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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-07-26
Through clouds that hung around me on
fhis l..

ana nv soul with grief was haunted,
While there / peered undaunted,
To hear bird with crest and word bow
my Oaken door,
Bird or brute upon the marble bust abov,
my chamber door
Utter Eame of Neyermorc,"
But the Parrot, perching sadly on tn,
marble bust. spoke madly,
AS If this dark, wei,d word was his onl,
stock I'm store;
And he merely croaked and muttered,
While he preened and snapped ant
fiuttered.
As l grumbled, growled and uttered
trusted friends have gone before,
Soon, oh soon, this bird will leave me
as sweet hopes have gone before
And this bird shrieked Evermore!'
The Parrot" concludes with these
stanzas:
Horrid birdT shrieked, emphatic, ant
wildly, loud, lunatic,
l flung the prattling Parrot through the
nights dark, shoreless shore,
While its gilded feathers fluttered, in tn.
darkness still, and muttered,
"Ill not leave thee. doubling Devil, bu
remain above thy door
Sink my beak into thy trembling heart
and torture more and more
Shrieked the Parrot, "Evermore!"
And the Parrot still is posing, winking
blinking. doing,
On that marble bust, Minerva, Just above
my oaken door,
And his hellish eyes are beamng
Like Devil who is dreaming,
While the sputtering. fluttering lamplight
paints his shadow on tie floor.
And my soul-lit spirit writhing in that
shadow on the floor
Dead and damned" Forevermorer
(Signed) PENZONI.
Poe's poem begins:
Once upon midnight dreary, while !
pondered, weak and weary.
over many quaint and curious volume
Of forgotten lore,
While | nodded, nearly mapping, sudden.
ly there came a tapping.
AS OF some one gently rapp:nS, rapping
at my chamber door.
The last two stanzas are:
:" Be that word our sign of parting. bird
or fiend!" ] shrieked. upstarting;
I" Get thee back into the tempest, and the
Nights Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that
lie thy soul hath spokenl
Leave my loneliness unbroken!-ouit the
bust above my door!
Take thy bsak from out my heart, and
take thy TORN from Off my door!"
Quoth tho Raven, "Nevermore.'
And the Raven, never fitting, still is sit
ting, still is sitting
On the paliid bust of Pallss Just above
my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of q
demons that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light DER him streaming
throws his shadow on the floor.
And my soul from out that shadow, tha,
lies floating on the floor.
Shall be lifted neyermore.
Either Signor Penzoni had his little
Joke at the expense OF the long haired
Kentucky poet, or Poe stole his mas.
terpiece bodily, and it would seem to
be comparatively easy to settle this
question by search of the files OF the
Art Journal OF Milan for 1909, if such
a paper was published at that time.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-07-26

triton. In time the heart, liver, lungs,
or other organs are involved and the
engineer has to lay off.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cures diseases of the stomach and organs
of digestion and nutrition. 1t purifies
the blood and builds up the body with
sound healthy flesh.
cI used ten bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery and several walls of his Pleas
ant Pellets a year ago this spring, and have had
trouble with indigestion since,r writes NJ.
W. T. Thompson, of Townsend, Broadwater Co.,
Montana. UWords fail to tell how thankful
am for the relief, as had suffered so much and
it seemed that the doctors could do me no good.
I got down in weight to las pounds and was not
able to work at all. Now I weigh I6o and can
do days work oil the farm. I have recon-
mended your medicine to several. and shall
always have good word to say Tor DR.. Pierce
and his medicine"
DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con-
stipation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-07-26
II Does Make a Difference.

Hostes-And does your mother al
low you to have two pieces OF pic
when you are at home, Willie2
Willie (who has asked for the Sec
ond piece)-no, ma'am.
Hostess-Well, do you think she
would like you to have two pieces
here?
Willie (confidently)-Oh! she won't
care. This isn't her pie, you know.
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note IN that 1u11l-
BILE of sounds
would catch his
ear as quickly as
a discord would
strike the ear of
the leader of an
orchestra
He thinks more
of his engine than
himself. That is
why he neglects
to notice symp-
toms which are
full of warning.
The foul tongue,
the bitter taste,
sour risings, and
undue fullness af-
ter eating are but
symptoms of dys-
pepsia or some
form of disease in
volving the stom-
ach and organs of
digestion and nu-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-07-26
he Engis,eer.

Leaning from the cab window does more
with his ears than his eyes. The "ruIn-
BILE and grumble and roar" of his engine
are to him articulate speech, and false
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-07-26
AN UNIQUE SENTENCE.
NOVEL PENALTY A JUDGE I'M
POSED UPON TWO MEN.

Both Of the Prisoners Were Condemned to
Jail Until One of them, College Graduate,
Taught the Other How to Read and
Wrte-The Pupil Learned Readily to Write
but Stuck When it Came to Verbal Compo.
stiOn of Sentences.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-07-26
St. Dunstan and the Horseshoe.

