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The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26
Unalioyed Bliss.

When a man works all week and then goes to the window and gets his salary in an envelope. he is reason ably happy over the possession of the money, but there is no particular ela- tion, as he had known all week that it was coming
 When man picks upa quarter from the sidewalk he experiences thrill os surprised pleasure, but there is an inn mediate revulsion and a sense of quiet Probably that coin was dropped by some poor widow who had gone out to do days shopping.
 friend says; By the way, here's that five you loaned me that day at the worlds fair" the soul exults for 2 moment But there comes deep sus- picion that next time he will ask for ten and then lose his memory. But when man in the act of over hauling last winters garments to see if they will do" for another season carelessly slips his hand into trou- sers pocket and draws out a half dollar then is there a surging emotion of un- alloyed bliss. To all intents and pur- poses that half dollar had been ex- pended, wasted, dissipated many months before. It had been omitted from all small calculations of daily expenses. Through all the summer months it has lain there in the dark closet planning this pleasant surprise for October. How large and valuable it seems as it is brought into the light!
 The owner wouldn't trade that half dollar for any two-dollar bill that he ever earned. He tells everyone the story, and seems to take credit for much cleverness in making the dis covery. Furthermore he continues the search through all last years clothes and every time his fingers touch a soft wad of lining or a crumpled play bill he catches his breath and wonders if this can be a roll of paper money. hid den there by the same good fairy that brought back to him his beloved half dollar
 That half-dollar incident puts him in such good humor and increases his assets to such an extent that he feels justified in spending at least one dollar and a half by way of celebra- tion
The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26
STREET STORIES.
Interesting Etchings Gathered in
 the Western Metropolis.

He had lived in bachelor apartments in Lake Park avenue for a number of years, but when he married and needed house of his own he moved to Lake Forest. It was good move, too, so far as can be judged by mere outward appearances.
 Since last spring his face has taken on a healthy bronze and the daily ex- ercise of long walks to and from the station has served to put an athletic springiness into his step.
 There have been other changes even more remarkable. and. although he is not conscious of them, they are plainly evident to those who had been his as- sociates for long time.
 When he lived on the South side and put in his leisure time at club he would have sacrificed one arm rather than walk four blocks along State street with bundle under his arm. The slightest purchase at any store had to be delivered. If he bought a pair of shoes he sent them home by a messenger boy rather than ride home with car load of people, who would think he was some common and ordi- nary person, from the fact that he had a shoebox resting in his lap.
 He was sticller for good form in other respects. He believed gentle man should always wear gloves when on the street. except he should be in neglige attire. He believed that no should carry newspapers in his ha hnl ct, q ina against anyone who persisted in smok- ing while in public assemblage, such as might be found in any street.
 His friends rather admired him for his fastidious notions. It was gratify- ing to find some one who stuck to his ideals. But all this was before he moved to the suburbs.
 What changed him? Perhaps it was the fresh air direct from the prairies. Perhaps it was the open-air life and the daily contact with rural popula- tion. At any rate there was change. He became more sociable. neglected the creases in his trousers, carried newspapers in his pockets and lighted a cigar each evening as he started for his train. He began to talk familiarly of his neighbors and display an un wonted interest in family horses The hide bound city man, with his stereo- typed rules of form" was developing into a suburban ''good-fellow, known to all the children along his street. The fall was complete when he began to carry things home dress patterns, garden seeds. books and pictures. One day he was met at the approach to the bridge. Under one arm he carried a cross-cut saw about seven feet long. The great blade of hattened steel swung from side to side, so that pedcs- trians had to leave a wide path for the suburban friend, on whose face there was no expression of humbled pride, but rather one of joyous determination.
 Hello, there," he said You must excuse me: l can't shake hands. I'm going to lay off tomorrow and help my hired man clear the small timber off my new lots. That's what I'm doing with this saw. Good-by-train goes in two minutes"
The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26
The Other Side.

