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The Forrest City times., 1896-07-31
Confirmation Notice.

Notice is hereby given that at the Septem-
IN Der term, 1896. of the St. Francis Circuit
Court, the undersigned firm of l.. Roilwage &
Co. composed of l.. Rollwage and o., b. Roll
wage, will make application to said Court for
confirmation of their tax title TO. the fol-
lowing land. Situated in the Couti.y of ST.
Francis, in the State of Arkansas. to-wit:
The south half of the south west quarter. of
section seven, in township five. north of the
base line add in range three, east of the ilsth
principal meridian, which they bought at
sale of lands for delinquent taxes. made by
the Collector of ST. Francis County, st the
Court House in said County, on the 18th day
of June. 1892, and for which mo one having
redeemed from said sale) they received
Clerks Tax Deed, executed by the County
Clerk of st. Francis County. on the 2lst day of
June. 1894
And the undersigned. L. Rollwage g. CO..
now holding title to said land. under and by
virtue of said sale and deed hereby call on all
persons who can set up any right to the land
so purchased, in consequence OF any infOr-
malty or irregularity connected with the
said sale. to show cause. at the said September
term. 1896. of the ST. Francis Circnit Court
why'the sale OF this land. so made, should not
be confirmed. l.. ROLLWACE & co.
June Sth 1896. n37-6t
The Forrest City times., 1896-07-31
Monday, August "a, 1895,

during legal hours. at the front door of the
Court house, in Forrest City, st. Francis
county. Ark, sell at public auction, on
credit of six months. (the purchasers required
to give notes with approved security and
lien retained for the purchase PriceD a su1i-
cient quantity to raise said sums. of the fol :
lowing real estate in said decree, to-wit /:
ne l-4sec II; W 4 sec IA; W = OF W "a
sec II II G Ia of W Ia sec u; s Ii sec 10;
e 4 sec -; all in n. r 3 e; W Ia sec Fl. 8
nr2 G; 4 of IL sec % sn.rfe; and
y of a lot and storehouse thereon at McDan-
iels. Ark In cor OF sec Is, tt n. rae.
Also part of c IL sec 81, and part of 8 OF
IL sec 81 IS n. 3e., all of said land bo-
ing situated in said ST. Francis county.
Also. frls u of n W IL sec ] n y of 3 "a
sec ;e = of 5 @ Ia sec /; n W IL OF IL sec
lie : of e Ia sec >: w z of n ia sec IL all
in 3n. r 8 e.. in Lee county. Arkansas; fri
IA sec u; fri W part of n = OF W ~ sec :,
L 3 n, 4 e., in said Lee county.
i, c. FoLBRE, Clerk
as Commissioners
July p, I?9sa.
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HoW'S This,

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward
for any case OF. Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. CHENEY il CO., Toledo, o.
We the undersigned have known +. J.
Cheney for the last IS years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all bushes
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAX. Wholesale Druggists
Toledo, o.
WALDING. KINNAN Il MARVIN
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
eous surfaces of the system. Testimo-
mails sent free. Price 75c per bottle.
Sold by all druggists.
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Commissioners Sale.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. THAT IN
~ der and in pursuance of the decree of the
Circuit Court OF st. Francis county, Arkan-
sas, in crancery made and entered at the
Marchsterm. 1896, on the 18th day of March.
1896. in the cause therein pending. wherein
Matte j. Hill suing by. her guardian, w. p.
Weld, was plaintiff and H. o Mcdaniel. ct ais.
Commissioner of said Court, for the purpose
of raising funds 10 pay of the sum of slj46 %
with per cent interest thereon from date of
said decree, and the cost of the action.
amounting TO the sum OF s1.6G0.56 decreed by
said court to said plaintiff. WIN ON
The Forrest City times., 1896-07-31
Warning Order.
In the st. Francis Circuit Court.
10

In the st. Francis Circuit Court,
September Term, 1890.
Fannie E. Forbes, plt'f,
VS..
c. f. Hinton, Warning
w. n. Wilkerson & Co. andR. Order.
j. Williams, trustee, deft.
The defendants. &. f. Hinton, w. n.
Wilkerson, Thos. II. Chiffon and John s.
MILAN, are warned to appear in this court
within thirty days and answer the COM
plant of the plaintiff. Fannie h. Forbes.
Il. g. FoLBRE, Clerk.
by L. c. MRRwiN, d. c.
JOHN GATEING, Plf's Solicitor.
pJuly "a, 1896.
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sos
Notice..
U. s. LAND OFFICE,
LITTLE ROCK, ARK,

