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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
How He Loved Her.

A negro man went into Mr.. Is Office
for the purpose OF instituting divorce suit
against his wife. Mr.. E proceeded to
question him as to his grounds for COM
plant Mr. E looked up from his papers,
and saw that big tears were running down
over the cheeks of the applicant for divorce.
''VNhy," said the lawyer, you seem to
care a great deal for your wife? Did you
love herr"
Love her, sir? jest analysed her."
This was more than professional dignity
could withstand, and Ir. E laughed
until the negro, Offended, carried his case
elsewhere Short Stories.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
MADE STRONG AND WELL.
A Prominent Lady Raised From Sick Bed by
Pe-ru-na--EntireIy Cured in Two Weeks

Mrs. William Henderson, BorduIac,
N. c., writes:
81 was troubled with very serious fe-
male weakness; had spells of flowing
that exhausted me so that feared ]
would lose my mind. suffered untold
agony with my hack, the pain extend
ing down my left leg. My pain was so
severe that 1 would have welcomed
death at any moment-so no one need
wonder that l recommend Peruna so
highly, for it cured me entirely of that.
Not a sign of pain has returned, and
that will soon be two years now.
81 am glad that there is way I can
speak, trusting that many a sufferer
will read my testimonial, and not only
read but believe. Mrs. VIM. Hender-
son
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Lake County Levee.

The Lake county levee, which is to
be five miles in length, is nearly COM
pleted, there being but one and half
miles more to be built. This levee will
take five or six feet of water off Lake
county and will enhance the value of
the land many thousands of dollars.
1t also reclaims thousands of acres of
land, and with the building of the
Tiptonville & Union City Railroad.
Lake county will be one of the richest
and most prosperous in the State.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Output of States Coal Mine.

A report from the States Brushy
Mountain coal mines shows production
during July of 20,346 tons, as COM
pared with an average production of
17,496 tons during the past twelve
months, and this, valued at so cents
per ton, shows a difference of S1,710
The average price of sales from Mine
No. during July was IS cents, as
compared with an average of ~ cents
for the previous two months, a net
difference of S61S, or a total net differ
ence of s2,32S.62 for the months pro-
ductiOn
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Rebate War Tax Claims.

A large number of claims arising
from the act of congress repeating the
war tax law, have been filed in the Of
flee of the internal revenue collector
in Nashville.
1t is estimated that there are 500
claims for rebate of "a cents a pound
on tobacco. The law allows the re-
turn of this amount per pound on
stamped packages that are unbroken.
The largest claim examined for rebate
on tobacco is for $1,506, but it is
thought that some of the claims will
be larger. Claims exceeding $40 only
are allowed, and they must be filed by
September l.
A number of claims on imprinted
stamps, documentary and proprietary
adhesive stamps, have been filed, but
are for small amounts. The claim
must exceed $500 on this class of
stamps and must be filed within two
years after they were purchased. There
were two claims for rebate of 20 cents
barrel on beer stamps. This rebate
is on unused stamps purchased prior
to July
The total amount of the claims will
reach many thousand dollars, the
rebate on tobacco alone being roughly
estimated at $4,000.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
A Mysterious Man.

For about month past people who
live just outside the corporation line,
on South College street, Nashville,
have been annoyed by a supposed wild
man, who comes to their houses after
dark to get food. He is said to speak
in a very gruff voice. rather demand
ing favors than begging them. He is
also said to go armed to the teeth, and
will not allow anybody to catch good
view of his face, nor will he stand in
the light. He wears very few clothes.
The women and little children in the
neighborhood are very much frighten-
ed by the visits of this strange being,
who is evidently no ordinary tramp.
He has been sleeping in the bushes
near the bridge and the police have
tried to get a sight of him, but he has
thus far avoided them. The officers
some time ago found his bed and
destroyed it, but it is reported that he
still makes his nightly calls on the
cottages in the neighborhood. The
whole neighborhood is wildly excited
over the fellow and posses to run him
down are being talked CT.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Brownsyille's Business.

