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The Forrest City times., 1890-02-08
FOR WOMEN FOLK.
News and Gossip from Far and
 Near for the Fair Sex.

All the best and prettiest fads in the way of decorations for rooms, table scarfs, cushions, head rests, and slum- Der rolls for chairs and sofas, hand painted chamois, and plush and boiling cloth, and China silk sachets, wall poe kets, key bags. jewel bags, portes mou- choirs, glove and lace cases and toilet sets that have been bought out by the dccorative-art people and the several woman's exchanges are already found in "the shops,' as the art and exchange people call the great fancy and dry goods stores, for the quick witted mer- chants and the dcft-fingered manufac- turers bought up samples of "all the best things" as soon as they came out, and they have already reproduced the same for ''the trade" Of course, the trade can afford to sell its manufac- tured articles cheaper than any one can buy the handmade, hand-decorated, painted or embroidered articles.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
The Bixby Papers.

Il don't know what YOU women
would do if you couldn't primp,' said
BiNby. scornfully, to his wife when he
saw her giving the finishing touches to
her toilet before going out to make
calls. Il don't know what would be.
come Of Us ii l spent as much time
primpin& rs you do. But | don't |
never give a thought to my looks, and
no other man of sense does, either
And it was Bixby himself who,
twisting his head from side to side, said
to his barber 4 few hours later:
Il don't know but you might cut ii
the sixteenth OF an inch shorter in
front and mind that YOU get it lust
right in the back. I'm particular about
my hair. Shave my neck up clean and
nice and trim my beard up just mere
triiie. I'm going out to a little party
tonight and I'd like as nice a curl as
you can put on the ends of my nous
tache. Powder? Oh. yes. | ALWAYS
want powder when I'm going out and
n little pomade to keep fellows hair
in place. Part my hair a little lower
on the left side-a little lower still
just tribe lower. There, | guess
that'll do. Let me see. | don't know
bat YOU might part it mere triie
higher. No, rot so low on the fore
head and not quite so smooth over the
ears. .'Satli be better-thanksr'-
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
Don't Abolish, bat Improve.

Why can we not do us men do and write
to each other only when we have some
thing to say? And why must we kiss
each other every time we meet? Kisses
are not really agreeable greetings tC
exchange. Very few people know
how to bestow or receive them in a
neat and satisfactory fashion. A SLOW
emily kiss is really deteStab!e article,
and makes one dislike and despise the
bestower. OF all my girl friends who
kiss me when we meet there is only
one from whose osculatory greeting |
do not involuntarily shrink. Some
butt at the kisses with lips made into a
hard ball for the purpose. These al
most give one the toothache.
Others bestow their dewy lips upon
ones cheek in a way that makes the
recipient grope hastily but furtively
for handkerchief. A third contin-
gent kisses in a cold and chilling way
that says plainly enough: Il kiss you
because | suppose you eXpectit of me-. "
| always sympathize with these. and
would gladly fall into their views.
Amy, do let us make non-kissing
compact company, and see how many
of our acquaintances will join it. The
rules would not forbid u kiss after a
long absence, nor would it interfere
with lovers kisses or anything of that
sort, but only combat the custom of
daily greetings by oscillation.
| feel quite sure that woman's friend
ships would be iirmcr and more dura-
BILE if they would abandon all such
heavy demands upon it. Doyou agree
with me?-LOn4gil Truth
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
Horrible Punishment.

Women are never incarcerated in a
public prison in Persia. A few DAYS
forcible detention in the house of a
priest is the usual punishment inflicted
upon them for small offenses When
their crimes are such as to merit capital
punishment, however, no mercy is
shown them because they are women
Near the city of Shiraz IS deep well,
into which women guilty of certain
crimes are cast alive. Ihe woman is
conducted TO the well. seated on the
back of f donkey, with her face turned
toward It's tail. She is followed by a
hooting mob. who fling mud at her and
jeer at her misery. Arriving at the
we'll she is made 10 kneel down at its
brink. \ Hord or two is uttered by
the priest, the executioner gives the
wretched woman shove with his foot,
and all is over iouti5S' C0mpanion.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
4 Neglected Branch.