I. s. LAND OFFICE,
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
July I, 1896.
Complaint having been entered at this office
by Luther NJ, Royal against Albert Wright
for abandoning his homestead entry No. 1S445
dated July % 1891. upon the Wa of lot of
Dwla section3, township north range east
IN ST. Francis county, Arkansas, with view
to the cancellation of said entry, the said
parties are hereby summoned TO appear be-
fore the county clerk of St Francis county at
his office in Forrest City, Ark, on the Goth day
of August, lS96. at 10 O'clock q m. correspond
and furnish testimony concerning said al
legged abandonment. Trial before this office
August ~, 1906.
J. ]. BEAVERS Register,
Ii, III. CROWLEY, Receiver.
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Cures

Prove the merit Of Hoods Sarsaparilla - posi-
tive, perfect, permanent Cures
Cures of scrofula in severest forms, like
goitre, swelled neck, running sores, hip
disease, sores in the eyes
Cures of salt Rheum, with its intense itching
and burning, scald head letter, etc.
Cures of BoilS, Pimples and all other erup-
tons due to impure blood.
Cures of Dyspepsia and other troubles where
good stomach tonic was needed
cures OF rheumatism, where patients were I'M
able to work or walk for weeks.
Cures of Catarrh by expelling the impurities
which cause and sustain the disease.
Cures of Nervousness by properly toning and
feeding the nerves upon pure blood.
Cures of That Tired Feeling by restoring
strength. Send for book Of cures by
The Forrest City times., 1896-07-31
The Way is Plain,

To gain your wasted strength and enfr-
gv is to try one bottle of Brown 5 iron
Tonic. which is made with groat care ana
will D lease anyone. j. Il. Upton
The Forrest City times., 1896-07-31
DIR. VIM. CRUTCHER.
Physician and Surgeon
Office in Rollwage Block,
FORREST CITY, ARKANSAS.
Warning Order.

In the st. Francis Circuit Court.
Joseph c. Willetts and
X. X. C6pkin, Hec'r
ct ais Pit ns,.
VS. Warnine prder
l.. z. Feathereton and
Alice W. Feataerston,
Def'ts. t>
The defendants. l.. p. Featherston, and
hice w featherSton. are warned to appear
~ TINS court, within thirty days. and answer
the com piaint of the plaintiffs, Joseph c.
Wllietts and r. Il, Conkin, Rec'r ct ais.
L. c. FOLBRE. Clerk.
:By 4. Z. MERwIN, ID. c.
Watson j. FitzhIgh, Pitts. Solicitors,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-14
HELPS AND HINDRANOES IN THE
APPLICATION OF THE OENTA-
DAY PLAN.

The question is frequently asked, why
the Cent-a-Day method has not had
greater measure of success. 1t is sug-
gested by many earnest brethren, who
believe in the plan. that it deserves to
become far more productive than it ever
has been, or now is. Letters come to
me from various parts of the country,
the writer's of which ask for informa.
tion as to what is disclosed of the merits
of this new method by its testing of one
year or little more. 1t occurs to me,
therefore, in response to such inquiries,
and to set forth, il possible, the situa-
tion as it appears to me, that l should
mention some of the hindrances which
have found to operate against the sue
cessful working of the Cent a-Day plan.
In some localities, where an effort has
been made to secure the adoption of the
plan, objection has been urged on the
ground that the system itself is too
cumbersome, and requires too much Of
attention in the management OF its de-
tails to justify its use; and yet, after the
pledges have once been obtained, there
need be but little time or attention
given to the care of the same, or to the
collecting of the subscriptions as they
come due. Once a quarter, or once
year, the payments of the pledges may
be made, either directly to the Financial
Secretary. or to some local agent ap-
pointed to receive the same. Credits
are given both to the individual signers
and to the parish from whence come the
pledges, and the division Of the receipts
is made as between the General Conven-
tion and the State Convention, from
time to time. AS regards all these mat
ters of detail, there need be no appre-
hension of friction or difficulty in the
application of the new plan. 1t is
system plain and simple, and its work
ing has not been found to occasion any
considerable embarrassment in any
place where test has been made.
1t is suggested by some, who are not
unfriendly to the plan, that it presents
features of too arbitrary character to
warrant it's adoption generally in Uni
versalist parishes. 1t is assumed that
one cent day is too much for many
persons or families to give in aid OF the
general work of the Church; and it is
further said, that there are those in our
parishes who ought not to be satisfied
with making the Cent-a. Day contribu.
tion to the Conventions. In answer to
these objections. it may be said that the
pledge can be so modified as to meet
both classes of contributors to which
reference is made. 1t does not interfere
with the plan as whole to make the
subscription one half cent per day,
where it is felt that an Offering of s365
year is too much; and it is equally feast
BILE to change the one cent day to two
cents, five cents. or ten cents. as has
been done in some instances by liberal
contributors.
Again, it is urged against the plan,
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-14

