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The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
HOME REVIEW DEPARTMENT.
AUTHENTICATE CLASS.

<Aht Ia hNs n t<-hop'
l. A certain mans income
is IS, 700 annually; he gives 9
per cent. of it to the
b,srch and II per cent. to the
cause of education. How
much doee he give away?
.. John had S25 and gave
$3.50 to the church. What
per cent. was that of the
whole!
l. Add Sl34; s5s: SO 3-5;
and Sl2 1-10.
9. What is the sum of: J of
); 3-5 Of 6, and ( !
CLASS.
|. A lady sold to a mer-
chant 1926 worth of peas, 3
turkeys for 81. Is, Z lbs. of
butter for S1.05, and 6 dozen
eggs for S0.75: how much
money should she receive!
D CLASS.
l. Write in figures: five
hundred and seventy.fve.
9. Write in figures: two
hundred and seventy-three
thousand and forty-one.
3. If john picks 1913 lbs. of
cotton on Monday, 145 lbs,
Tuesday, and S4 lbs, Wednes.
day; how much does he pick?
GRAMMAR CLASS.
l. Name and define these
sentences: John, go to school;
Are you going to school? i
John loves to read.
2. How are sentences clas-
sified with respect to form!
|. What is an adjective?
3. Point out the adjectives
in the following sentences: A
large apple is on the table;
The bad boy is in the house.
HISTORY.
|. After whom was Ameri- |
ca nameds Why!
9. How many voyages did |
Columbus make? |
PHYSIOLOGY.
/. How are the bones of the
head divided!
9. How many bones in the
skull9
3. In how many ways may
we stunt the growth of the
body?
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
CORRESPONDENT SCHOOL.

Plans for carrying on q Cores.
pondent School:
We urge each student to get the
following text books,
l. Rays Arithmetic, Third Book.
2, Harvey's Erglish Grammar.
8. Barnes U. S. History.
A. CornelPs Geography.
5. Steele's Physiology.
6. Harrlngton's SFeller.
However, We shall endoavor to
so conduct the examinations that
any series of text books may be
used.
We ask our subscribers to form
themselves into literary socitles
and wherever there are thirty or
more organized into society, wo
will visit them once every three
months TO give general instruct
ions and to examine them in the
studies.
Everyone that makes 80 or
more, we will publish his name.
We will ask questions weekly and
will expect tho pupils to an
swer them in writing and to keep
the same until the instructor comes
around.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07

At A. NJ. E. Church. Sunday
school at 8 u. m. Preaching at ii
q. m at p. m. and at Up. m.
Rev. R. R. Block, P. c.
At NJ. E, Church. Sunday school
at 8 a. m. Preaching at II a. M,
Epworth League at 3 p. M
Preaching at 1880 p. m. The
Children's Missionary Band meets
at 4p. m.
Rev. W, S. Sheriff., P. c.
AT 1st Baptist church. Sunday
school at 8 a. m. Preaching at 3
p. m. and 7 p. m.
Rev. J. N. Suggs, Pastor.
At Second Baptist church Sun
day school at 9 a. m. Preaching
ut 4 q. m. also al 3 and I p. m.
Rev. Avant, Pastor.
At G. NJ. +. church. Sunday
school at 8 a. m. Preaching at III
q. m, anu i'oV p in'
Rev. White, pastor.
At A. M. E. Zion church. Sun
day school at 8 ani preaching at
IL p. M, and 7.3O p. m.
Rev. J. A. Miner, pastor.
For the benefit of pleasure seek
ers and lovers of literary exer-
cises, the Literary society meets
at the A. NJ. Il. church on Tuesday
evening at 1880. The TURNER Club
meets on Sunday at 4:3O p. m.
Carrie B. Ronals, Pres.
Gilloy Hare, Sec.
Frnchie Waterford, Treas.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
On last Sunday, March l,

On last Sunday, March l,
the First Baptist Sunday
School elected the following
officers for the ensuing year:
j. II. Cutler, superintendent;
Sol Purifoy, secretary; Mrs.
Lydia Cook, treasurer; Prof.
W. l.. Purifoy, teacher of
class No. /; Miss Callie
Thompson, teacher of class
No. 9, Miss Florence Gate.
wood, teacher of class No. 3;
Miss Ella Clark, Librarian.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07

Mr.. EDIToR:-
We are glad you have an
interest in us. We have read
your paper with much de.
light. We have selected a
class and intend to keep up
with it. Don't fail to ask
some questions each Week.
Your pupils,
CLARENCE MILES,
WILLIE JONES,
JONAS SMITH.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
Circuit court next week.

