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The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
 The Story of a Book Clerk,

Mark Twain told mo d good story the other day, says the New York correspondent of the Buffalo Courier. It illustrated his point that all the clerks in our book stores are not well informed in literary matters. The humorist's wife and friend recently went into book store in n city of good size, not many miles from New York. Aceosting a clerk Mrs. Clemens said that her friend desired to secure a copy oi Talne's Ancient Regime"
 Beg pardon" said the clerk; what book did you say?"
 Mrs. Clemens repeated the author and title of the book.
 Going to the rear of the store, the clerk soon returned, only to inquire: May l ask you to repeat the name of the author?"
 Why, Taine, replied Mrs. Clemens, becomlnga little annoyed.
 Assuming an air of superior knowl- edge, and looking at his customers with pteoas glance ofsympathy, he ventured to Mrs Clemens:
 Pardon me, madame, but you have the name a tritle wrong. You mean Twain-not Taine.
 And 1t takes Mark Twain to tell the story.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
Reforming Gamblers.

"l had rather remarkable ex. perience when was chalpain in tho army" remarked one ofthe ministers at pastors union.
 What was itg"
 'I had been working and talking to the boys about gambling and they finally turned all the cards in the camp over to me Thenext day they were paid of The following day I was passing out and saw n blanket spread out, with two Jumps of sugar on one corner, and about half the money in tho camp spread out"
 What were they doingl'
 "They were betting on which lump oi sugar any would first light, and an the money on the blanket changed hands on the result"
 What did you say to the boys.r
 ''l said:' Here boys, come get yonr cards" --Detroit Free Press
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
Life A ShatinxyA

In the endless and eeaseless round of change in the combinations of the elements of matter, the physical form of man Is as nothing. Byron defines life as "a confused noise between two silences-birth and death" We are shadows pursuing shadows, our spirit ual natures being the only unchanging and continuous entities. As Emerson puts 1t: You are you and 1 am l" and we are conscious of being nothing else. If we accept the theory that the heavenly bodies grow by accretions of cosmic dust which Is floating every where in ethereal space, portion of the dust of Solomon or imperial Caesar may now be on the surface of Jupiter or Tn the sun and other portions on still remoter orbs, earth in its rapid flight of sixty eight thousand miles an hour having parted with some of these royal ashes. Thoughts and ideas are the only realities, the only permanent and unehanging phenomena. Men and nations with all their buzzing and humming activity are as fleeting as the nipples on q summer sea. The little ness and powerlessness of man are ever present thoughts to the philoso- pher The brightest is only ray of sunshine soon to disappear in the com ing gloom of night. You are only a phantom of nothingness and yoqr trivial life is quickly ended in dream less and forgotten sleep. Earthly life is now and evermore will be the same brief but unequal struggle with ob- (iyipp
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
Retaliating Upon Our Farmers.

The news has recently been published shat Germany, Austria, Italy, and Swift zerland have agreed upon great GUS toms league The terms of the agree ment have not yet been made public, but it is stated that the movement Is due to our high tariff McKinleyism, which shuts out many of the products of those countries. It is proposed by these na- lions to retaliate upon us by combining against our grain, cattle, and meat
 A hostile tariff of the kind here indi- cated would undoubtedly narrow the foreign market of our farmers very se- ri0usly. Even those among our farmers who believe that in some way McKinley- ism Is good for them at home must ad- init that it is bad thing for them abroad, when it arouses such retaliatory measures.
 The farmers will also observe that when our high protection, which is mainly for the benefit of the manufac- turers, causes retaliation abroad, the first thing that is touched is agricultural produce Those nations do not think of retaliating upon us by putting McKin- ley duties on our manufactures, since our exports of these are too insignificant
 It is the farmers corn, wheat, flour, beef, and pork which are exposed to re- taliatory tariffs in Europe.
 Thus under our policy of Mckinley ism the manufacturers get the advan- tages at home of a high tariff, while the retaliation thereby aroused falls upon our farmers.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
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hNYc,,ng-. .Nswspsperr.Aferywso,van' Anxiouo ito Poasothos NfShtt Edi- tor.
 Tho night editor probably didi not look at tho copy. He sent it back to the desk man. on general principles and then roared through the speaking tube:
 "Cut it way down., Eve got moro stuffin type now than II can get into the paper"
 A little later he was in tho city. cdi- tors room, and one of the desk men explained that he had cut all that had been sent back one-half with the ex. ception ofone piece.
 "Cut that" said the night editor.s.
 "But it's"
 "I don't care what it is; cut it. There's nothing ever came into a news- paper office that couldn't be cut down if necessary. I'd cut q Presidents 8 message tonight"
 Then the desk man said never & word, but took firmer grip on his pencil and began work on the copy
 When he had finished he showed it to the night editor, and the latter's face was a study.
 Did you-did you cut it?" he falt- cred.
 Certainly" was the response. "A good desk man can cut anything. 1 guess you can find room for it now"
 What did you cut?'
 1.-Two to five years of the age of each woman. "lt'll please 'em, you know, an ii it Il help you any 1 can do 1t every night"
 The night editor looked reproach- fully at the desk man, and did not emerge from the composing room again until thepaper went to press. And never since that night has he esent the record of marriage licenses back to cut down. ,-
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
The Pineapple as a Pc, Plant,

