The Forrest City times., 1893-07-07

Butter.
 The following interesting clipping is from the St. Louis Globe Democrat:
 The library in the Arkansas building at the Worlds fair is one of the notable state novel ties. You step up 10 a bookcase to see what curious binding this is that attracts the vision across the room. You pick up one Of the volumes. IL is u solid block of polished wood in the form of a book On the back is the title put on just it would be If this was sure-enou2h literature. In the upper space is the scientific name of that par Gcular wool In the lower space. where you might expect 10 find the author given. is the popular name of the wood. There are seventy five different volumes in the Arkansas library The queer conceit originated in the active brain of Prof. W. s. Thomas.
 miniature mountain Of Hot Springs dia- monds is in the center Of the Arkansas court The chunk of zinc. the largest ever mined weighing 275O pounds. is in front Of the porch on which Senator Berry has been a striking figure for several days.
 The country hasn't forgotten Mrs Caroline 6 Brooks. who came from her Arkansas farm to create such sensation at the Centennial with her Sleeping Iolanthe' in butter. Mrs Brooks Is at the Worlds fair back from six years work at Florence still pursuing her art There Is Miss Caroline Brooks now. She too models Tn butter, but she also chlsels in marble as well. On one side Of the Arkansas building is the 'lolanthe" of Mrs. Caroline Brooks copied ln marble. On the other side is an illustration Of what Miss Caroline Brooks can do The same rare gift seems to have descended to the daughter
 To Arkansas people Mrs Brooks is still the butter woman. II Is gratifying to state pride mat she keeps the farm near Helena They like to tell how she discovered her possession oi this artistic talent The story is homely one Mrs. Brooks made nne butter, which was sold 10 the steamboats stopping at Helena. To add 10 Its attractiveness, she formed the butter Into shells and other odd forms, using little wooden paddles and carrying out the fancies that occurred to her. An immediate demand Tor art In butter sprang up among the steam boatmen.
 The molced butter brought little more than mat which was butter and nothing more. This furnished an incentive to what was a labor of love. Mrs Brooks butter became ia nous along the river, for it's looks as well as It's taste. More and more ambitious became her efforts, until they eliminated in Iolan. the fame at the Centennial. Fortune has since followed The idea of molding in butter is now protected by patent. Smooth ness ana expression are obtained in this butter work' which are not possible in the clay 1t is claimed. The Vanderbilt family group has a conspicuous place in the Art building. Mrs BrooKs modelled it in butter. and the artist Who followed with chisel was over four years turning II into marble. Lady Godiva returned rom her ride and in the act of stepping down rom Buralo Bills white horse. was modelled oy Mrs Brooks in three days. The cutting LOOK Walter Green seven months.
 while the fair is in progress, Mrs. Brooks stands before tubs. fashioning all sorts of queer things She has just finished the great seal of Inc state of Nebraska modelling it in the but ger made on the grounds from sli,0co COW. II S 10 De part of Nesraszas $ dairy exhibit