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The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

DISCUSSING the bill preventing mortgages on growing crops. Senator Williams made this accurate portrait of the 'anaconda':
 ''It is an evident fact that the operation of those laws has produced great hardships upon . large class of our citizens and with the right to mortgage for future crops, We have in our midst in spite of our boasted civilization, system but little improved on tho Mexican peonase; it is consigning to almost perpetual scrvitude the brain and muscle of the man. as well said by another on this question, flor him the fertilizing snows fall in vain and Heavens kindly benedictions in their sea- sons bring to him no relief" Further, believe the system is ruinous to mercantile interests; the temptation for large profit in- duces him to take risks and sell goods on security, depending on contingencies of the future, the failure of which involves him in ruin. ."-Arkansas Democrat
 To use slang, the above would sssound nice on water" But on land, and in Arkansas, whore the people are accommodating homes, and where, through the means of the crop mort gage, poor men are enabled to live and own and open new ground, and where the people are becoming more thrifty and prosperous each year, the above falls upon the senses with | s.dull, eiCkening thud.n
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

THE Helena World thinks that the legislature should pass law requiring that all of its acts be published in the country papers. There is wisdom in the suggestion. A man is presumed to know the law, and the acts of the general assembly published biennially in book form do not reach one-tenth of the people. In justice, therefore, to the citizen, in order that he may know the laws of the state to which he is amenable, all laws enacted at each term of the legislature should be pub lished in the country press. Pine Bluh Press Eagle.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
A BUREAU FOR THE INFORMATION
 OF THE COLORED PEOPLE.
St. Louis Post-Disnafch

St. Louis Post Dispatch
 M. F. Alex Easton. who in 1888 or ganized the Independent Information Bureau, has i'll mind the formation of permanent bureau on the same prin- ciple in this city. Easton is president Of the colored clubs of independent voters in this city, with total mem bership of 5000 He believes that the negro derives no benefit from blindly following the lead of republican politi- clans, and therefore seeks to divide his race between the two great par ties, thinking thereby to gain recogni- tion at least toa greater degree than at present. He proposes to call his scheme the Colored Democratic and Independent Bureau of Oratory. and intends to send speakers throughout the country to teach the doctrines of tariff reform and honest government.
 ln regard to the force bill Easton says:
 What the colored voter needs to be shown is the sad mistake the iepubl- can party IS making respecting his in- terests and welfare. I think the force bill sugar-coated delusion. The idea that the attempt to pass it is being made in the interests of the colored voters is simply ridiculous, and l look upon it as a huge joke. The passage of the bill would be inimcal to the best interests of the country. and would at once dump upon an already tax-ridden people an army of political sap-suckers aggregating 402 .S05 men and their salaries would amount to the enormous sum of Sl72I6 .09o. This sum would be sufficient to found an industrial and training college at a cost of Sl00 900, with an endow ment of $i45.944 in every judicial district in the United States.
 Easton was formerly a resident of Forrest City, and recently visited his old friends here. He is accomplishing much good for his raco.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
EnM,s ThiS 2

We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot b, cured by taking ilall's Catarrh Cure.
 F. J. CHENEY X Co.,, Props., Toledo, O.
 We. the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last l5 years, and be- lieve him perfectly honorable in all busi. ness transactions and financially able tc carry out any obligations made by thell firm.
 WEST 6 TRuAX, wholesale Druggists,
 Toledo, 0.
 WALDING, kINNAN & MARVIN, Whole
 sale Druggists, Toledo, 0.
 Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acting directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
WHY SHOULD THIN POOR BE MADE
 POORER?
Arkansas Gazette.