The foregoing observations. founded on personal experience, had been of fered in the course of general con- versation upon the subject of finding things in pockets. One man listened with amused interest and remarked that there was another side to the story. "I brought out my light over coat the other day, and, as any other man would have done, l felt in the pockets" said he. ''Of course there was forgotten handkerchief, but what interested me more was an un- opened letter addressed to my wife's sister in Ohio. It had never been mailed. ] put on my thinking cap and succeeded in recalling the fact that one day in May my wife had given me that letter with an urgent request that I mail it on my way down town. ! didn't say anything about finding the letter, but I mailed it. If there is any question about the delay I'll put all the blame on the postal service"
 "I suppose every man has found in his last years pocket the letter that was to have been answered next day. SdlU duOLner KNOW tuat I HdVc.
 third man told the following, with the unnecessary assurance that it was strictly true: ''One of our neighbors on the W est side was a.druggist. Up tothe time of his death he was supposed to be carrying life insurance policy for ten thousand dollars. The policy could not be found among his papers either at the store or at the house. The house was rummaged from one end to the other, without success It seemed that the insurance company would not ac- knowledge the policy, claiming it had lapsed from payment of premiums. Now it happened that he belonged to a uniformed secret society. As the lodge was to take charge of the funeral it was thought best to have the de ceased wear his uniform. It was taken out of the box where it had been for months and the man who was dusting it heard crinkle of paper. He thrust his hand into the inside pocket and there was the insurance policy 1t would have been worthless if the man had died ten days later. How it came to be in the inside pocket of that uni form no one could guess"
The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26
A Cinder Policeman.

A conversation heard in State street:
 Do you see that policeman over there?"
 "The one leaning against the cor ner?''
 sYes. We'll, he's called the cinder policeman"
 ''Why sop
 "Because of his job. Every stranger in town and about half the people who live here stop at the corner every day to gaze up at the Masonic temple and count the stories. It takes them some little time to do it. and about one per son out of four, while he is standing in that awkward attitude looking straight upward, catches a cinder in
The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26
A PunCTUAL SCHEME.
MT. Pildur Puts Up Job on Ills Wifi
 Which Reacts on Himself.

MT. Pildur Puts Up . Job on Ills Wife
 Which Reacts on Himself.
 Mir. Pildur is passionatelv fond of cycling, but his wife, who also rides, believes that the best method of loco motion is to follow her husband Mir. Pildur, who likes to take spin in com pany with his friends can scarcely con. ceal his delight when his wife remains at home.
 Mir. and Mrs. Pildur are seated at the breakfast table and have nearly fin ished window is wide open and the sun shines into the room.
 Mir. Pildur Qaying down his napkin and rising from the table)-It is going to be fine day.
 Mrs Pildur Gnsinuatingly)-How pleasant it would be to pedal in the shade of the large trees of the park
 Mir. Pildur Slightly troubled, in an astonished tone)--You ride cycle this morning?
 Mrs. Pildur-sYes, certainly, my dear. If do not go when the weather is fine, when will go?
 Mir. Pildur tmanifestly put out)-I think
 Mrs. Pildur-What. my dear?
 Mir. Pildur Ironically you expect yonr mother this morning, my excellent mother-in-law?
 Mrs. Pildur 0oucheD D-This after noon; you know very well. And do not make fun of mamma.
 Mr. Pildur (starting away grumlsling) Well. do not stop. put on your clothes and do not be long; will go and look at the machines.
 Mrs. Pildur (coaxingly)--What hat shall l wear, my white or blue one?
 Mir. Pildur Gndifferently)-Whi ever you wish, it's all the same to me.
 Mrs. Pildur (going way)-Really, you are not very good-natured this morning.
 Mir. Pildur (once alone talks to him. self)-What luck. My little spin with the Rapid club spoiled. It was great mistake when taught my wife to ride the bicycle. My wife is handsome on the cycle My friends have told me so. have four pneumatics to look after. two machines to verify, two machines to oil, surely I was insane when I bought her splendid bicycle. I have no liberty. I could weep. The mem bers of the club say I am not one of them. Suddenly Mr. Pildur strikes his forehead). Bounds I know what I will do, a neat little trick; l will go with the club. Nle goes out quickly and returns in few moments).
 Mir. Pildur (calling)-Marie! Marie,
 Mrs. Pildur lunning surpriseU = What is it my dear?
 Mir. Pildur tasidc}--It is mean trick Uoudly)- dear How vexatious; your pneumatic is detlated. What q deuce of an invention are these pneu- matics; you think you are ready to start when crack, there's puncture.
 Mrs. Pildur (bursting into sobs)--Oh! Oh.
 Mir. Pildur (aside much moved by the despair of Marie)-Iier tears make me regret the pneumaticide. HLoudly)-- The pneumatic is horrible invention!
 Mir. and Mrs. Pildur go ont to look at the machines and examine the pDeu- matic.
 Mrs. Pildur (whsle weeping examines the pneumatic of her machine, presses it and finds it hard and fully infiated) What did you say, you wicked man? It is all right. Look at it.
 Mir. Pildur (uneasy) y)-What? Gle looks at the wheels of his own machine.) Thunder, I am wrong. It is my own pneumatic that have punctnred..-Le Veloce.
The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26
RREsT CITY, ARK. FRIDAY AFTERNOON OCTOBER 2e 1894