About $4,000 bales of cotton were
marketed in Brownsville the last com
mercial year, yielding about 100000.
Besides that crop there were $4,000
bushels of seed cotton, valued at $500
600; $4,000 worth of wheat; $4,000
oats; $4,000 of hay and about $4,000
of corn. The lumber shipments ex-
ceeded 100000, and other products
estimated at $4,000 making a sum
total of $1,530,000.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Exceptions to Assessments.

The Hartman & Northeastern, Nash
vile, Chattanooga & ST. Louis; Allan
ia, Knoxville & Northern; Kansas
City, Fort Scott & Memphis, the Louis
vile & Nashville railroads, and the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
have filed exceptions to the assess
ments of their property for 1901 and
1902, recently announced. There will
doubtless be other exceptions, judging
by letters received from a majority
of the roads.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
World to End rhi. Year.

This is the recent decision of one of the
prominent societies of the world, but the
exact day has not yet been fixed upon, and
while there are very few people who be-
lieve this prediction, there are thousands
OF others who not only believe, but know
that Hostetters Stomach Bitters is the best
medicine to cure dyspepsia, indigestion, con-
stipation, biliousness or liver and kidney
troubles. A fair trial will certainly con-
vince you of its value.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Cut His Son-fn-Law.

A serious and, perhaps, fatal cutting
ARRAY occurred in Obion county last
week. Clint Ship started to chastise
one of his children when his father-in-
law, NJ. r. Robb, interfered and a
fight resulted, in which Cobb stuck a
heart
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
EarthQuake.

There was an earthquake last week
two miles southeast of Sneedville on
the Clinch river. 1t tore up huge
stones, split the limestone cliff for
many feet, and shattered the bed of
stone very considerably. People were
frightened badly, but no property
was damaged.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Pension Board Figures.

The State pension boards report
shows the following: Number of appli-
cations filed to date, 1884; pensioners
on the roll, 1,214; East Tennessee, 306;
Middle Tennessee, SO; West Tennessee,
270; sixteen first class, or $500 per
year, $4,000; twenty-three second
class, or s120 per year $2.760; LIS
third-class, or 500 per year, Sill 500;
1,214, drawing S125, 060.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Vigilance Committee at Work.

One night last week the Paris
vigilance committee were out, and as
result ten negroes, mostly women,
were severely whipped. Many negroes
were warned to leave Paris, who acted
upon the suggestion by leaving en- the
early trains next morning.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23

"Fhe proof of the pudding is in the eat
ing" ne quoted, with wise smile.
Now the soubrette for whom he was buy.
ing the dinner also s, lied and chirped
II guess that's right. This spread shows
what pudding you are for me, Algernon.'
Baltimore American.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Chance for Some sc;ent,st.

There is a bored we'll at Lagrange
in the street, 200 feet deep, and cold air
blows out strong enough to blow a
French harp, so as to be heard several
hundred feet away. Will soma one ex-
plain the philosophy of this freak Of
nature?
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Killing at a Picnic.

At a picnic held at Georgetown,
twelve miles from Cleveland, Sim
Ford was shot and instantly killed and
John w. Ford wounded by a man
named Norman. Family trouble caus-
ed the fight.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Death From Bursting Wheel.

William Hargraves, we'll known
young man, was instantly killed by
the bursting of an emery wheel in the
Chattanooga Machine Company's plant
last week. His head was literally
torn from his body.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot-Ease
a powder for the feet. 1t makes tight or New
Shoes Feel Easy, Cures Corns, Itching
Swollen, Hot, Callous, Smarting, Sore and
Sweating Feet. All Druggists and Shoe
Stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad
dress, Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, n. Y.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Failed to Agree.

