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The Forrest City times., 1894-07-20
State Democratic Platform.

Tho Democratic party. of Arkansas in con vention assembled. hereby reahrms its faith ples of the National Democratic party ae ex pressed iu it's platforms and ratified in It's leg islation throughout the history of the gov ernIlent. In addition thereto. 1t makee the following specific declaraiions:
 weinslst upon a strict compliance with the repeated declarations ot the party in favor of protection favored by the Republican party aud crystalized in the infamous discrtmina. ,ions of the Mckinley tariff bill. shall be an naed and Tar & &compe.is11an !, in S sne mSrness Of all classes in the United states and fair ex' change for our surplus products thereby se- cured.
 To the end that taxation may be distributed oman equitable basis and accumulated proper ty pay it's fair share of the expenses Of the government. which have for so long a time been borne hy the consumption Of the people. We favor .,n income tax.
 We stll consider the act of l6s3. wheecby silver was demosetized, as the greatest ieeie- lative crime of the century. and demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at ratio of 10 to as it then existed.
 We believe the constitutional power to bOr' only in the event of great emergencies when the power 10 levy and collect taxes commeu' serate with tbe requirements Of the occasion cannot De enforced without manifest oppres, to the issue of bonds In time of peace.
 We congratulate the Democratic party and fhe people upon the repeal or the Odloue te0- eral election law.
 We favor the continued maintainance of our free public schools in the interest of 9en- sfa, intelligence and public information.
 Believing that home rule and local self government are cardinal principles tn ke- publican government. we therefore oncOtse and approve the action of the legislature oi Arkansas in enaetiug laws re.egating to the people the right of settling the liquor q,les ton for thepiselyes iu accordance with the wishes and sentiments of the country a6ect. ed.
 We congratulate the people upon the faith fu and economical administration of her state government under Democratic rule. and invoi1e the cooperation Of all good citizens iu the perpetuation of so desirable q coIdi s'nn of affairs
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The Forrest City times., 1894-07-20
Political Dates.

Democratic Primary Election. St. Francis county voting precincts, July fs.
 Republican State convention, Little Rock. July 24.
 Peoples Party State convention Lit tie Rock July, I9.
 Democratic Judicial convention. Filst District. Helena, Ark, July A. Democratic Congressional conven- ton, First District, Jonesboro, August i5.
 Senatorial convention, Seventh dis trict, Wynne, August 4. 1894.
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and frst-cllass stock of fresh goods,
 being started. The Episcopal church
 is nearing completion, the canning
 factory started up yesterday, with fine
 prospects for large supply of the in-
 est tomatoes that has ysi been raised
 for 1t, and the Fitzpatrick Gin house
 has been examined by stranger who contempletes leasing 1t for the purpose
 of putting In proper machinery and operating spoke, hub and rim factory
 and kindred wood working enterprises.
 In addition to all these fatterlng indi- cations of genuine boom for Forrest
 City, the town council has committee to investigate the cost of thorough
 system of waterwOrks, with view to
 putting up 8 plant, and there is evidence
 on every hand of individual and private improvement of raeal estate. Our homes are constantly being improved. Some are painting, some are building new fences. some new ad- ditions to their houses. some erecting new out houses. &c. &c. THE TIMES rejoices at such evidences of prosperity despite the cry of hard times, and If these things come to pass, we may
 confidently expect the greater and richer things which are in store for us. The prospects for large crops are the most Hattering since 1882, and everything points to better times. We
 will do what we can to anticipate and foster such desirable conditions.
The Forrest City times., 1894-07-20

P D. MCCULLOUGH. jr.. of Lee.
The Forrest City times., 1894-07-20
THE DIE IS CAST.


 The primary election held under the auspices of the democratic party of St. Francis county last Saturday was quiet and orderly in the extreme. So far as we know and believe it was absolutely "a free ballot and fair count" No one questions this fact. And the only kick coming'' is because certain par. ties in Goodwin and Wheatley town. ship. believed by many to be in sym- patby with the peoples party, took advantage of the opportunity to vote against and defeat certain candidates for whom they are said to have a deep seated hatred. Be all this as 1t may, the judges who held the election were the sole judges of who should vote, and if man presented himself to vote declaring to have affiliated with the democratic party, and to believe in it's principles, and piedging himself to vote for the nominees, there was no alterDative-he must have been allowed to vote and there is no remedy but to take the medicine" gracefully and pleasantly and aocept the result @ de- clared by tho executive committee o( the county. whooe report We publish elsewhere in this issue.
 twas at first thought there would be sone misunderstanding and hard feelings over the result, but THE TIMES is glad to say that every de. f-atsd candidate accepts the result in a proper spirit and will work for the triumph of his successful opponent and ths whole ticket in September.
 It will be noticed by a perusal of tn returns that every present incumbent who had opposition was defeated. al. though, without exception, they were holding office for the first time, and compose some of the best citizens we have, thus ignoring altogether the old and time honored unwrltten law, that faithful public servant should have two terms.
 The ticket nominated is a strong one and is composed of hightoned, hOnora- ble gentlemen, men who have energy and business tact, and who believe in the upbuilding of the county. They are men of unprecedented ability, in- tegrity and enterprise, and when elect
 ed and they enter upon the discharge of their duties, they will bring what ever of ability they have to bear upon the business of the county, and the peoples interests will be in good hands. We are, like all democrats should be, for the nominees first, last and all
 the time.
 The returns show total of 788 votes as against 724 in 1892. gain of 64 votes for the party. These figures represent, of course, the highest sum of all the
 votes cast for any one office.
 We had hoped to poll 1000 votes. but
 as we did not, let every democrat now consider himself Q committee of one to look after the floating vote and see that our ticket receives 8 r0using ma joiity in Septem Der.
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A ACard.