Circuit court next week.
Subscribe for THE FORREST
CRY HERALD.
We are sorry our school is
drawing so near to a close.
DIR. d. M. Darden is called
to Nashville, Tenn, to see his
father who is very sick.
If you wish to learn Fancy
Work, call to see Miss A gatha
G. Bolden, Forrest City, Ark.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
0RTu0GRAPHY.

ga" class in Orthograpby will
co mmence with tho lesson IN
Harrington's Spollor and so or.
range their studies as to spell and
define five words day for tho
first three months.
"B" class in Orthography will
commence with tho first lesson in
Harrington's Speller and so or.
range their studies as to spell and
writo five words q day for tho first
three months.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07

Mr.. Bryant, a colored
photographer, arrived in our
city Thursday, He will be
here some time. He showed
us some of his work and it
was good and very good. We
often abuse our men and wo.
men for not learning some
trade, and when they learn
one they frequently have to
give down for the want of
patronage. Let every one
who wants his photograph
taken, call and see him. He
also solicits the patronage of
the whites. He guarantees
satisfaction.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07

Total, 20,61S,307.
With this host of Christ
ians, why stand we idle wait
ing for the world to come to
Christ? Let us take up the
command of the Master, and
go and compel them to come.
Now all that is left for us to
do after all, is to make the
impression and God will
bring them in.
j. JONES.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07

If you want to learn how
to write call ON Prof. j. c.
Cole.
John Belk sent his preach
er word that he had a fine
boy and please excuse him
from attending church.
Rev. Poke desires to know
who have read in the 7th
book of Moses, where God
said to Moses, go forward. "
Bible reading every Sunday
evening at 4 o'clock at the c.
NJ. E. church. Come out and
take a part. J.C, DAVIDSON,
Leader.
Miss Maggie Williamson
always gives good satisfaction
as a good dress.maker. Call
and see her. She cuts and
fits to older.
If you want your tonsorial
work done to order and be
pleasantly entertained, call
on J. Buckhalter. He never
fails to give satisfaction.
You can get a better suit
of clothes and a better fit for
less money by letting G. W.
Green take your order, as he
understands the business.
Prof. J. H. Blount, one of
the leading educators of our
city and ex-principal of our
city school, is with us anc
we are glad Of his presence.
Call on Al. Smith, when you
want anything in the line Of
brooms. He manufactures
the best broom in Forrest
City and sells it cheap. See
him before purchasing.
Prof. Gettis, the principal
of the Baptist college at
Brinkley, is an able teacher.
One only needs to visit his
school to be convinced of his
fitness to fill the position.
Everybody is cordially in.
vited out to the A. M. L.
church on Friday night, Goth
inst, to hear addresses by
some Of our best thinkers
upon the educational work
among us.
Rev. d. w. Dobson makes
warm friends wherever he
goes. While in Brinkley we
heard several speaking in
commendable terms Of him,
He left many affectionate
friends in Forrest City.
Joe Young, the deacon of
the Baptfst church at Wheat.
ley, always treats us with
kindness when passing
through his town. He in.
forms us that they expect to
elect a pastor next Sunday.
Messrs. Ingram and Coop.
er spoke encouragingly Of our
correspondence, They prom.
Use to go to work at once and
form themselves into a school
under auspices of the HER.
ARD. Let others do likewise.
We are here to help educate.
P. w. Robinson has been
employed from time to time
to do some of the finest work
in carpentry that has ever
been done in Forrest City and
has always given complete
satisfaction. Call on him if
you want your work done to
order.
We don't say that the col.
ored man should not strive
to find some place where he
would feel more at home, but
we do say that he should con
c;Jar fhinps wall bafnrp hu
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
Teachers $ League.

Programme for March 20,
1896.
|. Song. :. >. by League.
ii. Necessity of Educa-
tion," Prof. Smith.
Music.
III. Classification of coun.
try schools, Prof. Jackson.
Music.
w. Corporal Punishment,
..............P Prof. Paradise.
Music.
V. Division of school term,
............... Prof. Stuart.
Music.
vi. Duty of parents to
teachers. Miss l.. s. Williams.
Music.
VII. Benefits of Free
Schools. Prof. Roundtree.
Music.
VIII. Enrolment of new
members.
TX. Music and dismission.
WALLACE l.. PURIFoY,
President.
Next meeting of the Teach.
ers League will be the time
to re.elect officers. Let every
teacher be present and show
that he is interested in edu.
cational work.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07

