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The Forrest City times., 1891-01-23
some of it yourlelf.

And so the days ran by and It became time for the clear headed. critical Chi, cago Boy 10 go home. The uncle in. sisted that l., should come again next year. for though al times exasperatingly indifferent to all these things of which we arc justly proud. the Chicago Boy
 is wholesome. healthy boy. and s mid summer tonic. The Boy promised to come agnin. and he will. He generally admitted that he had had . good time. and there were faint evidences of lik- ing for New York. Perhaps it was the fear of this that made him anxious to go; perhaps 1t was that feeling that there were certain familiar faces dearer than anything else in tho world out in the big town where the Chicago Boy lives when he is at homc--N T. Iimss.
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couid not and should not have The Boy acquiesced and satis fled bic long. ings later In the day by drinking two huge glasses of seltzer lemonade. . con coction for which he had recently sc- qnircd an unnatural fondness.
 Tho things out of which the Boy ''took fall" as he expressed 1t in tho week ho was here, are they not number cd in tho guide bookf The Statue of Liberty did not seem very much to him. He raced up tho precipitous stairs to the head. strong of wind when he got there, and as fresh as a daisy, he saw the navy yard, and declared the Chicago thc finest ship afloat. ''as she ought to be with that name" he remarked. The Madison Square Garden was not as big as the Auditorium; nothing was as big as that. in fact; the best thing at Rock away was the ''dodging coon," and when the uncle, moved to that enthusi asm which occasionally possesses even a New Yorker. said, as they stood in Wall street, Look at these magnificent buildings. there is nothing like them in Chicago" the Boy looked around and said, "Wherey'
 And he meant 1t. too. Whatever tho faults of the Chicagoan. man or boy. there dwells not on the face of the earth a being more loyal to his city. Eastern men who go there to live notice it at once. and though they may not agree with all that is asserted of the big. boastful Western town. they admire the spirit that prompts it. To the Chicago man there Is no place on the two hem. ispheres like his own city. there never has been and there never will be Tho great cities of the Old World are viewed with moro or less intelligent apprecia. tion and the runs of civilization greater. perhaps. than ours arc worth seeing" But. after all. they are only ruins. and the capitals of those other countries are in his eyes only faint reflection of what his own city is to be. It is this magnificent, civic loyalty that has made Chicago what it Is. and in it rests the promise of the future You can not live in 1t with. out feeling 1t all around you and it will be strange indeed If you do not absorb some of It yourlelf.
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enough to haul oil and knock you down

enough to haul oil and knock you down with his fist. There must come [ change. though. sooner or later. Society can't stand the uncouthness of the present era. The customs that came in after the war robbed us of our good breeding. When every man carried a pistol for the purpose of inducing his neighbor to be polite every gentleman was genial. Rudeness, that unsightly fungus growth on the trunk of careless society. meant crude correction or pol. ished death. Am boring you. suhr'
 Far from It." answered.
 ''Ahl like you, for 1 see in you . remnant, though . somewhat removed one. O: the old days. You would rather tell smooth lie than rough truth. Stick 10 that idea. suh. Truth, except as il relates to history and the sciences, is brutallzer of mankind The hog that wailows in the mire has truth; the artist that paints a great picture has de- ception."
 The boat landed. This Is a well re- membered spot with me-" said the planter "One night in tho spring of 1859 seated myself in a poker game just ss tho boat left this landing. From the very start luck was in my favor. and il
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GOT EVEN WITH HER.
A Small Boy's Trtck on an Elder SistsA
 Who Had s,ightcd Him.