 No persons whose necessities are not urgent are compelled to mortgage their growing crops. If the persons who need this form of credit are satisfied with the results why should they be prevented from using it :? The argu- ment that the operations of crop mort gages frequently bring distress to the mortgagor whose crop fails is effect i've only as an argument against any and all mortgages. Since commerce began credit in transactIng business has been necessary. 1t has always been based on something enabling the creditor to provide a reasonable guar antee of payment. The man with credit to give is always subject to the ordinary chances of trade. If he is willing to advance money or supplies on crop mortgage to persons without other basis of credit why should the law step in, and, saying to the debtor that he is incapable of conducting his private business, prevent such trans actions?
 What do the supporters of the pend ing measure to destroy this basis of credit propose as substitute? What do they propose to give the farmer that vii, or can serve half so we'll :? We hear it advanced that he can get along somehow" and that in time he will be benefited by inability to execute crop mortgage. This is mere empty assertion, founded on ] nothing. It is in line with remark recently charged to Jay Gould. con. corning the hardships of the Mckin- ley tariff law that if prices increased the man with two suits a year need buy only one suit.
 A great deal of material of this kind | IS offered as argument. There is little | else to offer a man whose only source of credit is a crop mortgage. Of course he can get along somehow" He car work as day laborer; he can become tramp; he can stcal--or he can gc out into the woods and commit sui eide. This would be getting along
 somehow; but the old question would still come up, why should oul 1 law-makers. who know that tue croI mortgage affects only those who use it that it benefits thousands, and that it, removal will destroy the last resource | Of our most impoverished farmers take this only prop from them? Why not give them every chance possible,
 Why deprive them of any benefit with out substituting another certain tC serve better, or at least equally as well ? Why should legislation de | mand that the poor be made poorerp
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

 MR. HARRISON has as hard task before him in the selection of a sue cessor to the late secretary of the treasury as his worst enemy could possibly have set for him. It is atask. too, in which the country at large is more directly interested than anything he has yet undertaken. It will be very difficult to find man willing to accept the place who possesses the ability combined with the conservatism of the dead secretary; and what will add no little to MT. Harrison's trouble is the fact that all the prominent republicans in both house and senate who have been recently repudiated by their con sttuents will be, in fact ale already clamoring for the place for themselves. Whoever he selects he IS bound to make new enemies in his party, and being a candidate for renomination that is just what he cannot afford to do. Besides this, the man selected will have to be satisfactory to the business men in the country, or f. nancial panic may be rrecipitated.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
Merit Wins.

We desire to say to our citizens that for years we have been selling Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption. Dr.
 king's New Life Pills, Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that sell as we'll or that have given such universal satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we stand ready to refund the purchase price If satisfactory results do not follow their use. These remedies have won their great popularity purely on their merits. C. F. Hinton, druggist
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

THE liberal-minded and progressive wing of the republican party, repre-. scented in the senate by those senators who possessed the moral courage to vote against the radical and revolu- tionary views which Mir. Harrison has adopted as his own, of how the rspub- lican party might be indefinitely kept in power by the intimidating use of the army in the South, will do much to save their self-respect and to avoid future abuse from the radicals of their party by leaving the party with which they are no longer in accord, and with which they can never hope to be again in harmony. The democratic party stands for much that these men believe in, and it stands ready to give them warm welcome to it's ranks. Will they come?
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

THE ignominious failure of the liar rison wing of the republican party to push the force bill through congress, and thus make the campaign of next year on the old, old "boody shirt lines, brings up the question of what will form the issues upon which that party will make what will probably be it's last national campaign. It dares not make the tariff the issue. because republicans are becoming more hope lessly divided upon that every day: on finance there is even worse division, so that at this time it is hard to say what the g. 0. p. will do for an issue.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

EARLY in the present session of con- gress Senator Hoar stated that he would rather see every manufacturing establishment in New England in ashes and the people reduced to fifty cents a day and an exclusive diet of codfish than to see the force bill fail to become d law. We'll. the force bill has failed to become law. What does MT. Hoar think of it now?
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

