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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-08
JUDGE BEN LINDSEY.

The following is from the Jack
son Dispatch of last week. Judge
Lindsey is a brother of Mrs. r. Z.
Durrett, of Bolivar:
The two men in public life who
have made the most reputation and
character the past year in the great
western half of the United States,
are West Tennessee boys. We al
Jude to Circuit Attorney Joe Folk,
of St. Louis, and Judge Ben Lind.
sey, of Denver. The former was
born and reared in our neighboring
city of Brownsville; the latter is a
Jackson boy. Both have made
their reputation in the legal profess
sion.
Judge Lindsey is on the bench in
Denver, the metropolis of the
Rocky Mountains. He has proven
TO be more than a mere judge,
weighing out the law by the scales
of justice, and has gone beyond in
to the realm of the humanitarian,
philanthropist and statesman. He
has shown that the arm of the law
may be invoked to save as we'll as
punish its violators.
He. has established and is making
famous the Detention School for
children at Denver, with is re-
forming and saving hundreds of
young lives. Its success has been
so marked that it attracted the no.
tice of officials of the Worlds Fair
at ST. Louis, and Judge Lindsey has
been selected to have charge of this
important feature st the great Ex-
position next year.
We have a Denver paper before
us containing an admirable article
from Judge Lindsey on the "Deten-
ton School and Studies In Way
ward Childhood" We take from
it the following excerpt and incl
dent:
"Do dreams come true? Three
years ago. when | began the study
of child offenses, the Detention
School was one of my dreams. To
day it is a reality. The fight
against the Jail has been fought and
won.
"Last night a 15-year-old boy
was SEM to me from the Jail, ac-
companied by an officer. He was
accused of stealing a ring from a
neighbor and other wOrse Offenses.
He denied them to everyone, and
as he said to me at first: They
have no proof The boy had in
mind what so many boys and men
have who do wrong, viz: Steal all
you please, cheat all you please, but
don't get caught OF course, he
admitted everything to me, and
more than he was charged with,
and then l sent him back to Jail
alone and without surveillance.
This kind of boy must be made to
fear to do wrong, and not tear to
get Caught, for | caught him with
out the slightest trouble, and with
no a%rtifice but the greatest Kindness;
not only no promise of immunity
from punishment, but l believe he
thinks now l an going to send Linn
up Any one can do it, no doubt,
if he goes at it right. Many teach
ers do. This boy was not afraid to
have me catch him. Only the boy
knew. We had no proof. Convic-
ton was impossible under the Grim
inal court, yet the boy and not the
ring was the important thing. That
boy will have a more wholesome,
genuine fear to do wrong next time.
The chances are he will not repeat
the ~offense. He did not tell his fa-
Their, because he hated him. Some
boys would not have told their ia.
theirs, whom they respected and
loved, because they feared them.
They would have equally lied. Of
course, you see the point"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-08

GENERAL JAS. Longstreet, oldest
of the lieutenant generals of the
~Confederacy, died of pneumonia in
Gainesville, Ga, Saturday, aged 80
years.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-08
WAKE UP

The New Year has
come with its advantages
and opportunities. Grasp
every one you can. You
now have an opportunity
to buy you a pair OF
Pants, a Hat, a pair of
Gloves or Shoes cheap
for this month. Don't
miss your opportunities.
Pants that cost us 85c.
we will sell at Csc.
All wool Pants at
a pair.
Hats in the same pro-
portion and Gloves still
We have a few
more of those bargains IN
Overcoats. Don't forget
the store that carries the
Peters Brand of Shoes.
YOURS TRULY,
P. F. Wilkinson II Sons
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-01-08
MCCLELLAN BANQUET SPEECHES.

Mcclellan, newly Installed
Mayor of that city. Demo
Gratis of prominence from the
city, state and nation were
present. The speakers in
cluded Mayor Mcclellan,
Richard Olney, David B.
Hill, Charles A. Towne,
Congressman DeArmond,
Bourke Cochrane and others.
All predicted democratic sue
cess and scored the President
for his many sins of omission
and commission.