Ire following explaines itself: Messrs. Landvoigt < Vadakin:-Please change my announcement, from before the democratic primary, to before the people at the September election. am not goiAg in the primary.
 Very Respectfully.
 A. C. WORD. June g, 1894.
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for Infants and Children.

"Castoria Is 30 well adapted to children tha' I recommend 1t as superior to any prescriptioa known to me- II A ARCHER M D.,
 Ill So Oxford Se, Brooklyn, N. '.
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MADISON TOWNSHIP.

For Magistrates Vote for Four. N. B. NELSON, ". T. CLIFTON. JNO. K, BROWN. F. T. RAIFORD. For Constable, ", E. KIRBY.
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sT. FRANCIS COUNTY.

P D MCCULLOUGH. jr.. of Lee. ST. FRANCIS COUNTY. For Representative. W. j. MATTHEWS. of Madison.
 For Judge. JNC. :. R. CONAN, of Blackflsh.
 For Sheriff, " '. WILLIAMS, of Madison, For Clerk of the Courts. T. c. FOLBRE, of Madison.
 For Treasurer, OF. HAMPLETON. of Franks.
 For Assessor. JAMES BROWN, of Johnson.
 For Surveyor. MARK M. STANLEY. of Madison.
 For Coroner, \. P. BEAUCHAMP, of Wheatley.
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We determined TIE FoRREsT FMS every household the county We the fact that that they advantage of the offer made b Eastern Arkansas We must have
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DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

Election, Monday. September 3. 1894.
 For Governor. JAS. P. CLARKE, of Phillipe.
 For Secretary of State. F. R. HAMPSTEAD. of Franklin. For Associate Justices of Supreme Court.
 B. B. BATTLE.
 J. E. RIDDICK.
 For Auditor of State,
 C. B. MILLS. of Monroe
 For Treasurer, RANSOM GULLEY. of Izsrd. For Attorney General. r. R. KINSwoRTHY, of Clark. For ;perintendent Of Public Instruction, LINUS ]. JORDAN. of Jefferson. For Commissioner of State Lands. J. r. RICHIE. of Jefferson. For Commissioner of Agriculture, Y c vTNCENHELLHR. Of Washington.
The Forrest City times., 1894-07-20

THEFT JU DyCyAL CIRCUIT.
 For Judge.
 H. N. HUTTON. Of Lee. For Prosecuting Attorney. JNO. T. HICKS, of White.
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fiRsI CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
The Austrian Military Oath.

In the Austrian military academies
on the emperor's birthday the young
officers, our Vienna correspondent says
receive their nominations and take the
oath. One of the speeches delivered by
Col. Steinitz at cadets academy, near
Brunn, recently, contained this pass
age: ''An oat1 is sacred act. Sc
God help me- This formula
alone consecrates you as Gods
warriors. An oath is uncondi-
tional. 1t takes the whole man.
What you believe, or feel, what you
think-give it all up, for you have
taken the oath. Respect our laws
trust your superiors, do not interpret.
do not criticise. He alone serves God
who keeps his oath. We have never ir
the army sought for God-fearing mer
in vain. Our august chief gives us the
example of a religious life" In these
words our correspondent sees an un.
mistakable effort to protect the army
against the socialist spirit that i,
gradually entering it. Clerical ten.
denotes have in the past never been OBJ
served in the ranks of the Austriap
army.-LOndon Daily News.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
A PRIMITIVE LAND.
An Outing Among the queer People of the
Appalachian Range.
At anv point on the frontier or in the