We are taught in school to read and
write but how many OF us are ever
taught how to talk? Aud If we wished
to learn where Sl4ou,I we seek a
suitable teacher? and yet among all
the accomplishments which men and
women possess there is not enc that
can give so mUch pleasure as an ability
to talk pleasantly and clteItaininsly
Think how many things 20 to make up
good TAXA good yoica. We'll disci-
pinned, soft and low, one that rests
rather than tires, voice with music in
it. Next, we'll store! mind Next,
possession of t:2e art OF putting things.
fer il is quite IS important that
YOU say thing right rs that YOU
say the right tains- Then 10 com
municate Information II s;i@n a way as
to make it appear that YOU assume no
superiority Wendell Phillips, who
was perhaps rs de.isutfal AMI CHARM
ing a coaveTs at.on.s:iss as Boston ever
had. would always put it; 'Iuu re-
member that Socrates said 1t
was harmless fiction aud a plea SAINT
one.--Eostoa Bu,sqg.
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RHRY1S LETTER

4 letter from Mr.. J. W. Rally, Union
City Ind, Gays: l have used your
Clarke's Extract of Flax Papiiion
Cough Cure and find it a compelte cui
for deep seated cold 1t has done more
thon two Of our most skiliful physicians.
My children had the Whooping Cough
aud with the aid of your Cough Cure
they had it very light compared with
neighbors children who did not take
it. 1 believe it to be the best Cough
Cure in the market" so 1t Is. large
bottle only 81. Clarke's Flax Soap for
the Skin. L leads them all. Price 25c.
For sale By J. E. Barnstein.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
How Indians Used to Raise Corn.

A prominent businessman of this
city who went with his father in 1857
TO Pottawattami County. Iowa.. then
the extreme western limit of civiliza-
ton. and who lived there several years
at the most observing age. and who is
now approaching 80 tells how their
Indian neighbors cultivated their corn
says the Chicago Tribune.
There were plenty of Indians there
and then all the work was of course
done by squaws. At the proper time
the squaws went TO the corn field
which had been cleaned and cultivated
from time immemorial and prepared
the ground with '.nigger hoes" those
heavy, striking hoes with pole or
socket for the handle in which they had
inserted a handle not over three feet in
length, requiring the squaw to stoop or
squat as she worked. With this imple-
ment they dug round holes about three
feet in diameter and about three feet
daep, then passing the excavated earth
through their hands. rubbing and crush
ing it as fine as flour, it was returned
to the pit, more than filling it, the ex-
cess being rounded into a Hill or mound,
in which the seed corn was carefully
planted and tended till it was big
enough to take care of itself.
The Indians then left the camp and
went away for their annual hunt. leav-
ing only few of the old and decrepit
who were unable to make the journey,
and for whose support in the absense
of the tribe no provision whatever was
made, not even SO much as tepee was
left them. The old and decrepit had
to make shelter of bushes and bark and
provide for themselves.
The tribe went a long distance away
and were gone till the corn came to the
milk and was fit to roast and eat, a
period they seemed to know by in
tuition, for they never failed to return
the first day it was fit to eat. These
pits were always dug in the sape
places, the surrounding ground being
left untouched. The crop never failed
to be a good one, though no enrich
ment of the soil was attempted. When
the Indian left and the white man took
the ground he found the old Indian
corntields the best and most productive
land.
There was one exception to the rule
that the squaw did all the work. twas
in chopping trees. The noble warrior
took his AK and cut kerfs on opposite
sides of the tree he intended to fell He
never cut so it would fail at once, but
let the wind complete his work.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
Strange Influence of a PLAY.

