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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
SOMETHING OF A TRAVELLER.
A Busy City Man Who StiH Finds
Little Time, to Cover q Few
Thousand Miles.

81 Travelled 5000 miles last year," said the
mild clerk OF the ribbon counter, "and
had no idea we had SO extensive country"
He looked around with conscious pride
and a swelling bosom. A veteran in the
shoe department took him up, says the New
York Sun.
Five Thousand miies!" said he, with
scorn. "Only 5000 miles? Why, bless your
innocent young heart, l travelled Is, 720 miles
last year, and viii do it again this year, and
all l know about the extent of our great
and glorious country is cleaned from the
map. How did l do it! Easy enough.
twenty-five years ago / married, and for
the benefit of future generations l bought
little place 80 miles in the country. Twice
a day for six days in a week l have been
going up and down to that little place for
% years, not counting side trips. That is
to say l have travelled 800 miles a week,
which, multiplied by 81, makes 46S, 900 miles.
Nearly 20 times around the world, that is,
and almost from here to the moon and back
Oh, my boy, you don't know what travelling
is until you live in the suburbs and be-
come a commuter. Five thousand miles?
My soul and body, that's hardly a constitu-
tional"
And the ribbon clerk shrunk into himself
and wished he hadn't mentioned his jour
ley.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
CASUAL OBSERVATIONS.

(From Mr.. Dooley's Philosophy, Copyright
by r. H. Russell, New York;
If We live enough hyfure 80 ye won't
care to live at all afther so.
To most people a savage nation is
wan that doesn't wear uncomfortable
clothes.
AS Shakespeare says, be thrue to
ye'erself an ye viii thin be false to ivry
man.
All tn wurruld loves Iover-eXcipt
sometimes tn wan that's all tn wur-
-uld to him.
If We drink befure swim yell cry be-
fure iliven.
Ivry man has his superstitions. IT L
look at new moon over me shoulder
l get crick in me neck.
DhresSmakerS' bills sinds women int o
lithrachoor an men into an early de-
cline.
All men are br-rave in comp'ny an
cow'rds alone, but some shows it clear
er thin others.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
THE NEW CENTURY FOR GOD,
Midnight Services to be Held for it's
Solemn Conservation to
His Service.

Washington, Dec. 3.-Archbishop
Martinelli, the apostolic delegate, will
participate at services to be held at
ST. Patricks church, in this city, at
midnight on December 81, to conse-
crate the new century to God.
y year ago the pope gave a special
permission, with view to WIDE exer-
else of the privilege, to sing a solemn
mass at midnight of December 81 of
last year, to consecrate the closing
year of the century, and to repeat it
on December 81 next, at the same
hour, for cOnsecrating the entire
new century. The ceremony, like that
of a year ago, is expected to be an
unusually brilliant one, and most of
the bishops throughout the country
probably will hold similar solemn
services.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
CENTURY WATCH MEETINGS.
Miss Barton Makes Public Answer to
Numerous kilograms and
Letters.

Washington, Dec. 3.-Miss Clara
Barton has received many kilograms
and letters asking about the twenti-
eth century watch meetings, and asks
the press to make it known that, while
the movement is under her guidance
and control, all the details are COM
mitted to the New York office of the
Red Cross in the ST. James building,
New York city.
Many towns seem to be waiting for
special authorization to hold these
meetings, whereas none is necessary.
All that any church, lodge, military
company or school of any kind needs
to do is to organize it's own watch
meeting,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
sANGuINE OF SUCCESS.
State Department Hopes to Bring
Foreign Powers to it's Views In
Chinese Affairs.

Washington, Dec. 3.-Administra-
ton officials continue sanguine that
the ministers of the powers at Pekin
will soon reach a common ground OF
agreement in the demands to be made
upon the Chinese imperial govern
ment in satisfaction for the Boxer
outrages. The state department is in
communication with the ministers
and ambassadors of the United States
to the European courts, and addresses
which have come from them from
time to time lead the officials here to
hope that the powers will be brought
to the position maintained by the
United States in dealing with the Chi
nese, viz: That there should not be
demands made upon the imperial gov
eminent which it is not able to fulfill.
Our government has persistently held
to this view in the progress of the
negotiations between the ministers at
Pekin, and if the principle of this
contention can be maintained in the
combined note to be handed to the
Chinese plenipotentiaries, a decided
advantage will be had at the start.
The attitude of our government on
this subject has been made clear to
Mr.. Conger. The meeting between him
and the German and French ministers
Saturday at Pekin, presumably, was
in compliance with the minister's
latest instructions from Washington.
Nothing has been heard from Mr..
Conger by the state department for
several dayS
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an infamed condition of the mu.
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube gets infamed you have a rumbline
entirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to its normal con.
dition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases of of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed condition
of the mucous surfaces.
case of Deafness (caused by catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls 'Catarrh Cure.
Send for circulars, free.
F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, Use.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
A DIPLOMATIC TRIUMPH.
Secretary Hay Secures Treaty With
Nicaragua and Understanding
With Colombia.

