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The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
Memphis in the Lead.

The resources of the State banks
of Tennessee at the close of business
June 30 were $47, 745,O84, the larg-
est ever known in the history of the
State. The number of such institu-
tons was oil. Memphis leads the
, cities of the State in the number
of banking institutions, the amount
of capital stock and resources and
deposits. Nashville comes second
with half the number of institutions
and Chattanooga follows with an
equal number and more deposits and
resources. Knoxville has one less
bank than Nashville, but the re-
sources and deposits are consider
ably less than those of Chattanooga.
The resources of the twelve Mem
phis institutions are 81, 1872, 534.83.
The aggregate amount of capital
stock invested in the Memphis banks
is S1,495,O4O.
The resources of the six institu-
tons of Nashville are less than half
the Memphis concerns, the total be-
ing only $4,755, 6O429.
The resources Of the six State
banking institutions of Chattanooga
aggregate $5,298,O87.S6. The de-
posts of the Chattanooga banks are
almost 100000 greater than
those of the banks of Nashville, al
though the amount Of capital stock
of the Chattanooga banks is only
S54O,O00
Knoxville falls behind Chatta-
nooga and Nashville, the resources
Of the five State banking institu-
tons of that city being only $1,O67,-
1874. The total individual de-
posts of the Knoxville banks are
only $628,O2O.65. The figures are
shown in the compilation of reports
made by the comptroller's Office.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02

defects wherever they may exist ~
seem to exist. still it is true that many
churches, yea, may we not say, most
churches, are tinctured with this ten
dency to class distinction. In soma
churches it is more marked than in
others. To the degree that the Spirit
of God rules in the hearts of the mem
bers, to that degree is the church free
from this marring and dishonoring
condition. But hardly a church bu.
shows this weakness, this natural hui
man falling to some extent.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
[ ennessee State News
The GubernatoriaI Campaign.

Chairman Frank Thompson, OF
the State Democratic committee last
week gave out the following APP
pointments for the joint discussion
between Gov. Frazier and Jesse NJ.
Littleton, the Republican nominee
Extraordinarily, Sept. 5.
Trenton-Tuesday, Sept. 6.
Union City-Wednesday, Sept. z.
extraordinarily Sept. 8.
Dyersburg-Friday, Sept. 9.
Saturday, Sept. 10.
Paris-Monday, Sept. II.
Selmer-Tuesday, Sept. IS.
exington-Wednesda Sept. IA
ingdon-Thursday Sept. Is.
ceDurg-Friday, Sept. 16.
Columbia-Saturday, Sept. II.
Franklin, Monday, Sept. 10.
yettevilIe-Tuesday, Sept. 20.
Winchester-Wedn Sept. 81.
Observation-Disclosures, Sept. %.
Lafayette-Friday, Sept. %.
GalIatin-Saturday, Sept. "a.
vingston-MOnday, Sept. 26.
Smithville-Tuesday Sept. 81.
Chattanooga Wednesday, Sept. %,
at night
Athens-Thursday, Sept. 29
adisonville-Friday. Sept. 30.
evierville-Saturday, Oct. 1.
Greeneville, Monday, Oct 5.
JonesborO-Tuesday, Oct. 4.
Observation-Disclosures Oct. 5.
ingston-Thursday Oct. 6.
Dayton-Friday Oct Z.
Saturday, Oct. 8.
The selections of Mr.. Littleton
are Selmer, Lexington and Hunt
ingdon for West Tennessee; Law
renceburg, Lafayette and Smith
vile for the middle section, and
Athens, Sevierville, Jonesboro and
Kingston for East Tennessee.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
DISASTROUS FOREST FIRES
Valuable Mining Property In the
Slate Creek District, in WASH
ingtOn, Destroyed.

Seattle, Wash, Aug. 27.-News from
Barrow, Whatcom county, states that
forest fires have destroyed the stamp
mill of the Goat mine and all of the
development improvement on the
Whistler mine in the Slate creek dis
trict.
The fire swept up the creek for a
distance of several miles, and it was
only through the heroic efforts of the
miners that its progress was checked.
The property loss is estimated at $780,
O0O
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
JOHN BURLEY MEETS HIS FATE
First Legal Execution for Criminal
Assault Ever Inflicted in Dis
frict of Columbia.