To The Pastors and members
of Tie Forrest City District
h. N. h. Church-Greet.
ing:
DEAR BRErHERN:-I hereby
call your attention to the
District Conference, which
will convene in Forrest City,
March 26, and continue three
days. Each pastor in the
district will please bring
from his charge not less than
one dollar. The larger
charges will please send in
by your pastors $3.50. Breth.
ern, we have been called
upon to help Shorter Univer.
sity, and cannot afford to go
down on the pages of history
blank. therefore, let us bring
up enough money to divide
with your High School.
Now, dear brethern, sup.
posing that you know the
rules of Methodism, / will
not give the topics as per dis.
cipline but suffice it to say,
committees will be appointed
on them at the conference,
and three days is sufficient
for shrewd ministers to 40
the work before us. All the
delegates and local preach.
ers are expected to pay 25c
each to help the great work
on, which is before us. ! am
yours for God and education
J. JONES, p. +.
Forrest City, Ark.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
PHYSIOLOGY,

The class in Physiology will
commence with the first lesson in
tho book and SO arrange their stud.
los as to review tho human skelc.
ton during tho first threo months.
ORTUOGRApUY
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
IlISTORY:

We shall have only one class in
History, and it will commence ut
the first of the book and so ar
range their studies us to review
from tho Discovery of America TO
tho Settlement ut jamestown.
GEOGRAPHY.
The GA" class in Geography will
commence with the first lesson in
the book and so arrange their
studies so as to review tho deini-
ton of terms used IN mathema,i.
ical and physical goograpy and the
map of North America.
The "B" class in Geography will
commence with the first lesson in
Corncll's first step in Geography
and so arrange their studies so az
to review the definitions of tho
Natural Divisions of Land and
Water and the Map of the West
ern and Eastern Homisphcres in
the first threo months.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
Hours of Religious Service.

At A. NJ. E. Church. Sunday
school at 8 u. m. Preaching at IL
q. m at p. m. and at Up. m.
Rev. R. r. Block, P. G.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07

DEAR EDITOR OF THE HERARD:
Please allow space to say
that Peters Rock Baptist
church is truly coming to
life. She has opened a good
Sunday school. Rev. A.
Fields was with us Sunday
and preached a wonderful
Sc mon from the words His
name shall becalled the won.
derful counsellor" Our far.
mers are beginning to prepare
the land for another crop.
Yours for Christ,
j. II. STARKs, Pastor, Linden.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07

We have received several
encouraging words from the
whites. Some have subscrib-
ed. Is it not a fact that they
help us in our efforts for
good!
Mr.. Peter Covington, one
of very enterprising farm
ers was in town Friday. He
subscribed for THE HERALD.
You can always count on
Covington in anything to
help our race.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
PROGRAM:
ARITHMETIC:

The first class will begin in Per-
centago and study so as 10 review
Percentage with its applications
IN Commission, Insurance, Stocks
and Brokerage, in the first threo
months.
Tho second class will begin in
Common Fractions and study so
as to review Addition, Subtraction
and Multiplication of Fractions, in
the first three months.
The third class will begin in
Compound Numbers and study so
as to review Addition, Subtrac-
ton, Multiplication and Division
of Compound Numbers, tho first
three months.
The fourth class will begin: in
Numeration and study so as to re-
view Numeration, Notation, Addi-
ton and Subtraction of Simple
Numbers, the first three months.
Ora I'M n.
The Forrest City herald., 1896-03-07
GRA NJ MAR:

The "a" class will commence in
Syntax and review tho classifica-
ton of sentences, elements, ar
rangemehts, etc.
Tho "B" class will commence in
etymology and review tho nouns
and their properties. also tho pro-
nouns, adjectives and verbs for tho
first three months.
HISTORY:
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20

