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The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
A Living Fr nch Novcl.

What does young girl know of life save what she hears and reads?
 I would rather take m innocent young creature through the worst part of New York City at midnight than..put bad books into her white hands. There is little romance or allurement in naked human vice, but vice clothed with a poets fancy. beautiiied by tho imagination, is another sort of thing.
 There is so much in girls commence ing right in the things she reads, It is often the making or marring of her whole future life
 There are women today 10 years old still living in the pernicious books they read. They started with bad books in their teens. They follow bad heroines, and may, according to' their now diseased minds, find themselves an i'm provement on the creatures they inn itate. They are, if not actively vicious, silly. unnatural creatures whom eyorv- body ridicules and no one respects. I know young woman who has hcen acting out Preach novels all her days to the best of her ability, with tho re- suit of dressing like guy when sine means to be artistic. acting like s coarse woman when she means to boa siren. and talking absurdities whom she means to be enchanting Atlanfe Constitution.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
A Big Protectionist Fails.

The Rittenhouse Manufacturing Com pany, of Passaic. N. l., has just failed for $500, ,0o0. The company was engaged in the manufacture of blankets, wool ems, and mixed goods. The President of the company was k. II. Ammidown, who is President of the American Protective Tariff League in New York. Mir. Am midtown has always been one of the highest of high protectionists. and was one of those who wanted the Mckinley duties on blankets and woolens.
 These duties were greatly increased, which was to Ammidowns advantage; but the duties on wool were also much increased, which was to his Sdisadyantage. It is said that, in anticipation of the in- ere aSed tariff imposed on wool by Con- greSs, the Rittenhouse Company made heavy purchases last summer which have not proved profitable. These purchases were made on credit as speculative venture, in view of the certain increase in price of blanko; and wooden goods to be caused by the Mckinley law.
 But other people were specuating at the same time and in contrary direc- tion. In anticipation of the tariff every merchant who could afford it laid in a good stock of woolens, arguing, as Mir. Ammidown did, that woolcns would go hlghcr. The rise in the price of woo'cns was defeated for Q tme by tho large supplies thus laid in: and Ammidown's wool debts proved too heavy to carry in a tight money market
 In view of these facts, and that the tariff had been made as high as the most ardent protectionist desired 1t, and that notwithstanding all this his mauufactur- ing company had failed, MT Anmidown was asked whether his views upon the tariff on woolens had undergone a change. But this Mir Ammidown re- fused to discuss, saying that his advo- cacy of the high tariff had been from mixed motives, and that while he had once advocated the high tariff he did not caresto talk about it now
 Ammidown attributes his failure ta the Democratic victory of Nov. 4; but he does not explain how it was that half of the wooien mills of the country were idle last summer before there was any Democratic victory. He will not get in, tclligeut men to believe that he has lost $500, GOO since Nov. on account of the election. especially as no change in du- ties can be made for two or three years af
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
oEASoEAEES SyCccsTtoNS IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY.
Discriminating Care should be Observed ia Feeding Horses, sheep and Cattle In Winter-Farm and Stock Notes
 Useful Household Hints.
Feeding Horses.

Nearly every farmer has his own iceas in reference to feeding horses, and especially those who look after their stock carefully and seek to de- rive from each the largest profit
 Horses must be kept on the farm all Of the time, and to more or less ex- tent at least they must nearly always be ready for service. and this implies keeping them in a good, thrifty condi- tion. Tho small amount of feed that may be saved by stiuting the feed when the teams are at rest, is usually more than made up by the extra teed requied to get them in the proper con- dition for work. In order to get the most york at the least cost with she teams it Is very essential that tsey should be in a thrifty. vigorous coi.ii- tion, and this is fully us important during the winter as in the summer Horses as well ss any other class of stock not only relish variety of food. but need aD occasional change. To Iced corn and hay or corn and fodder as is so often done during the winter. will not keep them in the bes: condi- tlon at the lowest cost This is a good ration. but when fed for any length Of time. tho horses tire of it and need a change. Unthreshed oats rua through cutting box and small quantity of bran added. is another good ration, and ottentimes d very economical one; but it should not be used exclusively too long. Straw. clover hay and bran with little oil- meal Is another good ration. Where 1t Is raised n ration ot part oats and barley with hay or fodder eau be given. On the average farm there ought not to be any difficulty in securing good variety, and to make sufficient charges 10 keep in good appetite if d little pains are taken.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
h, siu..1ar.