Washington, Aug. 27.-John Burnley.
a negro, was hanged here, Friday, for
criminal assault on a four-year-old
negro girl, committed in July, 1903. It
was the first time the death penalty
had been inflicted in the District Of CO.
lumbia for this offense. An appeal to
President Roosevelt, recently, for Glenn
ercy, resulted not only in refusal,
but coupled with it scathing arraign-
ment of the prisoner, and the crime for
which he vas convicted.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
Lightning Strikes a Monument.

During an electrical storm at
Knoxville last week lightning struck
a monument to the Federal dead
in the National Cemetery and
practically ruined it. 1t was erected
at a cost of $4,000 and was IN
yelled four years ago. The struc-
ture was fifty feet in height and
was built of Tennessee marble. Sub
scriptions of 81 each were taken in
for it.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
Raise in Assessments.

Encouragement Gates has hand
ed down an opinion in which he
states that horizontal raise of the
assessment OF a county, district or
ward by the State board of equaliza-
ton is legal and that State bonds
owned by Tennesseans are subject
to taxation.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
URGE ANOTHER MASSACRE
PIacard Discovered I'm Chinese Ter
ritOry Uurging massacre of
"FOreign Devils"

London, Aug. 27.-Tho Tien Tsin
correspondent of the Standard says
that placards have been discovered at
Tsinanfu Cin the province of Shan
tung), urging the massacre of foreign
devils after the seventh MOON" and
that the native Christians are fleeing.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02

ST. Petersburg, Aug. ga dis
patch from Lao Yang, under date
of August 25,says the Japanese enst-
ern forces began n forward move
ment August "a, eight companies
going, on the main Lao Yang road,
in the direction of Liandinnsian.
The Russian outpOsts held their Po-
sitiOn, the fight continuing Thurs
day. The result is not stated, but
it is understood the second and
twelfth Japanese guards divisions
are participating.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
THREE PERSONS DROWNED
Miss Adele Sturdevant and Two I'm
cIes Drowned While Boating
In the AdirOndacks.

New York, Aug. 27.-Three persons
lost their lives by drowning near Edin-
burg, in the Adirondacks. They were:
Adele Stu11evant, of Brooklyn, the
daughter of p well-knOwn real estate
operators.
Harris S. Sturdevant, a well-known
resident of Rome, n. Y.
James A. Sturdevant, of Brooklyn.
The men were Miss Sturdevants
uncles All were thrown into the wa
ter when their sailboat capsized, and
their bodies have not been recovered.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02

HAT a great leveler,
and unifier and sim
pliher is the glOri-
Gus Gospel of -Je-
sus Christ! Where
the faith of Jesus
Christ prevails and
His Spirit rules in
the heart all man
made and man-rec-
ognized distinc-
tions are swept away
and the brother
of low degree is ex-
allied and the saint
e Itch Innnn &c
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
Ask James J. Hill to Speak.

St. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 27.-James ].
Hill, the northwestern railroad builder,
has been rendered an ovation by the
North Dakota Worlds fair commits
sion to deliver an address at the st.
Louis exposition, September q, North
Dakota day.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
General strike Ordered.

New York, Aug. PA general strike
of all the purse and bag-makers in
Greater New York has been ordered, to
take effect Immediately. 1t involves
5000 men, who demand recognition OF
Sheir union.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02

brought low, and both meet in sweet fell
lowship with Jesus as guest, as well as
host. What is more dishonOring to the
Christ, who emptied Himself of all glory,
and power, and majesty which He pos
sessed with the Father from the begin
ming and took upon Himself the form
of man and became servant unto all men,
than for those who claim fellowship
with Him, who identify themselves as
His followers and acknowledge Him as
their Saviour and Lord and Master, to
make distinctions between people &C
c0rding to the standards which prevail
in the world? What could be more dis
pleasing to Him, think you, than for one
who wears the livery of the redeemed to
estimate and judge men by the mere ex-
ternalities of what they possess, or what
they are, and let such judgments bias
their conduct towards them? We know
such distinctions are unworthy the call
ing and profession of a Christ-man or
Christ-woman; we realize that we are
under condemnation because we have
the respect of persons; we know Gods
Word cries out against the sin, and yet
what condition is more prevalent among
SuIlSIldHS lO-udJ Iudu luiS CdSIo Spll IL,
this tendency and disposition to let the
gold ring and the rich raiment' influ-
erce our attitude and conduct to the dis
paragement and dishonoring of the poor
brother who is rich in faith towards God
and possesses in rich fullness the hid
den graces of the heart? The Apostolic
Church came early to experience this
weak and worldly tendency among its
members. In fact before the organiza
ton of the church on the day Of Pente-
cost, Jesus met this defect among His own
immediate disciples. He had to rebuke
them time and time again for seeking
preferment. and for estimating people
by externalities, rather than the internal
qualities Of heart and character
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
To Join the Baltic Squadron.