Mr.. Mcclellan said:
sit was my good fortune
two months ago to lead the
democratic party to victory
in this city. 1t was fortunate
to be the standard-hearer in
the first successful skirmish
preliminary to the great bait
tie which is to be fought this
year, and so in hearing your
cheers [ feel they are not i'm
tended so much for the man
who stands before YOU as for
the cause which he had the
honor to represent. And for
that cause [ ask you to Join
with me in sending from this
great democratic gathering
in this great democratic city,
the glad news to our brethren
throughout the land that we
democrats of New York are
resolved in our purpose to
wrest the State and nation
from Republican misrule.
Because we are capable Of
much, much is expected of
us; because much has been
given US, much will be re-
|quired. Let us then at the
beginning Of this political
year present to the country
the spectacle of a united and
loyal party
Mr.. Olney followed Mr..
Mcclellan and after paying a
personal tribute to the newly
elected Mayor and the dem
ocratic party, said: that it
was a misfortune for the
country that the Republican
party had for seven years
been in undisputed control
of all departments of the
government and he considers
ed the present gathering a
good sign that there will
be in the future a we'll or
ganized and patriotic opposl-
ton.
1.-The democratic party"
he said, evil, of course, bow
to the logic of accomplished
facts. Yet, while using the
irrevocable past as guide and
warming for the future, it
will and must stand for cer-
tain things of vital conse-
quences which the Republi-
can party, tried by its record
past and recent, cannot stand
for and cannot be trusted to
stand for.
''In matters If fnrrig,.
policy the democratic party
international morality and
decent international conduct
for observance of treaties and
obedience to international
law; for respect for the rights
of every nation, however
small; for refusal tn tax"
by stealth or by robbery
what we have no right to g"'
except by consent of the ow
ners; for continuing Our tro
ditiOnaI role as the defender
of the weaker states of this
hemisphere instead of becom-
ing their spectator; for mind=
ing our own business gener-
ally without meddIing with
the internal affairs of foreign
countries, and without max
ing rumors and trivial events
the pretexts for military de-
monstrations in foreign ports.
"In matters domestic the
democratic party will repu-
date the stand pat policy
and will advocate both ecOno-
my in expenditures and such
reforms as industrial
conditions and the interests
of the country at large de-
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building-a warship of the infant
country they sought to crush.
The surroundings of the old ship
show changes as remarkable as the
difference between The old British YES
sci and the new man-of-war, for the
Wallabout basin has been filled COM
pletely since the government took the
marsh land for navy yard, until now
fully 16 feet of solid earth cover the
remains Of the Jersey. Away from the
sea she lies and buried like the breach
between the two countries, she is a
grim monument to the fact that the
past is forgiven, though not forgotten;
and now, though badly pierced by the
spiles for the foundation of the new
battleship Connecticut, her definite To-
cation crowns the movement toward
raising worthier memorial to the
men who died on board.
The Whitby was the first prison ship
to anchor in 'fWhallabocht bay" This
was in October, 1875, but the following
year brought two more. One of these
was destroyed by fire, which burned
most of the prisoners on board, ana
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commissary of prisoners: 1--WE n
length doubled this point and came III
view of the Wallabout where laid be-
fore us the black hulk of the Old Jer-
sey, with her satellites, the three hos
pital ships, to which Sproat pointed in
an eXulting manner, ana said: There,
rebels, there is the cage for you. AS
he spoke, my eyes turned to the hulk.
A multitude of persons was moving
on her upper deck. Some of them,
seeing us approach, waved us away as
if III warning. 1t was nearly sunset,
and before we were alongside every
man except the sentinels had disap-
peared. AS we went UP the gang
plank the croaking voice of wretched
prisoner called to us from the iron
barred holes: 1t is a lamentable thing
to see so many young men in full
strength. in the flush of health about
to enter this Internal abode. Death
has no relish for such skeleton car
casses as we, but now he will feed ia;
on you-rosy newcomers.
Light was not permitted a. night
and the ship was so crowded that men
could not move without stumbling
over each other. Sleep was impossible
amid the groans of the sick and the
cries of those who went crazy, cursing
their keepers Often dying men fell
over their sick companions, there to
lay until morning came with the death
patrol searching for those who had
passed away in the night. Turn out
your dead" was the familiar greeting
from the sunlight into the reeking at
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her back to spare for her doll, as she
always has to carry about a baby
brother or sister. Babies are always
carried on the back in Japan, and not
in the arms except by the very wealthy
classes, so the little girls have no
chance OF initiating their mothers in
their treatment of their dolls, for they
never see her kiss her baby or hug it
up in her arms as American mothers
do.