his eye. As soon as he. or especially as soon as she, begins to rub the eye and show signs of distress the police man steps up and says: Here, I'll take that out for you He does it, too, for he has had much practice and is really expert. Some of us around the corner have watched him day by day and are thinking of sending in petition to have him promoted because of his val uable services"
The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26

Certainly it's me or I, whichever one you choose"
 Do you know l hardly recognized you? Have you been sick?" Not exactly You haven't seen me for three years, have you? I've lost forty pounds-been reducing for two years"
 "Reducing?'
 s'Why, yes. Two years ago put my self under the care of physician to be treated for obesity. He began giving me small pills. eight pills at a dose, dose every hour. haven't done anything for two years except count pills. wake up in the night and find myself saying: One, two, three,' and so on. I take pills the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. There are small pills scattered loose in the bureau drawers and l can find them in any pocket. It's become such a mat ter of habit with me that l don't have to look at the clock. On the stroke of the hour. out comes the bottle and l find myself dropping eight pills into the palm of my hand. The pills have done the work, but I don't believe 1 can break away from the habit. How many of the things do you sup pose l t"ve takel? Just for fun the other day I made an estimate eight at dose, an average of six teen doses day, and 3e5 days in the year. Here are the figures" With these words the emaciated man 
 Is doses.
 5 at d dose.
 i2s in one day.
 365
 6s0
 -68
 3S4
 46,7a0 in one year.
The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26
He Would Live Aiwaxs.

A man who was deeply in debt was sick unto death. until I had paid off my debts"
 ''Humph." sneered the doctor, blunt ly. you want to live forever, do you?" Texas Siftings.
The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26
An Insuisitlve Young Woman.

'.So this is your studio. Mr. Dobb?" .sYes"
 And these are your brushes?' ..Yes."
 And where do you keep the trowe. with which you lay on yonr eolor?s- Judge.
The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26
46, 20 in one year.

93,44D in two years. No wonder he lost forty pounds = Chicago Record
The Forrest City times., 1894-10-26
es.4so Pills.

Great Scott. Foster, is it really you?'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-30
Stand by Your Friends.

