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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-04

| Director of the Mint Roberts says
the demand for pennies has been great
er this year than ever before.
| The Providence VI. E. church (col-
oredD at st. Joseph, Mo-, was partially
burned and the pastor, Rev. ]. L.
Leonard, was fatally burned.
Mayor Patterson, of Bismarck, n.
d., was arrested by the sheriff on the
charge of permitting gambling.
The Demorest branch of the w. g.
T. L. in New York denounced kissing
as an intoXicant, and therefore to be
barred.
On Christmas day there were 50
deaths from violent causes in various
parts of Kentucky.
Wayne Cromwell, aged "a, and
Charles Canaan, aged 81, were drowned
near Blakeslee, o., and the mother of
the latter, when notified of the acct
dent, dropped dead.
All cities report that postal facili-
ties were never so taxed as during
this years holiday business.
The twentieth century national Cos
pei campaign has been officially inau-
gurated in New York
Springfield, Ill; Milwaukee. Wis;
Yankton, S. D.; Lincoln, Neb.; Grand
Rapids, Mich; st. Paul, MINI; Indian
apolis, Ind; Des Moines, Ia.
Gustave Wolf, the last member of
the Bridgeport Comm Suicide club,
killed himself
The First national bank of White
Pigeon, Mich, went into the hands of
a receiver.
In a runaway accident at Flint,
Mich, DR.. George w. Rowland was
killed and G. H. QuigIey, a prominent
business man, fatally injured.
The total wheat yield of the United
States for 1900 is 522 ,229, sos bushels;
corn, 2.1OO,O 900 bushels
John w. Tinsley shot and killed his
wife in Los Angeles, Cal, and then
killed himself. Domestic trouble was
the cause.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, of the W. c. I. L.
wrecked a saloon at Wichita. Kan, by
throwing stones at pictures, mirrors
stock and fixtures.
A lone robber held up stage in q
canyon near Hot Springs Junction.
Ariz., and rified the express box.
The residence of Mrs. Harriger, near
BrOokEille, Pa, was destroyed by fire
and the mother and two daughters
burned to death.
Clerks of Cuban courts will be paid
salaries hereafter instead of fees.
William II. Smythe, grand secretary
of the masons of Indiana, was mysteri-
ously shot in his office in indianapolis.
Alfred c. Harmsworth, a London
publisher who arrived in New York,
says American newspapers are too
frivolous.
Police in Omaha found the man who
sold pony that figured in the Cud
ahy abduction case and the former
owner identified the picture of Pat
Grove as that of the man who
bought it.
Michael Maloney, a farmer of LenoN
township. Pa, died at his home at the
age of 1O7 years.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-04
FOREIGN.

The federal party, it is announced,
will, under American sovereignty, work
for recognition of the Philippines as a
part of the American federation as
states of the union.
Cape Colony was near a military
crisis, the situation depending on arms
sympathizers.
The joint note of the powers has been
presented to Prince Ching in Picking
and forwarded to the emperor and en-
press.
Alfred Harmsworth, owner of 80 Eng
fish periodicals, besides the London
Mail. prophesies startling changes in
journalism the coming century.
The British steamer Brunswick
grounded IN the Bristol channel and
sank. Seven of her crew were
drowned.
Yaqui Indians ambushed Mexican
soldiers in Sonora, killing 80.
A Chinese viceroy by treachery mas
sacred 1900 reformers in the province
of PechiIi.
An unchartered island near the Phil
ippines is said to have been annexed
by the commander of an American gun
boat.
Celestino Peraza, former secretary
of President Castro, has started a rev.
olution in Venezuela.
w. D. Coleman, president of Liberia.
resigned. and G. W. Gibson was elected
to succeed him.
Minister Conger in signing the China
joint note made reservations to pre-
vent committing the United States to
war in case of rejection of terms by
China.
The massacre of 81 Catholics by
Boxers north of Picking was reported
to Minister Conger,
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-04
THE WORK OF WRECKERS.
Coupling Pin in Frog Throws n
Train from the Track-Ffve
Persons Injured.