There are hundreds Of street profess
SIGNALS who make good livings in ia
pan by amusing children. There are
street theatricals acted by children for
children, realistic and wonderful story
tellers, acrobats and gaily-dressed
tumblers, clever workers IN black
magic such as fire-eaters and snake
charmers, and perhaps, best of ALL
toy-makers who will, while you wait,
blow out a junk in full sail from a
piece of wheat-paste on the end of 4
pipe, and the ever popular peddling
cook, who allows children to cook for
themselves for the tenth part of PEN
NY some strange concootion in dish
OF boiling sesame oil, and endless 9TH
ers which cannot remember.
But to see child-life in its perfection
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nosphere between decks. In obeying
this order it was often necessary 10
waken some of the sleepers to ask il
they were dead, so pitifully deceptive
was their appearance.
This inhuman treatment was called
TO the attention of Gen. Washington
who addressed a protest and threat Of
retaliation to Lord Howe under date
of January 10, 1777, and while it re-
ceived no attention, it is to the credit
of Washington and his men chat they
did not retaliate in kind.
For several years after the revoIu-
ton the bones OF those who died on
board the prison ships were to be seen
on the banks of the Wallabout,
bleaching beneath the winters storms
and summers sun. A number of APP
peals to remedy this neglect were
made to congress, but no formal ac-
ton ensued until the citizens OF
Brooklyn in 1892 resolved that they
should be removed 60 the graveyard OF
the Reformed Dutch church and
monument erected over them. Phii
plan was altered and the Tammany So
ciety of New York made sepulcher OF
all the remains that could be collect
ed-filIing 13 hogsheads, and inferred
them in a vault close to the navy
yard wall in Brooklyn, May rs, 1903.
The burial was witnessed by over 90,
900 persons, and was a matter of civic
Importance.
In 1855 an influential meeting of
citizens resolved that the time had
arrived when the cities of New York
and Brooklyn cannot, without crimi-
nality, longer delay the necessary eff
forts for rearing the monument to the
martyrs of the prison ships" and an
organization was formed called the
Martyrs Monument Association of the
United States. They set to active work,
selected a fitting site on the summit
of Fort Greene and agitated the sub
ject of funds. Enough was secured
by state and private contributions to-
buy the property, remove the remains
to Fort Greene on June II, 1873, and
then wait for more help, which has
come through the concerted action OF
the Monument association, Daughters
of the American Revolution, private
subscriptions and the appropriations
voted by the state and city of New
York and congress. OF this the gov
eminent has given 100000; New
York state, $4,000; city of New York,
$50 900, and the private successful sub
scription, $25, 900, MAXIM in all $780,
900 which will be devoted to the erec-
ton of such a monument that our
children's children will not need to
ask: what mean ye by these stones"
To the PERSONAL efforts of Mrs. S. Y.
White, of Brooklyn, and her husband,
the Hon. S. V. White, much credit Is
given for the satisfactory conditions
of the finances.
NICHOLAS ]. QUIRK
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mating with tucks, and much befrilled
and f1ounced round the feet. The
quaint Josephine bodice was finished
with bolero of beautiful lace on which
were appliqued golden-brown velvet
leaves worked in gold thread. Gold
trimmings are feature of day as we'll
as of evening frocks.
Despite all the new shades. some OF
the best firms are adhering to white
white for evening wear, white for day
wear, and, above all, white for lingerie.
Two or three years ago we saw a great
deal of colored batiSte in the wardrobes
of the -randes DANES, but now the best
lingerie is of purest white, adorned
with real valenciennes and a great deal
of hand work. Corsets are of the dain.
test description, composed of silk ba.
tiste, and voluminous cambria petit.
coats are to the fore. The latter in
many cases take the place of silk un.
derskirts, though the latter are worn
with tailor-made gowns. Some of the
palmer petticoats are trimmed with
bright-colored silk braids, and braids
of every kind may be included in the
list of the seasons trimmings.