plan will help largely to swell the need
ed contributions to our general cause. l
am glad that you have taken hold of the
good work, and pray that God may
bless you in the same. You must make
your appeals in every place, and by every
means possible. For the fact is, and it
Is great source of weakness among US,
that the great mass of Universalists do
not attend the Conventions and do not
read our publications" Evidently
then, one hindrance to the success of
the Cent-a-Day plan, or to the applica-
tion of any other approved method of
obtaining funds, is the want of informa-
ton among the people in respect to de-
nominational work and needs.
OF course, however, there is bright
side to the situation. In many of our
parishes there seems to be a growing
conviction Of what is due to the General
Convention, by those who are allegiant
thereto. There is an increase of feeling,
l think, of obligation to enlist and CO.
operate in approved measures for foster
ing the educational and missionary work
OF our Church. So also, there is dis
position to recognize the fact that the
General Convention ought to lead in
these matters, and that its plans ought
to have generous and loyal support
throughout the country. 1t counts
among the encouraging elements of
helpfulness that so much of interest has
already been disclosed in the working of
the Cent Day system; that so many
earnest and intelligent men and women
have come to be included among the
supporters of the new plan; and that it
seems to be gaining new friends in many
localities where at first it was regarded
with some degree of disfavor. 1t is too
early at this date to predict what may
be its measure of success, or how long it
will continue as an approved method for
Convention. use. Most certainly the
time of testing is not yet past; and while
the adoption yet is not as general as
could be desired. there are yet many
signs of its increasing productiveness
and of its acceptance in new and wider
fields of application.
Let Us rot be too doubtful. or over
critical; but do the most and the best
that seems possible under existing con-
ditions and limitations, believing that
we are to have ii greater Universalist
Church, and augmented means with
which to render the service that is de-
manded of a progressive religious de.
nomination. HENRY w. RUGG,
Financial Secretary.
PROVIDENCE, X. l., Feb. 30, 1896.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-14
CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
BY REV F. F. BUCKNER.

WE need not only intelligent citi-
zenship; we need religious citizen
ship, or rather Christian citizenship.
There is not enough of manhood and
conscience introduced into our social
life. A mans life in relation to So
ciety should be inspired by some
lofty idea of duty, and there are so
many things initiating against this
that | will not venture to name them.
We need to learn that the ballot is a
sacred instrument and man may pro-
tect his home and his country more
successfully with it than by resorting
to war. Christianity does not deal in
political theories; but it does deal
with conscience and manhood and
asks the disciple of Christ to be a
man in every sense of the word; and
il the spirit of Christianity is violated
either in private life or public, in the
church or by combinations political
or otherwise, it teaches that the
offenders must be crushed upon the
rock of justice. Christianity is the
highest good, and it appeals to man
not to be guided by passion nor pre-
judice, but always by the sense of
the right. 1t is we'll said that "The
basis of all public law is private vir-
tue" Whatever in any way demora-
Lies the man destroys the citizen.
Whatever tends to lower the con-
science colors all forms of legislation.
If our country is imperfect it is be-
cause it is governed by imperfect citi-
zens. If it is true, as our papers so
generally assert, that public life has
degenerated,a and men are making our
lave who have neither the culture nor
character of those whose names have
become imperishable, it is because
the masses have degenerated and the
citizen has surrendered his rights and
his dignity, and bends TO the dema-
gogue and politician.
The religion we need is the religion
which builds conscience. We want
less of the theoretical type, but such
thought and instruction as is practi-
cal. We need to be better fitted for
this worlds duties. The Christians
prayer is "May thy kingdom come
and thy will be done on earth as it is
in heaven" The best Christian makes
the best citizen and conversely. And
he is the poorest kind of a Christian
who is not interested in making the
earth the kingdom of God. Take
from people that which makes them
Christlike and nine-tenths of what
makes man glorious is gone. What
is genius if it have no soul7 What
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-14
INDIANAPOLIS. March, 1896.