The pineapple is perhaps one of the most important of all tropical fruits. In the extreme southern part of Florida there are immense plantations of them, and from these the people in that section derive almost their entire income from the crop. Great quanti- ties are grown in Europe under glass. and much more attention is paid to them there than in this country. The plant is very easy to grow, and at the North will succeed we'll i'll any greenhouse, or even sunny window. The plants themselves are very orna- mental, and to watch them coming into bearing Is very interesting sight 10 most people. After the plant has attained it's full size it begins to turn blood-red in the centre, and in few days you can see the young fruit. which looks like n red rosette. way down in the centre; this is pushed mp pretty rapidly by the central fruit stalk, and the young fruit begins to assume it's shape and is soon one third grown; at this stageit begins blooming. and rom each one of the diamond shaped lobes of the fruit comes Il pretty bright blue flower. Hoyts Catalogue.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
Total s boxes.

While nearly everything else has fallen greatly in price in thirty years, homemade window glass has been kept at very near the prices at which 1t started out under high protective duties.
 If MT Horr had changed his boast from domestic to foreign glass he would have stated the truth. Tho average price of glass imported in 1867 was 4.l28 cents pound, while in 1880 tho price was only cents. Thus we see that while people in other countries arc getting their glass at less than half the price "in former years" we put up 8 high-tarif wall to prevent ourselves from getting the benefit of lower prices. The Treasury reports show that the glass imported last year paid an average of l09 per cent Every Sl worth of window glass that went into the custom houses came out as &. oo worth, and was passed on to the consumer with profits added to correspond.
 As about one-th rd of the glass we use is imported, notwithstanding this enor- nous duty, it is seen that the domestic manufacturers are diving up to tho tariff by adding the full amount of the duty to their product The recent ad- vance in prices at meeting of the trust in Chicago, for all points west of Pitts burg, shows that the manufacturers are determined to get all the advantage they can out of the extra protection granted them by Mckinley in the shape of duties on boxes, packing, etc.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
A FrotectiODist for Reven ue.

The Hon. B. F. Jones, of Pittsburg. who was at one time Chairman of the Republican National Committee, writes to the American Economist giving his reasons for being protectionist One of his reasons IS, "because revenues can more easily, more surely and with less objection be raised by judicious protect i've tariff laws than otherwise"
 Jones ought to know something about raising revenues easily and surely, being a member of the steel beam combine, which has protective duty of $2O 16 a ton, and which maintains prices in the home market at such high point that foreign importations still come in occa- sionally.
 The combination of which Jones is a member does not shrink from publicity. One member of it was before the Me Kinley committee and gave the names of the twelve companies composing it. He assured the committee that if any change were made ill the tariff we would die of starvation" But change was made, the committee assuming, it seems, that the witness was fibbing and nobody would starve.
 The old duty on steel and iron beams for building was 1l4 cents pound, equal to IA per cent ad valorem the present duty is nine-tenths of cent equal to s3 per cent. This reduction went into effect last October. and nobody has yet heard of any beam manufacturer starving. On the contrary, the comb ation is mainta ming the price of beams at precisely the figure that prevailed when the new law went into effect.
 The protectionists say that it pays the country to make everything at home that can be produced here, although the price to the consumer may be higher Does any sane man believe that the country gains anything by taxing itself S3 per cent on steel beams for the sake of twelve men who combine and keep up prices to tho point where imports can come in? The beam manufacturers are evidently adding the full duty to their prices; and the stale protectionist doctrine that the tariff reduces prices in the home market to as low point as in other countries does not prove true in nractica
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
 Her Shoes Were Easy,

