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The Forrest City times., 1895-11-01
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
Arkansas odd Fellows.

The grand lodge of odd fellows or Arkansas held their annual meeting at Little Rock. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Grand master, Dr. E. H. Stevenson. Fort Smith; deputy grand master. Dr. ]. o. A. Sullivan, Waldron; general warden, o. W. Scarborough, Newport; general secretary. J. B. Freidheim, Camden; general treasurer, Il. Ehrer- berry, Little Rock; representative to the sovereign grand lodge, J. r. Paul. St. Paul.
 The grand encampment elected the following officers for the ensuing year: A. S. Jett. Fulton, grand patriarch; Theodore Redway, Little Rock. grand high priest; Henry Cohen. Hot Springs, grand senior warden; G. w. Moriarity, Huntington. grand junior warden; J. B. Freidheim, grand scribe; K. Ehren- berg. Little Rock, grand treasurer; J. B. Freidheim, grand representative to the sovereign grand lodge for two years; T. Lone, Springdale. grand marshal; Gus G. Griffith, Little Rock. grand inside sentinel; John F. Dan- lels, Newport, grand outside sentinel.
The Forrest City times., 1895-11-01
Train-wreckers at Work.

The St. Louis and Hot Springs spe- cial south bound, in charge of Con- ductor James Brandon and Engineer Frank Wilson, was wrecked about 8 miles north of Malvern, on the Iron Mountain road, the other day. There were about eighty passengers aboard. who escaped injury. Fireman E. J. Boiling was the only one seriously hurt He was badly scalded about the head, neck and arms, and received some in- iuries about the spine and hips.
 The wreck was caused by someone placing large square iron nut in the top of a rail at a joint. The road makes sharp curve at this point, and there is also heavy down grade. The en- zine was made almost a complete wreck. The baggage car was thrown from the trucks and turned across the track. The smoking car was thrown from the front trucks and off the track.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18
The Wrong Cards.

II made the mistake OF my lifetime
the other day." complained a young
woman to a friend in a street car as
the two rode down town together.
"What did you do, dears" asked he,
friend alphabetically.
ooh, its too stupid to think of.
feel crushed over it. You know
called on Mrs. Blank, who has mel
with a recent affection. 1 had just
one card, and as did not expect SHE
would see ME, I wrote, coincidence ir
one corner and had it ready to leave.
"Why that was correct, dear"
"Wait till tell you all. Mrs. B
saw me, and told her troubles, and
talked, and I didn't leave my card
But l went from there direct to return
call owed in that neighborhood or
BRIDE"
eyes. You've guessed it. She was
out, and l left that card, and never
once thought OF the word l had writer
on it. l hardly know her at all, so she
will not take it as u joke, and-well
there is only one hope I have left"
"What is that, dear?"
THAT the writing was so bad thai
she can't read it, and will think it il
some kind of a new fad"
The two friends left the car at thai
point.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18

c!cc trlcity through the wire 10y mean
OF a powerful dynamo. At once an
immense magnetic force was developed.
Iou may have seen little horseshoe
magnet, and how several steel pens
may be made to hang from it, This
big magnet does the same thing with
five cannon balls which represent a
down pull of 1925 pounds. They
hang together, one over the other, 10y
an area OF surface which can be
theoretically, but a point. At first,
for convenience sake, in lifting heavy
weights an iron pulley with quarter
inch chain was used, but when the
pulley were OF no use. The chain be-
came as rigid as if it had been a bar
oil solid steel and riveted to the gun.
| saw man stand at distance Of
some three feet from the gun, and
putting an iron spike against his
breast, the spike would stand out
straight, as if he were magnet.
Then he covered his chest with iron
spikes like a porcupine.
a heavy piece of railroad iron,
weighing fully fifty pounds, when
pushed into the muzzle OF the cannon,
was showed out certain distance and
then drawn back by the magnetic
force. The soldiers who work the
magnet derive some amusement from
the gun. When they see green
man they say to him, Billy, just
hand us that crowbar leaning against
the gun" Billy, anxious to help,
tries to take the crowbar, and finds
that he cannot bulge it, pull, haul, or
strain all he may. 1t requires the
efforts OF two men, with a sudden jerk,
to pull away from the gun an iron
bar weighing about twenty-fi pounds.
This gun was mounted on great
iron carriage fully twenty feet long.
The whole carriage was magnetic. Big
nails would stick to it anywhere. i
made long pendants of nails. 1t was
curious to see railroad spikes lift them
selves up on wooden platform, as if
they were live things making ready 10
spring at the gun.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18
Unhealthy Churches.