Henderson, Ky, Dec. 31.-Train No.
A on the Henderson road was wrecked
two miles east If this city yesterday
afternoon, and five persons seriously
injured. \ coupling pin p'Gced in a
switch frog caused the wreck. All the
injured were in the parlor ear which
left the rails and toppled over on its
side. The engine, smoker and bag
gage car ran over the swith, but the
two rear coaches left the rails and
broke loose from the head end. About
fifteen passengers occupied the coach
ahead of the parlOr car, all of whom
were more or less injured. 1t is be-
lieved that the coupling pinwas placed
in the frog 10y wreckers.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-04
MRS. NATION REFUSES BAIL.
VIII Only Go Out of Wichita Jail a
Conquerer-Laughs at the Sa-
loon Mems Last Resort.

Wichita, Kas., Dec. 31-Mrs. Carrie
Nation, the W.. c. T. U. Joint wreck
er, has refused bail secured by her CO.
workers. She now says that under no
circumstances will she step out of Jail
until cleared of the charge against
her, and the w. c. t. U. committee
who had taken up the matter has
practically abandoned their effort to
secure her release.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-04
Numerous Attacks by Beers,

London, Dec. 3O.-Gen. Kitchener,
telegraphing from Pretoria, under
date of Friday, December %, sends a
summary of the number of attacks
made by the Beers at various points.
The only important incident was an
attack on a baggage column near
Greylingstad. A company with a
pompom made a sortie from Grey
lingstad, and drove off the Beers.
Captains Radcliffe and Harvest were
wounded, eight men were killed, 81
were wounded and 20 were reported
missing,
The age-herald., 1901-08-12