The notion that the horseshoe is q
protection against evil is as old as the
hills. There is a legend that the devil
one day asked st. Dunstan, who was
noted for his skill in shoeing horses,
to shoe his single hoof." Dunstan,
knowing who his customer was, tied
him tightly to the wall and proceeded
with his job, but purposely put the
devil to so much pain that he roared
for mercy. The saint at last consented
to release him on condition that he
never would enter place where he
saw horseshoe displayed.
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How I sat depressed divining, to SEQ
some silver lining
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05
The Fourth of July Is
a Worldwide Holiday
The Significance Of the Fire-Cracker Is To-Day
Known to Many Different Peoples

A move to the south was made in
1920 when Spain coded Florida to the
United States, and another large
stretch of territory was brought un-
der the protecting folds of Old Glory.
Later the Lone Star state knocked at
the door of the union asking for adj
mission to the sisterhood of states,
and the close of the Mexican war saw
Independence day celebrated from the
Atlantic to the Pacific.
Through the influence of Secretary
Seward Alaska was admitted to our
territory in 1867, and the Eskimos
of the frozen north began to learn the
meaning of the boom of the cannon
cracker when the days were longest.
Ever since the old liberty bell tolled
out the signal that the great paper
had been signed by the patriot states
men at Philadelphia American liberty
has been travelling steadily west-
ward, northward and southwark, and
with it has gone, as matter of course,
the typical celebration of the day that
marks the real beginning of Amer
lean liberty. Faster even than the
government at Washington moved the
American people moved, and they
carried the ideas of popular form
of government to the islands of the
Pacific, and Hawaii came knocking at
our doors asking for share of our
freedom which has been granted the
people there.
But in this beginning of a new cen-
fury it is not alone the islands of the
Pacific, but the islands of the Atlantic
as we'll that have learned how to cele-
brate the birthday of American free.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05
A PICNIC BREAKFAST.
Odd Predicament Which BefeII q
Household Through a Serv-
ants Mfsdeeds

Convivia1 servants are anything but
treasures, as one housekeeper found
to her sorrow the other day, rela ties
er has a large family for which to
care, and so the news brought her
by a policeman at two o'clock one
morning recently that her trusted
co1ored henchman had been arrested
for fighting and was now languishing
in the station house was by no means
welcome.
1t didn't make so much difference
about the man himself-he rightly
deserved his fate-the housekeeper
said, but it d. make difference that
he had the keys of the buffet and of
the refrigerator in his pocket, and
that there would not be anything like
knives and forks enough to go around
at breakfast, nor any butter or cream
at all
At seven a. m. a member of the FAM
lily went to the station house to see
what could be done for the Ubiquitous
Abraham, and in the meanwhile those
of the household who were obliged
to breakfast early took turns at using
the two knives and three forks that
were all of the table equipment not
locked up.
1t was a real picnic breakfast,
"Please lend me your knife" being the
remark oftenest heard, except certain
explosives, but it wasn't voted a sue
cess until the repentant henchman
appeared with his keys, purified by a
good-sized fine, and opened the doors
of the closets.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

TINE boom of the cracker, the
roar of the gun, the whir of
the rocket that proclaims
American freedom on the nations ma
tai day is, at the beginning of this
twentieth century, heard all around
the world. The celebration of the ma
tons birth never ceases SO long as the
day remains upon the calendar of the
year, and the significance of the
Fourth of July is known to many peo-
pie in lands lying far below the equa-
tor to the icebergs of the frozen
north. Let us hope that before long
the intrepid explorers now on their
way to Arctic seas will nail "Old Glory"
to the north pole and plant the can
non cracker at the very axis of "Old
Mother World" before they return.
1t has been the boast of our English
cousins that "the sun never sets on
the union jack" The same is true to-
day of Old Glory, and where the flag
flies there is found also the Fourth
of July.
When the patriotic American states
men affixed their signatures to the
historic document that proclaimed
American freedom the nation which
they represented was almost small
enough for the welcome news as pro-
claimed by the iron tongue of the old
liberty bell at Philadelphia to pene-
trate to every point. The IS little
colonies stretched along the Atlantic
coast from New Hampshire on the
north to Georgia on the south. To the
west was an almost unprecedented
wilderness in which lurked the saw
age red men.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