Constantinople. Aug. 27.-The Rus.
sian Navigation Co.'S steamers Yenona
and Meteor, laden with coal, supplies
and fresh water, traversed the Bos-
phorus yesterday. They are said to
be on the way to join the Baltic squad.
ron
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
Capital Stock Increased.

The authorized capital stock of
the Dalton-C Stave Company,
whose home is in Huntingdon, has
been increased to 100000, and the
officers of the company are G. B.
Dalton, president; L. P. Clark, vice
president; G. H. Wright, secretary
and general manager; j. Men.
Wright, treasurer. All the stock
holders are Huntingdon men. Their
mills are in Mississippi and. they
make 100000 slaves annually.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
Gave Fortuna to- Lost Cnuse.

Natchez, Miss, Aug. 27.-Miss Kate
o. Foster, at one time one of the
wealthiest young women of the city,
who gave her fortune to the confed-
crate cause and its veterans, died here,
THURSDAY, aged 81 years
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
Her Ninety-seventh birthday.

Evansville, Ind, Aug 27.-Mrs. Mary
A. Clark celebrated her ninety-seventh
birthday anniversary Thursday. She is
q native of Kentucky. Her husband,
who was a soldier in the war of 1872.
has been dead for 40 years.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
May succeed senator Hoar.

Washington, Aug. 27.-William H
Moody, Encouragement, is looked
upon by many as the probable success
sor in the United States senate of Sen
ator George F. Hoar, who lies at the
point of death at his home in Massa-
chusetts.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02

Lao Yang, Aug. 25.-The fighting
which began yesterday continues
to-day at Liandiansian, 23 miles
southeast of Lao Yang. The Japan
csc are attacking.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
EMPEROR WILLIAMS GIFT
Prof. Uphue's Statute of Frederick
the Great Ready for Shipment
1t VIII BE Consigned to Ambassador
Won Sternberg, Who Will Make
the Presentation.

Berlin, Aug. 27.-Prof. Uphue's statue
Of Frederick the Great, to be presented
to the United States by Emperor Will
lam, and which has been standing all
summer in the sculptor's garden. has
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
Sin Of Class
Distinctions
~ Sermon by the Highway and ~
9 Byway" Preacher. e
Copyright, 1904, by J. N. Edison. }
Chicago. Sunday. Aug. IS. !!

Chicago, Sunday. Aug. IS 1904.
Text: my brethren, hold not the faith
of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of glory,
with respect of persons. If ye have
respect of persons, ye commit sin" Jas.
1
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02

T HIS sin of class distinction IS one
| into which the Christian falls so
naturally and easily. How much more
prone we all are to render to the
rich and well dressed, to the cultured
and educated, to the commercial OF
professional man or woman of promi-
nence, the homage and courtesy and
attention which we feel are due them,
while we turn with scant courtesy
from the poorly dressed stranger.
from the unprepossessing and I'M
couth. We feel fiattered by the at
tendance upon the church of the rich
ly dressed, the social leader, the bank
er, the doctor and lawyer and railroad
magnate. We feel that we must show
them assiduous attention, we must
make them feel that we appreciate
their social and business and
professional standing. Naturally
and perhaps unconsciously this
attitude is manifested. You whiS-
per to Mr.. or Mrs. So-and-So that
there is Mr.. Wealth, or Miss Fashion
able, or Mr.. Wiseman, or Miss Society,
and that Eve must not let them get
out without our prettiest and most
fiattering speech and most cordial in
vitation to come again" And while
thus busy, and, as you flatter yourself,
so judiciously engaged, some humble
brother or sister is slipping into an
obscure seat unnoticed and unknown.
And while you are Sinking and bow
ing and exchanging the formal courte-
sizes of the day with the prominent,
and rich and we'll dressed, the unno-'
ticed and unknown man or woman in
homespun slips quietly by you and
away, with never a Christian greet
ing, never a warm handshake, never
an invitation to come again.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
THE world judges people by what they