Il think" said an old actor, Il can
relate a Clara Morris "Reminiscences that
has never yet got into print, though ii
deals with an event of the '70s and had
a really tragic foundation in fact Ii
is closely associated with the Morris
Camille engagement at the Union
Square in its palmy days-an engage
ment, by the way, that developed q
series of the strangest and most NOR
bid episodes | have ever witnessed in
my stage life. This one in particular
was recounted to me by a prominent
physician of this city, under whose
notice it came quite by accident. He
happened to be in the theater one af-
ternoon, and it was just after the third
act, the scene between Camille and
Armand's father, that he heard rustic
of excitement in the balcony. saw a
man rise from his feet and Jump about
foot in the air, and then fall back
lifelessly on the floor. The doctor
went to his side as rapidly as the
crowd would permit him, grasped his
wrist quickly and discovered the faint
est possible pulsation. He ordered the
patient carried to the office, and there
discovered from the mans breath that
he had taken chloroform Some hot
black coffee was Immediately sent for
and, with repeated draughts of it and
other means of restoration, the man
was finally brought back to conscious
ness. After the crowd had left the
Office OF the theater. and the doctor
was face to face with the man alone, he
said to him:
What did you do it for?n
do what?' inquired the patient,
sleepily.
Why did you take that chloroform. ;
persisted the doctor. Don't deny it;
your brea-l was heavily laden with it
Then followed a pathetic admission
and very sad explanation. The man
admitted that on three other occasions
during the progress of that act of Ca
mile he had made preparations to
take his life. He was a well-dressed.
well-to-do New Yorker. and is widely
and fayorably known to-day. His
daughter, it seems, had been guilty of
a mishap,' and left the parental roof
about year before. A few months
previous to the production of the play
she had returned to her fathers house.
pleading to be taken to his shelter once
more. He had refused his pardon. and
about fortnight before the date of
this story recounts she had been taken
ont of the Central Park lake a corpse.
The emotional nature of that scene be-
tween Camille and the father had i'm
pressed upon him the tragedy in the
woman's life, and it so worked upon
his feelings that he believed he had
dealt with his girl unjustly. He said
that he felt that his own life was hot
worth living, but he seemed to lack
the courage for suicide, and so he had
gone night after night to see the play,
hoping that under its spell and inspira-
ton he could bring himself to believe
that he was justified in taking his life.
The doctor told him wisely and
Philosophically that the best thing for
him was never to see the play again.
and he followed the advice. ~. Y.
Sun.
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A SAFE INVESTMENT.

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yon satisfactory results, or in case o
failure return of purchase price. On
this safe plan you can buy from our ad
vertised Druggist bottle of DIR. King
New Discovery for Consumption. 1t i
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Inflammation of Lungs, Bronchitis
Asthma Whooping Clnsh, Group etc
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taste, perfectly safe, AID can always bs
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
PEccARY VS.. LOCOMOTIVE.
How a Pack of the Obstinate Little Brutes
Came to Grief.

A Fort Davis CTex) correspondent
| of the \. I. Times writes: The follow
| ing story, which has now become a
| part of the unwritten history of this
section, viii best serve TO illustrate the
headstrong disposition and wonderful
courage of the little peccary. The
Southern Pacific Railroad, which
passes this point for part of its route,
cuts through long stretch of chaparral
country Astounding with peccaries.
wild mustangs, and various wild ami
mails. One day. while driving along
at moderate speed through the Pecos
bottoms, an engineer saw herd of
small animals scattered along the track
a few hundred yards ahead. Believing
them TO be domestic porkers. he blew
the whistle a couple of blasts and kept
straight ahead supposing of course,
that the brutes would take the hint
and get out of the way No such
thing. With SHOUTS in the air they
scornfully surveyed the approaching
engine and made up their minds to
stand their ground. Quickly forming
a semi-circle en- maSSe, with angry
eyes and crashing teeth they coolly
awaited the crash, evidently determined
to demolish the locomotive and cars
or get busted" themselves, so to
speak. Still the engineer thought they
would move and made no attempt to
ease up or stop the train, When al
most upon them he saw that collision
was inevitable, and so he opened the
throttle. set the old whistle to screech-
ing, and bore down upon the band
III oil tho -naa1 bn oa,,ll
Crash! he went through the band of
peccaries like a rocket filling the air
with spare ribs, tenderloins, and bits
of flying pork. Those belligerent lit
tie rascals who were unhurt rushed
madly ut the wheels, the cars. and the
cow-catcher. showing their spitefulness
to the bitter end, but, of course, they
were smashed out of existence in their
attempt to do-nothing.
The engineer says: Next dav when
| came back over the road there were
the remaining peccaries on the same
spot, arranged in battalion front, and
all waiting for the train to come along
SO that they could get even for the
previous days disaster. Away / went
at them again. filling the atmosphere
with pork, while the live ones frantical-
ly rushed at the cars, wheels. and
trucks, attempting in their mad fury
to wreck the train. This thew kept up
trip after trip until only three pee
carries remained. True to their reso-
luton, when the final day came they
took a bold stand side by side in the
middle Of the track and prepared to
make a last fight for the honor of pee
carries and hogs generally. Two were
tossed into eternity by the cowcatchcr
and the third was cut into sections BIZ
the iron wheels. Since then no more
peccaries have attempted to buck
against Uncle Sans mail"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
Gladstone on America.