Miners and operators in district No.
10, U. M. W., decided to disagree and
all negotiations declared off. Over
sixty mines are included in district
No. 10, Coal Creek, Jellico, Middles-
boro, Laurel, Cumberland Valley.
Tracy City, and the Cincinnati South
ern division. They employ over 5000
men, and the present wage scale ex-
pires August 81. Operators desire to
arrange scales by sections. The men
want shorter hours and more pay.
President Howe, of the U. M. W., says
that he does not know what will be
done toward other conferences, but
that every mine will close at the end
of this month unless a satisfactory
wage scale is signed.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Increased Reward for Wilson.

Gov. McMillin has offered a reward
of 500 for the arrest of William Will
son of Claiborne county, on charge of
murder. This increases the amount
offered for the arrest of Wilson to
5000. Wilson shot and killed Fielder
Loop on July 26. Wilson and some
other men were killing fish with
dynamite when Loop, who was at
work in the field, approached them
and stated in a friendly manner that
they were violating the law. Wilson
was on the opposite side of the river
and fired at Loop twice with gun, one
load taking effect and inflicting a
wound from which he died.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Farmers Institute Dates.

Commissioner of Agriculture Payne
has decided upon the following county
institutes for farmers: Huntsville,
August 27, %; Lafayette August 80,
81; Carthage, September 2. g. Gaines
boro. September 5, 6; Celina, Septem-
Der II, 10; Cookeville, September 16,
IT.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Friendsntp,. Tribute.

The man at whose funeral they were as
sembled hadn't drawn a sober breath dur
ing the last Is years of his life, and had been
noted for always being in trouble with his
neighbors "Wen," said one of his old &C
qusintances, turning sadly away after the
services were over, che was a man of mighty
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
The Wrong Effect.

'Do you think De Squealer is helping the
cause with his Temperance songs?'
I'm sure he isn't. When he sang last
night four men who never drank in all their
lives before went out and got on spree"
San Francisco Bulletin.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23

johnnie" said the father, sternly, cant
you keep quiet until ask the blessing?"
I'll try" said Johnnie, resolutely, 'but
it's offul hard wnen we got chicken; please
don't pray long, paw."-Ohio State Jour
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
TENNESSEE STATE NEWS.
Called a Halt.

The proposed compromise of the
States claim against the Mobile &
Ohio and the Southern Railway COM
panies for the State tax on the capital
stock of these corporations, arising
from the absorption of the former by
the latter, has been suddenly brought
to a halt, and may not go through
after all. There was some question
about the liability and Attorney-Gener-
al Pickle recommended that a COM
promise proposition made by the roads
to pay $500 be accepted. In his opin-
ion making this recommendation he
used an expression to the effect that
certain stockholders of the Southern
had purchased rs per cent. of the capt.
tai stock of the Mobile & Ohio. The
attorneys for the road requested that
this expression be changed so as to
read that the Southern railway had
bought IS per cent. of the stock of the
Mobile & Ohio, and now Gen. Pickle
responds that if this be true, that the
Southern as a company bought the
stock, he can not approve the offered
compromise until he has investigated
as to whether the two lines are par
allel or competing lines, and the pur-
chase under the given circumstances
would virtually be consolidation.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Deadly Duel.

Jack Roddy and Oscar Pendergrass
of Prairie Plains, in Coffee county.
engaged in pistol duel, and as a re.
suit Roddy was killed and Fender
grass fatally wounded.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23

"Some folks talk" said Uncle Eben, ais
like bunch of frecrsckers. 1t makes a
big splutter, but dar ain muffin to show fob
it. "-Washington Star.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Killed by Lightning.

William Moore, a prominent citizen,
was instantly killed by lightning at
Blair's Gap, last week.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23

Mrs. Piff, how do you prepare your
baby's breakfasts"
"Oh, l give him one-third milk and two
thirds microbe- killer detroit Free Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
Frutt-Bearing Banana Tree at Trenton.