Purple and mulberry shades compose
some of the new toilettes de visite
These again IRE mostly of silk trimmed
with velvet, and many princesse robes
are being made through their popular
ity is by no means assured. Many
Empire" frocks of lace will be made
with underdresses of satin, very often
edged with fur. Very beautiful is the
lace coat for evening wear, embroider-
ed with panne and lined with chiffon
Edgings of sable and bands of colored
velvet also form effective trimmings
for the evening wrap
Of course, the real novelty Of the sea-
son is the paletot or redingOte. This
forms useful wrap and is sometimes
of the same stuff as the dress beneath,
but the best samples are in silk and
satin, though later on these will be re-
placed by veivet. Some are trimmed
with marabout, some with fringes and
embroideries. I have seen one really
oldfashioned looking black silk pale
tot lacing up the front, with quaint
ruche down either side, and the col
lar and sleeves edged with black silk
fringe.
These paletots show the short shout
der and a sleeve that is tight at the
top No doubt we shall get accustomed
to it, but the paletot at the present mo-
ment is somewhat unbecoming gar
ment in spite of the beautiful fabrics
in which it is made. 1t is a useful
length for furs, and l have already seen
some models in grey astrachan, also in
Persian lamb edged with ermine.
ANNETTE GIVRY
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AUTUMN VISITING GOWN AND HAT.
Gown is made of Havana cloth and
trimmed with copper-colored velvet and
lace Hat of mulberry red felt ornamented
with pigeon breast.
model. There is a perfect furore for
shading
Wells are seldom worn now with the
picture hat; those that are used are OF
the finest tulle.
A great deal of fur is to be used on
the winter millinery, but it is too early
to think of this just yet. AS a matter
of fact, fur on the head is nearly al
ways too heavy to long remain popu-
lar.
We have by no means seen the last
of the marabout-stole, for it has been
revived in a more costly form. Shaded
marabout on the hat and shaded ma
rabout stole to match are lovely, and
these are 10 expensive to become vul-
CARRIED.
They say that fur ties will be very
sumptuOus this year. Those of sable.
lined with ermine, or vice versa, will
be the favorites.
There will be tremendous amount
of fox worn, but it is early yet to talk
about furs, though the wise woman
who possesses good skins will begin
now to think about having the same
renovated ard brought up to date.
ELLEN OSMONDE
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the charge was current that the vic
TINS set the fire in desperate delibera-
ton, preferring death in that form to
the cruelties they endured. The Sec
ond ship was also destroyed by fire in
February, 1878. The Good Hope,
Prince of Wales, Scorpion and the Old
Jersey took their places, thus forming
a cnain of floating charnel houses such
as the world had never seen. The
most notorious, of course, was the Old
Jersey-the HELL" as she was called.
She was 64-gun ship, which had been
in an action with French fleet and 80
badly injured as to be unfit for war
service. She was dismantled Of her
guns, spars and rigging, and even her
figure-head was removed to decorate
a ship in active service. Thus, with
out ornament or motive power to re-
mind one of life, this forbidding hulk,
with her filthy exterior, fifty indicated
her horrible mission when she was
moored in April, ITS, as a prison for
American naval prisoners.
The following graphic description oil
the ship and reception to the unfortu-
mates consigned to- her is handed down
to us by Capt. Dring, who delivered
one lot of 80 prisoners captured by
H M. S. Belisarius to David Sproa%
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JAP COMPANY FOR ARMY

1t may not be generally known that
the United States army of the future
will include a command of Japanese
soldiers, but this is fact, claims the
New York Herald. They will not come
from the armies which are fighting in
the far east, but will be enrolled from
our Japanese citizens in the Sandwich
islands. 1t is needless to say that a
very large portion of the population OF
the islands, and especially of Honolulu,
is composed of this nation. They are
found among the bankers, merchants
and professional men. and are included
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have somewhat taken the place of
feathers are also pressed into service.
The osprey that the general public can
afford to buy is only an imitation of
the real thing.
/ think with a new hat and one or
two dainty accessories we can manage
TO exist without new autumn garments,
always provided we have cosy wrap
for chilly evenings. But headgear is
an absolute necessity. None of US will
buy straw, unless it be a plait mixed
with cloth; the newest fabric is a
chiffon plat which, as far as appear
ance goes, might be of silk or straw.