That was mean jokc played on young lady of Washington avenue the other evening by small brother. says tho St. Louis Republic. She had re. fused to let him go with her for a horseback ride one day. and he spitc- fully told her he would "get even with her." She had habit of carrying in her pocket little silver and gilt powder pun box. and when she feels that her nose needs n touching with the pun she slides it out carefully and under her corsage handkerchief il reaches tho dainty features and swiftly and hiddenly performs it's mission. The small boy knew this (small boys arc born detectives--on older sisters). and he procured some cigar ashes. and. seeking his sisters powder put case. n was the work of one small moment to empty out tho white powder and fill the case with cigar ashes.
 That night the young lady attended a performance Ut the Olympic theater. During the performance her nose be. gan 10 feel ''unpowdery. so she whisked the case out of her pocket to give the usual secretive touch with the puH behind her handkerchief. A mo- meut later she was smiling serenely iu her escorts face. and he-his expres. sion was simply i-describable; horror. amazement. surprise. all blended iu one concentrated glance at the up. turned face.
 There is something wrong" he muttered. ''Your--your nose is--is gray-decidedly gray
 The member in question on the pret- ty face received decided upward turn as she exclaimed: My nose is not gray. What do you mean. sir. by your iusulte'
 "But--but it--it really is gray--de- cidedly gray--deucedly gray; excuse the xpression--the grayest ever saw in my life"
 You ara insane. sir; please take me home." And she rose with naughty gesture. Together they left the theater. but womanIike, passing tho mirror near the entrance. she took a sly glance at her reflection. Horrorsi She paused. "Whv. you are right" shc gasped; ''my nose is gray. What can 1t bep Oh. that wretched boyw The small boy got his revenge--but he goes to distant college early next week.
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 cle. with affected and affecting meek ness. Anybody who could get around Chicago. where they name their steets so that Madison appears to be the next President to the sainted Washington, Polk succeeds Adams, and Jefferson isn't in 1t. as you would say-anybody who could be up under such deplorable ignor. ance of elementary history as that would have no difficulty finding his way around in city where there are reason. ably we'll defined relations between the names of consecutive streets'
 Huh" again said the Chicago boy with increased scorn. what relations, as you call them, are there between Poplar and Middsgh and Cranberry and Orange and Clarkg What's Middagh, anywayf Is 1t a tree or fruit. and do oranges and cranberries grow on tho same hill in this old towny'
 And thus began desperate struggle between a citizen of A solid. respectable city and representative of a communi- ty that brides itself on stock yards and . barber's shop with split dollars in the floor. IL only lasted one week, but it was hand to hand combat all the while. The uncle never felt safe except when the boy was asleep. and firmly believes that in that blessed time the boy devised new forms of pertinent criticism. When tine period ended 1t was a drawn battle for the uncle at best and the Chicago boy went home proudly conscious of 8 humlliated opponent behind him.
 There are good boys and bad boys; there are boys that you love and boys that you hate. but tho Chicago boy ia none of these. He is neither bad nor oOod. at least you never consider such qualities in connection with him. You cannot love or hate him. for that brings him down 10 the plane of other boys. You respect him. and when you come to know him you fear him. He knows every weak point in you by instinct and you know he knows it. he knows that you know 1t. and If you dwell for mo- ment upon this involved condition of affairs you get all tangled up and como back 10 the starting point. which is that the Chicago boy is unlike any other boy, aud tho sooner you admit IL the less ab- ject will be your final surrender.
 He ia what the pointers might call an ''upper-case" boy. and the only reason all the le,tevs of the word are not capitals ts an unwillisgness on the part of the writer to concede everything. It was three months ago when all these things , came to pass, aud IL will be nine months before the Boy comes again. He is a thousand miles away. and a spark of pride and confidence in tho glory of the things about us bas revived in the writ. er's breast Everything wns conceded when the Boy was here. and everything will be conceded once more next snm. mer and as many summers as the Boy will come. He is aa welcome as tho first frost that opens the chestnut burs and the wind that brings the nuts to the ground. as prickly ss the burs and as checry and inspiring as the wind and as sound as the nuta.
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"uumr AGAIN SAID THE BOY.