A young lady in St. Paul felt in a frame of mind few evenings ago. says the Pioneer Press. when she would have been inclined to say Amen" to little masculine profanity had she chanced to hear it. She had been in- vited to an evening party. and tho night being damp as some of the days and nights recently have been, she very sensibly concluded to carry her finer shoes and wear her coarser shoes as protection to herself and the other pair. With heart light as feather and an evenings enjoyment on her face, she reached her destination and retired to the dressing room to give the last indetinable touch which only a woman tries to give ere she descends to the fray in parlor or drawing-room. and change her shoes. The street shoes were quickly removed, the young lady plunged her hand into the hag and drew out~her sisters shoes. inst enough smaller to be of no earthly use.
 There was nothing to do but wear the old ones, and, with the determiua- ton to keep in the background and be N"A1tHt Att tR atA tut JlaNk snGt LIDS peep out from tho edge of her dress. she hesitatingly descended to meet her hostess and other guests.
 Did you succceden
 ''To tell you the truth. the old shoes felt so easy forgot all about them and enjoyed myself immensely"
 Thus does the tale have moral. which takes on many phase.
 Ireland spends s25. 900. 600 year os
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
GIFT ENTERPRISE.
UNCLE SAM AND HIS SUGAR h~ BOUNTY.

Q Short Road to Wealth 1br tho Sugar
 0rowers-Five Hundred and sixty Int
 Men Want oil ,0OO. OOO-Applications for
 tho Bounty-An Unblushing Robbery of
 the any for the Few.
 How happy we should all be If we could get two prices for everything we sell! We should hear no more about ag- ricultural depression, and farm mort gages would become as scarce as gold spoons in a poorhouse. If only the heavens would open their coffers and drop down dollar every time we sell a bushel of wheat!
 Alas, the heavens are not built that way! It takes Uncle Sam, with his Billion Dollar Congress, to start gift enterprise and make two prices where only one existed before. Last year the McKinleyites voted bounty of cents 8 pound on raw sugar, and this year the Louisiana planters are to have two prices for every pound of sugar. The New York price of the best raw sugar Is now 3ss cents pound, and Uncle Sam has undertaken to chip in ? cents more on every pound, giving the planters price of about 53s cents That will be 8 rather expensive business, but then the people of this country are used to tariff taxes, and great many of them even like to be gulled for the glory of the g. 0. p
 But this bounty business is going to be more expensive music than the Mckin leyites calculated upon. Mckinley spoke in his tariff report of the bounty as "but little more than S7, 900, GOO per annum. The Louisiana planters, however, have put in claims for the coming crop, and hn,- ba, mate Uncle Samuel will have a neat little bill of S11, 206, 100 to pay.
 The bounty applications filed in the internal revenue office at New Orleans amount to $50, but these represent only 56s individuals. as some planters own more than one plantation and separate application must be made for each Seventeen of these planters estimate their crop of sugar each at 5000. coo pounds or more, and ask for bounty of $2, 356, 720, an average of $l3S, 600 apiece. In the second class are 162 persons, applying each for bounty of S35, ,670. The third class planters number 26S, and they each want S10, 3s0 There is a fonrth c ass of 121 planters, asking for $S57 apiece; and besides these there are $50 small planters who will sell their cane to the big mills which can make sugar up to the bounty standard.
 This sugar bounty is to last fifteen years, unless the people undo it. In that time it bids fair to cost the taxpayers at least S20o, 0oo,000. What say the grow CTS of wheat and corn? Are they willing to pay tariff taxes for fifteen years to b6S sugar planters?
 The only redeeming feature about this bounty is that it will prove such an eye- opener to tariff-blinded farmers They must see that the protection humbug is itself only a bounty, since protection and bounty both alike take money out of one mans pocket and put it into an other mans. When Uncle Sam under takes to IT ake some of his children rich, he can only do so by robbng the others, for the old gentleman himself has no in dependent income, and must look to the taxgatherer alone.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