get to the edge of the sky in a very few seconds the sunbeam will give way and you will fall to the ground"
 Then the animals selected the swiftest runners among them to go up to the sun beam. They were Mir. Rabbit. MT. Fox, Mir. Wolf, Mir. Dog and MT. Horse; but Mir Dog had the rheumatism so badly and was so old that he could not go. None of them seemed very anxious to try, for they were all afraid the sunbeam might give way and let them fall Finally they se- lected Mir Rabbit, as he was the lightest of the lot and could run as fast as any. So the next morning MT. Rabbit started off very early to get to the top of the mountain before the sun arose. All of the animals expected to see clouds and to feel the rain commence to fall at any minute all day, but none fell. At night they were disappointed, and at length Mir. Rab- bit came back very tired from his sky journey.
 "I found the plug" he said, land tried to pull 1t out, but it would not come. I pulled and pulled, but it never moved a bit. Someone who is stronger will have to try"
 They talked all night about Mir. Rabbits tourney; and early in the morning MT. Fox started. At night he returned with
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waves Is 15 or 20 times stronger than the motion of the ear drum.
 At the end of all three tubes Is little space like vestibule. Behind this vesti- bule are little. cells set in a wall of bone. These cells are full of very fine hairs. The fluid waves caused by the chain of bones come washing through the three tubes into the yestlbule and strike against these cells of hairs. There are 15, ,500 of these cells, and they are connected with a nerve which leads to the brain.
 An air wave Is caught by the outside ear, led down the inch-and-a-quarterc canal, and strikes the ear drum. The ear drum yibrates and sets going the little chain of bones. They start up the little fluid waves, which run down the tubes into and across the vestibulc and strike the cells full of hairs. These little hairs quiver with all kinds of quivers, and the nerve uuivers in the brain. The brain examines these quivers carefully, and says: "My! they're blasting again in the new tunnelp' or, "Theres Willie Jones shooting squir- rels in the pasture lot!'' Different air waves make different shakes of the ear drum, different wiggles of the chain of bones, different fluid waves, different hair quiverings, and there you are.
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A great many little boys and girls have never even seen a telephone, but of course, most of our readers know all about them, and have often called up papa at his office and told him to be sure to be home to lunch early in the afternoon so he could take them to the circus. Anyhow. whether they have talked over the wonderful wire or not, each of our friends who reads this page, and, In fact, every little boy or girl alive, has a private telephone system much more wonderful than the manufactured kind, and much better. too, for 1t has no wires to break or blow down, and no "central'' to give you the wrong number and cut you off before you are through.
 This private telephone system of yours is in the ear. Most of you hear things every minute you are awake without even stopping to think how you hear.
 If anyone should ask you how many ears you have, of course, you would say "two," but you really have six-three on each side. They are called the outside ear, middle and inside ear. The outside ear Is the one that hurts when the boy who sits behind you at school snaps it with an elastic band It Is curved and hollowed to catch sounds just like the mouth of a speaking trumpet. A sound Is really nothing but an air wave until 1t
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was so wise that he had forgotten almost all there was to know,
 There is only one way to get rain," he said. 'In the middle of the sky there Is a plug that holds back the rain. This must be taken out and the rain will pour through the plughole and fall all over the country. The sky pilot usually attends to the plug, but he must be away on jour ney or something. One of the animals will have to go." Then they all cried out to ask MT. Owl how to get to the sky. so they could pull the plug out.
 You must go to the very top of a noun. tain,'' said MT. Owl, land just before the sun comes up you will see great sun. beam rest on the mountaintop. You must run up the sunbeam until you come to the edge of the sky, and then go to the middle and pull out the plug. You will barely have time to get back before the sun goes down. Then sunbeam will rest on the mountaintop again. You can run down this, and so get back to Animal Land None but the very swiftest of you sbould try, for if you cannot run fast enough .o
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reaches the inside ear. Some animals, like the horse, can move their outside ear toward anything that makes a noise, and so they can catch more of the air waves and hear better than people can.
 little canal one and a quarter inches long leads to a thin membrane of the skin, like the head of a drum. This is stretched across the canal, and behind 1t lies the middle ear. Although this membrane, called the ear drum, Is so thin that you could sec through it if you could wiggle one of your eyes around there, it Is made of three sheets. Touching the inner side Of the ear drum is a little chain of bones that reaches to the inner ear, which is made of three tubes. These tubes are full Of fluid like water, and this little chain of bones ends in the fluid at the beginning of the tubes.
 When an air wave strikes the ear drum 1t shakes just like the head of a drum when struck This moves the little chain of bones, and they carry the motion of the ear drum to the little lake of fluid inst outside the tubes of the inner ear and cause little waves just like the ripples on a pond which spread in every direction when you throw a stone into the water AS the ear drum Is b or 20 times larger tEas tfe fluid space, the motion of these
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Mountains are many and strikingly well adapted to "shooting the chutes," but 1t remained for a few ingenious youngsters in and about Lincoln Park Ca suburb of South Pasadena) to invent midsummer sledding. It came about In this way Boys going hunting over these hills found 1t difficult to navigate up and down their sides on account of the slippery nature of the native brush grass with which these hills are thickly covered. This grass, when nearly ripe, Is very smooth and slip pery. So pronounced Is this that the idea forced itself upon one of their number that possibly 1t would serve as bed over which a sled might 'go" down hill. An experiment proved the idea feasible and practical. To attain best results, however, 1t was found necessary to run the sleds down hill a number of times. so as to lay the grass and establish a course. It was also learned that the runners should be wide-two-inch stuff is best-and cov- cred with hoop Iron of equal width at the bottom. In length the sleds, which are cheaply, but strongly built are about one and a half by four feet. The first was built without any break or other means of controlling the speed. but this was soon found to be faulty, as well as dangerous, owing to the speed with which they tear down hill; hence a side brake has been added to control the speed, which is often half q mile a minute.
 The sleds are made as follows: Take two
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the same story that MT. Rabbit had told; he was not strong enough to pull the plug out. Then MT. Wolf said that he would try. He was ten times as large as Mir. Rabbit and three times as large as MT. Fox, so all the animals felt that he would be the one to succeed. Off he went In the morning, and everyone ex- pected rain all day, but no rain fell. Then back came MT. Wolf at night, and said that he had moved the plug a little, but could not get 1t out. Then Judge Bear said that if the plug could be pulled out at all, he would pull it, for he was the strongest of the animals. He started on finely, but when he had gotten but a lit- tie way up the sunbeam he found he could not run nearly fast enough to get to the top before it gave way, so he came flying back in hurry. There was nothing left but for Mir. Horse to try. He was so heavy that everyone thought he would break through the sunbeam, but he said he would do his best. He waited on tbe mountaintop until the right minute. and then, jumping on the sunbeam, galIoped with all his might. He reached the edge of the sky safely, and ran toward the center. His hoofs made such a noise on the floor of the sky that all the animals down below said: Hear it thunder! I'll
The age-herald., 1901-08-12
Why Horse Shoes are Lucky.
BY RAYMOND FULLER AYERS. Copyright, 1901, by R. H. Russell. T.

