat irown. There is a long
Gou'ae she'll coItaininng about siNty-fis =
volumes of finger print. the collection
including Bible, dictionary, encyclopedia.
a number of text books and bound maga
zines. Ia addition 10 the clerks desk
there are two long tables, on each 5f
which We're vases of flowers and ferns.
It il said that Mr. Young intends 10 put
in 4 piano after q Lit ana IN other ways
aid 10 the already CHEEKY aspect Of the
room.