1t is beautifully light and soft sub
stance, which twists into most delight
full shapes.
do not think there is anything par
ticularly new 20 record in the matter
of toques except that they are wide in
front, the width often being arrived
at by widespread wings The three
cornered hat is gaining daily in favor
in large as well as in small sizes. They
are just now principally composed of
beaver or felt. | think the three-cOr-
nered hat is always a pretty fashion,
and it harmonizes we'll with the Direc-
toire coat, especially when adorned
with fancy braid or cords and cockades.
We saw a good many of these last year,
but they promise to be popular again.
/ have seen a charming three-corner-
ed hat in mulberry-red felt, the brim
edged with velvet of a brighter shade
of cockade, from which emanated an
outstanding osprey, about four inches
high. This kind of brush will be a
feature of the toque of the future.
Pretty, too, was toque in bright
green chiffon-plait, adorned with au
tumnal fruits, and worn with a shaded
green and brown veil. There are a
great many brown anc green felts worn
with rather plain, straight brims, tilt
ed up at the back and trimmed with
ruche of shaded taffeta round the
crown, while on the bandeau at the
back are large Rows of colored velvet.
Green and yellow art shades are
much in vogue among the autumn mod
els. Whether they will continue pop
ular or not is another matter. They
are distinctly trying shades, but the
cunning of the modern milliner seems
able TO make almost anything becom-
ing.
The ribbons used are delightfully."-
soft, both as regards shade and sub
stance. Bottle-green seems a daring
color to wear on ones head, but I have
seen an exquisite model of a Directoire
hat in this shade, adorned with three
enormous velvet roses, taking in many
shades of bronze and green.
Toques composed of coque feathers
and pheasant are still to be seen here
and there, but they are mostly worn
by travelling Americans, and I do not
think will take firm hold on the mil
linery world.
Ostrich plumes are immensely thick
of long fiber, very little curled and
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| ture. History before the days Of
schools were also taught by card play.
ing, and the Famous One Hundred
Poems of the classics, known as the
Hiyaki-nin, which Is the household Bi.
bic of Japan, was learnt by games of
proverbs. The courage of children, es-
pecially boys was tested by the telling
of thrilling ghost stories in eerie
places or in the half-light round the
hibachi on winter nights. Little girls
had famous examples recorded to them
of filial piety and obedience by the
story of some virtuous daughter who
sold herself to a life of misery to save
her parents from starvation. But the
most important part of child's edu-
cation was its lesson in etiquette. Ell
quette was so farreaching that little
child had to begin it's education before
it could walk; very early did girls
have to learn the special teachings for
women called Washoka- Mebel-Bunko,
which by their nature were qualified
to rob a mother of her child's heart
Teachers of the various etiquettes Wis
tied the houses of the middle classes,
the etiquette of the Solemn Tea-Cere
mony, of flower arranging, of domestic
and social life, were some of the most
important. Only girls of the humber
classes learned music, singing, and
dancing. The koto was the only in
strument permitted in the houses of
the upper classes.
In Japan there is a very hard and
fast line drawn between the moral
training and the education of boys
and girls You seldom see boys and
girls playing in the streets together.
If you do. you will notice that when
boy loses in a game his face receives
dab of paint. When a little girl
loses she sticks a straw in her hair.
At the different festivals for boys
and girls the mark of sex is easily dis
tinguishable. On the days of the boys
festival the whole city lies under
heaven of floating carps made of hol.
low gaily-painted paper. Every street
is lined with bamboo poles, from which
carp fly out into the breeze like flags
to testify the fact that the Japanese
man-child is capable of fighting its way
upstream against all the adverse cur
rents of life. On the day of the girls
festival every stall and shop groans
under the burden OF solemn-faced dolls.
If you asked little boy in Japan
what his highest ambition in life was
he would tell you to die for his en-
peror. A little girl would say: To OBJ
serve the teachings of the seven sages,
so that she might be a submissive
daughter to her father, submissive
wife to her husband, a submissive
daughter-in-law to her husbands par
ents, and, last of all, submissive
mother to her eldest son if she was
left a widow. DOUGLAS sLADEN.