Washington, Dec. 3.-Secretary Hay
has scored a distinct diplomatic tri-
umph in the treaty with Nicaragua,
signed yesterday. 1t grants the Unit
ed States the exclusive right to con-
struct, operate and police canal be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The concession was obtained at the
same time that an understanding ha
been reached with the United States
of Colombia covering like rights and
privileges for the Panama route.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Proposed Legislation.

Hon. John p. Murphy, representative
elect from Knoxville, states that he
will propose the following bills in the
next legislature: To make pike taxes of
all counties apply to repair of pixies
and not building anew; to make en-
ployes receiving $50 per month liable to
garnishment if paid weekly; to fl age
of consent at IA; to abolish exemption
of county and municipal employees from
garnishment; to repudiate present road
laws and make better ones; to furnish
free school books to all children in pub
lie schools; to assess lower taxes.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Output of Coal.

The annual report of the State com
missioner of labor will show a decided
increase for the year in the output of
coal and coke. Iron and copper mines,
as well as zinc mines, will also show
advances in production. The coal
mine operators, the report will say,
have again been hampered by the in
ability of the railroads to furnish cars.
Many of the roads appear to have been
unable to send cars to the mines.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
The Official Figures.

Complete returns from the election
held on November have been received
by the secretary of State and show
Bryan's plurality over Mckinley in this
State to be 81, $50. McMillin leads
Mccall by 90, $50 votes, and Williams
the Democratic nominee for railroad
commissioner, is ahead of Cate, his
Republican opponent, by 23,6O7 votes.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Attempt to Rob a Bank.

A daring attempt was made about 3
o'clock one morning last week to rob
the safe of the First National Bank at
JOnesboro, which contained $1,000 in
cash. The door to the building was
forced open with an iron bar and four
charges of nitro-glycerine were ex-
ploded to blow the combination off.
No money was taken. There is no
clew to the guilty parties, but it is not
believed that they were professionals.
The bank has offered a reward of $3.50
for their arrest.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
HORSES NEED HAIR REVIEWER
Uncle Reuben Thought There Wasn't
Much to BrAE AbOutin
the show.

Getty folks is easily pleased" remarked
Uncle Reuben, who has a farm down in
Egypt, relates the Chicago Chronicle. 81
went in TO see that there horse show, and
there wasn't single critter there that had
more than a stump of a tail. What they need
is a hair remover for those prize animals. A
stif young man that kept looking at moth
ing and holding his arms out as if he das'n't
let his coat sleeves touch his coat says to me
when / asked him about those poor tailless,
stuck-up looking animals that they were that
way on purpose because it's the fashion.
Queer what viii come in for style. / looked
round and most of the big men they said was
millionaires didn't have any hair on their
heads. The bald spots was about as numer-
Gus as the bob-tailed HOSES. The young
dudes that l see promenading about with
big flowers in their buttonholes didn't one of
them have a sign of mustache or even
prospect Of any whiskers. 1t was queer
horses without hardly any tails, men with
out any hair on their heads, and boys with
out any mustaches. 1t do beat all"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
The Cennua of 1000.

A booklet giving the population Of al
cities Of the United States of $4,000 and
over according to the census of 1900, has
just been issued by the passenger depart.
ment Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway, and a copy Of it may be obtained
by sending your address, with two-cent
stamp to pay postage, TO the General Passen'
ger Agent Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway, Chicago, I'll.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
A Discerning Woman.

ooh, yes" said young Mr.. Blackstone, 81
have been admitted to the bar, but l am
not practicing regularly at it,
'Tndeed!" murmured Miss Gooph, 81
thought you practiced very often
And the young man wished that he had
not placed so much reliance in those cloves.
Baltimore American.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
II. w. Boyle Drowned.

r. w. Boyle, prominent timber man
of Carroll county, drove with his horse
and buggy into a stream swollen by the
rains near Oakfield, in the northern
part of Madison county, and was
drowned. Boyle was warned of the
danger of crossing the stream, but per-
sisted. He leaves a wife.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Fell Upon His Oil Can.

While endeavoring to step from his
cab to the ground at Kingston Springs
one day last week Engineer Currin lost
his footing and fell upon his oil can
which he carried in his hand. The long
spout of the can entered his side, MAX
ing a wound which may cost his life.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
The Chinese Almanac.

