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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
WAR GAM e.
Defenders Equipped With Systems,
While the ENEMY" Must Crepe
in the Dark.

Bar Harbor, Me-, Aug. 2.-The war
game will begin tomorrow morning at
daylight, when the enemy" consist
ing of the battleships Indiana, Texas
and Massachusetts, and the torpedo
boat destroyers, Lawrence and Whip
pie, in command of Admiral j. P.
Sands, will sail from here to lose
themselves out on the Atlantic. Two
days later the fleet of battleships.
cruisers, school ships, training ships
and torpedo boat destroyers will leave
and take their respective stations
along the coast to watch for the ap-
proach of the enemy.
Admiral Barker, who is in supreme
command, has transferred his flag to
the Kearsarge. The Kearsarge, Olym-
pia, Illinois, and Prairie have been
equipped with wireless telegraph syS-
TENS
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
LAND TAX A GOOD THING.
Dean C. Worcester. just Home from the
Philippines, Speaks Hopefully of
Economic Conditions.

San Francisco, Aug. dean c.
Worcester, Philippine commissioner,
one of the men entrusted with the
task of establishing civil govern
ment in the islands, has arrived here
on his way home to Vermont. He
reports that the terrible cattle pest has
been stamped out, that cholera and
bubonic plague have been effectively
dealt with, that the insular govern
ment is making permanent improve
ments and defraying all its expenses
on the proceeds of reduced import
costums duty and that the land tax is
solving the problem of revenues for
provincial and municipal government.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
PLANS OF THE ARMOURS.
They VIII Operate Several Electric Roads
Furnished with Power from a Plant
Controlling the Platte River.

Omaha, Neb., Aug. l. According to
reports that leave little room for de-
NAL, the Armour Packing company
will soon own and be operating an
electric line stretching from Kansas
City to st. Joseph, thence to Omaha
and on north to Sioux City. In addi-
ton the company will have its own
power furnished by plant controlling
the Platte river either at Fremont or
Columbus. Further, the Armours will
have the controlling interest in the
street railways of all four cities. IL
the plan works out as well as the pres
ent indications promise, the Armours
will have considerable power above
their own needs to place on the mar
ket, and they are expected to derive
an income from traffic in freight and
passengers on their electric line be-
yond their own carrying needs.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
VIII Walk to the Arctic Circle.

Chicago, Aug. Robert M. Wilson,
editor of the Durand, ILL.,, Clipper,
plans to start at noon to-day and
walk to Cape Lisburne, on the Arctic
ocean, 5000 miles away. He will go
through Minnesota, through Canada,
following the coast from Vancouver to
Cape Nome, thence to his destination,
beyond the Arctic circle. He expects
to be gone Is months.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
sTILLETos AT a BALL.
Three Men SIashed Right and Left
and the Ballroom Floor Resen-
bIed a Slaughter Pen.

Ell Paso, Tex, Aug. To-day q
Mexican ball was converted into a
free for all fight with knives, and as
a result two men were fatally stabbed
and several others severely wounded.
Three men participated in the diff
Guilty by slashing right and left in
the crowd with stillettos. The fight
became general, and when officers had
quelled the disturbance and arrested
some of the participants, the ball room
floor resembled a slaughter pen.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
VIII Oden Quit Politics?

Omaha, Neb., Aug. IA report is
current in railroad circles here that
Gov Odell, of New York, has been Of
fered the presidency of the Union Pa
cific railroad. 1t is said that E. H.
Hartman desires Mr.. Odell to accept
the office.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
Lightning killed Three Bsptists.

Lynchburg, Va, Aug. Three per-
sons were killed and more than a score
injured by lightning at New Hope
church. A meeting of the James River
Baptist association was in progress and
a number of men took refuge from the
storm under an awning near the build
ing
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
A Jerelrx Store Robbea.

Chicago, Aug. 1.-While the jewelry
store OF Louis Weber, at Clark and
Harrison streets, was full of custom
ers last night robbers entered the
basement of the place and cutting
holes through the floor and the raised
platform between the outer and inner
show windows, stole two trays of dia-
monds valued at $1,000.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
&c. rr,ed 70 Eat Dynamite.