rier rendered in keeping the ship free
of rats, Owney was forgiven, and the
chickens at length learned better than
TO thrust their heads out to drink when
Owney was around.
Owney left Tacoma the next day over
the Pennsylvania road. His friends, the
railway mail men, provided store of
food for him, including a portion Of
turkey for his dinner.
The second dog to which attention
has been directed by the New York
barge Office. He is bandy-legged
spaniel, brown and notified white, with
ears that flap about. Thomas Nugent,
bridgeman, who was recently drowned,
picked up Jack from the streets four
years ago and taught him to swim.
Jack has lived at the barge Office ever
since. .......#.
One night a drunken man fell be-
tween the racks, and Jack ran to his
master and notified him by barking
that something was wrong. The man
was pulled out more scared than hurt.
On another occasion when Nugent
had jumped into the bay to save life
Jack plunged in too. Somebody pushed
Jack off the seawall once, and Nugent
had to jump into the bay and swim
around the wall into boatmen's slip
because the pier is SO steep that no
man or dog can climb it. Recently Jack
ran and brought the night Waterman
when a homeless man had been pushed
overheard. ...,
Jack catches the heaving lines for the
Shackamaxon between his teeth, and
helps haul ashore the hawsers.
His playmates are Paddy, a barge
Office terrier of superior intelligence
and no tail, and Jewel, of the revenue
cutter Manhattan. Jewel is setter,
and carries the cutters flag to and from
the staff at sunrise and sunset guns.
The World also tells of that almost
human dog Jack, the pet of hook and
ladder company 8, quartered on Eliza
beth street, near Spring. Jack is car
riage dog. He attends all fires with bis
company. He knows the code of gong
strokes so well that the freInen declare
he can tell the location of blaze when
the alarm comes in. He saved James
Hogan, the Bowery Wonder, from be-
ing su1focated at fire in old Military
hall few DAYS ago.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
A LIFE-sAvING STATION.

ton during eight months of the year,
and has the privilege of leaving the
station for "A hours every two weeks
but in lonely stations they generally re-
main for the active season, which be-
gins September /, ending May 1; when
man leaves in May, he goes where he
pleases, and if he does not return in Sep.
tember the keeper gets another man in
his place for the next winter season.
The keeper is held responsible for the
condition of everything connected with
the station; he must drill the men in
their duties, divide the work evenly, and
see that the men are orderly. No liquor
is allowed on the premises; drunken
ness or neglect of duty is punished by
instant dismissal from the ser9ice; the
man who is detailed to cook must keep
the kitchen in perfect order; and each
has his share of the homework to per-
form, for no women live at the stations.
The crew are numbered by the keeper
from one to six, and at midnight preced-
ing September 1 the station goes into
commission; at that hour the keeper
gives patrol equipments to two of the
surfmen, and they start out on the first
patrol, and the active season has fairly
begun; everything runs like clockworll
after that, and as strict discipline is
maintained as on board man-of-war.-
1.-THE Story of Life-Saving Station" by
Teresa A. Brown, in st. Nicholas.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20

Somo Things Learned by an American In
the Transvaa1.