Tho blackblrd whistles In early spring And the bob'links' notes OCT tho meadows
 ring.
 The swallows twittcr from tho ived wall, But the biuc-lay comes in tho fall. The robin pipes when tho sunlight shines And the oriolc sings in tho tangled vines; In summer thickets tho cat birds call, But tho blue jay comes in the fall The wild canary likes tho weather warm, And the brown thrush chants after each
 Juno storm. When the green leaves turn they will
 vanish all, But tho bluc-jay comes in tho fall These sun-nourishcd songsters, lot them 70. For they dare not face ono fakc of snow. Tho bare trees herald the winters thralI, But tho blue-jay comes in tho fall And down in the woods I hoard his cry, And his bright blue wings went flashing by, December waits with an icy pail, But the biue-iay comes in the fall
 Earnest McGaffcy.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
Speed of Railroad Trains

There seems no serious difficulty. on the engineering side, in securing and maintaining speed of one hundr rcd miles an hour, or probably more; but the capitalist is here intimidated. Higher speeds cost money for initial and operative expenses in vastly higher ratio than either increase of speed or the returns to be expected on capital so Invested. Our fastest trains do not directly pay, even now. when tho wear and tear of engines, ears. roadbed and bridges. to say nothing oi flesh and blood. nerves and health, arc considered Whon the people want higher speeds. and need them 90 badly as to be able and willing to pay for them. the engineers will construct, and the railroads will furnish trains of still higher velocity and of still great CT safety. - Engineer.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
Give a Variety of Food

The policy of feeding any ami nal only one kind of feed Is great mistake. It is not possible for them 10 thrive thus. nor is this their natural way 0f feeding. Observe COW or horse Ut pasture. If there is any variety in the succulent hcrbage they avail themselves of it. Even weeds are not disdained between mouthfuls of clover and grass. In the harnyard In winter little bright straw will be greedily eaten by animals whose usual diet ia hay. People in cities who keep horse or COW, and have to buy every- thing they feed are most apt to re strict animals and with least excuse. By using a little forethought they can secure a variety Of feed. and all will then be eaten, with less waste than is the case where only one kind at a time ls given. Appetite fails from lack of variety 'n horses and cows, as it does In men.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
shrInknre of Corn.

Old corn is worth more than new, because 1t contains the concentrated nutriment of the grain after it's watnr has evaporated. This moisture in new coru is injurious. as it leads to iermertation rather than digestios in stomachs of weak digestion. Besides. this corn shrinks greatly in bulk while thoroughly drying, the Western or Horsetooth corn more especially. II a raan puts 100 bushels of this corn in his crib. he does well to take out eishty-hve in the spring after loss by shrinkage and depredations of vermin.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
A Prosperous Industry.

Our protectiouist law makers have the habit If laying on duties without the slightest regard for the needs of our in dustries. IL is assumed that all indus tries are helpless without protection; hence, duties are dealt out right and left, and even tho most prosperous in. dustries are given protective duties for which there is no shadow of excuse.
 Tho latest number of Brudstrects, cer- tainly one of the foremost authorities in this county, has the following to say about our leather industry:
 "The cost of tanning hides is cheaper here than in any other country. This is due in large measure 10 the low cost of materials We are therefore not only able to tan all our domestic hides but the major part of those produced in Gen. tral and South America We supply European countries with about 5000, 0o0 worth of leather each month. and our ex. ports have boen increasing rapidly with in the last few years. as may be seen from, thn falloWipn tohla.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03

I deny, however, that the ten mon gel any permanent advantage from prutec tion; for, in tho first place, there is nc law which compels the protected manu facturer to divide his gains with hi. men: and, in the second place, even if protection should raise the wages ol the ten, this increase could be bat tom. porary, for some of the ninety would at once begin to bid for the more profitable labor. Thus the general tendency is to. ward 3 common level of wages, allowing. of course, for the differing degrees of skill and training required. Even if the Government, therefore, should vote a certain sum to be applied to increasing the wages of the ten protected" men they would not receive any permanent advantage from such an appropriation, for portion of the ninety would be- come applicants for work in the favored industry. Competition for work would become very sharp, and the result would be that the employers would have to pay less and less from their own pockets. and tue wages of the laborers would remain the same. You cannot raise the level of water in the bays and harbors without first raising the level of the ocean, and certainly you cannot raise the level of the ocean by raising the bays and harbors
 l conclude then that of all the humbug claims put forward in defense of pro- lection, the most transparently false and absurd is the claim that protection raises wages. Yours truly.
 RICHARD KNOX.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
MARvELs OF SURGERY.
The Skilled Operator Can Patch sad '
 tho Humaa Body