Kenney, ILL.,, Aug. IA steer weigh
ing about ], 100 pounds, owred by John
Alexander, who lives west OF Kenney,
got hold of a stick of dynamite and
in attempting to swallow it it exploded.
Portions of the animal were found
lodged in trees about the place. The
head was blown to atoms.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
Gen. Stewart Cheerful.

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. News
from Epson Springs, Macon county,
tonight is to the effect that while Gen.
A. P. Stewart is very dangerously i'll,
he talks cheerfully and there seems
to be no immediate danger of collapse
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07

EVER was more ag-
onized cry than
that which split
the stiffness of the
night air on Cali
lees lake. A man
was sinking, sink
ing, sinking! The
boisterOuS waves
leaped up as II
eager to claim an
other victim. They
wrapped their cold
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
Ku,ed While Crossing a Track.

Chicago, Aug. ALBERT w. Skibbe,
his wife and child were instantly
killed late yesterday afternoon at the
Ashland avenue crossing of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
settlers i'm the Northwest.

st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 1-According
to statistics announced by the rail-
roads here, the total number of set
tiers that have passed through St
Paul this season to points in Mime
sofa, North Dakota, Idaho and Wash
ington. is estimated at $4,000.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
A work Train wrecked.

Brazil, Ind, Aug. John H. Sui
Ivan, a brakeman, was killed and IA
workmen were injured in the wreck OF
a work train yesterday evening on the
Otter Creek division of the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois railroad.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
Militia in Camp Entitled to Regulars Pay

Militia In Camp Entitled to Regulars Pay.
Washington, Aug. 1.-The secretary
of war yesterday decided that officers
and soldiers of the militia while serv-
ing at encampments are entitled to
the same pay as the officers and men
of the regular army and that they also
are entitled to transportation to and
from such encampments as if they were
regular troops.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
PONIES PHYSICIANS Receive $4,000.

Rome, Aug. 1.-The sacred college
has approved the payment of $4,000
to the doctors and others who attended
the late pontiff during his last i'll
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
CONDUCTOR HAD NERVE.
West Virginia Mob Tried to Take Three
Negroes from a Train But Was
rEa Fooled.

Huntin gton, w. Va, Aug. IA
Chesapeake & Ohio express train was
held up by a mob of 200 men near
Clifton Forge late Thursday night and
a desperate effort was made to take
two negro prisoners from the train,
but the conductor locked all the doors
and finally got the train started, thus
fOiling the mob
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07
Chicago. Sunday.

Chicago Sunday, 1903.
Text:-"But when he (Peter) saw the
wind boisterous, he was afraid; and begin
ming to sink he cried. saying, Lord, save
met And Immediately Jesus stretched forth
His hand and caught him, and said unto
him, o thou of little faith. wherefore didst
thou doubt ?''-Matt II :20-31.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07

Vincennes, Ind, Aug. Edward
Swaby, young son OF Joseph Swaby.
of Sanborn, choked to death on q
grain of corn.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07

rolling waves, takes his eyes OF Jesus.
But somehow 1 am glad we have this
picture of sinking Peter. 1t is so hui
man. 1t brings encouragement to the
falling heart. For it shows US the arm
of Jesus outstretched to save. Never
does the cry go up from the human
heart: Lord, save mel" but that
Jesus is there to hear and ready to
clasp in His strong arms the sinking
form. 1t was lack of faith which was
dragging Peter beneath the dark wa
tiers upon which he had but just been
walking. 1t is always lack OF faith
which carries the Christian beneath
the waves of surrounding circum-
stances. But he need not sink hope
lessly and helplessly! Let the cry go
up, even while he is blaming himself
for his lack of faith, and knows he de-
serves no help, and Jesus saving hand
is felt drawing to His blessed s1de'
where are shelter and safety.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-07

were come into the ship, the wind
ceased" With Jesus in the boat they
were safe. What a picture this is for
needy, sinsick souls to look upon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
THREE MAYORS.