The medical officer of health for the
city of London has started movement
to compel all the churches Of the city to
remove the dead that are buried
beneath their floors, and bury them at
llford. 1t is said that the condition of
many of these churches Is frightfully
unhealthy. as they literally stand over
a mass of dead bodies in various stages
of decay, from which it is wonder
that a pestilcnce has not resulted long
ago. The move has created great cons
formation among the vestrymen of the
churches, as the process of exclamation
will be expensive as well as dangerous,
the average cost per church being esti-
mated at ten thousand dollars One
warden positively refused to allow any
interference with the dead, but when
the health officer had the flooring of his
pew taken up. and showed him what
lay beneath him every Sunday, he
quickly changed his mind. One man
tried to block the proceedings by
claiming the body of mis- grandfather,
which was buried in one of the aisles
of the church some fifty years ago. He
was told that he could have it, of
course, all that was necessary was for
him to identify it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18
DANGER OF FOOTBALL
Muscular and Nervous Stamina Needed 1
tho Came, and Plenty Of Each.

Muscular and Nervous Stamina Needed In
tho Game. and Plenty OF Each.
Few except those who have been
through the experience are aware what
exertion and strain and exhaustion q
holly contested football match in
wolves. 1t is all a great deal more than
appears on the surface, and the self
control required in the midst of great
excitement adds to the nervous tension
besides the physical fatigue This of
itself is enough to try an average man,
but when to it is added the struggles.
the falls, the grapplings, the blows
(for, according to the Philadelphia
Times, there are blows once in awhile),
It requires stamina and real endurance
as we'll as strength to stand it. Be-
cause the men on the opposite sides in
the field are not seen squaring off and
striking at each other in regular Sulli-
van-Corbett stvle, it does not follow
that there are not scientific ways in
which in the tussels man can be ma
terially weakened, or some particularly
aggressive member of it disabl Let
any man in fair condition be suddenly
thrown to the ground and then have
one or two heavy men, or it may be
seven or eight, fall and throw their
weight on him. Possibly his hand may
he under one of their feet, or in the fall
one of their forearms may have choked
him across the neck. How much wind
and energy will an average man have
after one such experience as that? And
yet it is a common football experience
fight than he cares to admit, and So he
makes light % it and plays on for the
sake of the college or team and from
self-pride. But games appear to be
growing rougher, and there are a great
many accidents and injuries, and,
taking all the teams in and around
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18

Americans cat good many things
unknown TO Europeans and others
which the p"opl" on the other side
woUld not cat even il they had a
chance. Bananas, sweet potatoes,
popcorn, and peanuts are almost I'M
known in Europe \ young Chicago
an Gid not know this, and it cost him
several thousand dollars to find il out.
He returned from the Antwerp Expo
>i'IOn last week, where he expert
mented with the sale of popcorn and
peanuts. and the stories he tells of his
experience are amusing.
! knew the conces>ionaires at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago earned money
out OF nickel bags of popcorn and pea
nuts" he said. "The firm who had
the concession here made something
like 100000. had $1,000 or s. 900
saved mp Tor Il GOO! Investment. and
so when the Fair closed here | made
application for the sole concession Of
the sale OF popcorn at Antwerp
There were no competitors and ! got
the concession. Now | wish | had
not. bought up all the popcorn and
peanut roasters left over from the Fair
and went down South and purchased
a carload Of peanuts and made con-
tracts for several other carloads to be
shipped later on. But did not need
them. The paraphernalia, together
with several hundred bags OF old corn
and peanuts. went over and followed
it. Alter weeks of hard work / was
ready for business. But there was
none. Money is less plentiful in Eu-
rope than in the United States. These
people over there thought as much of
five centimes as an American thinks
OF half dollar. saw l had TO make
low price for my stuff, so l put the
popcorn and peanuts on sale at Is
centimes bag, which is equal TO three
cents in United States money. Well,
had my hopes built up and before l
started to sell dreamed of bagsful of
2O-franc pieces and what l would do
with them when got back to Chicago.
You can imagine my surprise when l
saw what the first woman did who
had induced her companion to buy a
bag OF popcorn. She bit piece in
two, looked scared, and then exclaimed
in French: "Why, it is cork. The
Americans want to poison u.s."
Her companion tasted the corn
and jabbered something in French
and then took the whole bag and
threw it away. When l saw this l
was ready to faint. One after another
the popcorn bags found their way to
the floor. My hopes shattered, l still
had confidence in the peanuts. But
they did not like them either. They
broke the shells, took out the nuts,
hull and all, munched them, and cried
'B r-r-r! and the peanuts went the
way of the popcorn. How did l come
out? l came out, and that is about
all. stayed there six weeks, and
after 1 lost my money started to see
some of the Continent. Now l am
glad that l am in Chicago, and I don't
want anything to do with peanuts or
popcorn in Europe hereafter. 1t has
been a lesson to me, and 1 paid S., 700
for it; still / guess it is worth its
price,"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18
Novel Use for the Ferris Wheel.
Philadelphia Ledger.