THE world judges people by what they
| possess in tangible assets, whether
they consist of gold of power. of physic-
al or intellectual attainments which
give social and business preferment And
it is hard to unlearn the lesson of the
world. 1t is hard to give up her measur-
ing rod and her balances, and measure
and weigh things after the Divinely &C
curate means of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ and His unfailing and unerring
Spirit of love and service. The natural
tendency is to have respect of persons.
Even Samuel the Prophet made this
grievOus mistake when sent by God to
anoint the new king of Israel. He
judged by the eye, he used the worlds
standards of measure, and was prone to
pour his conseCrating oil upon the finest
physical specimens of Jesse's fam
lily, but God checked him in his ig-
norance and folly, by saying:
MAN looketh on the outward appear
ance, but God looketh on the heart"
God is no respecter of persons, when
it has to do with the possessions and at
tainments of this world. In fact, how
often it has pleased God to choose the
foolish things of this world that He
might put to shame them that are wise;
and God chose the weak things of the
world that He might put to shame
the things that are strong; and the base
things of the world, and the things that
are despised did God choose, yea and the
things that are Tot that He might bring
to nought the things that are: that no
CHI
unseemly, nay, how wicked, that those
who are in Christ Jesus, who profess His
name, should recognize the distinctions
which prevail among men and should
be governed by them.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
He admonition of James is need

HE admonition of James is need
full and timely. MY brethren,
hold not the faith of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the Lord of glory. with re-
spect Of persons" For if We have re-
spect of persons, We commit sim
And perhaps there is no one thing to-
day for which the church of Jesus
Christ is blamed so much or is 50
harshly criticised than this one sin
of class distinctions. The world can
forgive most every other weakness.
but when the rich are honored and
cherished to the exclusion of the poor
and humble brother; when the talent
ed and cultured are welcomed with
flattered and flattering obsequious-
ness, and the untutored, uncouth saint
when the church counts its success
by the numbers of it's selects" and
bulkS the rest of its membership as
so much necessary ballast to keep the
ship steady and obedient to the helm
when the world sees this, its cry of
condemnation is heard, and the church
is denounced as an exclusive and ex-
GLIDING organization, and no place
for the poor and the weak and the
Inlearned. And while we do not rec
ognize the right of the world to judge
the church, and realize that the preju-
dice which prevails against it makes
the world pro1s 70 criticise and point
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02

AMBASSADOR SPECk Won STERN
BERG,
Who will represent Emperor William at
the presentation
government to attend the presentation
ceremonies in Washington October 16,
but the foreign Office is unaware of
such plan. All the arrangements have
been intrusted to Ambassador Won
Sternberg, who, for the occasion, acts
as Emperor Williams special repre-
sentative.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02
HEAVY FIGHTING
EAST OF LAO YANG
Japanese Tcck the Initiative and
the Battle Progressing. -
ADVICES AS YET ARE MEAGER
Capture of n Ridge Comma ndinE tho
Outer Defenses of >AupiEg and
LIandiansian the Japs'
First Objective.

Lao Yang. Aug. PA big battle
commenced to-day 20 miles east OF
Lao Yang.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02