marry Sir Adrian, Florence, and he is going to marry you!"
 At this they all laugh.
 Well, one of those surmises could hardly come off without the other" ob- serves Ringwood, with a smile. So your second guess was a pretty safe one, If she is right, old man"-turn- ing to Sir Adrian-"f congratulate you both with all my heart"
 Yes, she is quite right" responds Sir. Adrian, directing a glance full of ardent love upon Florence. What should 1 do with the life she restored to me unless 1 devoted it to her serviceY"
 You see, he is marrying me only out of gratitude says Florence, smiling archly, but large tears of joy and glad ness sparkle in her lovely eyes.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

THE effect of the removal of the raw sugar duty in Canada was exactly the same as in the United States. Prices at once fell about equal to the amount of the duty removed; the reflners took or ders for granulated sugar at 41S cents a pound, which is very near our own price. It is said that the Canadian refners will have to manufacture refined sugar at about cents pound less money: and for this reason the papers of Canada are prophesying an enormous increase in consumption. In Canada, too. the tariff is tax, and its removal saves money to the consumer.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

plus sugar at 3x cents for export in order to reduce stock, from flooding the Pacific coast at cut values" Where arc those Republican organs which were denying so strenuously last year that American man ufacturers sell their goods at lower prices abroad then at home? Here is clearly 8 case for moro denyin g and denunciation
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

AREpoRr from Huddersicld, England, where large part of our fnc worsted cloth is made, says: "The tariffs levied under tho Mckinley bill do not very greatly affect the finer qualities of worsted cloths sent ont to the United States, and us the manufacturers in the United States have not yet found out the secret of producing these goods with the same degree of finish and quality as Hnddersiield manufacturers they are unable to compete in this line.s In
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

CANADA has just abolished tho duty on raw sugar, but has left duty of about 1 cent on refined The object in leaving duty on the latter is thus ex- plained by prominent Canadian com mereial journal: eThis was necessary to prevent tho Spreckels refinery Iof Cali forniah which was ready to sell its sus-
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

other words, tho American consumer of fine worsteds is going right on buying from Huddersfeld and paying the in- creased Mckinley duty. The rich man continues to buy what he wants; but the poor man is left to the tender mercies of fhe home market
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

HoS. ALLEN w. THURMAN shows him. self worthy son of the "Old Roman when he says of the wool tariff: "The principal objection that I have to the tariff on wool is the same that I have against all tariffs, viz, that do not see what right l have to compel others by law to assist me in my business Mr.. Thurman is himself an extensive wool grower.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
FRANCE has been initiating our McKin

FRANCE has been Initiating our McKin- leyism pretty closely in the new tariff which it is now making; but at ono im- portant point the lawmakers of that country called a halt When tho at tempt was made to put protective duty on wool the extreme protectionists girdei up their loins for their supreme effort, but the Chamber voted by n crushing majority that wool remain on the free list. On the wool-tax folly France re- fuses to copy our McKinleyism.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24
In Three Great States

In 1890 Illinois mined 12,104. 272 tons of coal against 5,9SS,s 1895 in the year 1880. Ohio, in 1890, produced 9,976,7S7 tons, and Indiana 2,S4S, 057 tons. The area in which coal can be mined here IS very large being 37, ,oO0 square miles in Illinois, N0000 square miles in Ohio, and 1000 miles in h. diana The coal mined in the States above named in 1890 was 25, ,000. GOO tons, and it was worth ahttle less than 8 dollar ton at the mines.
The Forrest City times., 1891-07-24

"THE good die young" The others become the oldest inhabitants.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-26