Novel Use for the Ferris Wheel.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Ferris wheel has been q sort OF
white elephant on the hands of the
owners ever since the Worlds Fair.
1t paid very well there, but since they
have not known what to do with it.
1t is now proposed to take it to New
York and turn it into sort OF gigantic
elevator to carry people to roof gar
den and skating rink, which will be
the highest in the world. The plan is
to erect the wheel as it stood in Chi.
cago. Outside of the wheels and
trellis work will be four steel columns.
These columns will run closer to.
gether as they ascend until the top is
reached. 900 feet, where a steel plat.
form 200 feet square, will be con.
structed. Ascending from four corn
ers OF the platform will be four more
steel columns, running up forty feet
to a pyramid tower, protected by a
railing, which will serve as an observa-
tory. In summer the platform will be
open and used for a roof garden. In
winter it will be closed in with glass
and heated with steam. Mr.. Ferris
believes the platform will be sufficient
ly large to allow room for stage and
an orchestra when it is desired to use
it as a roof garden.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18
PERSIA IN A BAD WAY.
The Shah Now Under the Control OF .
Priestly Oligarchy.

The Shah Now Under the Control Of .
Priestly Oligarchy.
The internal affairs of Persia seem to
be proceeding steadily from bad to
worse. A correspondent of the London
Times, who declares that he has the
highest authority for his statements.
writes: The priestly caste, which has
always enjoyed greater authority in
Persia than in Mussulman countries OF
the Sunni persuasion, although hum
bled by the present ruling dynasty,
has exploited to the utmost the prevail
ing discomfort for the furtherance Of
its own ends and the revival of its own
prestige. Mahdist doctrines-i. e., the
belief in the speedy advent to the
twelfth Imam, who is to sweep the I'M
believers off the face of the earth-have
always had a strong hold upon Shiite
Mohammedans. During the last Muhar-
rem festivals the priesthood announced
in many mosques that a mahdi and
eavior unto Persia had risen at Samara,
near Bagdad, in the person of Mollah
Hail Mira Hassan Shirazi. and that
he was predestined to rule over the
land. This ominous announcement was
rendered stin more significant by the
omission of the khutbeh, the prayer for
the shah, which throughout Islam is the
most ancient and sacred privilege of
royalty. These incidents acquire all the
more gravity that the shah feels him
self helpless to cope with the impend-
ing crisis. Treachery is rampant with
in the palace itself, and the shah's third
Son, Prince Naib-es-Sultaneh, who is at
the same time minister Of war, is known
to be in secret sympathy with the NAL
content leaders. 1t is no exaggeration
to say that the shah rules in little more
than name, and, as it were, on suffer-
ance. The power, both in the capital
and the provinces, almost throughout
his empire, has passed out Of his hands
into those of the priestly oligarchy,
who are the masters Of the situation.
The grand vizier himself-Emin-es-Sul
tan-has been compelled to enter into
secret negotiations with the most influ-
entail of these holy agitators, NOLAN
Mira Hassan Ashtiany, in the hope.
it is alleged, of persuading him
that the deposition Of the shah would
involve the occupation and possible par
tition of the last great shah kingdom
by the very Europeans whose presence
is SO loathful to every right-thinking
Mussulman."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18
The COLLEGE "GRlNO.
He Works. Economi.es and Becomes
Earlu.e