One summer all the animals were in danger of starving to death. There had been terrible drouth. No rain had fal- len, and everything was drying up. The leaves on the trees turned yellow and shriveled; the grass curled up and died; no crops could grow without rain, and the river had dwindled to a mere brook The animals had very little water to drink and almost nothing to eat. It was a terrible time. At last they called big meeting in the coolest part of the woods and all the animals came. Squire OK was chairman of the meeting and Mir. Dog kept order. At first all the animals tried to talk at once, but finally they quieted down and spoke in turns. All told of the dreadful famine that would be sure to occur if no rain came, for without rain the. crops could not grow, and by harvest there would be nothing to eat. Then they began to ask one another how they would make the rain come, but no one knew. After many plans had been offered and rejected, MT. Owl spoke. He was older than any other bird or animal. and bo
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pieces of board about four feet long, four
 inches wide and two Inches thick. Shave one end of each of these until 1t curves up like the runners on regular snowsled. Then get some old barrel hoops, punch holes In them, fasten them along one edge Next get board about two and one-half feet long and one foot wide and nail it lengthways to the two runners, fastening them together at one end. Nail narrow strips of the same length to the runners at various distances along their length, and the sled Is complete. A brake can be added by mailing a strong stick to the
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bet we are going to have some rain."
 MT. Horse reached the plug and, seizinc it. with his teeth, pulled with all his might. He tugged and jerked, but 1. would not move. Mir. Horse was about to stop and go back when he thought ot the poor animals at home suffering for water, while the crops and grass were all dried up, and it made him so angry that he turned and kicked at the plug with both feet as hard as he could. He struck it the very first kick, and 1t flew out so quickly that Mir. Horse could not get out from under the plughole soon enough, and be got soaking wet from the rain that poured through. It rained for long time, and MT. Horse had to get back to Animal Land on a rainbow, as he could not catch a sunbeam at the right time. All the ani- mals praised him for bringing the rain, but Mir. Horse only said:
 "Oh, pshaw It's lucky that had my heavy iron shoes on or could never have kicked the plug out.'
 .'It is lucky, indeed" said all the ani- mals, and the horseshoe has been the very emblem of good luck ever since.
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uirectiy back from between his shoulders. Inen he whirls 1t around the other way so 1ast that you actually cannot see 1t go, but think that he has not moved 1t at all.
 When some of your little friends call to see your pet owls get them to walk around the perches of that fluffy bird. They will think that the owls are about to twist their necks off If you do not let them Into the secret, and you can have as much fun with them as if you had really trained your owls to make swivel joints or their necks.
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to justify very common and expressive slang term. If you walk completely around an owl he will twist his neck so that he will be looking at you all the time, even If you keep on In the same direction and walk around him several times. If you do not know how he does 1t, it seems very odd, and you expect to see his neck unscrew and let his big round head tumble off his shoulders. Although he seems to twist his neck com pletely around until his head has described a complete circle, he really turns 1t only
 half way around, until his face is looking
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Summer Boosting in California.