The end of the seven years struggle
| for independence brought with it a
desire to grow, and then began the
| national expansion that has carried
the Fourth of July all around the
world, and made its significance known
TO many people speaking many lam
guages.
Men who had served the struggling
provisional government of the col
onies in the ranks of the patriotic army
returned to their homes only to find
them burned and destroyed either by
the British or their faithful allies the
Indians. With the same courage they
had shown upon the field of battle
they moved westward into the I'M
known wilderness to begin life anew.
By the time Gen. Washington had been
chosen president for a second term
western Pennsylvania was figuring in
the nations history and Independence
day was being celebrated along the
Ohio river.
Gradually the venturesome settlers
worked their way still further west
ward. Ohio was invaded and crossed,
and before the patriotic Washington
had closed his public career and re-
tired to private life at Mount Yer
non Tennessee was celebra ting the
nations natal day as state in the
federal union. For years after the
admission of Tennessee as a state the
American ship Columbia carried old
glory on its first trip around the
world, and with it went the story of
the Declaration of Independence.
Sailors on that good Boston schooner
told the story to the natives of the
isles of the far Pacific, and inspired in
the downtrodden colonies of Europe
in all parts of the world hope of sim
liar freedom.
But more than 1000 miles of I'M
known territory still lay to the west
ward of even the farthest advanced
of the American outposts. In both
the north and south the settler, backed
by the soldier and his own heorism,
were rapidly advancing the line of
civilization. Hardly had the nine
teenth century opened before the Mis-
sissippi river had been reached, to
cross which meant to enter French
territory. It seemed for time that
the expansion must stop there, and
the meaning of the Fourth of July
be unknown on its western shore.
But the young nation was anxious to
expand, and France was willing to
sell the great uneXplored territory
which she claimed in the very center
of the North American continent, and
IN 1903 Independence day crossed the
Mississippi and began its march to
the Pacific coast.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

dom. Our war with Spain broke the
letters Spain had placed about the
islands of the Atlantic and the far
eastern Pacific, and added them to the
expanding territory of the American
union.
Now Old Glory flies from the flag
stats of Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, the
little island of Tutuila in the South
Pacific, Guam, that lies farther west
ward, and the countless islands of the
Philippine archipelago, and where Old
Glory flies there is celebrated the
Fourth of July. In Manila, in Havana,
in San Juan, in Honolulu the boom Of
the cannon cracker, the roar of the
gun, the whir of the rocket will pro-
claim the anniversary of the birth of
American freedom, and in but little
more than 100 years the Fourth OF
July has almost encircled the globe.
WRIGHT A PATTERSON.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05
strawberry Salad.

Arrange large ripe Strawberries in
a glass salad bowl, dust with powdered
sugar and little nutmeg. Pour over
a dressing made of two tablespoonful
of sugar, gill of sherry, tablespoon
full of Maraschino, the juice of one lem
on and two oranges; mix the fruit
light with a fork and set on ice half an
hour before serving.-Good House
keeoing.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

trouble somewhere, and nervous pros
tration is sure to follow.
You ought to know that indigestion,
e XII a u o n, womb displacements,
fainting, dizziness, headache, an d
backache send the nerves wild with
alright, and you cannot sleep.
Mrs. Hartley, of 221 w. Congress St.,
Chicago, ILL.,, whose portrait we pub
fish, suffered all these agonies, and
was entirely cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound; her case
should be a warning to others, and
her cure carry conviction to the minds
of every suffering woman of the IN
failing efficiency of I,ydia E. Plnkham's
Vegetable Compound.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

Peace in the Philippines is bound to prove
profitable to all concerned. Warning con-
ditions, whether they be in the Philippines
or in the human stomach, are equally dis
astrous. If your stomach has rebelled,
there is one authority that will quickly
subdue it. 1t is Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers, and it cures constipation, Indigestion,
biliousness, nervousness and dyspepsia. See
that private Revenue Stamp covers the
neck of the bottle
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05
The Summer Hotel

Young Guest-It seems to me that you
don't object to the mosquitoes singing in
your room.
Old Guest-You bet don't! Why, when
the mosquitoes are singing 1 can't hear the
university glee club practicing on the
piazzo.-Chicago Daily News.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

"That eastern girl who is suffering from
unstrung nerves made a mistake when she
tried to doctor herself" 'What did she
take for it?' Diamond rings and any
thing that she could lay her hands on
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn.

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. Csc. Sample sent FREE. Ad-
dress, Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy. n. Y.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05
An Unkind Cut.

Tess.Do you think the cut of my skirt
pretty?
Jess-Yes. indeed; very.
do you, really"
Eyes. had two like that when they were
the style Philadelphia Press.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05
Fairy Stories.