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by taking Halls Ca
tarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Tole-
do, o.
We, the undersigned, have known
F. J. Cheney for the last 16 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
In all business transactions and finan-
cially able to carry out any Obliga-
tiOn made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Drug
gist, Toledo. o.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggist, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken inter-
nally. acting directly upon the blood
and mucus surfaces of the system.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by j.
II. Smith, Druggist, Mount Olive,
N. c., and DIR. h. II. Holiday, Clin.
ton, N. G.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-26
"ANIMPORTANTM MEASURE -
TO GIVE IT POWER TO INVESTIGATES
AND REGULATE TAXATION,

The News and Observer, reporting
the proceedings OF the General A.
sembiy Of last Thursday says:
Mr.. Butler. of Sampson, introduc.
ed bill placing the assessing and
valuing Of the property OF railroads
Tor taxation under the railroad com.
mission Of North Carolina.
The Raleigh correspondent OF the
Wilmington Messenger commenting
upon the bill says:
A very important bill Ia before
the Legislature. 1t prescribes sddi-
tional duties for the Railway Com
missioners, these additional duties
being with reference to the equalixa-
ton and ascertainment OF other
sources to legally increase the reve-
nues Of the state. The board is 70.
quired te See that taxes assessed up-
on railways are properly and prompt
iy paid, and to have the same power
as regards taxes for other corpora
tions; and can examine, If neeessa-
ry, under oath, the officers of any
corporation, bank, improvement
company, etc., In order 10 ascertain
what property should be listed for
taxation. The board IL also given
power to visit the various counties
and examine the tax lists, In order
to secure An equalization OF the tax
es levied upon real estate and per-
sOnal property. 1t Ii not necessary
for more than one commissioner to
take such evidence as he may desire
from the county commissioners,
magistrates, tax list takers and pri-
vate persons. He Is to report to the
central office Of the commission, ut
Raleigh, and the commission will
in June make report to the county
commissioners, requesting that the
recommendations therein made be
carried out as far o., practicable. This
Is q meIstorious bill. This State
Is . heavy loser by reason OF unl.st.
ed property, differentiation, and
great irregularity In valuation fol
taxation. A good commission, thus
&C ting as board of equalization, Car
do q great work.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-26
JEWELRY And CLOCKS !

have Just received large lot of
Elegant .Jcwclry. This | will guaran-
Le, to the purchaser to be just as rep
resented. sell no cheap, ''fire guilt"
goods but carry a STANDARD LINE OF
GOLD FRONT GOODS. The attention of
the ladies is called to the latest styles
of BREAST PlNs-they are ''things of
beautyn
The old reliable and standard SETH
THOMAS CLOCKS always in stock
in various styles and sizes.
Ese- Repairing Of Watches and Clocks
anil mending Jewelry is a spec'a''y.
A',work dc is guaranteed to give en-
Iu.' satisfaction.
Respectfully.
sens If G. L. RAWLS.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-26

Mr.. Frank Huffman, a young man Of
Burline ton, Ohio, states that he had been
under the care rf two prominent physi-
clans, and used their treatment until he
was not able to get around. They pro-
nounced his case TO be Consumption and
incurable. He was persuaded to try DIR.
King's New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds and at that time
was not able to walk across the street
without resting. He found. before he
had used half Of dollar bottle, that he
was much better; he continued to use it
and is to-day enjoying good health. II
you have a'y Throat, Lung or Ches.
Trouble tryit. We guarantee satisfac-
ton. Trial bottle free at II. II. Holli-
days drugstore, Clinton. and John X.
Smith, druggist, Mt. Olive, n. C.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-02-26
CLINTON N. c. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY &C. 1891

AND so. cAimiy ana gracefully ana
drew. leaving her honest hearted antag.
onist only the sense Of exasperatioo and
defeat
1t was full quarter Of an hour after
parade. and darkness was setting down
ON the garrison. when Capt Lawrence's
orderly tapped ut the door Of Mr.. Perry's
quarters. and, being hidden Come In, >
pushed on TO the sitting room. WHARF hs
found that young officer plunged deep
his attitude one OF profound detection.
q "Beg pardon, lieutenant" said TIN
man, Mrs. Lawrence and the captains
waitin' dinner for you"