heart of West Virginia you step from
your train to the wagon that awaits
you, and the length of a mornings
constitutional finds you in the do,
miniOn of a belated century. The time
is right by your watch but your pocket
calendar is hundred years too far
ahead. 1t is true that the present era
jars the past in places. The Chesapeake
& Ohio railroad bisects the state. but
thousands of the people near its steel
threads have never ridden over mile
of it, But the life in the mountains is
SO ancient that George Washington,
were he back on earth, would say. after
a tour of the whole country: 'At last,
here find part of the world as left
it.
went into West Virginia over the
PENNSYLVANIA border last summer, and
put up at a mountaineering resort.
! There was clashing of two centuries
| there. The arch city maiden in white
flannel was there trimming her hat
with butterflies, stick ing a hat-pin into
them at twenty places, $50 as to find
their hearts and kill them without
hurting them too much," and at night
she banged out Sousas last two-step in
way that filled the old woods with
the breath of a Michigan avenue board
ing-house. But in the early morn
ing, when her flannel suit hung over a
chair, and her ''white sailor sat the
top of the bedroom pitcher with rak-
ish can't to one side. the squirrels and
the locusts and katydids had the for
ests to themselves, and the early STIR
rers on the mountain roads were the
old-time West -Virginians, as simple
end genuine as fresh air.
Observing that the strangers at the
springs came from unthought- of dis
tances to drink the sulphur water that
bubbled up in the meadow by the hotel
they too paid the tardv century the
compliment of drinking its catholicon.
But with never-failing shyness they
always came at sunup, without noise
or hustle, though in strong force, to fill
their pals and cans and blickeys and
carry the liquid away. They and the
nineteenth-century boarders were i'm
pressed and cozened by the same fact;
the water smelled so bad and tasted so
nasty that it must certainly be good
medicine. | never will forget how the
mountaineers interested me- The
women came sidewise, bobbing light
ly up and down on the horses, with
both feet side by side on the
animals ribs. The capes of their
calico hoods waved prettily in the
breeze. The teamsters knew better
than to sit on the jolting wagons
that pounded over the rocks in the
roads, SO each saddled the left-hand
horse of his team and rode at ease,
while the horses tugged up the hills
with force that had to be met and
eased by means of the harness OF broad
straps which is the horsegear of the
entire Appalachian world. The little
boys brought trousers that did not
know their shoes. never having met
them. and jackets that mimicked the
trousers hy being too short-in the
sleeves as well as the body. The little
girls were bare at both top and toe, as
beftted creatures that did not have to
go into the thorn and bramble thick
cts rs the boys had to do in order to
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
The Catalina.

A horticultural writer in an eastern
journal takes note Of the fact that 1.-The
only forest tree in eastern parks which
has entirely escaped the ravages of the
caterpillar is the catalpa. This is the
tree with nearly smooth bark, scanty
limbs and large, lilac-shaped leaves
and which bears a fruit-pod looking
like a Wheeling stogy. 1t is native
American, and grows wild south of the
Savannah and Tennessee rivers, where
it often reaches fifty feet in height
1t was long ago naturalized in
Europe. where it is hardy, and
highly valued as an ornamental
shade tree. Its immunity from
leaf-feeding caterpillars was long age
noticed. and is probably due to that
quality in the leaves which causes the
sap in the spring to be extensively
odorous, and put the bark into the old
pharmacopnias as tonic more power
fully antiseptic than that of cinchOna
1t is stated that the honey of its flow
ers is poisonous; yet these flowers
formed an old-fashiOned remedy against
asthma. The wood of the catalpa il
very light fine, and susceptible of a
brilliant polish, and is more durable
than sycamore. A tree closely related
to our catalpa, and named Paulowina
imperialis, is to be seen in Central
park; it is Japanese, but has been nat
uralized in Europe and the United
States for half century. icage
News.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