The "iiarvard grind is a term used
s,.r;,alnr. s..i., .!lr Boston Herald. The
ham or :...:,a t.'.iA The Cd custom
ln"i h..'. = .,r;r.I., Gown an! working
hard :. f,,v ,la., h.'furc examination.
! .!.;,...-. "....:l = f,.,lu,v W. lii.nvn t.
i""-i' up TAI grinding PROCESS ,:ruuFn-
cat the term. he soon went under the
caption 81 grind" The name has
NOW become an established term in
Harvard l.fc, and the visitor is now
shown thc yrinj's headquarters, the
rr.ni'~ table in uur dining hall. and the
Erind'N haunte.
To see him in his true light. the
grind must be hunted out at different
times "f the year. I traced up one of
these fellows year ago in the dead Of
winter He lived in an upstairs room,
eigh: by eight feet; no stove in the
kind, for, in fact. there was not room
for any; a small single bed across one
side. "a bureau across the other and q
little table under the one window. In
the narrow aisle in the center there was
room but for one chair. A light carpet
on the floor, a looking glass set in the
bureau top, and one or two wall decora-
tons completed the furnishings Of the
room. 1t was totally wanting in all
those little artistic designs so char
actcristic Of the Harvard room. No
fine art lectures practiced as pre-
scribed there 10y Prof. Norton; no
trace OF bric-a-brac and crimson deco
ration. In short, it was a sort OF den
in which man could eat and sleep
and have his being"
To be sure. this was not an attract.
I've lodging. but, rs the occupant in
formed me, he could study there and
the room cost him only two dollars
per week. When l ventured the sug-
gestion that it must be very risky liv-
ing there without n fire in the dead OF
winter. he said he usually worked in
one OF the university private libraries
during the day and until ten o'clock at
night. Upon seeing small oil cook
stove in one corner l made a great
venture upon its use and found that
this student was doing his own cook
ing. I also learned that his laundry
bills were a minimum. In short, that he
was living on one dollar and fifteen
cents per week, according to his own
figures.
Here is rare case, but one not near
ly as rare as might be expected at first
thought. Because men are students
in a university does not make oil of
them aspire to anything socially.
Here is an actual case where a man
turned himself into q recluse. did his
own cooking and washing, and spent
every minute grinding over books.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18

The worldwide reputation of Ayers
Hair Eigor, is due to its healthy ac-
ton on the hair and scalp. This in.
comparable preparation restores the
original color to gray and faded hair,
and imparts the gloss and freshness so
much desired by all classes of people.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18
MISSING LINKS.

The product of the wax tree OF tn,
Andes cannot be distinguished from
beeswax.
The OnchidIum. species OF shell
less snail (slug) has innumerablt
eyes on its back.
The two fields of Waterloo ant
Lidden are each covered with a crol
OF crimson poppies every year.
The power of herculite, as a new
explosive, is almost beyond belief. A
half pound of it will move thirty tom
of stone.
The new churches in the new town
OF Enid, o. T., has no bells yet, and
the town fire bell is rung every Sun
day to announce the hour of religion:
services. This must by very sugges-
tive to sinners.
A Frenchman has constructed an
electric walking-stick, OF which the
knob contains small electric lamp
in a thick glass bulb, the battery
being 10 cells of peculiar shape
down the cane itself. The lamp gives
sufficient light to read newspaper in
a train or to light oneself upstairs at
night.
There is in New York city a police
man who has managed on pay never
exceeding $1,000 year, and without
opportunity for unlawful gains, to
put one son through famous college
and to graduate him in medicine; to
get another q commission the navy
and to send two daughters to one oil
the best women's colleges.
The San Franciscans are apprehen.
sive that the commercial supremacy
of their city will ere long be challenged
by the city of Los Angeles, which is
growing rapidly. In the first nine
months of this year over 900 building
were put up there, or more than have
been put up in San Francisco in any
recent year. Los Angeles has also
taken away good deal of the trade 81
San Francisco.
A Las Vegas IN. N.Y. newspaper CALI
the attention of patriotic New Mexi
cans to the fact that Arizona has IL!
inmates in its State Insane Asylum
while New Mexico, with nearly three
times the population of Arizona, hal
only fifty in its asylum. Further, Ar
izona's insane. population has in
creased 80 per cent. in the las
eighteen months. The newspapers
urges that I" the next legislature should
remedy this crying defect"
Serum, for the treatment of diphthe
ria, has been obtained 80 far in Franc,
from old hack horses. The French
government now proposes to give the
Pasteur Institute the first choice il
the selection OF horses condemned a.
no longer fit for the French cavalr,
service. 1t takes from six to eight
cen months to prepare a horse t.
urnish the serum used in the latest
cure for diphtheiia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18
LOVING BROTHERS AND SISTERS
There Are Undoubtedly Many Noted Onea
r In Our History.

