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The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

The Christmas edition of the
Arkansas Democrat, issued on the
10Th, is "Jim Dandy" in every
respect. 1t consists of 32 pages
and \ supplement, and is veri,a.
bic book of reference, we'll worth
preserving. It's advertising pat
ronage is an index of the worth OF
The Democrat as dissemination OF
fhc news.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25
Seanda nttnakaad.

Aug. J Bngel. the leading druggist ~
7hreveport La. says: DIR Kings New
Discovery is the only that cures my cough.
aud IL is the best seller have" j f.
tanpbeii. merchant 0f Stafford. ARR.
writes DIR Kings New Discovery i,
all that IL Claimed for il il never fails.
and Is sure cure for Consumption
Coughs. and Colds. cannot say enough
Tor ITS merits DIR. Kings New DIScov-
cry for Consumption. Coughs aud Colds
is no, All experiment Ii has been tried
for a quarter of Il century. and today
stands at the head. 1t never disappnints
Free trial bottles at Tipton's drugstore
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

Since the establishment of the
capitol at Washington saloons
have been run wide open upon
both the house and senate side
10 Judge Little, member of con,
gross from the Second District Of
Arkansas, belongs the honor o.
getting a bill passed In tie pres
ent congress prohibiting the sale
OF liquor in the building. The
tountain-head is always the place
to apply the SIX.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

The annual report OF Secretary
Carlisle on tho slate of finance
shows The revenue of the govern.
snent from all sources to have been
slos, "a ,40s, and the expenditures
alSf ,6is 1854. which leaves 4 defici,
Tor the year ended June 30, 1896,
of S25 ,203.245.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

The Democrat says: "A strong
effort will be made TO secure an
appropriation from the next gen.
eral assembly with which 10 main.
tam the state guard. No large
appropriation is expected, but it is
desired to have q few thousand for
actual expenses. We cannot hope
70 paintain the organization un.
iessr'some substantial encourage.
mentis given it, and the time
might como when Arkansas would
realize the advantages to be de-
rived from an active state guard.
At least other states maintain their
military organizations, and no ex.
ira argument is necessary 10 con.
Vinee--members of the legislature
y The necessity of such a mainten.
..nce.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25
Miss Clara Webb is candida

Miss CIara Webb is candidate
Tor cngrossing clerk in the lower
house of representatives. Miss
Ciara's reputation in that line Is
700 well known tor US to common,
upon, and We hope the members OF
that body will give her claims
their profoupd consideration, like.
wise their votes
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25
County Contracts

RInS viii he received untfi Saturday. Dec.
- 18th. 1895. for Attending the Ferry Boa Il,
a, Madison and at the cut GA for the wear
l3.. The contracts will be let to the lowest
and hest bidders The successful bidders vs. an
he required to give good hond and security In
the sum 81 two hundred and ffty dollars
Also, at the same time bids " u; he RECEIVED
Tor the care ana nlaintaIuauce nl the Faapcr,
OF the tOiInty for the wear lSJ.
contracts can he seen At the Clerks Office
BIDS VIII le deposited with the Clerk The
fight Ia reject any AMI AL bids i expressly re-
served
All bids rlust Zee sealed
= mo. ; H. CoWAN. County Judge
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

One of tho street railway compa-
MES OF, Chicago has just contracted
for 2 500 barrels of oil per day for
fuel to produce power to run their
lines. The supply rs piped from
Indiana, where Il track of 1900
acres is owned by one company.
The East Indian government will
have $4,000, 900 people on its hand
all winter TO support because OF the
famine. liz one district the sun
burnt mp everything on 5000
square miles of land.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

Tie Gazette SAYS the Gould for
tune is slipping on, Of the hands OF
the boys. From The slowncSs Of
i,s going, no grease seems TO have
been uScd TO slip IL along.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25
December /. 1895.
Nortcz for PuDnca,ion-No so4e.
Land Office at Little Rock. Ark.