vOmo Things Learned by an American In
the Transvaa1.
"The Peers nre peculiar race and
totally different from and uncongenial
to the Americans and English that live
in the Transvaal The latter are there
for speculative purposes only, and they
are getting rich much more rapidly
than tho 1soers, who, as their name IN
dicates, are farmers or field workers
purely. An ordinary farm covers "a
900 acres, and the proprietors are nc
cumulating with every year. They are
great cattle breeders as well.
THE Beers are very religious people,
their church being the Dutch Re-
formed. There are no Catholics among
them. On their church edifices they
spend literally, and while content to
live in very poor house are determined
to worship amid fine surroundings.
Every three months they hold nacht-
maal, which is nothing more nor less
than monster prayer meeting lasting
ten days. They journey in from their
farms in wagons drawn by bullocks
and these are outspanned in the public
tlide hClC are
many vacant houses in the towns, and
in these the farmers quarter themselves
while in the city. Otherwise, the only
church obser vance until the next
nachtmaal comes is held in their
homes.
81 had the pleasure of meeting Presi-
dent Kruger, os the republic. He is
very shrewd man, and is for the Beers
first, last and all the time. He will fight
the proposition to build railroad into
johannesburg district as long as he has
the breath. The advent of this would
destroy the very profitable transport
business by bullock teams that is now
controlled and carried On by them
selves. All items of commercial na-
ture that enter into the daily opera
tions of The cities are carried in from
kimberley, the railroad terminus, 300
miles away, by these bullock teams.
THE Boer as a fighter is on a Iar
with the American Indian. He will
fight only from behind rocks or trees or
under cover of the deep grass, and as he
is always a sharpshooter, he can do
considerable damage to foreign in
vader. He also has an advantage over
the foreigner who attacks him in that
he has a knowledge of the peculiar at
mospheric conditions that enable him
to shoot accurately where the @or-
eigner will fall short, the air being so
clear that distant objects are brought
much closer by the vision than they
really are-Detroit Free Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Dundee proposes to turn it's coli
lege into university. This will make
Ave universities for Scotland alone.
Rev. ]. A. Rondthaler, of the Tab
ernacle Presbyterian church, Indianap-
oils, has been forced to resign on ac-
count of his congregations dislike to
his riding bicycle.
-Gotti, one of the new cardinals, who
WINS lately apostolic nuncio to Brazil,
ID the son of Genoese 'longshoreman
and was brought up in poverty and self
sacrifice. He was educated at the
Jesuits' college in Genoa, became a
member of the Carmelite order, and
eventually the general of the order, the
highest post attainable.
"A history of the shrine of St. DOM
fnic in Bologna, with the bas reliefs of
Niccolo Pisano, the cradle of Christian
sculpture, as the Church of St. Francis
atAssisi is the cradle of Christian paint
ing, has just been published with 81
heIiogravures by Father Berthier, of
the Catholic university of Freiburg.
The letter press is the work of the nun
printers of Freiburg.
DR.. Percival, bishop of Hereford,
and before his elevation head master of
Rugby, has been asking schoolmasters
through the Times Ito invite their boys
while pocket money is still unexhaust-
ed to give something for the distressed
Armenians," saying at the same time
"that there is no better subject for a
sermon to English boys than Turkish
misrule, viewed in the light Of Chris.
tian morality .... .4#=
A riot took place in the great hall
of the University of Rome on the occa-
sion of the commemoration for the SOL
diers who fell at Amba Alagi in Abyss
sinia. A body of socialistic students in
terrupted the professor who was deliv-
ering the address with shouts of down
with the African policy!" "Down with
Crispi! "Hurrah for Menelek!" A chair
was thrown at the ringfeader, and in
moment everything movable in the hall
was smashed, the free fight ending in
the africans" driving out the Anti
Africans" and marching through the
streets to the Piazza del Cirque Cento,
where they deposited wreaths on tho
1Jogali monument.
The Christian Advocate brands as
false the statement that Bishop Taylor
supports the Methodist missionary OPP
erations in Africa by trading in tobacco
with the natives. ''When Bishop Tay-
Tor first went to Liberia" it says, "the
only small currency in use in portions
of the Kroo coast was leaf tobacco.
Two of our Methodist missions used it
in the purchase of rice for absolute
needs and for the landing of supplies
sent from New York. Then Bishop Tay-
lor introduced laundry soaps as small
currency, and his son, Ross Taylor, has
sent from firm in this country from
three to five tons at single shipment,
fair quality and full weight, eight and
pixteen ounces to bar, to serve the pur-
pose of currency"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
Utilizing Old Carpets.

A good floor covering may be made
from an old Brussels carpet. Nail il
loosely wrong side up to an attic floor
and paint with thick coat Of linseed
oil and burnt umocr. Let it Dry tbs r
oughly, and then cover with coat OF
good vnrnisn. When it has stood for
a week or more it can be scrubbed and
washed like any oil cloth Tack it
closely where it IS to be used, for it
need not be taken up in many yeats.
AS the pairt and varnish wear off, re-
new them, and thus ii will last four
times as long as common oilcloth =
Chicago Chronicle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
DOGS WITH SENSE.
These Animals Have Shown Really More
Than Canine Instinct.

Than Canine Instinct.
Two dogs are to-day much in the
public eye; the one because of his
travels and taste for adventure, and the
other because of his record as life
saver.
Owney In the name of the tourist dog
He is forever on the move, and has
Travelled round the earth. Owney is an
Irish terrier and makes an intimate
only of the travelling companion who
carries his ring of tags describing his
vurious wanderings and adventures.
Owney arrived from Japan recentlyon
the steamship Fort Phillip, on which
young Harry Flood, son Of James Flood.
the San Francisco millionaire, was also
a passenger.
Mr.. Flood said that the second day
out from Kobe, Owney, in his rambles
about the ship, discovered the chicken
coop. He was not invited inside. Owney
waited till chicken stuck it's head be-
tween the Stats to get drink of water,
and then saved the cook the trouble of
killing the bird. II.
At the end of the first week Owney
had wrung the nccks of IA chickens,
and the cook entered a protest to Capt.
Grey. In view of the service the ter
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-02-20
The Old Dog Still Lives.

A prominent family residing in the
business portion of Waynepor+, N. Y,
owns dog which, having reached old
age, they decided to put an end 20. They
procured quantity of chloroform, and
the wife proceeded to administer it.
The handkerchief saturated with the
fluid was held to Tor near) The dogs
nostrils, but the applicant, watching
closely to hear the dog draw his last
breath inhaled the chloroform in much
larger quantities than the hog, and
promptly went off into an afternoon
nap, which was awakened by the dogs
quite lively voice. The dog still lives,
and the family has decided to let him
die natural death.