There Arc Undoubtedly Many Noted Ones
B. In Our History.
One of the saddest declarations ever
made was that of a man who had lived
q stormy domestic life on account Of
the claims of property, says the Youths
Companion.
Don't talk to me about the love Of
brothers and sisters" he said, bitterly
"At heart they always hate each
other"
The evidence of history gives the lie
to this saddening conclusion. Among
the most beautiful souls we know there
has been the strongest and most last
ing fraternal attachment.
The beautiful Margaret Of Navarro
was devoted to her brother, Francis /.
When she was apparently dying at
Madrid she found her way to him
through privation and danger and sue
ceeded in effecting his deliverance.
When he was ill at q distance from
her she went every day and sat down
on stone in the middle Of the road to
catch the first glimpse of messenger
afar off. And she said:
"Ah! whoever shall come to announce
the recovery of the king. MY brother,
though he be tired, jaded, soiled, dis
heveled, / will kiss him and embrace
him as though he were the finest
gentleman in the kingdom"
When he died she seemed literally
heart-broken and she did not long sur
vive him.
Sir William and Caroline Herschel
seemed to have but single thought in
their common occupation Of studying
the stars. One swept the heavens with
the telescope and the other patiently
noted down the results. Together they
reached old age, always interested
in the same pursuit and always de-
votedly attached to each other.
Goethe was always the loving friend
and partisan of his sister Cornelia.
II was again drawn toward home"
he writes concerning one of his fire.
quent excursions, land that by mag
net which attracts me strongly at all
times. 1t was my sister"
To approach our own time and
tongue more nearly is to find Dorothy
Wordsworth, who lived in her brothers
ambitions and desires. Byron found
his good angel in his sister Augusta.
Charles Lamb and Mary were friends
true and tried, and the poet Whittier
lived, loved and worked in the delight
full companionship Of his sister, Of
whom he said after her death that
1.-THE sad measure of his love for her
was the vacancy left by her departure"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18

The County Commissioners have
granted permission to the Pierce
County Power and Telegraph Com
pany to string wires and erect poles
on the county road to the Nisqually
river. This is the company which
proposes to furnish the city with cleo.
trio power, and will build big plan
for the purpose at the Nisqually river
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18
italian Etiquette.

. II the woman who visits Rome
wishes to follow tradition and do as
the Romans do" she will be careful
never to take an escorts arm in q
Catholic church. Indeed, the guides
instruct those who stroll innocently
arm in arm about st. Peters, looking
at the pictures, frescoes and affairs Of
that wonderful cathedral, that they
are committing an improperly. Ital-
tans are very particular about the
etiquette Of kissing the hand. A Ipan
kisses the right hand of his mother,
aunt or elderly friend, and the left
hand Of his sweetheart. 1t is not per-
mitted him to kiss the palm of the
hand except in great and affectionate
intimacy; it is regarded as token that
he is very much in love. Upon arriv-
ing at formal dinner q gentleman
takes the hand of his hostess and bends
low over it as if about to kiss it, but
does not do SO. Aftcr-dinner etiquette
demands that he take her hand again
and kiss it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-18
The Largest Magnet In the World,
From narpers Young People.

From harpers Young People.
Willetts Point is government sta.
ton commanded by Lieutenant
Colonial r. w. King, and here it is
that engineering officers OF the United
States Army get their polishing off
Electricity has SO much to do to-day
with the prote ction of land approaches
by means OF torpedoes, and an enemy
ships are to be blown to atoms by the
help of submarine boats, that electric
ity may be said to be always on tap
at Willetts Point.
Colonel King having handy large
cannon weighing $4,000 pounds, and
a quantity OF old torpedo wire, took
fourteen miles of the wire, coiled it
around the big cannon, and passed