'1 tell you your country is painfully new.
Why, you haven't even any fairy tales"
Haven't, en-? Well. you just come with
me and look at the tablets on our best mon
uments. ''-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

Great Scott" exclaimed Starboard, as
they turned the corner; ''the boarding
house is afre' Lets hurry" suggested
Port; maybe Wen get something warm. !"
-Philadelphia Record.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of
IS a cough cure.-J. w. O'Brien, 322 Third
Ave, N, Minneapolis, MINI, Jan. 6, 1900.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

| Hoax-"You say he owes everything he
has to you" Joax--''Worse; he owes more
than he has to e."oPhiladelphia Record.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

Twelve was on the point of striking. ITO
think" cried the fair girl in anguish, eve
will never see each other again till to-mor
row night" "Bear up. sweet one" was his
encouraging remark Cline will pass Be
sides I'll write to you when / get home and
in the morning ."-Philadelphia Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-07-05

A woman in front of mirror naturally
feels quite beside herSelf.-Philadelph
Record.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-03-28
Work In the CaiESon.

1t Is the strain within the bowels of
the working chamber, unnOticed gen.
orally while there; the change on COM
ing into the outer air that the sand hog
(the workman breads. Under an air
pressure the blood is forced away from
the eXtremities. It is driven from the
exterior into the central organs, espe-
cially toward the brain and the spinal
cord.
The man, exhausted by toll under
these conditions, climbs long ladder.
He is in the airlock again, with the up-
per door alone closed. The lock tender
jerks up the bottom door. With a twist
Of the valve he hustles the compressed
air out. The ordinary atmosphere rush
es In. The upper door is thrown I'D, and
Gods sun and air come to the prisoner,
The reaction is too severe. The blood,
released by the sudden vanishing Of
30, 40, so pounds of air pressure on
each square inch of the body. refuses
to act normally. Heart and lungs weak
en-, vitality ebbs. A sand hog is never
sure that the next trip may not be his
last.
The practical limit below ground is
so pounds of air pressure. The men
that can work in that atmosphere are
masters of their trade. Yetknow and
then a man is met with WHO has the
strength to go farther - Cromwell
Childe in Leslie's Monthly.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-03-28
ECZEr1A, ITCHING HUMORS, PIM-
Piles CURED BYB.B.B.
Bottle Free to Sufferers.

Does your skin itch and burn? Dis
tressing eruptions on the skin SO you feel
ashamed to be seen in company? do
scabs and scales form on the skin. hair
or scalp? Have you eczema? Skin sore
and cracked? Rash form on the skin;
Boils? Pimples? Run Down? Skin Palef
Old Sores5 Eating Sores? Ulcers? All
these are symptoms of Eczema and i'm
purities and poisOns in the blood. To
cure take b. BIB. (BOttanic Blood Balm)
which makes the blood pure and rich.
B. B. B. will cal So the sores to heal,
itching of eczema to stop forever, the
skin to become clear and the breath
sweet. B. B. B. is just the remedy you
have been looking for. Thoroughly
tested for thirty years. Give it a trial.
For sale by druggists at 81 per large bot
tie; six large bottles full treatment) $5.
Complete directions with each bottle,
SO sufferers may test, trial bottle gwen
away. Write for it. Address BLOOD
BALM CO., Atlanta, Ga. Describe your
trouble and free personal medical advice
given.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-03-28
Where the Lenk Was.

Once, years ago, when Daniel Web
ster was secretary of state, there was
an important foreign matter up for dis
cussiOn before the cabinet, and the ut
most secrecy was of course maintain
ed, but the whole thing was blazoned
about In few hours after the cabinet
meeting. So the president hastily sent
for his cabinet to talk over this leak.
Each man had a different idea Of it.
Finally Mr.. Webster arose, saying,
'You. gentlemen, go on with your dis
cusSiOn, and I'll be back in a minute" 4"
In a few minutes he returned and re-
peRted every word that had been spo-
ken In the room in his absence. He
explained that If, by standing close to
the GOOr outside the cabinet room, you
held your ear to it, you could not dis
tinguish one Ineligible word; but if,
moving back from the door and little
to one side upon a certain spot in the
carpet, you kept an attentive ear, ev-
cry word could be plainly heard as
though whispered.
Some enterprising eavesdropper had
been experimenting with the door and
had found that upon that exact spot
there was some acoustic property Of
the door or room that conveyed the
sound in perfect entirety.-Saturday
Evening Post.
The Weekly Tallahasseean., 1901-03-28
-~n1razDE sPnnrrI.

A black cocker spaniel has hit upon
pleasure SO novel in canine society
that it deserves recording, says the
New York Post. A young Lady of
the family to which he belongs
once teased him by scuffing aboet the
rugs of her home until she could give
an electric spark of considerable snap
and then discharging it upon the nose
Of her pet, the spaniel. Not long after
this abuse the dog was observed to
roll upon the rugs entirely of his own
accord and then to run to the brass
bedSteads and obtain a spark. This
he continues to do, and his owB OBJ
serVatiOnS seem to have taught him
that he must approach metal in order
to receive the spark. In one room he
runs to the bedstead, in another to the
register, and as he ticks his nose after
the pricking Of the spark he never
fails to Wag the remains of his tail,
and his face assumes a decided ex-
preston Of pleasure.