The Philadelphia Press says that
peace and arbitration were eloquently
upheld in the meetings fittingly held in
the birthplace of the only nation which
in all history has stood ready to enforce
arbitration in boundary dispute whose
just decision could not add an acre to its
territory. widen its wealth or increase its
commerce. The cause of arbitration has
made more rapid progress since it be-
came clear that great nation was ready
to fight for it than it ever has before,
and it is to be hoped that yesterdays
arguments and appeals will have their
effect in England, where arbitration is
fatty and arrogantly refused.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-14

He who refuses forgiveness, breaks
the bridge over which he must pass, for
all need forgiveness. Are there any of
US who can look back on wrong and in
jury done to us by our fellowmen? This,
it we were wise. we would not wish to
forget. For more noble is it to remem-
Der in full, and yet forgive; to retain
our sensitiveness unimpaired, and yet to
take the offending brother to our hearts
as if he had done us no wrong.-A. p.
Peabody.
MANY college men, says the New York
Tribune, will be interested in knowing
just what the practice of "horning" pro-
fessors is, there having been several ref
erences in the newspapers lately to
trouble at Dartmouth over this custom.
President Tucker, of Dartmouth, gives
what may be considered an official de-
finition of this form of disorder. 1t is
an expression of dissatisfaction among
students with professor, and consists
of a "noisy and insulting demonstration
against the instructor at his Office or at
his residence" Sometimes ii is ATTENDED
with damage TO property, but not with
violence to person"
THE main reason for the unattainabil-
ity of good things to eat in the average
household is just this-and it is the
crime of the nineteenth century-that
the women of the household don't know
how to cook. The woman who does not
know how to cook is responsible, no
doubt. for half the consumption and
more than half the suicides that fill un.
timely graves in this land of Christian
light and gastronomical barbarism.-St.
Paul Pioneer Press.
DRY bread is much easier of digestion
than fresh. 1t is estimated by physiolo-
gists that over 10 per cent of dry bread
undergoes salivarY digestion while being
masticated. while of fresh bread less
that ? per cent is thus changed.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-14

Army A surface indication is, that
there is more Booth in the Salvation
Army than the organization has the
capacity to assimilate.
Professor Weismann's thesis, that
acquired traits are not transmitted by
inheritance, has confirmation in the
fact, we'll known to almost everybody.
that the chick has to be taught to drink,
as his ancestors have in all generations.
Prof. Lloyd Morgan, of Bristol, England,
thinks this is proof that instincts are
not first learned and then transmitted
to posterity. Such instincts as animals
are born with are their original capital;
such traits as they acquire by intelli-
gence or by education perish with
them.
President Stanley Halls discourse
on Modern methods in the study of the
Soul" printed in the Christian Register,
is deeply interesting; though less on ac-
count of it's conclusions than it's curious
reasons for them. He gives what may
be termed the religious results Of the
New Psychology. These results. as cata-
logued and interpreted by President
Hall, furnish what he names "A new
ideal of God" "a new ideal of Christ"
"a New Conception of the Bible" and
new ideas of the sense of sin and of con.
version. These new" things are very
familiar to the student of religion; but
he did not derive them from the New
Psychology. Did President Hall?
The New Psychology is an elaborate
attempt, by acute and painstaking ex-
perimenters, to extort from the bodies
of animals and of men information about
the human soul. The endeavor yields
a great mass Of interesting facts, as yet
only partially understood and classified,
but many Of them of undoubted signifi-
canoe and value. 1t is pure delusion,
however, that the information thus
gained constitutes New Psychology"
By much shorter road, viz, by direct
inquiry of the soul itself, all the import.
ant facts were and are ascertained. The
experiments, the method. the terminol-
ogy, and also! the pedantry and the
assumptions, are new. The residuum of
verifiable and probable fact and truth is
not new
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-14