Coming over in . bridge car the uncle called attention to the promenade. not to any particular feature of it. but that the Boy might know 1t was there. 'fes. said tho Boy. glancing indifYer. srtly at the asphalt pavement on the approaches; Ashland boulevard is paved with that for miles, He cast . look at the elevated railroad trains at the New York entrance and observed: 'I eco you have como out to Pullman for your cars'
 In Broadway the uncle said with great seriousness; Now. Herbert. this is crowded thoroughfarc." 1t looks like West Madison street just bcy ond the bridge" interjectcd ihe hoy. and :he uncle groaned ss he thought of the tum. Ole-down. rickety buildings ''just hey ond tho bridge" and then looked at the mas. sive strncsures lining Broadway; "snd you must be careful how you walk. People do not travel all over tho side walk as they do in Chicago where they are not accustomed to walks You must keep to the right as others do. Young man. If you run against people liko that, getting over thera where you don't be- long. you'll get your head broken"
 ''6andbagged. may be" said the Boy. cheerfulIy. Il understand that's pretty common here"
 "Therc hasn't heen . case of sand. bagging in New York in quarter of . century cried the uncle. slung to In. dlgnation at this outrageous accusation.
 Lets see." ssid the Boy. "therc was
 -" and he mentioned two sr three cases- Il guess those all happened within your quarter of century,"
 It 10 . peculiarity Of the Chicago hoy that he thrusls upon you the ownership of everythi he does not like. He win say your old hotel' when you are in doubt whether you may not Dc asked by porter what your business there is. and your cemetery" when you show him Trinity. or your elevated road when she fact that you have to pay i've cents every time you use 1t Ia sufficient evid. Snce for you that Mr. Gould and you arc not in partnership. You own none of these things. but you arc made to feel that you are personally responsible for their imperfections
 At luncheon on tho piaxxa of one of the big hotels the Boy wanted ice cream. There the uncle nut his foot down and told him that while he would not venture to interfere iu any way with his i'm mortal soul he was responsible to tho Doy's father for his physical continu- aacs on earth and that ice-crsAm hs
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A TALL MAN JUST coMK TO Aak

TALL MAN JUST coMK TO AGk had me arrested aud hauled up before what is known in our country as . yaller jeans justice of tho peace. The fellow stated that he had trusted me or he shouldn't have been hit--said that If he hadn't trusted me he would have dodged in time-and he therefore thought that should be dealt with for breach of trust. The yaller jeans justice said he thought so. too, and hanged If he didn't fine me S'
 Why didn't you appeal the caser asked.
 "Oh. wcll. you see. I'm not in the law busiuess- Just horsewhipped the jus tice till tho dust flashed out of the ' yaller jeans and then let the affair drop l tell you" he added after brief pause. i've used to have great times along nere In the old gentleman days. l remember ono evening s sort of preacher came aboard at landing just about here. He was simple man. with meek smile that seemed to have been mortised into his face. lsoon got acquainted with him and learned that. aside from being a preacher. he operated plantation and had some little money.
 Among the passengers was one of the shrewdest gamblers 1 had ever known, and when he found out tha, the preacher had money he began to lay plans for catching him. went to the preacher and told him. That's all right. said he. In this life it is but natural that the wolves should be after the sheep 'Of course you will not play with him, said l. 'Oh.I don't know. he answered. I have worked very hard and sm oI for . rest. and if he can aid me iG getting what seek. all right Some of the greatest of English clergymen. you know. have been quite expert a cards.
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Mark Twain Convinced.

story Is told that on ono occasion Charles Dudley Wsraer. who IS neigh. Dor and friend to Mark Twain. wanted him to go walking, and Mark. as usual. eefused. Dudley insisted. but to nc purpose.
 You ought to do it. :" he said finally. "its according to Scripture"
 No 'Mark-the-pertect-man' chest. nuts on me, replied the witty humor- ist. Where's your authoritye"
 "fhr fifth chapter of Matthew. verse tle fo ty-tirst." said Mir. Warner, ''mn.en reads thus: And whoever shall 0mpel thee to go mile. go with him, Twain"
 MT. Clemens went with Mir. Watnas that time.
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0QSk HonSG " shn SNShtNo-
 and although sm not a great clergy. man, yet am au Englishman and am game for any sort of innocent smuse- ment tha, may De flushed up 'Bnt that man Nickerson. said 1. referring to the sarewd gambler. win beat you Oh. possibly. tho clergyman rejoined. but he can't b ~et me out of much. Perhaps might win from him. Don't think thai am an easy victim. my dear sir have had great deal of experience. and am not % very easily picked up.
 Well. slr." the planter continued. ''he didn't dodge that gambler at all, but actually eat down 10 . game of poker with him. Of course the preacher lost. but he was shrcwd enough not to bet very high. The minister came up to me with his amile mortiscd in little deeper and said: Well. he is pretty sharp and l lost ti00: but how are we to preach against an evil unless VIC know the ways of that evil, h truth. aside from any attempt to peep behind the mask of evil. am fond Of playing cards and if should create any other impression should be hypercr,e. and hypercritc is worsc than gambler Do you wish to play . gamer played. and away late that night when the preacher got on al Csmpbcils Bend he carried 2.000 of my dollars with him. don't know that he ever saw . pulpit. for found out afterward that he and that fellow Nick. erson were partners Oh. yes. those were great days when people were gentle and polite. Why. If a man had to kill dog then hc did il in an easy and gentleman. ly way. A spirit of c,iquet seemed to pervaie the atmosphere.
 ''But now. warrant that f you should get into quarrel with some man en board tbis boat As would Do brutal
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Extraordinary Deaths.