So life be left in our bodies, mol ter fl they be hacked or howedN
 maimed or broken. tho surgeon
 set hopefully about the work of repal The process oi grating animal tissl
 is now carried to such an extent th
 the deficiency of one creature is msH good by.taking piece or part of q
 other. A disfguring birthmark on q
 face of child was recently neatly q
 away. and n patch of skin taken from the arm of the mother was transplant- ed to cover the wound. A man ~ frightfully burned as to lose the greal CT part of his epidermis was succesl fully recovered with frog skin. RI covery will have a double meaniI henceforth for him. Ocuiists huS6l taken the cornea from the eyes dI rabbits. cats and Gogs. to replace an II make god the vision of humad beings That wonderful fibre. thd nerve. has also yielded itself i'd the skillful touch of science. Ind nerves may be patched and piecedt The nerves of brutes have besnl successfully joined to the stumps od severed nerves of men. Badness may| be cured by grating. A Now York physician has recently repaired ravages of this kiud by first takind gratis from the patients own scalrf where time had spared his locks, anf afterward eking out tho supply by portions taken from the head of an- other person. doubtless so lectlng hair Of the proper color. Those gratis were doubtless cut up by means of punch. and included not only tho thick ness of skin. but also subcutaneous tissues beoeath. which left them fully quarter of an inch thick. Holes cor responding in size to those left after tho removal of the gratis were. of course, made in the scalp for thcir re- ception. All the gratis united well, without suppuration or untoward re- suits. and bore hair luxuriantiy." Even tho bones, where they have been aplintcred by accident or destroyed by disease. may be replaced with better bones and become incorporate with the complete osseous structuro.
 In the light of such surgical achieve ment tho mysterious creation of woman in the Garden of Eden loses n part of it's incomprehensioility. Tho hurts and ailments of our poor humanity arc helped and healed with skill that ap- breaches magic. As Prosperc could set his goblins ut work to grind ths joints of his enemies with dry eontul. sions, and 10 shorten their slnews wi, aged cramps so the good musicians oi tho scalpel can now undo tho demonIac work of the goblins. who apparently have never left oil grinding men's joints and shortening their sInews.
 In these days Of wonderful scientific discovery tho surgeon easily keops1 step with advancing knowledge.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03

barley or rye. but also tho large sup ply of nitrates formed in the soil dur ing summer and early autumn. The autumn and winter rains wash the soil rather bare of nitrates before the cereals begin growth in the spring. A large part of the nitratcs which would be lost were cereal crop grown is asssmilated and retained by root crop; and when the roots arc fed on the land. we may return the nitrogen to the soil in the manure of the ani- malls and ;hus enrich the land for cereal crop.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
TARIFF LETTERS TO FARMER
 BROWN.
Doc. Protection Increas, Wages
NO, 10,


 DEAR FARMER BROWN: We saw last week that protection is not necessary to prevent money from flowing out of the country" since trade consists in ex- changing commodities for commodities, and we are only too glad to send away our surplus commodities which we can not consume, In order to get others which we can consume. That notion of preventing money from flowing out of the country is the protectionist's error No l. We come now to error No. ?.
 The protectionists assert that the diff ference of wages between American and European labor puts our manufacturers at disadvantage in competition with European manufacturers; and that in order that our manufacturers may be able to sell their goods with profit, they must have protective duty on European products sufficient to cover this difference of wages Hero Is where the protectionists in this country rest the weight of their case: hero they make their fight. Hence the vast amount of rubb' sh that they give us about the "pauper labor of Europe, ? Scheap, pauper- made goods," and men who eat meat only once week" To road this dIeary stuff one would suppose that Europe were one vast poor house.
 These people do not seem to perceive that they push their ease too far. If Europe is so crowded with paupers, all the greater is our ability to compete with them. The man who is so poor that "he eats meat only once week" is necessa- rily very poor workman and produces less than well-paid and well-fed laborer: for man is like a steam engine-you must throw in fuel libera'ly if you want results. Arc you afraid of the competi- tion you meet from the poor-house farm? 1t is reported that an English officer In the Peninsular War spurred his soldiers on to the attack by saying: "Arc you Englishmen, who eat beef. afraid of Spaniards, who eat oranges?" That the man who gets good wages and has an abundance of good food is tho most eff cient laborer is proven by the observa- tlons of tho pains-taking statistcians.
 Tho claim of the protectionists that protection raises wages can be shown to be false in two ways: first, by taking as examples those countries which have protective tariffs and comparing them with other countries which have no pro- tNtion; and secondly. by showing from the laws of production and distribution sof woalth that protection cannot raise wages
 First As to examples When we select examples to support statement, we must always have regard to the little words frequently used in this connec- tion, @other ohings being equal" The countries compared must themselves be equal. so far as possible, as to density of population, unused land, and in other features not necessary to mention here. Tho prOtocti0nists can never be prevailed up0n to mske such . comparison fairly md fully. They always insist upon se- 5octing our own country, with it's vast amount 0f unoccnpied land, and making . conparlson botween tt and the densoly poDelaeea coantrioo of Earope, whore
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
Canada