There il no work in the world Of which
90 many copies are printed annually as Of
the Chinese almanac. 1t predicts the wealth
er, and notes the days which are consid-
cred lucky or otherwise for commencing
any undertaking, for marrying, burying, or
for applying remedies to diseases. A lucky
day IS not necessary when Hostetter's Stom-
ach Bitters is taken for constipation, indi-
gestion, dyspepsia, biliousness, liver or kid
ney troubles. 1t will cure all these dis
orders
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
The total income of the Church of
England is about 100000 a week.

Gen. Lord Kitchener's leaning to-
ward the enforcement of severe dis
cipline is said to be more or less in
herited, as his father, Col. Kitchener,
had the reputation of being the strict
est disciplinarian in the British army.
Daniel Crisis, a Greek millionaire of
Paris, has set aside the sum of 100, 600
francs to be given yearly ito the in
ventOr, discoverer or produc of the
most noteworthy idea or object for the
benefit of humanity"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS
Population of Tennessee.

The population of Tennessee, as an
nounced from Washington, is 2,O2O.616,
against 1,767,51s in 1890, an increase
since 1890 of 25S,O9s, or 1913 per cent.
The population in 1880 was 1,542, $50,
showing an increase of 225, 159, or 14.5
per cent. from 1880 to 1900. The popu-
lation by counties follow:
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Victims of the Columbia Storm.

Two more deaths from injuries sus-
bia occurred last week. This makes
the total deaths %. Twelve white and
fourteen colored persons are now in the
hospital. Seventy-five persons were
injured
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Nhitecap Outrages.

The whitecaps are again abroad in
Dyer county. This time they have
burned the negro church and school
house at Fowlkes station. This section
of the country has been the scene of
whitecap Outrages before, and the
owners of the farms near Fowlkes have
tried to ascertain the names Of the par
ties committing these outrages, so that
they may be prosecuted, but as yet no
clew has been found. District No. Is of
the county, which is next to Fowlkes,
has lost about all of its former negro
population on account of whitecap out
RACES.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

No matter what ails you, headache to q
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without grippe or pain, produce
easy natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put
up in metal boxes, every tablet has G. G. G..
on it. Beware of limitations.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
For the Looks of the Thing.

Seeker-Is there really any literary ad-
vantage in the possession of de luxe edi-
ton of any authors works?
Sageman-Not that am aware of.
"Then why is it that so many people are
willing to pay an extravagant price for one?''
Gust for de luxe OF the thing, suppose"
Boston Courier.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

Mr.. Isaac Brock, of McLennan county,
Tex, has attained the great age of Ill years,
having been born in 1888. He is an ardent
friend to Peruna and speaks of it in the
following terms:
During my long life l have known a
great many remedies for coughs, colds, ca
tarrh and diarrhoea. l had always supposed
these affections to be different diseases, but
1 have learned from DR.. Hartman's books
that these affections are the same and are
properly called catarrh.
Gas for DR.. Hartman's remedy, Peruna,
1 have found it to be the best, if not the
only reliable remedy for these affections.
"PerUna has been my sfand-byfor
many years, and ! attribute my good
health and my extreme age 10 fhEs
remedy. II exactly meets all my
requirements.
Il have come to rely upon it almost en-
tirely for the many little things for which
need medicine. believe it to be especially
valuable to old people, Issac Brock.
Catarrh is the greatest enemy of old age.
A person entirely free from catarrh is sure
to live to hale and hearty old age. A free
book on catarrh sent by The Peruna Medi
cine Co., Columbus, o.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
It's the Other Fellows Worry.

Bingham-Yes, this is a fine establish
ment, and one might suppose you are very
happy IN it. But don't you sometimes worry
about the heavy rent?
Stilson-Oh, dear, no. suspect, however,
the landlord has qualms in regard to that
matter.-Boston Transcript.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
From Chattanooga to St. Louis.

The business men of Cha ttanooga
have practically succeeded in raising a
subsidy to be given for the operation of
a light-draft boat between that city
and Riverton. Ala, there to connect
with boats for St. Louis.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
nissnlred the IniunctIon.

Chancellor Cook, of Nashville, has
dissolved the injunction secured by the
State Insurance Commissioner prevent
ing the North British and Mercantile
Insurance Company from doing bust
ness in the State on the ground that it
refused to carry out the obligations Of
the Traders, which 1T assumed several
months ago. The North British agreed
To take over the business and carried
out their agreement for three or four
months, when they declined to go far
Their, on the plea that the Traders was
not living up to their part OF the con-
tract.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Pardoned by the Governor.