{ EEMETH it to you that such cIass
- distinction is only weakness, ami
not sin? Think you that it is light
thing in the estimation of Christ? l
tell you nay. James calls it sin, SIN,
and all sin is deviffsh and abhorrent to
God. If Christ came to church We
think We would welcome Him with
open arms; we think the little select
circles would reach out to welcome and
greet Him, but inasmuch as that is not
done to the least of His brethren-thc
weak, the lowly, the poorly-dressed, the
ignorant, it is not done unto Him, nor
would it be done. l knew a woman
who would not remain in the Bible
class in Sunday school because the coll
ored sexton, child of God, and one
who loved his Saviour and enjoyed the
study of Gods Word, came and sat on
the outer edge of the circle and lis
tened to the exposition by the teach
er. She forgot that in him the Christ
was represented, and that respect of
persons was dishonoring and displeas-
ing to Him. 1t was sin. God is no
respecter of persons" He does not re-
gard the outward conditions, the raj
ment, the worldly possessions, the po-
sition, the intellectual attachments. He
looks beneath all that man sees and
searches the heart, and if Christ is
there enthroned, God accepts that man.
And it is sin for man to make 6istinc-
lions which God does not make or
recognize. "Harken. my beloved breth-
rem" says James to the Christians of
that early church, where this insidious
sin Of respect of persons was PERFORM
ing its destructive work; did not God
choose them that are poor as to the
world to be rich in faith, and heirs of
the kingdom which He promised to
them that love him? But We have dis
honored the poor man" And this same
solemn rebuke needs to be spoken to
every Christian heart. This sin of re-
spect of persons is a corrosion, a dry
rot which will eat the very heart and
life out of ones religion and leave him
cold sSd lifeless spiritually.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02

been packed and shipped to Hamburg.
1t will be forwarded to America by
one of the Hamburg-American line
steamers, consigned to Ambassador
Won Sternberg.
1t has been understood that dele
cation of descendants of Germans who
fought in the American war of indie
pendence would be sent by the German
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-02

The Russian front from the Taitse
river south was engaged.
The Washington times., 1904-06-27
Cars Men May Make
4 Stand at TdShich0O

TIENTSIN, June 27.-Forty thousand
Russians are i1trenching themselves at
Tashichao az ii is expected that +hey
Will make e nand there.
Thirty members of the Red Gross
were at Niuchwang Saturday pUrS has
ing medicines and comforts for the sick
aid wounded Russians.
Word From Sakharoff.
ST. PETERSBURG, June H.-The fol-
lowing official dispatch has been re-
ceved from General Sdkharoff, it being
a continuation of the dispatch rom the
same commander. which was ISSUED by
the ministry of war yesterday:
"On the morning OF june = the
e1emy's advance guaro which was oc-
cupying the valley of the Kho River,
teI miles southwest OF Kaiping. fell
back ten kilos to the south TO place
near Siungyuechens.
During the day. on June "a. Japan
ese detachment, consisting Of TWO com
NAMES of infantry and two squadrons OF
cavalry, approached the village or Sin
dian. in the mountains seven miles from
Kaip.ng. in a southerly direction. Pa
trolls of the enemy also appeared IN the
Khoulvanpin locality, ftfteen and half
miles east of kaiping and seven kilos
northwest of Siaupenling Pass.
"A detachment Of the Japanese ad-
vance ard has occupied the village OF
Tamlarlhoon. on the north road from
The Washington times., 1904-06-27
RUN
DOWN ALL CLUES

LONDON. June 29-The mystery sur
rounding the disappearance OF Kent j.
Loomis. the American who has not been
heard of since the arrival of the steamer
Wilhelm II at Plymouth, deepens as the
investigation proceeds. Consul General
Evans said this moring. after an inter-
view with a Scotland Yard otficial: 'Ev-
cry clue has led nowhere. The case is
an absolutely blind alley"
Two women 10 whom Loomis was
slightly attentive during tn evoyage
nave been found in erlin. They did
not see the American after ne left the
steamer at Plymouth.
I he police do not think the missing
man is In London. This leaves the
theory that he fell or was thrown over
board the most probable, with the prob
abilities OF accident. suicide, or murder
If he left the steamer.
The Washington times., 1904-06-27
ELLIS WOULD BE
ABYSSlNIA'S KING

His ambition to become the ruler Of
Abyssinia is declared by intimate
friends OF William II. Ellis to have been
the moving factor in his life. His de-
parture for Africa is said to be a
tremendous step toward his goal, how
ever remote IL may seem to less am
bilious persons.
Ellis Is described as a man having un-
bounded confidence In himself and in his
ability to accomplish whatever he sets
his mind upon. With many OF his friends
ne has made no secret OF his desire to
become the King of Abyssinia and he
said only recently that within two years
he expected to have command of $780,
600. COO and the resources of the richest
country In Ethiopia.
The Man Who Would Be King" Of
whom Kipling wrote was no less in
teresting and picturesque a character
than this broker and promoter. who
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