Tho Dominion of Canada embraces today. under one federal government the entire territory of British North America. including the islands, with the exception of Newfoundland. which has so far preferred to remain outside tho confederation. Thls vast area Is divided into seven provinces and four territories. The provinces are as fol. lows, taken In tho order of then lesoNr lation and wealth.: ''Ontario Quebec. Nova Scotia. New Brunsw ick, Manitoba Prince Edward Island ana British Columbia The four territories which include vast areas of prairie land in the great northwest very thinly popa- lated. are Alberta, Assinibosa East. Assiniboia West and Saskatchewan.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
Agricultural \ Atoms.

Tho farmer Is bigger factor than the farm. Moving does not cure the ill-fcrtune resulting from ignorance or extravaganza.
 Broad wheels draw easler on grass and mud roads, and do not cut tho fields so badly or wear the roads so rapidly. Then why arc not farm wagons built with wide tiress Can anybody tell why they should be built with narrow lires2
 It Is not the agricultural college that weans the boy from the farm. but tue dude literary college that gives a smattering of science, the languages (dead) and literature. It Is reliably stated that in Ontario, where thuy make business of sending children to agricultural schools. more than elghty-fve per cent of them go back to the farm. And President Chamnar- lain says he has often wished that he could exchange two years study Of Latin. Greek and philosophy for the instruction that Is usually given ia n eeal agricultural college.
 Oae serious fault of agriculture is the slight attention paid to root crops --most valuable aids; in fact all but absolute necessities. in the economical production of the best and therefore tho most profitable meats. Our Eng fish brethren are ahead of us in this matter. and they have discovered for ooe thing that a crop sown in early summer has available not only all the Hitrates available to wheat or oats or
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03

The cause for these higher prices was explained by the dealer to be the new Mckinley duty What those duties are may be seen by taking 10o-foot case of the last kind of glass in the above table, doube-thick ground glass. The old duty on this was S1.35 per ease, and it was sold in July at S7.s0, and some of it was sold as low as ST. The Mckinley duty on such case is S5.55, and on some of it is as high as S6. s5. It is not strange, therefore, that tho wholesale selling price has now gone up to S13.s0.
 The increase of duty does not account for the entire advance, but the other Mckinley law, the customs administra- tive law, explains the difference. This law. which went into operation Aug. 1, eompels tho importer to pay duties on all glass broken in shipment.
 Tho dealers allow from 10 to 20 per cent. for breakage in this kind of glass, and they must add to their selling price enough to make up for the broken glass and the duties on 1t. Even the glass broken by the custom house officers is lost to the dealer, and he must pay the duty on it, too.
 Is it any wonder that the importers feel the injustice of such law? "We talk great deal about our rights under a free government, said the glass man to the writer; but we importers find that in this country might makes right l should like to see you tell custom house officer that you ought not to be made to pay duties on the glass that he breaks. He would take you for fool, and would laugh in your face. We have no rights which the dominant party is bound to respect. 1t has sold itself to the domestic manufacturers for fat and they dictate what they want, and the law makers obedlenty vote as desired T
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
SaltinS Stock In Winter.

Our impression is that stock. md especially milch cows, are not pener- ally supplied with salt so regularly in winter as they are at pasture in sum- mer There seems to many less need Of salt with their dry Iced than with the green herbage they get at pasturs. Yet the stock are no less eager for it, and 1t probably is as necessary to their well-being. The only caution about giving it in winter is not to al- low the salt to mix with snow This produces intense cold.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
on . sudden change of temperature

on . euddcn chanRe of tsmperaturs you can almost sec tho wonderful opar. ation of nature. just as you can sss the minute hand of time-piecs move by closo observation. The breaks in the roadway will show you where tho connections arc. These are formed by, overlapping, co as to cause one part ci| the road to olidc upon tho other. and tho ',I' rail of the car trcck has .. similar provision. Perhaps you wiz remember when you see all this " 1t is the key of the iron bridge pobl { which bothered bridge builders. U the solving of which alone made immense spans possible. ---New Y Letter.
The Forrest City times., 1891-01-03
rxp.u,ioa of tho Breosl( (n Bridge.

If you should cross tho Brooklyn bridge ono of these cold nights. and petarn on warm. sunny afternoon, you would have about three feet further to walk on coming back. That is to say. the contraction and OK. pansIon of the entire length of the structure ranges some three feet To provide for this there arc three elid- ing connections one for each span otherwise the continual stretching and shortening of the whole would coon break 1t in two. If you win ex- amino one ot thsss sliding connections