"Coasting down hlll'' Is enjoyed by youag and old in Southern California, with the thermometer in the nineties in- stead of at the freezing point It is be- coming as much of a sport as Is toboggan- ing during the winter season in the East ern and Northern States; but instead of being enjoyed over snow-clad hill, with overcoats and mitts, ear mufflers and over shoes, the Southern Callfornians take their sledding over dry grass covered hills In sombreros and sunbonnets.
 At point where the San Gabriel Valley begins. In Los Angeles county, the foot hills bordering the Sierra Madre Range
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CHARADE.

My first is in castle and not in house; My second is in mat and not in rug; My third is in supper and rot In dinner; My fourth is in bottle and not in cork; My fifth is in red and not in pink My sixth is in sugar and not In salt: My seventh is in ground and not in river; My eighth is in law and not in politics, My ninth is in animals and not in birds; My whole is city in Europe.
 HAROLD YON BLARCOM.
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A little boy from Hoosick Falls has writ ten us delightful little letter about his pet owls, and he says he has tried to train them to do tricks, but has failed entirely. The owls were almost full grown when he got them, and they resent any attempt to compromise their dignity, such as making them do tricks. by biting, ciawing and alto gether acting in a very ungentlemanly man. ner. He asks us to tell him how to train them, but we give It up.
 An owl has a most peculiar form of neck, and he does things with it that would seem
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CHARADES.

My first is in slumber, but not in awake. My second is in offer, but not in take. My third is in no, but not in yes.
 My fourth Is in gown, but not In dress. My fifth is in fat, but not in thin.
 My sixth is In face, but not In chin. My seventh is in early and also in late. My eighth is in little, but not in great. My ninth Is in orange, but not in pears My tenth is in wolf, but not in bear. And my whole Is the name of poet
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side of one of the runners, using but one nail, so the stick can be moved back and forth Let the lower end reach a little below the bottom of the runners. Bind this stick back, and the lower end will
 not interfere with the progress of the
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My first is in base and not in top: My second is in run and not in hops My third is in young and not in old: My fourth is in warm and not in colds My fifth is in chin and not in face. And my whole Is race.
 AUGUSTUS HENRY
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-01-08
FOR WALARHA,
CHILuL.S AMID FEW EE:Rl.
The Best Prescription Is GrOve9 =
TaStcleSS Chill Tonic.
The Formula Is Plainly Printed OH Every Botti>
So That the People May Know Just
What They Are Taking.

Imitators do not advertise their Eormul>
knowing that you would not buy their med;
cine if you knew what it contained Grove
contains Iron and Quinine put up in correG
proportions and is in Tastelcss form IT,
IRON acts as tonic while the Quinine dr;v:
the malaria out OF the system. Any reliabj
druggist will tell you that Groves is tb
Original and that all other so-ca}led tsTast>
Ecss' chill tonics arc limitations. An ;,naly2
OF other chill tonics shows that Groves
superior to all Others ir every reopect. You ar
not experimenting when you take G*ove's--i>
superiority and excellence having long bee.
established. Groves is the on ly Chill Cure solo
throughout the entire malarial sections of th<
United States. No Cure, No Pay. Price, soc
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-01-08
uESK Sent BI MAIL.
Shirrd Ivy G"vctm"nt to Manila Under
Dradhcad EnvClopc.
Philadelphia Record. !

l. h'i"'SlpIiu lNcSott.
The largest pioco Of first elias mail
matter that was over sent through
tho Indianapolis postollico was an Of
firo desk which tho government pur
chased Of an Indianapolis manufac.
tur'r and shipped to Manila, Philip.
Pine island, for tho uso Of tho postal
service th"ro. The desk was large
enough to make diniug table for
five or six people, and weighed as
much rs Il piano. 1t was wrapped
in heavy juto by tho manufacturers
aud delivered at tho posoiiice here,
where it was started on its long
journey. An official envelope of tho
postoilice department was pasted on
the top with tho address of tho
government officer at Manila.
If the government had been re-
qulred to pay two cents for each half
ounce, the price of ordinary first
class mail, the postage on tho desk
would have been more than the cost
of the desk at the factory. BY send
ing it by mail tho cost Of transport
tation WAS saved by the government.