The Forrest City times., 1893-03-24
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The World 5 Fair,

The department 0t education some
 time agu offered free trip to the World Far to limited iumher of pupils If the schools uf the state uu der 20 years uf age who would write Ibt best composition on The Wulid s Fait The following by Ben Davis
 our of the pupils ot 0ur schoul, IS one If the successful ones, aud Ben will
 make a trip to Chicago free only pay ing his contingent expenses:
 The occasion that we are going to celebrate next May is iu honor If one of the grandest occasions recorded IF hlS tory The man for whom this Occa- sion Is celebrated was the son of d
 poor wool dsaler. He was born poor. lived poor and dstd poor At his birth there oas no bright star to mark his birth place. hut WAS born iu a poor log hut. and for many wears after his birth
 he Was considered only aS poor boy of the sam profession a~ hat uf his
 ancestor. II Vas not uutIl l492 that he proved himself more ihan the average Italian. Although Il took The promise of thr quren'S jewels t0 drfrAY the tx peu>es. sht was mere than reIald. and doubtless If the good king and queen had lived. our grand country would l have been named for it's true discover
 TT. bnt after ih- king and queens death thr grand nid man was loaded with chains, and very IL jnstir deprived of the right of uamesakr. Bat the name did no; seem to interfere vii l. the pros l perltN ot AmeTlca, but doubtless If We had had such mrn as Vespuyius at the | head nt our government We would have been in the fix ot China. Prnssia and many other countries But by | having such men as Penn. Baltimore | Raleigh and others to open Our cOul- 1 try, Jefferson and Adams 10 make eur
 laws. Washington and Green to fignt
 Our battles and Benjamin Franklin to l nl3he treaties. what could We eXpect except prosperity? If those old heroes could only rise mp and Ser beautiful gardens and orchards now where large forest of tall trees of immeasurabie extent once stood. to see our beautiful streams ploughed hy wtZzing steam boats, the canals bearing along their burdens Of produce and merchandise when m their day stood a noble moan
 tain. to see our cities lighted by light
 ming instead of candies. to look al the steam cars going from New York to Washington Tn six hours. when 1t used To take Washington six days, all this
 has happened in the last four hundred
 years. America has never been walled
 in like China is one reason of it's pros perily, until the last few years. when
 Mckinley threw up one all around our
 coast. and also one along the Mason
 and Dixon line. which almost ma kes
 two distinct classes of people in rhe
 United States This wall was opposed
 by such men as Jas. G. Blaine and Gro
 yer Cleveland, therefore it is lastly de-
 caying We are glad to see now that
 our country is getting into better
 hands-men who propose to buy what
 they can not ralse aud believe in the
 doctrine "of live and let liven For.
 the last thirty years the South has been
 in Il very critical condition. and at the
 Columbian exposition when the ques
 ton is asked, where are Arkansas.
 Tennessee. Alabama and Georgia.
 we will just have to point over to a big cap Of hye-eent cotton, or an over