Lloyd Davis, of Trenton, has a
curiosity in the way of a fruit-bearing
banana tree in his front yard.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23

/ am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption
saved my life three years ago.-Mrs. Thos.
Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, n. Y,
Feb II, 1900.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23

Unfortunately, we usually answer a fool
according to his own folly.-Puck.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23

Some people are fools, and they can't help
It. Don't argue with decentralization Globe
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23

KNOWN lot" said Uncle Eben, 'keep
still an let de yrthuh Teller talk. He's
gwineter go away wifi de idea dat you
couldn't hep bein' purity wise ahter listen
in so long to him. Star.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23

The actor may get longer vacation than
the ribbon-counter clerk, but the latter con-
tinues to eat regularly Chicago Daily
News
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23
EDUCATIONAL.
Dickson Normal College, Oi Ta;


Handsome buildings. High and healthful location.
Strong faculty Special advantages in all departments
Lowest rates Positions for graduates: Both sexes.
Send for catalogue WADE d LOGGINS, Principals.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-08-23

u.OPEDAlE COLLEGE. hOpedale, o. sleo year,
n a plan to earn it, R. r fare free; see cataloR
The St. Johns herald., 1901-01-12
FURS FOR DOLLS.
They Ale Made fin ConsideFEbIe Va
 xisty and Most Commonly sS sold tn Cities

This is the season when it's owner looks out to see that dolly shall be carefully protected against the cold when taken out for an airing. So the dollA' furs are brought into use; or, if the doll has none, some are bought for it. These may be found in considerable variety Of style, mate rial and price. Dolls furs include mufs, and collarettes and boas. All these things are made in various sizes and then are commonly sold in sets. As to material, the costlier are made of fur in imitation of ermine and of sealskin, such furs being lined with silk or with satin, in one color and another, and muffs and colIarettes finished just as those for grown-up people would be.
 Dolls furs, according to the mate rial of which they are made and the style of finish, sell at from 50 cents. or perhaps less. a set, up to three dollars. They are, of course, sold only in the colder parts of the coun- try, where furs would ordinarily be worn. And while there are some ar ticles of dolls equipment that, like the dolls themselves, are sold in city and country alike, dolls furs are sold chiefly in cities.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-01-12
Attest Monico Garcia
 Clerk.
BRITQNs AFRAID OF RIVALS.
FavoFs and Trade Not Coming Their Way So Rapidly as In
 the Past.

The British people are desperately anxious to see the America cup back again in the old country, but they would prefer even more to know that the fastest mail steamer on the Att lantic had her home in the docks of the Mersey, says a London newspaper. Competition is becoming remorseless; the days of monopoly are receding swiftly into the past. Not many years ago such an angry outcry as that which was raised at the statement that great engineering contracts in connection with the railways of South Africa had been placed in the United States would have been impossible. British iron and steel makers would have laughed in- credulously at the suggestion that their American rivals could produce work more chesply and more quickly than themselves. There is no such laugh ter to-day.
 The British public have not forgotten that it is an American bridge which crosses the Atbara ana that it was placed there by American engineers, because no British firm could guar antee its completion within six months of the time specified on the other side of the Atlantic. Whatever the reasons were, the fact remains-a standing re- hinder that the race is to the swift. When the huge contracts for South Africa come to be placed, will it be found that any of the leeway has been made up?
The St. Johns herald., 1901-01-12
HER0INEs WHO SMOKE.
agement to the Nicotine Es Habit.

There is no doubt that the increase of cigarette smoking among women ia due in some degree to the fact that novelists of late have pictured their heroines as indulging in the detestable and filthy habit. A writer in Harper's Bazar asserts that it is only a very short time ago that it was the fast, more or less disreputable and certainly secondary character, the woman will lain, in fact, who rolled her cigarette and ficked it's ash daintily with her ring-bedecked fingers, but the best and most virtuous heroines to-day may have the nicotine stain on their pretty hands.
 The writer recalls that it was some thing of shock to have Carmen in Charles Dudley Warmers That For tune" smoke, shock simply because it implied an acceptance on MT. Warmers part that women in presentable soci- ety did smoke. The book is compare lively late one, yet, if MT. Warner, in a new edition, were to make Evelyn Mavick herself smoke it would scarce ly be surprising, so rapidly has the in- novation become an accepted habit, and, alas! out of them as we'll, it is to be feared.
 It was Harry Furniss, we believe, who said, four or five years ago, and it was accepted then as a neat phrase, that he really did not know which he dishked the more, ''the man who did not smoke or the woman who did"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-01-12
EASILY LOSE THEIR NERVE:
Many People Collapse UttevIy whea They Are COnfrOated bV
 Danger.