THE democratic senators are cer- tainly deserving of the thanks of the country for the able manner in which they foiled every attempt of the Harri- son republicans to pass the force bill and it's revolutionary forerunner, the Aldrich gag-rule. Only those upon the ground know of the many personal sacrifices made by the democrats in order to be constantly on hand, pre- pared to take advantage of every fa- vorable circumstance that might arise; but these sacrifices are fully appre. ciated, not only by the grateful con- stituents of the democratic senators, but by the country at large, which re- 1oices to know that both gag-rule and force bill are shelved, it is hoped never again to be heard from.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
THk PRESS GANG,

The executive committee of the Ar kansas State Press Association met ir the Hotel Richelieu yesterday, and de cided to hold the next annual meeting Of the Association at Batesville, Wed nesday, May 20. The arrangement ol the programme was deferred until the next meeting of the committee, to bt held here on the 2Sth.--Arkansas Ga Zette.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

BROTHER JOHNNY WANAMAKER will have to get himself new hobby. His postal telegraph schemc, in spite of the amount of government money he spent in the publication of his views thereon, is as dead as door nail. The house committee on postof1ices will not even report it.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

THR proposed Worlds Fair boycott of the force bill may not have been the wisest course for the Southern demo- crats to have taken, but no one can deny that it was effectual, and after all, you know, nothing succeeds like success"
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

IF Vice President Morton had the key to the force bill legislation, as the country had been informed by the re- publican press, he either must have lost it or the lock must have been so badly broken that it wouldn't work. Anyway, he didn't unlock it.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
What a Change

Is wrought in people who suffer from rheumatism when they take Hoods Sarsa- parilla. The acidity of the blood, which causes the disease, is neutraized, the blood is purified and vitalized. the aching joints and limbs rest easily and quietly, and feeling of serene health is imparted. Aoods Sarsaparilla has accomplished wonders for thousands subject to rheu- matism. Try it yourself.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06


 WHAT would be the result if the present
 crop mortgage law should be abolished2 There
 are very few-we might say none-of the far
 mers who are able to make crop without
 mortgaging who are not doing so. There can
 be no doubt about the beneficial results of
 the abolition of the present law. It may
 bring hardships. but they will be but tempo
 rary at best. When the cropper is thrown
 upon his own resources he will thcn learn
 the value of his labor and the fruits thereof.
 It will learn him to not overbuy, to not buy
 that which is not absolutely necessary, and
 to economse generally. Tho average crop
 per who is morfgaged for $200 regards it as
 his bounden duty to take up" every cent of
 his mortgage whether he needs it or not. Let
 the law be repealed. It will be the making of
 the country.-Monroe County Sun.
 The Sun admits there are VERY
 FEW farmers who are able to make a living without mortgaging who are not doing so." Yet there are thou- sands of farmers who do, and are com pelled, to use the mortgage as means to supply the necessaries of life. The Sun destroys whatever there may be of argument in it's editorial by this ad- mission. It also admits there will be hardship should the bill become law and crop mortgages be prohibited. In regard to man learning the value of his labor and the lesson of economy, it has been our observation that force very often and most generally fails in matters of this nature. where educa- tion and persuasion will succeed. The Sun concludes by saying: The aver age cropper who is mortgaged for $200 regards it his bounden duty to take up every cent of his mortgage" There may be some truth in this, but can the Sun man argue against the spending of $200 to supply food and raiment for himself and family. Would Bro. Spencer care to be limited to that amount for even six months rations? We presume not. The fact is, every man who thinks the crop mortgage is . curse likewise fails to offer any other means by which the cropper may live and be his own master. It is very true, as the Arkansas Gazette says: He can work as a day laborer; he can become tramp; he can steal-or he can go out into the woods and commit suicide." There is one thing he can not do, however, which should be sufIi- cient argument against the crop mort gage bill, and that Is, buy home on time, live on it, pay for it, and event. nally becomeR freeholder and per- and prosperous citizen .sunless he have some means of securing sup pliea,
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

TIE FORREST CITY TIMES has always been bright. newsy, we'll edited paper, but since it has been en- larged and improved Brother Vadakin seems to have gotten a move on him. self. The people in St. Francis county have most excellent paper, and they should show their apprecia- tiOn of it.-Helena World.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

ONE would hardly have expected a man of Senator Hoar's age and dispo- sition to play peek-a-boo with the pub lie, but that's about what he has been doing of latA.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

TIE force bill lacked the force neces- sary to make headwav against the stronger force of an intelligent public opinion which had long ago condemned the measure, and it went to the wall, as such odious things always should.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

HENRY M. COOPER, collector of in- ternal revenue, has been elected chair man of the Republican state executive committee, to succeed Powell Clayton, who resigned.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

ANCIENT Undergraduates Niz- rier's letter explaining why he should not have been recalled.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
Tourlsts.