Lely died of jealousy at the success of Sir Godfrey Kneller.
 Elphinstone died of broken heart over the result of the battle of Flod- den.
 The Emperor Frederick III. and his son Maximilian l.. both died from eat- ing too heartily of melons.
 Nalentia, the Spanish theologian, died because he was accused by the pope of having falsitied passage in St. Augustine.
 It is said that after Malherbe, tho great French writer, had been dead over an hour. he raised the drapery and reproved one of the watchers for using word that was hardly pure Erenchl
 Alonzo Capo, French painter and sculptor of the seventeeth century. is said to have had such fine sense of precision and symmetry that he re- fused to kiss poorly executed cruci- fx. even though on his death bed.
 Angeleri, Milanese actor. was SO overcome by the enthusiastic reception accorded him on his first appearance in Naples that he literally diet of joy before the conclusion of the evenin q . entertainment.
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Papa in ths Rebellion.

An old army officer, according to Mrs. Custer, had 4-year-old boy whe never tired of war stories. "The story is little rough on me-" said the officer to Mrs. Custer. 'sbut If you know child, you know that he wants B plentiful sprinkling Of rs, and nothing told in the third porson. g. 1 kept on as he demanded, till ono day he looked up into my face and saids Father couldn't you get any one = help you put down the rebellion?"
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\ Good Liar.

A virginian. who stole . pile e greenbacks from bank. made savens teen different .'coniessions. and eacl
 time implicated a new party ard cleared himself After arresting about half the town they finally concluded that he was a good liar md : poos thief and sent him up. Ho then watt ed to tell the truth. but they wouldn'4 have 1t.
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THE MONKEY AND THE MIRROR.

Some years ago an aquarium and menagerie" in Boston came to grief and was sold under the hammer.
 After the SherIfrs visit there rsmained nothing on the premises but few mir TOTS. which had lined . passage way. and cage filled with a forlorn lot of monkeys which nobody had been willing to buy.
 Mischevous boys broke the mirrors and threw pieces of them into the monk eys' cage. And 60 it befeli that for want of something better to do ono of the monkeys took mp piece of the glass and held 1t reflectively in his paws
 Suddenly the monkey started and his countenance assumed m expression of mingled astonishment and rage He saw another moukey--or he thought he did boldly looking through the glass at him, os he had seen people look at him through windows many a time and oft.
 Disturbed by the fancied approach of this phantasmal monkey, which was nothing more nor less than the presenta- tion of himself in the mirror, he chatter ed at it and extended warning paw.
 To his immense surprise the other monkey did the same thing. which was at once construed as an insult. The monkey holdingShe glass thereupon put forth sudden paw. with view to graspiug the adversary who was derid. ing him.
 But although the paw went around the side of the glass like lightning. it encountered nothing, for the simple reason that nothing was there.
 Again and again did the angry mon- key eudeavor to come at the enemy, which chattered when he chattered and threatened when he threatened. He reached over the top of the glass. he threw down the glass and tried 10 flatten the enemy beneath it. but all was of no ayil
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him. But while the spell is on he is in dcfatigsble. hardly
 taking time to cat.
 In fact. he forgets to d o so frequently. and. after taking . bowl of oatmeal and cream for breakfast. will paint or write until warned by the darkness to put aside his tools. As an artist he is self. taught. and has been
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Keep Cool.