r "I remember once hearing of fellow who, coming uninjured out of railway wreck, worked like demon to assist his less fortunate fellow-passengers said railway official recently, accord ing to the Cincinnati Enquirer. "An the time he was at work, however, he held one hand to his collar. and. when it was over, one of his com panions dis covered that he was holding tight. to his necktie, which he had been in the act of tying when the collision oc- cured
 People act very queerly when they are or think they are in danger.
 "I know young girl who had learned Co swim quite well and one day she tried to swim across a river. There were plenty of people about and the distance was not great, but when she was half way across some one called out: How deep is it?' She let her foot down and, of course, found she was cut of her depth. Instantly she lost her nerve and sank. She came up once. tried 10 scream, but the water choked her and down She went again.
 "A man, realizing that somethin9 was wrong. jumped in, clothes and ali. and pulled her out. He was none too soon, for she was unconscious when h@ pulled her up. It was the sheer fr;r of knowing that she was out of r. depth that caused ii all, as otherw. se there wasn't the slightest danger"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-01-12
RUSSIA WANTS PEACE.
Her Principal National Scheme Ik the Development of Her
 Resources.

The present czar has been some thing of puzzle tc the world. Muck was expected of him by the friends of Russian progress because of his known inclination toward EbsTaliSns His course has beenS somewhat, bit ret wholly, disappointing. 1 co:;si:is "a @is influence has been rctsiEe6 l. fts1--- donostzefT The Russion ns,;euGs Far- ty has grown in strength until rsscsa.. ton and socialism. if tiisy c<.S;. ara lost in greater movements aGd 2Fs heard of 10 more. The gG,.} p, '5 rstsds ing with France continues. oS;,S based on the solid ground of financial self interest @
 The general peace policy iHaugu- rated by Alexander III. hs@s bsssi sn- Phasized by an attempt to reach ba.. sis of universal peace Ih~oagh the peace congress at The Haguc. says a writer in the ChautauQu3u. The mi [ ition of this movement bv EusSia has been the subject Cf b,a;d ecrtrCs versy as to the Russian motive. It may have been due in part to tSe eniigA,- ened views of the czar. but it's prorno- tiOn by Russia was unquestiUna1iy die. tated in self-interest. IL is to be noted that Russia is now at the highest point of prosperity that she has yet attained, and is putting forth strenuous efforts to extend and consolidate her vast ei1- pire.
 Peace is the need of the Russion nA- tiODahst-a peace that will enable them to negotiate with China for Man, churia. and to utilize their wealth in the building of railroads and in pro noting unity in other ways. They do not wish to be disturbed in the Russi- fscation of Finland and ;he other prov inces, which is an important part of the national scheme.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-01-12
Left Ont the Main Defense.

An ex-justice of the peace tells the following story: During the time he was in office young man was brought up before him on the charge of gambling. The evidence was con elusive, and the judge imposed fine, which was paid on the spot. When the case adjourned the defendant re- mained behind and asked the judge for a few moments conversation. 'The case is oyer," he began, "and the fine has been paid, and it's set tied as far as that goes, but I want to tell you how it happened. You see, the cop told us if we didn't stop he'd run us in. We'll, we were play ing jackpot. I had an ace, three queens and king before the draw. 1 discarded the ace and king and drew another queen. There were good hands out against me, and they tried to bluff me out, and I stayed with them. Now, what I want to know is what you would have done in case like that?"
 Stayed with them if the gallows had been in sight" cried the excited judge. "Why in the name eszcommon sense was not that evidence broH@ht out at the trial Salt Lake Tri8une.