The three largest cities in the country have
Mayors to-day each of whom represents phase
of the condition. Three ways there are
to-day in which a may become the dom
inant head Of an American city He may,
Mayor Low of NeW-York, represent the upriS-
ing and combination of the classes neither ex-
plotting nor exploited. He may, like Mayor
Harrison of Chicago, be the individual chieftan
of his own political clan and personal following
in his case Inherited Philadelphia has in Mayor
Weaver q chief executive deliberately selected
by a powerful political machine, corrupt, I'M
scrupulous allied with every exploiting agency,
corporate political, whose head and whose
governing men firmly believe that permanent
political power in current municipal Cond tons Is
only possible by giving efficient admin stra lion.
All these MayorS-and this is the great change
of the last ten years-only the last ten years
hold their places under aVOwed policy of
improved city government. Mayor Low really
stands for il. Mayor Harrison wants to be
believed to stand for it. Mayor Weaver claims
to stand for it, and has so far justified his claim
The first has controlled the franchise corpora
lions and driven hard bargains with them, the
second has headed a long crusade against them,
and the third has surprised Philadelphia by in
sisting testing their legal rights and claims
-CTalcOtt Williams, in The Booklovers Maya
zine
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
NO CATTLE. NO FENCES.

The development of the modern city residence
street requires the removal of front fences. 1t
was not so very long ago that cattle were al
lowed to roam in the village as they were in
the country, and fences come with cattle. When
cattle We're removed from the streets the fence
dld not go. Persons had come to feel that
fence is as much part of any place a walk
or a well is. 1t had come to be bound up with
the idea of the home. The removal of stock was
not sufficient reason for the removal of the
fence At best, this reason was only negative
The positive reason came in the development OF
what Is really the art-dea in the outward char
acter of the home-With the grading and parking
of streets, and the feeling that the breadth of
setting for the house can be increased by ex
tending the lawn to the actual roadway. We
have now learned that fence is no necessary
part of the plan of place, that il really does
not add to the completeness of the establish
ment and, moreover, that it may introduce
a discord with the architecture.-(CO Country Lifs
in America.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30

horses Of 1850 were harnessed and shod
and the other as those of this year are turned
out, and the horse in the older rigging would
be distanced while the winner would scarcely
have to extend himself.
The fast time in the present records owes
much to mechanical improvements and much
more TO more skilful development and driving
than to better breeding though l do not pretend
TO deny that certain individual horses have re-
Gently gone faster than any of the oIdtfmers
would have gone, let the conditions have been
what they might. But the MOrgans, the CIayS
ana the Golddusts were reproducing types
which the standard bred trotters not. That
they were types was because they were rich in
that primitive Eastern blood without which 10
great type has ever been created or maintained
John Gilmer Speed, in The Century.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
YELLOW NEWS.

What is news? Some editors to fancy
that anything that happens is news. Others go
to the opposite extreme and deal wholly in tic-
ton in essays. Others think il is the pro-
ceedings of public bodies Of various kinds, re-
ported fully and in routine fashion. Others hold
that ii is only what their hackers think the
people ought to know. Others that it is what
ever has salacious flavor.
From the standpoint of the jo-rnalsm known
as yellow" news is whatever is of concern to
the masses of the people in their daily life. Is
there q murder? II it is a commonplace affair
among commonplace people, it is not news"
If il has some element of appeal to the imagina-
ton to the universal human feelings, then it
is news" And the extent to which these ele
ments enter in determines whether it shall be
given a column two pages-(Frank Lane
Carter, in Every odys Magazine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION.