David Dell, of Fentress county, SEN
fenced to twelve years for murder, and
who has served all but two years, has
hnan rna rdnned
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

Poet Ito colleague)-"So you are going
to have your beard shaved Off" Colleague
Yes; it couldn't be reproduced in mar
Die. "-Fliegende Blaetter.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

The Best Prescription for ChiIIs
and Fever is bottle of GROVES TAsTELEss
CHILL Tonic. tits simply iron and quinine in
atasteless form. No cure no pay. Price SOC.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

It is said that an artist at work on a Bibli-
cal history undertook to make a sketch of
'Rebecca at the well, !" but he couldn't draw
the water.-Chicago Daily News.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

The person who doesn't know much, but
knows enough not to let others know that
he doesn't know, knows more than some
of the knowing ones know.-Philadelph
RuIIatin
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Rather Unusual.

Bowers-Here's an account of a strange
happening-a child almost choked to death
by pin.
Sowers-What is there strange about it
Because it was a safety-pin. Judge.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Prennnfernnn

Held you tell that other fellow you
were engaged to that you loved ME more?
She-Yes, and the horrid thing! he want
ed me TO return the ring.-Detroit Free
Press
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken OF
as cough cure.-J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third
Ave, N, Minneapolis, MINI, Jan. 6, 1900.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
woman's ResourcefuIness.

Among the funny things which women
do is TO spread an old red shawl over the
sofa and put a candle with a red shade on
q table near By, and call it an oriental cor
ner.-Atchison Globe.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

You are foolish to pry into your neigh
boris affairs when a little fnesse will dis
cover the combination and let you in with
out prying.-Detroit journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07
Art and Nature.


WAS the country lovely, Marie"
"Oh, just lovely; it looked for all the
world like a landscape painted by some
body. indianapolis Journal
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

Eyer no thrue an patriotic Amurican!"
mo more are you!" "Thot Oh am! [ got
me papers jest befure Fiction an voted Ioike
a mon."-Indianapo News.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

A Real Patriot-Friend-"D YOU love
your country?" Politician-''Y GU bet do
I've held a government job for u years"
Syracuse Herald.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

Thirty minutes is all the time required to
dye with PUTNAM FADELEss DYES. Sold by
all druggists
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

If you want good digestion to wait upon
your appetite" you should always chew a
bar of Adams Pepsin Tutti Fruit.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

Wiggles-"C you speak French?" Wag-
sles-"A little. That is. I can shrug my
shoulders. ''-Somerville journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

1t is hard to do, of course; still, you can
be fooled-Atchison Globe.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

Men are seldom charitable on an empty
stomach.-Chicago Daily News.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-12-07

To Cure N Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money If itfailS 10 cure. 25c.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-28
business and Labor Interested.

= L =. - u i e. . o
IS The present campaign is of rs vital
interest to the business men and the
man who works for wages as was the
campaign OF 1896 when sound money. a
dollar worth 100 cents, was the dominant
Issue. These conditions suggest the
propriety OF the formation of business
mems clubs, and OF workingmen's clubs,
all men who labor and do not want to
be paid for their toll in so cent dollars.
Better still, why not arrange for u mon
ster parade OF employer and employe,
such as we had In Wheeling few days
before the election four years ago. when
the capitalist and the day laborer. the
mill owner and workman touched ell
bows In one Of the most remarkable
professions ever witnessed In this city.
That parade. undoubtedly, welded more
Influence than all the speeches made In
the campaign. II the employer takes
an interest in these matters he will set
the employe to thinking. 1t is time for
show OF hands, and men should not ba
ashamed of their honest convictions.
The enemy of business and industry is
pernic!ously active preaching the same
insidious demagogism that the evangels
OF free silver and free trade were
spreading in 1896. Let US by all means,
therefore, have n demonstration OF bus
mess and labor interests against the
elevation to power of a man who would
cripple, II not destroy both.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-09-28

with some OF the fircside legends OF Col.
McGraw. the national Committeeman for
West Virginia, who has used his coloni-
Eation ghost stories to frIghten the ma
tional committee Into helping him carry
the Legislature. There is no colonial
ton in West Virginia for the purposes
stated by Mr.. Stone. West Virginia has
been undergoing \ WONDERFUL develop
ment since the abrosation OF the VIII
som German free trade bill, the heaviest
development, being in the opening OF
coal mines. All the men brought Into
this state are brought here to work.
Those who have been here long enough
J to become qualified voters will vote in
spite Of Mr.. stones shotgun threat.
Perhaps the vice chairman doesn't real
lie that West Virginia is not quite far
enough south to practice Tillman tac-
tics on.
The. only crime upon the ballot We
have TO fear in this state will be the
methods employed in McGraw's home
county, where the purple pencil was
used blythe creatures Of this statesman
who has a pernicious longing to carry
the legislature this year for his own
personal aggrandlzement.