In an address TO workingman's
organization Mr.. Gladstone said recent
ly: 1t was not eytravagant to say that
there were but 1900, 600 people in the
thirteen American colonies at the time
OF the American revolt. Yet from among
those 100000 of people there pro-
ceeded at that epoch group of states
men that might defy the whole history
OF the world to beat them in any one
state and at any one period of time
Such were the consequences Of a we'll
regulated and masculine freedom.'
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
ARE you SUPE7STiTlOUS7
You Can Dicoycr By Asking Yourself the
Following Questions.

/. Do you believe in witches spirits
elves. fairies. vampires, ghoals, ogres,
imps, gnomes, bogies, bronies, pixies
or leprehauus9
,. Do YOU believe in an evil genius?
3. Do you believe in the evil eye?
4. Do you believe in bottomless
pit?
5. Do you believe in devil with
horns cloyen-foot and a long, spiked
tail?
6. Would You pass the night in a
graveyard, with u corpse in a church,
or in charnel-house?
Z. Do YOU wear anything which can
be considered in the nature of tails
man or mascot?
s. Do you ever employ anything as
talisman?
8. Do you attach any meaning to a
four-leaved clover?
10. Would you willingly pass under a
ladder?
IL, Do you feel uncomfortable when
you spill salt?
y. Would you sit down with thir-
teen at table?
Is. Would YOU start on trip on a
Friday. or wou!d YOU de er commence
ing an important work on that day.
ii. Do YOU attach any particular
Importance 10 certain numbers, eSpec-
tally to three. seven, or nine?
10. Would YOU give a cai.d OF yourS
the same name Is that of one who had
just died?
10. Are you afraid Of tie dark?
Il. Did you ever have ycur fortune
told by gypsy, as5rologef, cards. or
similar tests?
Is. Were you ever made uneasy by
hearing the insect commonly known
as the death-uatch?
h. Would you venture To knock
three times at midnight on the door OF
an empty church?
20. Do yen believe in dreams. omens.
portentS, signs, warnings. harbinrul-s,
or handwritings on the wall?-Sau
Francisco Caroi.ic'e.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
SAVED FROM CONSUMPTION

S veral physicians predicted that Mr..
A-a b. Rowiey, Druggist, of Chicago
would soon have consumption caused By
All aggravated case of Catarri. Custom
els finally induced him to try Ciarke's
Extract of Flax [Papillonl Catarrh Cure
lie says: 1.-The result was unprecedent
etl. I commenced TO get we'll after the
first application and am now after a few
weeks, entirely cured" 1t will do the
same for you. Price 81. Try CInrke's
Flax Soap for the Skin and you viii use
no other 25ceuts. All of CIarke's
remedies for sale by J. E. Barnstsia.
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MERIT WINS.

We desire to say 20 our citizens. That
for years we have been selling DIR. Kings
New Life Pills, Bncklen's Asnca SG!ve
aud Electric Bitters, and have uover
handled remedies that sell as well, or
that have given such universal satisfac
ton. We do not hesitate to gua,antae
them every time, and we sterd ready to
refund the purchase price, IL satisfactory
results do pot fellow their use. These
remedies have won their great popular
ity purely on their merits For sale at
Ell. Hinrichs Druggist.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16

Perhaps no local disease has puzzled
aid baffied the medical profession more
than nasal catarrh. While not immedi-
ately fatal it is among the most distress
sing and disgusting ills the flesh is heir
to, and the records show very few or no
cases of radical cure of chronic tarrh
by any of the multitude If nioias of
treatment until the introductiC of Ely's
Cream Balm a few years ago. This sue
cess of this preparation has been most
gratifying and surprising. %
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
ODD Furniture.