Wh0thsr on pleasure bent or business should take on every trip . bottle of Syrup of Figs, as it acts most ploasantly and effectually on the kid noys, liver and bowels, preventing fovcrs, headaches xnd other forms of oickness. For sale In 5Oc. and $l bot tlse by III lending druggists.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

SENATOR HOAR probably fully real izes the force of the ancient adage, "delivsr me from my friends"
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

WANTRD.-An issue upon which the republican party can agree. Ad- dress, with particulars, B. Harrison.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
Answer this Question

Why do so many people we see around us seem to prefer to suffer and be made miserable by Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Coming Up o' the Food. Yellow Skin, when for 75 csnts we will sell them Shiloh's System Vitalzer guaranteed to cure them. Sold by Win throp X Co.,: ]. ]. Ables. Colt.
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
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The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
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The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06
Letter I,ISt.

Following is list of letters remain ing unclaimed ill the post-onice at For rest City, St. Francis county, Arkansas, for the week ending Saturday evening y
The Forrest City times., 1891-02-06

Parties calling for the above letters will please say advertised" and must pay one (1l cent for each letter deliv- cred. MRS. Nj. K. WINFIELD. P. NJ.
, 1891-05-01
4BO CASTLE


1t IL the Oh est Building In FINLAND and
Wtls Used a a Prison.
About midway between the observa-
tory and the sea stands Abo castle,
which il the Oldest building in Finland.
1t dates back to 1857, to the days Of
Eric the saint, the first Swedish con-
queror, who with st. Henry, bishop Of
Upsala, introduced Christianity into
Finland. Henry has since been regard
cd a. the patron saint Of the Firms.
In tho Fifteenth and Sixteenth cent
uries the old castle Witnessed the fall
of many calamitics upon Abo. The
town was ravaged in 1i5S with fire kin
died by lightning, and within twenty
years it was burned again In 1909 the
Danes sacked the place. and half a
century later three fires occurred sue
cessiyely within six years, after which,
in 1914, the castle itself was burned
during a visit of Gustavus II AdoIphus,
when the royal kitchen took fire.
A few rooms in the castle are now
ret apart for a museum of antiquities.
Another part Of the castle was used
as a stOrehouse, but the portion that
attracted me most was the prison, my
first visit to which, in 1874, | had never
forgotten. In those young days OF my
prison experience | had seen nothing
worse than the Tulbooth, in Edinburgh,
and knew nothing Of dungeons ia ba-
ronial castles save what | had gathered
from Robin Hood and similar stories
of my boyhuod. But when I came to
Abo witnessed what my imagination
had pictured.
A Hight Of steps brought us to a
damp, dark passage, through which we
made our way, illumined by the light
OF lantern, toa heavily bolted. clumsy
door This was duly opened and we.
werl invited to enter. Having so done
we found ourselves in "a good sized
room, dimly lighted by "A window. which
was shaded by "a high building only a
few feet distant. The cmbrasure of a
window exposed "a wall 1 should think
twelve feet thick, and on the inner side
of which were grated bars. so that the
glazing could be opened and shut only
by means of a long rod. The floor was
of bare earth, and the furniture, if such
it could be called, wa Of the toughest
description.
A rickety wooden bodstead, an earth
en- ever with water, a lump of coarse
black bread, and a wooden tub con-
tanning salt fish heads, showed us pris-
on fare which looked coarse enough;
but to our surprise, We were told that
in spite OF such drawbacks some OF
the poor come to tho jail in autumn
and beg to be allowed admittance in
preference TO enduring the hardships
Of a northern winter. This would have
seemed to me hardly credible had l
not heard a similar story when visiting
one of the prisons in Guernsey.
Tho prison authorities inform me
that irons are used only rarely, and
principally for tho transport of danger
Gus criminals, l remember hearing
when in Finland in 1876 that it some
times happened when prisoners were
on their way from the country districts
in farmers carts that accomplices way
laid the officers and released their com
radcs. Henry Lansdell, d. D., in Har-
per's.
, 1891-05-01