According to weather Observati6. s
recently published, Berlin has an aver
age of lat dark days in the year to III
on which the sun shines. The bripht-
est days are in May and September,
the gloomiest in November, while in
July they are most changeable.
Recent explorations at tho ancient
temple of Anxur, near Terracina. on
the Italian coast, have brought to light
natural conduit stretching through
the rock, through which a current of
air passes 1t is thought that the
draught turned the leaves of the Sibvl-
line books for the oracle. Chtldrens
toys In lead. ia bles, chairs and tandel-
abra have also been found there.
"A cartoon which the Paris Figaro
had ready to publish at the time of
President Carnot's death was one of
the usual illustrations by Forain The
artist, thinking of the possible retire
ment of Carnot from the presidency,
had figured two walters at the banquet
OF Lyons exchanging opinions. One
says to the other, pointing at Carnot.
''Lool< at him WE'LL it is the last time
you will see him." OF course the pic
ture was never published
The camel in a wild state is sup
posed to be still in existence in central
Asia, but is extremely rare. 1t was
thought to be extinct, but some fifteen
years ago the Russian explorer Prival-
sky, discovered them: and last year Mr.
Littledale, in the course of a journey
across Asia from Batum to Pelin.
shot four in the desert of Cobb. little
eastward of Lob Nor. 1t is still ques-
toned whether these were in an un-
doubtedly wild state, as they may have
descended from domesticated animals.
Few streets in Paris have puzzled
strangers more than the Boulevard
Raspail, the old Boulevard d Enter. the
broadest Of all the Partisan avenues,
which, on paper. run from the Lion
of Belport." the Place Deufert- -Roch-
erau to the Boulevard st. German. bat
has never been compile tely cut through.
One seems to stumble on fra gment Of
that boulevard wherever he goes on
the south side of the Seine. The au-
thorities have decided that the street
is too wide, and third is to be taken
off on one side, along its whole length,
the land taken to be turned into house
lots.
According to statistics recently
collected in France from 1868 to 1870,
under the second empire, there were
195 cOndemnations to death and So
communications Of sentence, or At per
cent. under MacMahon, from 1873 to
1878, 119 sentences and 112 commuta-
tiOns, 62 per cent: under Grevy. from
1878 to 1888. cf 211 cOndemnations 1872
were committed. or 76 per cent, and
under Carnot the figures were 157 and
6S, 45 per cent. Grevy was the most
merciful, and next to him MacMahon,
who, though a soldier. found it hard to
reject the appeals of the relatives of
the condemned.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26

master was in the usual place, she
broke into a gentle, satisfied trOt.
The lake was in view, and the all
grew more invigOrating. AS they
neared the waters edge the sun burs,
forth and poured down on the CLASSY
surface shower of diamonds.
Tiny waves curled up on the segment
of beach, and a soft breeze stirred The
little ringlets under Angiene tie S straw
| bonnet, which had been trimm ed bv
the village milliner only the day be
fore. "Go long, Jenny" said Daniel.
''She don't care much for what ! say.
he added, looking across the water to
the dark old mountain beyond.
''That's cause you're gentle with
her, Daniel. | guess you never abused
dumb animal"
mo, I couldn't do that" Then,
after pause: Il alwuz thought. An,
gle, that somehow I'd ought to a bin
merried, eff I'd found anybody that
would a cared about me- But | spose
it's too late to be thinkin O that now. :
you amt sixty yit, Daniel"
"No, but I'm close onto it. Go long,
Jenny"
"You amt called me Angie before
sence the day l told you I'd sent yop
my mbrotype. | never knew whether
you got it, Daniel"
"Wa'al, | couldn't seem to make III
my mind to say anything about it. but
it's rolled up in a little silk handl1er
chief ] meant to assent We for we'd
din present. My courage kind O. give
out, SO We never he'd it. Go long
Jenny"
couldn't hev it now?"
do you want it, Angie?'
No answer came. Daniel looked
from out the tail of his eve at the
round cheek with its pink tinge ant
saw two generous tears pouring down
whoa, Jenny. | don't knows you'(
do it, Angie, but-can't ye come bacl
n live with us in the old house after
ye've bin home n seen the folks
Hannah. she would be dreadful pleased
eff We would-to be her sister. We know
Angie.'
Il was jest thinkin' O. that, Daniel
l didn't know how she'd take it,
= IObIH lceItIeu dlOiiS anu Will
glad chirrup circled up in the air. like
Richter's lark, with loud day in hi:
throat"
The birdsll all be goin' now before
long, Cousin Angie"
Wen see 'em together next year
please God" said Angienette
go long. Jenny" said Daniel Mar
in.-Eoston Transcript.
National Baptist world., 1894-10-26
SAGACITY OF A COLLIE.
Knows How to Bring Down Sheep from
the Mountains.

the Mountains.
We stood at the bottom of a deem
valley with the hills rising abruptly
on either side, when Robert Scott said
"Yonder is the sheep [ led away from
Llangynider. all those weary miles
yesterday. l saw it as | came over the
hilltop down to the house this morn
ing. If you wish, Kate shall bring it
down to my feet here for you to see it,
What? bring that single sheep
How will she know the one you want,
and how can she get it away from the
flock by itself? | will not believe that
possible till | see it done, at all events
He spoke a low word or two to the
collie by his side, and away went
''Kate," right over rock and bracxen
till we could see the flock far away
upon the height above give a very rapid
turn. and in few minutes afterward
down rushed d strong mountain wethel
with the willy Kate" working to the
right and left and about thirty yards
behind it. Come away, back ahin'
me-" cried Scott; and Kate - at once
leaving the sheep, appeared positively
to fly far out, and coming round behinC
us, stopped the wether in his headlone
course, bringing him to a stand liter
ally at the shepherds feet. Robert
] said, "when. as you intend, you sail
next month for New Zealand, you wiD
not take Kate with you, but leave hel
here for seven sovereigns." Nae, nae
SIR" was the reply, seventy sovereign:
would nae buy her" London Specie