A Missouri constable oyerhaul0d . tramp on the highway aud demaade1 his surrender The tramp pulled ' revolver, and e;tch man fired six timso at distance of ten feet and nobody. vas hit. Being mutually disguateds each wont his way.
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THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
INTERESTING "REMINISCENCES OF 4
 TIME "BEFO' THE WAL"
When it Was Only Necessary to Suggest It ia Order to Have Any Known vsrie- sy of Fight on Hand.
V

was coming up the Mississippi river on a sl W but magnificent boat, and was sitting on the hurricane deck l o 0 k ing over a b c autiful Q and seemingly endless spread of sugar cane land. when some one standing near me remarked:
 You were never
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KENTuckY'S YOUNG POET.

Robert Burns Wilson, Who n An Artist
 as Well. and Has Fame Before Him.
 Frankfort. Ky, is the home of a man who has made a name for himself in the world of letters-Robert Burns Wilson. He is . poet of no mean ability. and an artist as well.
 Mir. Wilson is . man of moods. He cannot work unless the inspiration moves
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Paupers and Drink in London.

George Blaiklock. the London sem- perance lecturer who is travelling in this country. says that his city con- tains 9O.OOO paupers and spends an- aaally for drink about e70. coo. 00Q
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ROBERT BURNS WILL both an apt pupil
 SON. and . painstaking master. He is still very young.
 When the Evening Cometh On" is perhaps his most beautiful poem. Af. terward he put his conception of even- ing into new shape-that of . water color. which pleased the eye of Gov. Buckner. and now adorns tho walls of Kentuckys Executive Mansion.
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~ of Fight

along here in the sure-enough days of steamboating. l reckon"
 looked up and saw a tall man, to whose appearance coming a-e had lent a sort of distinction. His clothes sat upon him with an air of genial disar- engagement, and his eyes. noticed. were moist with the dew of recollection as he gazed far away over the fields. It took me but second thus to estimate him. and my answer to his question was prompt:
 'I was never along hero in tho old days"
 "Oh. well. then, you don't know any thing about it. You only catch now n poor shadow of what was once glorious substance. He seated himself beside mo. relighted his cigar. which had gone out. and thus continued:
 "A man that was never along here be- fore the war non't know anything about life. In those days the boats were palaces. and man in general was SO &C., commodating and polite that he'd fight you in minute. Now the boats are 1uttcr- mills. aad man. instead of being gentlemanly and accommodating. will curse you. suh. own plantation up the river. but it don't amount to any thing now.
 ''Is the land worn outy" I asked.
 ''Oh. no; lands just as good ss ever, but the conditions that made life there enjoyable have all been changed. Why, suh. knocked fellow down the other day and hanged if he didn't sue me for breach of trust"
 "For what" exclaimed.
 For breach Of trust. tell you. He
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Tn. Poet Pes's Cottage.

Near Fordhanl. N. Y., h the cottage occnnied by Edgar Allan Poe. the author of The Raven. Fall of the House of Usher. Hans PfAli. l" "The Gold Bug" "' and other famous stories and poems.
 The Quain. white. story and half
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COIN 5000 YEARS OLD.

A Piece cf Money That Is Older Than
 Christianity and Is Well Preserved.
 One of the oldest coins In existence h owned by Mir. J, A. Brudin of Chicago. IL is from Etst Asia. and dates from the dynasty of King Wu Wang (ii22ll1e
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ONE OF THE GIRLS OF THE DAY,
Mise Dowle, Who Explored tho CarpAthIan Mountains Witlsoat Male Help.

M0untains Wttlsoat Male HeIp.
 This is a picture of Miss Mene Muriel Dowic. whose paper on her trip through the Carpathian Mountains delighted the wiseheads of the British Association, before whom it was read, and set all the slow-going ones to exclnim: Well. what will women be doing next" Miss Dowie comes honestly by her literary ability and her pluck. for she is the granddaughter of the famous book.
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KING WI wASos coIss--B. c lii8.

KING WI wANGs coISs--B. c. l11b. B. Cl. l, Is called Pu. the word mean ing cloth made from cotton or hemp. It is made of bronze with raised letters and lines. the characters being in Chinese. but of such ancieut date that the modern Chinamsn cant make them out. 1t n stiii we'll preserved
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Dsauty No. Always Attraetiva

The statement that thcre is in N1o ocean multitude of worms T grso1 beauty will not, h III probAhlliAys tempt any ono 10 mako their tnstu11r acQuaintaaoe. Chioago IimoA