LaGG Office az Little Rock. Ark
sDac.mDrI l.. lsss,.
MOTTO { = hereby given that the i0llo~-
~ iug-named settlrr has fled notice at hrs
Intention Ia make iinai proof IN Sg3uort Of
lIis claim. ansl Ihat said proof will he made
before the County Clerk OF -. Francis Cz.uH-
~. AT FORREST cry, 4 ris.. ON jsBuarv - lssT.
w James II DeN.sier. II. L. NJ. Esl9 for
tie Il Sw - Of 80. =. = u.rje
lie names tue following Witnesses T. prove
hi- continuous RESIDENCE upon and cuitiyd-
lion O!, sad lsHd. NJ H. +. CITES. J r.
Hughes. John Siuf. !. 4. HGmphrits all OF
Forrest City. Afkgusas
J. } BEAvEFs Register
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

The supreme court OF the state
IS decided that a conviction for
iaisdemeanor in mayors court is
20 bar to q prosecution in the CIR
cut court.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

Frank G.. King X ca. of Franklin.
Nv, say that DR.. BELLS Pire-Tar. Hon.
ey has taken the lead through that SEC
ton. They write that il gives umiyer-
sal satisfaction and verify this report
by ordering more. For sails a. Webb's.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

There have been great floods in
the tar northwest and o great many
thousand miners are threatened
sith starvation because the rail.
..
roads are unable TO reach the dew.
astatcd regions with provisions.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

The ice palace al ST. Paul, Mimi.
i.,r 1897, promises to ouistrip in
''cauiy and cost any former s,ruct.
ure of the kind. More than 10 900
tons of ice will be used, at cost
a.. $1,000.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

This Is the time of year when n
title notice will appear in mos,
country papers calling attention
10 blue pencil marked request to
.cttlc your subscrIp.ion account.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

The failure of the Bank of Mir.
scsota is another evidence OF the
boom promised under Mckinley.
The general depression in money
and business all over the country"
=
Is the story as told by the cashier.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

Among the items of free advice
gwen to the incoming legislature,
that fthe Prairie Grove Record
should be needed by all means.
Tho Record says: "Tho first thing
IN order, if the solons really have
The good of the people at heart,
viii DO the appointment of a
"smothering committee" whose
bounded duty it will be to squeeze
INTO state ofinnocuous desuetude
all local bills until the general
bills have been disposed of and
the states business transacted
Let US have an able.bodied "smoth.
ering committee" by ali means"
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25
Look Out

For cheap -o-ealled Iron Bitter, or Tonics.
They are only Ia deceive; but get Brown :
Iron Tonic, the only True Iron Tonic.
which has cured thousands aud will cure
you. J. II. Upton
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

There VIII be no inaugural ball
- Little Rock, the governor elect
rot believing in such foolishRess.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

fFoE RENr-l0J acres bottom land.
at - per acre; two houses. two wells.
gnoe barn and stables; ,! miles from
Forrest City. IL. L. DOOLRY.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25
Wanted.

Everyone who feels run down. tired
out. full of malaria. or any blood
trouble. to call and get bottle of
Browns Iron Tonic. the King of all
Touies. j. II. TIPrON.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25
Cures

P-ore M. merit a Hoods sarsaparilla = posi-
tire. pessccs. permanent Cures
c,,res Of scrofuia IN sevcrest forms. Ike
soltre, syTcIled neck. running sores, hp
disease, sores in the eyes.
Cures Of salt Rhcum. with its intense Hei'iHs
and burning. seald head. tettef, etc.
Cures Of Boils. fimPles and All 0'aef e'ul-
tons due to impure blood.
Cures Of Dyspepsia and other troubles "ne'c
good stomach tonic was needed
Cures of rheumatism. who're patients were ah-
able to work or walk for weeks
Cures OF Catarrh by expellinr il- impurities
which cause and sustain tie dse--e.
Cures of Nervousness by pruI cry tct-nG and
feeding the nerves uIa. .;-s ! os-.
Cures OF That Tired Feei.C es.erls
strength. send for s.opk r; tHsss -
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money il it
Tails To cure. p cents.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

A Merry Christmas to all.
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25

e.t my AFTERNOON. rrnrncra g Ia
The Forrest City times. [volume] (Forrest City, Ark.) 1871-1919, 1896-12-25
Hood s
SarsapariIia
=, :, -, are the te.t s-1s--6nner
Hoods Pills glns. I'D Objection. &c.