We weltering in photographic chaos in
which a multitude Of signs are represented by
the same sound, and a multitude of sounds by
the same sign. Our race race has in con-
sequence lost the phonetic sense. What can we
hope for the orthOepy OF tongue in which, for
Illustration, the short sound of e, found in let,
is represented by ca in head, by 60 in leopard, by
az ia says, by al in said, by 81 in hefer, and by Il
in many2 or Of the correspondingly long sound
given by us to the same vowel, which is repre-
scented by in mete ito measure), by cI il
meat ian article OF food, by &C in tie
verb to meet; and furthermore by / in machine,
by IL in believe, by Ct in receive, by co in people
and by in egis? Or take the sound denoted
by the digraph Sh, seen in ship. 1t is repre-
scented by &c in ocean, by ca in suspicion, by ii
in nation, by II in anxious, by sci in conscience,
and by followed by in There is no OBJ
ject in heaping up further narrowing details,
which, indeed, could be multiplied almost in
definitely. They have been introduced merely to
show how hopeless is the prospect of attaining
under such conditions uniform standard of
pronunciation which all viii recognize at once,
and to which all viii unquestionngly, bow.
Lounsbury, in Harpers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
MATHEMATICS AND LAUNCHING.

The launch of a vessel is primarily Il matter
of mathematics. In ship of immense size it
calls for vast amount of calculation before
the first step is taken i'll the actual work. In
the first place, the specific gravity of the yes
sci must be figured out to allow for the
various strains to which the hull is subjected
on its santing journey into the water, with its
sudden plunge as the bow drops from the ways.
An enormous amount Of data must be collected
to fix this centre of gravity. The weight of all
the material that has gone into the vessel up to
the time of the launching, the distribution of
this weight the weight of chains and anchors
and other material placed on board prepara-
tory to the launch, must all be considered.
When the centre of gravity is fixed the sue
cessful shpbuilder knows just how to build his
launching ways, and just where to strengthen
them He knows then, by little calculation,
how long each part of the vessel Will be sub
jected to certain strains and how best to pre-
pare for them. He can figure almost to the
second how long the ship Will be in sliding into
the water Franklin Matthews, in Outing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
MURPHY AND TAMMANY.

Leader Murphy Of Tammany Hall has always
put his brothers and relatives in office and has
secured contracts for his friends. a select
coterie has grown rich with him. Just when
he reached his greatest distinction, the leader
ship of Tammany Hall, grave scandals in the
Dock Department under Van Wyck's admins
tratiOn have been disclosed, affecting his repute
and likely to embarrass Tamnlany Hall Leases
Of piers at ridicUlously low figures were granted
to Tammany contractors and to figureheads, and
contracts at high prices to the extent of millions
were given out without public bidding. one
excuse of Murphy is that he i'll when a
large part of this was done. Another is that the
city ought not to expect more than > per cent
income on its property, the corollary being. of
course that Tammany men should get the rest.
-Fraukln Matthews, in The Worlds Work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Looked at from one point Of view, one would
have expected these students and writer's TO in
dorse heartily Lamprechts claim that history is
a science All their efforts, since Ranke's latter
years at any rate had been directed toward
that goal but the author of the new 'Deutsche
Geschichte" took them off their feet by cutting
asunder all connection between history and its
supposed makers" princes and heroes, by put
ting first and above all the great masses OF the
people and by making havoc with the Ranke
tradition. Instead of seeking the sources OF his
torical information in the greater smaller Eu-
rOpean state archives, Lamprecht had diligently
studied the Stadt and DOrf records, the very
store accounts of the people. What could have
been more revolutionary In addition to this,
history embraces according TO the newcomer
all phases Of intellectual and physical activity,
and not. the Rankianer believe, only the po-
ntical side Of things. This not only sharp
reflection on the older school, but a second very
practical if unspoken, declaration that the arts
tocratic portion of the country should occupy
relatively only a few of the pages of history.
Professor William L. Dodd in the Popular
Science Monthly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
HENLEY'S VERSE.

That Henley was something of a mannerist
in verse ii would be folly TO deny. He was
Without being a pedantic stickler for the grand
manner, one may doubt the appropriateness of
such words as 'duds,' chuck" and ''rotter' in
serious verse. In passages of deliberate dignity
he was perhaps apt TO make too great play with
poysyllabic epithets in 'un'' and in" His
patriotic poems, with few eXceptionS-the chief
Of which is the thrilling Last Post'-do not
greatly appeal to me. / cannot but think them
undesiraby strident. But no reasonable deduc-
ton alter the essential fact that here we
have a gallant and virile spirit utterng itself
cOpiously and una1fectedly in verse of great
imaginative intensity, and of distinguished and
original craftsmanship. Something than
this goes no doubt, to the very greatest poetry.
We feel the want in Henley's work Of actual
creative power, of high idealism, of serenity, of
absolute beauty. But if he may not rank with
the very greatest do not see how deny
him place in their immediate neighborhood-
among the positively though not superlatively,
great.-CWilliam Archer, in The Pail Mall Mag
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
BEFORE CHIEF JUSTICE SHAW.