We have been compelled to send out a
large amount of statements requesting inn
mediate payment for the reason that we
need the money now. We hope and trust
that these friends will not neglect this mat.
ter. 1t is important, friends, that you do
this.
We want to say also, to those who are in
arrears for small amount tone year or
less) that they too, will make an effort
to pay at once. Weneed the money in our
business, and this call for what is due is
urgent. Don't force us into compromising
position when the amount from each is
such small matter-but means much
to us and your cause in Linn county.
Send us dollar and due credit will be-
given you on the book. How many will
respond and show their appreciation OF
what labors have done, and may yet
do in this work.-Torch of Liberty.
We see many of our best exchanges pub
fishing such notices as the above. We
deeply regret it. Such items show the real
weakness of our cause. These are no or
binary times. The corporations are making
desperate effort to steal the homes OF
our people. They are assisted by hundreds
of oily tongued scoundrels-lawyers, preach.
ers and prominent citizens''-who are max.
ing c<%ry effort to deceive the common
people whom they desire to rob There is
only possible preventative, and that is
the ability of our people to see through
their schemes, and vote for men with
nOnOT enough anu nerve " tnWdE
them. Dr. Lyman Beecher was right when
he said, I'VE must educate or we must
perish" Many an honest competent edi-
tor has been driven from the field because
the lethargy of the people whose fight he
was waging left him to the mercy of his
and their foes.
The fact is, the reform press is today the
only bulwark of the liberties of the people.
If that is removed our serfdom is certain.-
Topeka Populist.
Truer words than these were never
spoken. In the battle that is now on be-
tween the corporations, representing the
organized selfishness of the Nineteenth CEN
fury, and the people, whose economic indie
pendence is attacked, almost all power Is
on the side of and in the hands of the corr
porations. Instances that prove this WIFI
not here be cited. The records of the past
few months not forgotten that they
need be rehearsed Bench and bar, COM
gress and legislature, pulpit and rostrunl,
have rendered decisions and offered argu-
ments enacted laws and interpreted Them
prayed, preached and acclaimed. all in the
interests of the corporation monster that
is devouring not only the substance OF the
poor, but the very pillars of justice, equity
and freedom on which our governmen1
rests-The Vanguard, Chicago
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-30

1T apo ars as though when lawyer is
erected TO congress and steps inside the
sacred precincts of the capitol he is at once
affl1cted with softening of the BRAIN We
are gravely informed that Mr. Tawney, of
the First congressional district of Mime
sofa, has introduced bill for the purpose
of enforcing arbitration by law. Has Mr..
Iawney been so long in ransackng
musty law books and distorting Justice in
the interest of corporations that the citizen
has some shadow of a claim to personal
liberty?
Our state constitution contains a. proyi-
sion that a man shall not be imprisoned for
debt This provision is an assurance that
his personal liberty shall not be invaded and
ms freedom become subject to the Whm of
one OF his fellow citizens. Now comes Mr.
Tawney, who would have law enacted
deprlving the citizen of his right to work
or play, as in his judgment he deems for
his best interests
Mr.. Tawney will never See the day when
the labOrer will be forced to labor for the
individual against his will, except for
crime; nor the citizen be- forced to operate
his plant against his will; but he will see
the time when franchises will be operated
for the interests OF the community and
not according to the whims of private en-
terprise 81
This bill being introduced so short time
after the strike on the Great Northern rail
way seems to bear the ear-markS of the
corporations back office, and it seems to
us, at least, like folly, following, as it does
SO close on the unlearnt lesson of Judge
Jenkins rebuke by. the congressional com
mittee. t.-r
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-30
SOW Err, SCATTER THY SEED.

Inc face of the earth is furrowed deep,
by share and harrow riven,
The sun in the morning seems fan to sleep
'And the moon comes late at even;
But the sun shall SMILE and the clouds
shall weep,
And the pitiful moon shall plead
New life to bring in the spring. the spring
Sewer, scatter thy seed
Silently, aimlessly into the clod
Falleth the seed; in glOam
1t quickens, and cleaves to the nourishirfS
sod
Til it bursts into light and bloom,
A product fresh from the hands of God
"A mystery none may rede,
Inc awakening of the spring, the spring!
Sewer, scatter thy seed
Scatter thy seed with a lavish hand,
though foes behind thee follow,
For what they spoil will return to the land
Through their bodies rank and hollow:
ANA cleansed of their carrion presence, and
From touch of their tallons freed,
Sweet life it will fling round the spring.
the spring.
Sewer, scatter thy seed
For the seed will grow to mighty crop,
And the sower shall reaper be,
And the receiving rocks will be fain to
stop
When their wondering eyes shall see
Each blade and shoot with thinking TOP
And ears and eyes to heed
so hurrah for May! and the Labor day!
When the sower scatters his seed
-BARDOLPH.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-30