The St Lawrence il = phenomenon
among rivers. No other river Is fed by
such gigantic lakes. No other river is So
independent Of the elements It. despises
alike rain, snow and sunshine. Ice aud
%A=l-----t1-be tie OH1y-thtugs
that affect its mighty DOW. Something al
most "a phenomenal rs the ST. Lawrence
itself j.. the fact TINT there 1, 80 little gen
orally known about II. Il might be safely
Affirmed that not 1 per cent. OF the Ameri-
an public are aware OF the fact that
among all the greHt rivers Of the world the
St Lawrence il the puly absolutely flood
less one. such, however. is the case.
The ST., Lawrence drspiscs rain and sun
shine. It's greatest variation caused by
drought or rain hardly over exceeds n foot
Nv fourteen inches. The cause OF this al
mn~t everlasting samcnrsS OF volume is
easily understood The 81. Lawrence is
fed by the mtghtiyst bodies Of fresh water
ON earth. Immense us is the volume of
water it puurs into the ocean, II one who
has trHyogsrd all the imulcu.e lakes that
feed il, and for the surplus waters u which
IL Is the only channel to the ses, wonders
that IL is not even more gigantic than it is.
Not one drop OF the waters OF tic five great
lakes finds its way 60 tho ocean save
through this gigantic, extraordinary aud
wondrUuslJ beautiful river. No wonder,
then, that IL should despise the rain and
defy the sunshine Natures Realm.
, 1891-05-01

The progress recently made in trac-
ing the intcrlcpendont relations Of
living organisms is clearing up some Of
the obscure problems in the nutrition
of plants that have a direct bearing ON
the process Of eNnIgtiuAnud the APP
plications OF science In agriculture.
Since the discovery Of the compost
ton Of the atmosphere the problem Of
the sources OF the nitrogen Of vegeta
ton has given rise 10 "a wider range Of
experimental investigation and Discus
sion than any other Ia vegetable physi
ology. The evidence appeared to be
conclusive as to its source in certain
families. including the cereals, while
the larger supplies of nitrogen obtained
by leguminous plants We're uot fully
accounted for.
The experiments OF Buussingault in
France and the elaborate inyrstiga.
tons At Rothamstcd, in England.
seemed TO show that atmospheric nitro
gen is not appropriated { % any extent
by the leaves Of plants. and that the
soil Is the main or solo source OF the
nitrogen of vegetation - DR. Manly
Miles in Popular Science Monthly
, 1891-05-01

There are two very finely prepared
skeletons Of big snakes in the National
museum, and in making them ready
for exhibition the utmost pains we're
taken TO preserve the cartiluginous ex-
tremities of the ribs, which with ordi-
nary treatment are lost. Without these
little pieces of cartilage the serpent's
skeleton can hardly be said to be com
plete, inasmuch as they are the feet
upon which the reptile walks, as it
were. In fact a snake walks on the
ends of its ribs, and in that manner
achieves locomotion. Some big ser
penis, however, like the boas and py-
thons, really have hind legs, though
they are quite rudimentIry. Pythons,
you know, are constructors, crushing
their prey in their tolls. They have no
poison glands, but they Fan bite ter.
ritically with their many teeth, which
turn inward like hooks, so that a per-
son once seized would have little chance
of disengaging himself save by chop
ping off the head of the animal-Wash-
ington Letter.