A rather dissipated lawyer who had n case ap-
prOa ching on the docket day told his office
boy to 'gO over to the Supreme Court and see
what in hell they are doing" The court We're
hearing a very important in which Mr.
Choate was side and Mr.. Curtis on the
other. The bar and the courtroom were crowded
with listeners AS Mr.. Curtis was in the midst
of his argument the eye Of the Chief Justice
caught sight of young urchin, ten or eleven
years old. with yellow trousers stuffed into his
boots and with his cap on one side of his head.
gazing intentIy up at him. He said: stop a
moment Mr.. Curtis" Mr.. Curtis stopped, and
there was a profound silence as the audience
saw the audaciOus little fellow standing entirely
unconcerned. What do you want my boy?'
said the Chief Justice Mr.. p. told me to come
over here and what in hell you WAS up TO,
was the reply-(Senator HOar, in Scribner's
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
RACING MACHINES.

OF what use to mankind, of what use TO COM
merce, these beautiful white swans? They
are of no use at all. They menace. Do
they aid the science of ShipbuiIding? Do they
teach any lesson TO the thousands of men who
earn their livelihood upon the seas? They do
not! They are mere racing machines nothing
more and nothing less When these races are
ended they worth only much as the
metal within them Will bring. They of no
practical to any If Shamrock III
loses / shall have to throw her upon n scrap
heap. / love her, because upon her my hopes
are centred. l want that Cup to go back
where it came from, and, in order to meet the
requirements of the defenders. l had to build
her-good-for- nOthing, beautiful creature that
she is. But if she wins the Cup l will cherish
her for the glory that was hers. Yet in that
case never will her type again for the
Americas Cup unless it again leaves its native
shores for the United States.-(Sir Thomas Lip
ton, in The Cosmopolitan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
LIST PLAYING CHOPIN.

AS List played, his demeanor changed in
sympathy with the intensely dramatic content
OF the work. During the sombre phantasy his
teeth were set, his lips and massive jaw firm,
his entire face almost rigid; his gray eyes
burned with the composers inspiration, and his
BODY Strengthened out he leaned somewhat
away from the keyboard. When he struck the
ponderous chords of terror, there was a Vehem-
ence almost diabolical in the sudden swoop
of his great hands. and the tremendous crash
fairly made one SILVER. His nostrils became
distended, and his breath came quickly as one
laboring under great excitement. Indeed it
seemed that the spell of the great ''tone-poet,"
with whom, in his earlier years he had been on
such friendly terms, had completely mastered
him; though he felt himself again in his pres
ence, and he would once more prove his deVO-
ton to Chopin's inspired art, and show him that
List still knew and could portray his innermost
soul.-(Sas G. Pratt in the BooklOvers Maya
zine.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-30
RACE ADVANCE.

All the protection to the purity of the white
race disappears when race distinctions and
social barriers are removed. 1t must be admit
ted that from an chronological and sociological
point of view this would be an injury to the
white race, and against that society should set
its face 1t is the duty of civilization always
TO protect the higher groups against the dete-
roratlng influences of the lower groups. This
does not mean that the lower should be pre-
vented from rising but that it should not be
permitted to break down the higher. The i'm
proVement and progress of the poorer classes,
poorer nations and poorer races should all come
by improving the condition of their group,
but should never be permitted to come a the
expense of the higher or more advanced group.
nation or race This is n view, thoroughly
sound, which the Northern people have not rec
ognlZed, and, it is fair to say, which the South
ern people have not emphasized much as they
might and should.-(Gunton's Magazine.