Registration offices for the unemployed
nave been placed every ward and after
Saturday the names of all men out of en-
ployment will be received! and the registra-
ton offices will be in the nature of free
employment bureaus at which work Gamble
secured, provided the council can be in
duced to act. The registration offices are
located as follows:
First-816 Second street northeast
Second-201 Washington avenue south
east.
Thrd-312 Plymouth avenue north.
Fourth-Room II Lumber Exchange.
Fifth-501 Washington avenue SOUTH
SiXth-621 Cedar avenue south.
Seventh-Corner Eighteenth avenue south
and Lake street
Eighth-Corner Nicollet and Lake street
Ninth - Corner Summer and Adams
streets.
Tenth-Corner Washington and Twenty
ninth avenue north.
Eleventh - 29l1 Thirty second avenue
south.
Twelfth-2613 East Twenty-ffth street.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-30
LABOR DEPARTMENT
HON. THos. II. LUCAS. EDITOR.

Our iron lands are Under the control of
one man, and our IRON miners are starving
and kept in subsection by military force.
They have handed our pine forests into
the Keeping of ring, aid the price of
lumber is higher, and wages are depressed.
Our copper is conttolledIby France and
our tin by England Nv &c
For the benefit of Spectators in the peo-
pies land, foreign emigration. to this coun-
try has been encoura ged and then the
helpless foreigner, ignorant Of our language
ana customs, has been turned loose to COM
pete with our own labor In order 90 live
reducing the American laborer to a level
below that of foreign nations
They have allowed corporations, under
the mask of deputy marshaIs. to employ
Pinkertons and thugs to coerce the dis
contented labor into submission; and when
those have failed, the state and national
military forces have been invoked to assist
them.
When the people have exercised their con-
stltut1onal right to petition congress for a
redress of grievances, they have been
dubbed, by authority and in the presence
OF members OF congress- under the shadow
OF the dome of the capitol
Nhen the people have been quietly and
peaceably marching along the highways
they have been arrested, without warrant
OF law, at the point Of the bayonet and
Kept in the rain and cold, endangering
health and life
Ihey have been compelled to encamp on
unhealthy grounds, and the horrors of the
military prison in time of war been in
llcted on peaceable unemployed people in
Tune of peace. making poverty a nation al
crime punishable with death
We therefore, believing in the capacity of
49, people of the United States to govern
themselves and to peaceably remedy all the
evils that aff1ct them, and believing
that by wise laws all citizens may be COM
pletely protected i'll their right to equal
share of the bountes of nature and the
rights of children and unborn generations
may have ample security for their natural
| inheritance do solemnly declare here in the
presence of all we hold dear, by our
hearths and firesides, we pledge our sacred
honor never to stop our endeavors to re-
gain our freedom, until the last vestge of
tyranny and bad government be abolished.
We ask all good citizens to unite with us in
our patriotic endeaVors
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-30

The Penny Press is at loss to account for
the fact that SOLDIERS do not make good
witnesses" There is nothing singular in
this. when from the statements of the
press it appears that Capt. Hedberg was
abused and finally shot because he was
fortunate enough to raise in the army by
merit. and had not come from the national
mandatory of earistocrats located at
West Point and supported by charity out of
the public crib sC
If a captain could be nsulted and shot by
a subordinate, what abuse is there for the
private that dares to tell the truth under
oath before conrt? He at once becomes
the target for the vengeance of every
petty tyrant that has graduated from the
soup kettles of West Point.
Willard j. Hull. of Buffalo, N. Y de-
livered an address Thursday evening be-
fore the Trades and Labor Assembly at
Labor Temple, on the subject, Outlines of
the Coming Civilization
The address was one of the finest efforts
we have ever listened to. Every sentence
contained words that sccrched our present
plutocratic system of economics in a man
ner fully as scathing and effective as Rob-
ert Ingersoll does the false ideas of re-
ligion. His lecture, given free is worth
more than IngersolTs, as it appertain to
this earth and what we know.
Here is the condition of the unemployed
according to the public statement at a
recent meeting of Geo. d. Holt, of the
Association Charities:
There are in our city today, from the
most careful estimates 1 have been able to
make, LOIS female heads of families wives
and widows), 1856 male heads of families
Husbands and widowers), 1926 adults, sin
gle women; 1920 adults, single men, 40
girls (minors), 1,155 boys minors), a total
of 1900 persons that are actually obliged