To c. I. Hood & Co. Propristors. 1owtn. Mass.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-11
SPANISH DOG SMUGGLERS
They Learn to Dodge Customs
HOUSE, Officers on Sight.
Trained in = Most Elaborate Manner fOI
the Work OF Carrying COntraband
Tobacco from Gibraltar
Into Spain.

| There is a part of the world where
the dog population is largely engaged in
unlawful occupation. This is in Glib
raltar and the adjoining Spanish ter
ritory. Men who live by smuggling take
advantage of the intelligence and docil-
ity of the dog to make him do their
work and take the risk without sharing
in the profits.
Smuggling is peculiarly profitable
and attractive in this region, because
Gibraltar is a port where everything
is admitted free of duty, and Spain IS
country which imposes a tremendous
~ high duty on cigars and makes the
manufacture of tobacco a government
monopoly. Even high officials and
members of the Spanish governors
staff smuggle tobacco when they re-
turn from visit to Gibraltar.
One ingenious smuggler used to keep
q flock of turkeys with which he jour
neyed between Gibraltar and Spain.
Under each wing of every turkey was
a half pound of tobacco. The Spanish
customs officers found out the trick one
day and there was an end to it.
The dogs are the most successful
smugglers of all. They are trained for
the work in the most elaborate manner.
Before being actually started on their
smuggling career they undergo a
course of training. each being taken out
for a walk in the country by his mas
ter. A friend of the latter, dressed in
an old Carabinero's uniform, and armed
with a bludgeon, hides himself some
where on the route the dog and his
owner intends to pursue. The dog is
encouraged to go forward, and imme-
diately he comes within reach Of the
hidden counterfeit officer the latter
catches hold of the animal and gives
him sound drubbing with his weapon.
After a few lessons of this kind, the
dogs intelligence teaches him to care
fully avoid anybody dressed in the
hated uniform, as he has souvenirs Of
wearers of it on every part of his body.
A Sandy isthmus separates Gibraltar
from the Spanish mainland. It was al
most impossible to catch all the to-
bacco laden dogs that ran across this
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-11

the boy was unaccOmpanied by parents
or friends He finished the first session
before any of the old teachers, and was
the first to return for the afternoon ses-
sion. All of his learning, aside from his
individual study, has been derived from
an ungraded country school, which he
began attending in his sixth year.
Master Glasgow is a prodigy in other
ways. On a railroad train recently the
newsboy furnished him with the sub
ject for n philippe which he delivered to
n stranger who occupied a seat with
him, and he concluded by saying there
ought to be a national law enacted
aboIishing the news agent nuisance.
Thereupon ile drew from his pocket a
bill for that purpose, which he had pre-
pared. Master Glasgow has also
made a study of politics, and talks
learnedly on the silver question. He is
the author of a democratic soliloquy,
which begins: ''To vote or not to vote "
Master Glasgow's father is a travelling
salesman for threshing machine COM
pany and his mother is a schoolteaoher.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-11
Zebrns Pressed Into Service.

Zebras are of the equine race. but
differ from them in a degree of wildness
so marked that for a long time they
were regarded as untamable. This was
a mistake, as recent attempts at train
ing them have proved. In Africa, where
horses are rather scarce and easily sue
cumb to the heat and insect pests, the
stage drivers have pressed zebras into
service, with encouraging results. The
first step is to get the zebra to work
with horse, and then with one of its
own kind. They are not by any means
gentle, and never lose a chance to bite
and kick a stranger; but to one they
know they are quiet enough. One
driver, near Kruegersdorf, drives a
team of ten zebras, and it is said to be
a splendid sight to see these beautiful
animals running at breakneck speed,
and watch the wonderful skill with
which the driver keeps them in hand.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-11

among all the other missed opportuni-
ties of my life-you can see there's a lot
of them, too. 9
But about Pat. Well, a couple of
weeks passed ard nothing had been
heard from the advertisement, and Pat
was in despair. But one day an odd-look-
ing stranger, a tall, well-built fell
low with a far-away lock in ais eyes,
applied for the posish-and got it.
Il was there when Pat and the
stranger, who said his name was Juan,
had their first rehearsal, and 1 never
seed Teller look so happy as that Juan
cid when he stood up before the target
and let Pat stick knives around him
from 90 feet off.
I'VE had got up into Iowa row; Pats
act was the sensation of the show, and
old John Robinson gave him big money
and featured the act on the three-sheet
posters.
But, howsomever, things went all
right until we struck a little town called
Mount Pleasant, and Juan announced
that he was too sick to appear and went
t. bed.
'The Rubes was dreadfully d;sap-
pointed cause there was no Roman
knife throwing at a human target, as adj
vertised, and they Kissed Sig. Palanci (as
Pat was called) when he just threw at
an ordinary mark.
Wen git mobbed if Juan don't do
his turn tonight said old John Robin
son to Pat. lie must do it,
$50 out Juan was dragged; he was
sheered, 1 could see that. but it wasn't
the knives he was skeered of: he seemed
frightened of some one in the audience.
Nothing happened, though, and the
next day Juan, bright and smiling, was
waiting to go on in his best act. when
q tall, fine-looking man, with two big
fellows in uniform, entered the dress
ing tent.
That's the man want, SEE he. I'm
the superintendent of the Mount Pleas
ant lunatic asylum, and that man is an
escaped patient of mine
Juan recognized him, too, and said:
WELL if l must go with you 1 must,
that's ALL And up he gets and goes.
"The superintendent afterward told
US that Juan was crazy as a bedbug on
one thing, and thought he would lose
his soul if somebody didn't kill him
some day with knife. Outside of this
he was as sensible as you orr.
THAT was the end of Juan, but seeing
that Pat was so good at the biz dozen
volunteered to be the target, meamoDg
EN-. Pat was mad at me and took a
young darby, and I was left again
sand now" added the old circus man,
plaintively, "the knife-throwing act is
an old-timer. Human targets are as
plentiful as human buns on the Bowe-
~; Pat Clancy owns a show of his OWL,
and 1 am still a canvasman, and almost
too old for that
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-11

crate gases. The force of the explosion,
cushioned by the two columns of air
which are between the powder cart
ridge and the projectile, acts upon the
projectile. The shell leaves the gun
with little noise of explosion and no
smoke whatever.
The recoil of the gun is slight, and
springs are provided for taking it up.
The projectiles used in the gun are
brass cylinders with pointed ends. The
fuse is attached to the front end and
from the rear end of the she'll extend
yanes or rings TO insure rotation. The
entire shell is % inches long, and when
fully charged weighs 81 pounds.
In the main body of the she'll, which
is the brass cylinder. thu dynamite or
nitroglycerin is placed. In the forward
end of the charge is placed a charge of
gun cotton, and in the center of the gun
cotton is a case containing Illuminating
mercury.
An ingenious arrangement in the she'll
Il the fuse which eXplodes the charge
IF dynamite. It is arranged to operate
~ inertia or by direct impact. If the
shell strikes the water the inertia oper-
ates the ignition.
A steel ball within the cap is driven
forward when the motion of the shell
is retarded, and by striking causes the
Getonation of one or more of three per-
cussion caps.
The tube of slow-burning powder is
thus ignited; this communicates with
the Illuminating mercury, which in turn
eXplodes the gun cotton, and thus the
main charge of high explosive is ex-
ploded.
If the shell strikes armor, the head is
crushed IN, and this drives the pins
against percussion caps, which start
the series of explosions that at last fire
the main charge.
In order that the steel ball may be
forced against the percussion caps pre-
maturely, little windmill is placed in
front of the shell. This windmill is
conferred on little shaft which is
screwed into the steel bali.
The windmill is inclosed in a recess,
from which it escapes when the shell
leaves the gun, and at once it begins
revolving, and unscrews the shaft from
the steel ball. By the time the shell has
Travelled a few hundred feet, the steel
ball is free to move wien the shell
strikes the water.
1t is believed that the principle of
COMPRISING air by the explosion of
gunpowder. as it is done in the Dudley
gun, can be employed in the useful arts,
particularly in cuarrying and tunnel
work, where air drills are remote from
the main ripe of the air compressor
plant.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-11
DUDLEY'S GREAT GUN.
It Uses Compressed Air to Expel
Immense Shells.
The Same Principle, It L. Believed, Can
Be Employed in the Useful Arts,
Particularly in Quarrying
and Tunnel WORK.

Guns which can shoot high explosives
without bursting the gun itself are in
demand by every nation of any standing
whatever. Governments have spent
millions of dollars experimenting with
guns and armor, and considerable por-
ton of this money has gone toward
building guns for throwing torpedoes
and shells containing from 200 to 500
pounds of dynamite or some equally
high explosive
1t has been found that compressed air
is the safest and best agent Tor eXpell-
ing the shell.
The Scientific American in a recent
issue describes \ pneumatic gun which
it believes has solved the problem. This
is the Dudley gun, and it is a gun and
compressed-air plant in itself. 1t GER
tainly is most ingenious arrangement,
and its use of gunpowder for the pur
pose of COMPRISING air opens up pos
sibilities in the application of the prin-
ciple which will be apparent to any
skilled mechanic.
The Dudley gun might be called long
tubey bent upon itself so as to show
three tubes side by side. These tubes
lie parallel to each other. The long
central tube is the firing tube, and
weighs $50 pounds, in four-inch gun.
The two side tubes might be called
the air-compressor, for, it is in them
that the air is compressed to $50 pounds
TO the square inch. At the forward end
of the gun, the two outside tubes are
connected by an air passage.
The rear end of one of the tubes is
connected by similar passage to the
central or firing tube, and the rear end
of the other side tube is fitted with
suitable breech mechanism to receive
the powder cartridge. \ glance at the
diagram will show the passage of the air
when the powder is ignited.
The central or firing tube has breech
mechanism similar to a breech-loading
rife. In this the projectile with it's load
of high explosive is placed. Then the
breech piece is locked, the powder cart
ridge is placed in the side tube, and its
breech is locked.
The powder is ignited, and the air
in the tubes is compressed by the gen
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-11
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
ouTFLANkINe LEES ARMY.
A "Reminiscences of the Hot Battle of
Winchester.

"Reminiscences of the Hot Battle of
Winchester.
1t was a wild night on the mountain.
The rebels were close on our heels, but
on we went to the Potomac, and next
day waded and swan through it at Han
cOck-now reduced to less than 2,500
men. For three days and nights, fight
ing and marching, too, we were almost
dead on our feet when we crossed the
river.
Were you ever on a skedaddle, slSally-
hoche or stampede? 1t demoralizes the
nerves unspeakab1y, and one wonders
long after it is over how he acted in
it anyway, fearful that he may have
done something disgraceful to his col
ors. l remember, in the dense darkness
on the mountains the night before we
crossed the river, with the enemy press
ing closely below and an occasional
volley of muskets or carbines told
where they were lurking, some fellows
horse threw him, and the frightened
animal came tearing down the declivity
like mad right through our ranks; men
broke right and left, some climbed up
trees and others ran off in the darkness
and were never seen again, and we ali
thought regiment of southern cavalry
was upon us. The tension was too much
for strained and tired nerve and brain.
and zone could have chased thou
sand and two put ten thousand" to fight
if there had been that many of US. Hun
CRY, sleepy, worn cut, we reached the
other river shore Ike half-drowned rats
that night and set about footing every
house in Hancock, Md, for something
TO eat. Discipline and order to the