The Iowa bill affects only children
of fifteen years of age and younger
and the curfew bell is to be rung at
9o'clock in summer and s o'clock in
winter. From the character of the
comment upon the bill it does not
seem likely to become law and
Iowa towns and villages will proba-
bly, have to do as certain towns and
villages have done elsewhere, namely
pass a curfew ordinance, if desirous
of enforcing such law as respects
children.
Back of these scattering attempts
to go back to good old laws and Gus
toms, which according to Southey,
are so beneficial in securing obedi-
ance and order, lies real need that
practically everybody admits, though
there is far from a unanimity of
opinion as to the best means of meet
ing it, namely, less freedom for
children in cities and towns, and
greater sense of authority and res
pect on the part of great majority,
perhaps of even grown people, for
wholesome and salutary restraint.
Professor Norton, of Harvard, in an
article in the Forum for February,
especially urges these considerations,
though we are far from agreeing to
his unjust application of his princi-
pies as especially desirable in the
West. The lack of respect for au-
thority, the fippancy and disrespect
of youth, and in general the spirit of
self confidence turned to self assur-
ance, are growing more and more
noticeable in almost all classes of
our population every year.
To counteract these "young Ameri
can" tendencies is doubtless the aim
of those who would revert to the old
custom of the curfew bell. Based
upon these reasons, however, laws for
enforcing such custom will assured
ly fail. 1t would be much better for
individual communities of their own
accord to attempt to re-establish the
old poetical custom of the curfew
bell. Even then it is more than
II I
ever again become popular or have
such Specification in our modern days
as it had of yore:
Harkl the curfew's solemn sound.
Silence, darkness, spreads around;
Heavy 1t beats on the lovers heart,
Who leaves with sigh his tale half told.
The porting monk and his book must part
And, fearful, the mser locks his gold,
CHICAGO, March 1.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-03-14

HARD TIMES are not strictly impartial.
They bear unequally on the classes and
the masses. Some industries and trades
feel them scarcely at all, and some are
nearly paralyzed by them. There is
however. one benefit they confer on the
whole country. They check extrava-
gance and moderate the ambition for
wealth. Nothing less coercive than
general business and industrial depres
sion will slacken the speed with which
Americans hasten to be rich.
1t is mathematically impossible that
all shall be rich. 1t we're morally bet
ter, therefore, that not too many should
become too suddenly rich. The specta
Gle intoxicates and draws off from those
useful pursuits in which fortunes can
not be made. This man nobly and
splendidly useful as teacher, this one
filling an Indispensable place as a me-
chanic, that one serving his fellowmen
with large wisdom and peculiar grace as
minister, feel sounder content with
their lot when they see incomes and sala.
ries periodically shrinking toward the
dimensions of their own.
Initiation is as bad for the country as
for the individual To be swelled out
with air is to be always in danger of COL
lapse. Inflated currency. inflated stocks.
inflated corporations, inflated schemes,
inflated ambitions and expectations, are
in the same condemnation with the
wind bags and the "bloated bond hold
er." Their common origin predicts
their common destiny. They cannot
stand pressure. yet must they meet
pressure. We may contrive to escape
for time the wholesome weight of le.
gitimate responsibility; then Providence
adds to it the solemn increase of retri.
button. rolls it upon us and we are fiat.
We could wish that there were less
valor at the capital. 1t may be doubted
whether the President or the Congress
expects to take the field. but they talk
as warlike as ever Patrick Henry did.
The resolutions, passed nearly unani
mously in both houses, have naturally
inc ensed Spain and united her factions,
besides making the life and property of
Americans in that country insecure.
They do not amount to the recognition
of the belligerent rights of Cuba. but
they do all the mischief which such a
recognition could effect. And worse
than the unguarded language of the
resolutions has been the insolent and
thoroughly Cubanesque speech of the
orators, Sympathy for the Cubaus is
fiimsy pretext for 80 much malicious
rant against Spain.
In the unfortunate rupture which
has occurred in the Salvation Army, and
which now seems irreparable. sympathy
on this side is wholly with Commander
and Mrs. Ballingtou Booth. Whether
full disclosure of facts would maintain
the present feeling is another question.
1t is not long since General Booth was
among US, meeting everywhere warm
and admiring public recognition. This
schism in his own household will break
his prestige and must be a serious blow
to the unity and usefulness of the