The latest odd thing in furniture is a
set upholstered with palm-leaf fans.
a single fan forms the seat and another
fan the back of a chair The frame
work is OF gilded bent wood. Two
fans make cute substitute for the
cushioned bottom Of 4 tcte-a tete, and
even the tabletop is of fans.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA sALyE.

THE BEST SALyE in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Cbilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
lions, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction. or money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box q Jan. 90
FOR SALE By Henry Ilinrichs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
Expose at Yale.

The average expense at Yale per
year has been for each freshman $685.
90; sophomore, s83l.34; junior, $751;
II, and senior, &9l9.70. The largest
expense reported for any one man was
$1,000 for the year, although it is be-
lieyed that there were some who
got away with little more than that
amount.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
Graphite in Washington Territory.

An immense deposit of graphite has
been discovered in Lewis county,
Wash. T, at a pass in the Cowlitz river.
The ledge is three miles long and eigh.
| feet thick.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16
The StyioCsapiiic Pen.

The inventor OF the s.ylographic pen
is reputed TO have made $1,000, 900 out
OF it.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1890-01-16

1t is woman's wont TO have her viii.
Richmond DiSpdica.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

Illinois politicians at Washington,
according to the Inter Ocean CORE
SPONGE, are watching with a good deal
of jealous interest the combinations
which are being effected at home rela-
tive to the succession to Mr.. Farwell
in the U. S. senate. The discovery has
dawned upon them that Gov. Fifer is
setting his pins to catch that plum.
1t came out when John NJ. Clark was
made collector of customs at Chicago.
Farwell, it is remembered, felt so
worked up about it that he talked of
resigning, and would have done so if
Fifer had agreed to appoint VIM. H..
Campbell in his place, but instead of
doing so, Farwell discovered that if
he resigned Fifer would also resign
and trust to the lieutenant governor
to appoint him in Farwell's place. But
Fifer, in his chase for the senatorship,
the Iilinoians at Washington say,
will have no such combination to help
him as that which made him COVER
nor. Then PaysOn, Henderson, Far
well, Cullom, Hit, all were for him,
but now all the giants will be down
on him with full intent to crush.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22

The Iowa Republican legislators
could read with profit the short speech
made by Senator NoIhees on intro
ducing in the Y. S. Senate on Wednes-
day a resolution in reference to the
present agricultural depression. at
is now nearly thirty years" he said,
"since the close of terrible war gave
to unhallowed avarice an opportunity
to prey upon the self-sacrltlcing pa
triots of the country. The measures
then resorted TO for the taxation of
one class OF citizens and for the en-
richment OF another class have been
the legislation by which the burden Of
the public debt has been doubled, sill
yer demonetized, and high protec-
tive tariff established. The time will
soon come when the farmer will look
on the proposition TO tax him and his
wife and children for the protection
and benefit Of other people besides
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-03-22
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In the Spring Months.

Nature should be assisted when the
system is changing from the full habit
of the witer months to the lighter diet
of the warm season. Nothing does
this as well as S.S.S. Ii stimulates
the sluggish blood and rids the sys-
TEN of heaviness aud the feeling of
languOr. If there is poison is the
blood, it generally shows itself in the
spring, and this is the season to help
nature to drive it out and be cured.
S. S. S. Beauties the skin and
makes the complexion rosy and heal
thy.
S. S. S. Gives elasticity to the step
and buOyant spirits.
S. 5. 5. Makes the fee bic and deli
cate strong and robust.
S. S. 5. Is tonic to the whole body
and increases vitality.
S. S. S. Is a simple vegetable medi-
cine, harmless to the most delicate,
yet 50 powerful as to cleanse the Sys-
TEN of all impurities.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases
mailed free.
SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga.