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The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27

of you are dead or deaf," says tue Philadelphia Standard, "you d mt have to serve on the jury. It you are under twenty-one or oJer sixty-fve years old you are exempt. If you have ever been convicted of felony you are dis honorably exempt. If you can't read and write the English Ian. guage and thoroughly understand the proceedings ordinarily had Tn courts of justice you are exempt. If you are a minister, physician, druggist, lawyer, professor or teacher, dentist, occulist, aurist, clerk or officer of any court, post, master, road-overseer, coroner, constable, miller, judge of eourl Of record or superintendent of a county farm you dou't have to serve, and if you are person oi bad reputation, or are without visi. ble means of support, you couldn't serve if you wanted to-" ghis lat. ter must be a mistake.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
The sheriffs of Eastern Arks n-

The sheriffs of Eastern Arks n- sas should not fail 10 enforce the law, says the Arkansas Democra {, relative 10 fishing and hunting Lo tae state by non-residents. Trap p.rs, hunters, sciners and netters who may be caught trespassing gre subject to tax of s25 and every dollar of 1t should be col leeted. Ii Eastern Arkansas will enforce the laws on the statutes we will hear less complaints of marauding parties in the future.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27

There ia little use trying to re- form poor farmers by writing them up, says an exchange, and truly, for they are the kind that never read paper. Then let us try 10 encourage those who do read to do better farming, so that their exam pie will be a standing reproach to tie other sort. They can read an example, and that is about the only way 10 reach them.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27

Rl virtue Of a'Deed Of Trust msdeIsrd Q \. AI ecuted to the undersigned as trustee by thas II. Beauchamp, on the 2rth day Of Junc lsvi, which appears of record in the office oi the Clerk ot the Circuit Court of St. Francis Conniy Arkansas. in Book IT. page il7 Will at the request of the beueflciary. The Forrest City Hotel Co.,. sell to the highest bid. ger, for cash. at the front entrance 10 The Forrest City Hotel building in the town o, Forrest City. St. Francis County. Arkansa. between the hours of o'clock a. m, and < o clock D. m., on
 ssATuRpAY, SEPT 4th. 1897.
 the property described in said mortgage cop. slsting of NO''' ', Beds. Bedding Bed Clothes. Wash Stands Bureaus. Chairs. Carpets, Stoves. Inmns chandeliers, Cooking Utensils and, EItchen Furniture, all Dishes and Table Ftrnitnra Iaoie Linen, Towels, Office Fixtures. ana Hotel. "i sa!u
 Ot the indebtedness secured by said Trus, Deed, mere remains past due and unpaid the sum 3i s.s9.oo. with interest on said sum from Marea I'th' ls9', and this sale is made 10 satis August 9, 1897. J. Nj. PREwETT. Trustee
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
Listen.

Thousands of young and old people drag through miserable existence, not knowing what ails them. when they are only run down and need something to as- sist nature 10 perform it's functions. For this Browns Iron Tonic stands preemi- nently at the head of all remedies. Try it and you will be convinced. J. II. Tipton
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27

Pearl fishing on the Whrtc river, near Clarendon, is quite popular ussl time just now. Par ties in that section claim to have taken many valuable pearls from mussel sl els. One valued at s625. -Ex.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27

The DingIey tariff bill. says tho Arsadelphia Standard, levics tax of 25 per cent. On Bibles and ad- nits playing cards free of c'uty. The devil and the republicans are ras.ine things wrth high old hand.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27

Four has advanced ab out S1.50 lier barrel within the last six weeks This fact eIncbe our ad- wee to build roller mill and raise wheat.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
IsATURpAY. SEPT 4th. 1897.
Warning Order.
In Inc st. Francis Chancerv ~

In the St. Francis Chancery Court. November Term. 1897. Beulah T. Manning, Pts
 NS. tWarDfDr n-4a. A. A Manning Delft Oiue'' The defendant. A. X. Manning. is warned 70 appear in this court within thirty days md ahsWea r M me complaint of tae plaintid, Beulab
 G, R. MALLORY. Clerk F I w,,,,s Ky T. z. Merwin. n q August 2 ise7.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27

Miss Mena Trimbe. who had been the guest of Miss Norma R0llwage the past two weeks, returned to home in Ionoke Tuesday.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
Liver and Kidneys

Pronounced sncurabIe, but Advised
 to try Moods Sarsaparilia- Row
 Entirely Cured and Able to Work.
 " was greatly troubled with liver and kidney difficulties for many years. I was pronounced incurable by my physician. A neighbor advised me to get few bot ties of Hoods Sarseparilla. I sent and ;;ot six bottles and before I had taken three of them, was cured of my kidney trouble. lam now able to work, although before taking Hoods Sarsaparilla I was almost helpless. am able to walk three or four miles day and feel none the worse for it." SETH B. STANTON, Winn- view, Oklahoma.
 Gov. Renfrow of Oklahoma says: " From its general reputation, know of none that l would prefer to Hoods Sar. saparilla If we should need blood purifier or for general debility"
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27

gilDAY AFTERNOON. AUG r lss7.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27

Trains Leave the Union [ epot Na Shvilie, every Fifteen Minutes for the Centen- nial Terminal Station,
 The Quickest and Best Route. Fare, Five Cents
 Sx
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-27
Trustees $ ale,

Forrest City. Ark. Aug. Q. 1s97.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
NEW ARMY TARGETS.
Old BuIIs-Eyes to Give Way to Fig
ures Of Men.

Old BuIIs-Eyes to Give Way to Fig
ures Of Men.
When the trained marksmen of the
Transvaal routed the regular troops OF
Great Britain at Majuba Hill by shoot
ing with such marvellous skill as to
nick off the redcoats like so many deer
on a hill, says the New York
Herald, a great outcry was heard in
British army circles against the folly
of teaching a soldier to shoot by plac-
ing himself opposite target and telling
him to place bullet as near to the
bull's-eye as possible.
The United States army officers have
Just come to the same conclusion as
did the British after the disaster of
Maiuba Hill. AS a consequence of this
awakening, there will shortly be is
sued set of targets to be used at the
various rifle ranges, that will revolu-
tiOnize the old system of training sol
diers to become marksmen. Instead of
the bulI's-eye in the center of a square
target the object to be aimed at will
be a black mark representing, as near
ly as possible, the figure of man as it
appears when he lies prone on the
ground, rife presented, in the act of
taking aim.
A second target will show the figure
of man taking aim while in a kneeling
position. The figure is mounted on u
square background of white, ard is
carefully drawn to measurements so
as to present a mark as nearly as pos
sible like that at which the soldier
would have to shoot were he fighting
for his life in actual conflict. This fig
ure will be used as target at medium
distances, from 500 to 600 yards.
Still another target represents the
full figure of a man standing and firing.
This is for long-distance practice, and
will enable a marksman to see exactly
the effect produced by his skill in firing.
Every shot that hits the figure would
kill or MAIN were the target living
mark.
The largest target of all, and the one,
therefore; that will be used at extreme
range, is intended to represent the fig
ure of a mounted man. This is more
particularly designed for carbine prac-
tice by cavalrymen. The troopers will
be taught to shoot at the target from
horseback as well as dismounted, and,
as in the case of the standing man tar
get, will be instructed to aim at the
center of the mass, the idea being that
killing the horse of a cavalryman does
no less damage TO the fighting effective
ness of an enemy's force than shooting
the rider.
A project for introducing moving tar
gets based cn the same system as that
described above is being considered By
the military authorities
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06

"Now, some time last year, as you
will remember, Rod Hayfield-which h
in the main time he mad married Dolly
HaIloway-too = sick and died all of a
suddent like. And right now the all
everest most handsomest young wom-
an in all This strip Of country is the
Widder Dolly Mayfield. Tain't no use
in tallin, Rufc-when she puts on her
Sunday higgins and fancy fxments she
is jest simply pluperfectly and supinely
beautiful to behold.
''In these long, hot summer days it
has likewise also come to pass that
Buck Collins, Babe Peterson and old
Squire Leatherwood have all three fell
heels over appetite in love with Dolly,
the widder, and-well-my time has
come. You needn't to feel any earth
Is doubts about that, Rufe. This is
my time of year to win out even, and,
by gatlins, what / am savin up for the
three gentlemen from fuckers Mill
will be a most hellatious plenty. Old
Squire LeatherNvcod has buried two
wives and raised nine children, but
from what they tell me he is worse gone
on Dolly Mayfield than Buck Collins
or Babe Peterson, and they have got it
mighty bad. The way a town hog loves
slops is nothin, Rufe, to the way them
three native-born idiots love the ground
which Dolly Mayfeld walks upon-and
well, dadblame 'em, my time has
come"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
"The Old Hen Was On"

But when 1 got down there to the
Sweet Water meetin Saturday mOrnin
who else do you reckon 1 found-both
right in on the ground floor and havin
some "felonious flush times" to hear
them tell it? Nobody but Bley Scrog-
gins and Andy Lucas. With me it want
in the least ways surprisin TO catch
Andy Lucas down there, since the news
had went out broadcast that there
would be three sermonts day and
dinner on the grounds. Wheresomever
you find a few good people gathered
together to hear the Word, with din
ner on the grounds, you are more than
apt to find Andy Lucas as one in their
midst, if not the lead dog of the pack.
But as to Blew Scroggins, that would
be the last place in the created world
for him if it want for the fact that
the human race was borned and bred
unto sin and sufferin and devilment
from before the foundations. And SO
when / first driv at old Sweet Water
church that day and found both Blew
and Andy there 1 knowed tremendous
we'll that the old hen was on. Next
to that 1 naturally wanted to find out
if ] could what she was settin On, and
when she would hatch and come off.
Il have writ three letters, Rufe-
three of the gonebyest most fervent and
magnolious love letters you ever heard
tell Of" says Blew to me when we had
ambled off down to the spring to find
out if that water would bear a little
mixin.
If you recollect, Rufe, when / was
a candidate for high sheriff the secolt
and last time the delegates from down
here in fuckers Mil Beat-which lieth
over agin Sweet Water church, you un-
derstand-went back on me, even after
the old cat had punched her feet TO
jump my way. Well, the three mainest
men in that fight. which cooked my
goose TO a brown crisp, IS il were. was
Ruck Collins. Babe Peterson and old
Squire L.eatheTweod
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
A Surprise in Store for the Operators.

FAIRMoNT, VIVA, Aug. 2.-''There is
asurprise in store for the operators of
this region" said Joseph w. Rea last
night. Inside of As hours there will
be several additions to the men already
out"
There is more in Reas words than
many people think. He has been here
since last Wednesday and has had two
or three meetings each day. Not in
the usual way, but has quietly gone to
some school house or public hall. and
the miners have gathered there as if
by magic.
Yesterday afternoon at Monoagah the
meeting was repetition of the sue
cess at Palatine Saturday night and
Catawba Saturday afternoon. To-day
at Worthington he will make speech
to the men.
Rea says he is highly elated over the
prospects and thinks West Virginia
will yet come out. Mahon telegraphed
from Charleston yesterday that the
Kanawha and New River men had
struck for SO cents a ton and check
weighman. Rea says he intends to
call on Special Judge John w. Mason,
who granted the injunction, to-day,
and that he wants to know what the
Judge means. He does not know
whether tde injunction attempts to
keep him from holding meetings in the
public roads or not.
There are better signs of gen
erag laying-down of picks than thers
has been siaee the strike bsgaa.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
A BAD FREIGHT WRECK
viii Cost the Lives of Two TraIrmen
Several OthOrs Injured.

VIII Cost the Lives of Two TraIrmen-
Several OthOrs Injured.
Ell DORADO, Kas., Aug. 2.-The Mis-
souri, Pacific passenger train which left
here for Kansas City at 1890 o'clock
Saturday night crashed into four
loaded freight cars which had been
left carelessly standing on the main
track at Yates Center. resulting in
wreck that will cost the lives of two
trainmen. The passenger train was
running at a speed of 30 miles an
hour. The tender and baggage car
telescoped, and the wreck caught fire,
burning the baggage car and the four
freight cars and destroying the loco
motive and tender.
Engineer Jasper Glover and Fireman
Cal Rowan, both men of family, living
in Ell Dorado, were probably fatally in
jured. Both were found in an uncon-
scious condition, lying beside the
track. Glover was disemboweled and
terribly scalded, and Rowan had one
foot severed from his body and was
terribly cut and bruised.
Conductor Anderson and the baggage
and express men suffered painful
bruises, but all the passengers escaped
serious injury. Glover and Rowan were
sent to hospital in Kansas City.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
The DREADED CONSUMPTION
Can BE- Cured

7. A. SIocum, NJ. C. the Great
Chemist and Scientist, Will Send
Free, to the Afflicted, Three
Bottles of His Newly Discov.
cred Remedies to Cure
Consumption and all
Lung Troubles
Confident that he has discovered a
reliable cure for consumption and all
bronchial, throat and lung diseases,
general decline and weakness, loss of
flesh and all conditions of wasting,
and to make its great merits known,
he will send, free, three bottles to
any reader of the BULLETIN who
may be suffering.
Already this 'sncw scientific course of medicine''
has permanently cured thousands Of apparently
hopeless cases
The Doctor considers q his religious duty-a duty
which he owes 90 Euuanity-to donate his inlali-
bic cure.
lie has proved the dreaded consumption to be .
cuTahlc disease beyond any doubt, and has file
lu his American and European laboratories tcsti-
mcuiJls OF experience from thO-e benefited aud
eur,d, in all parts Vf the world.
DON'T delay until it is too late. Consumption,
uninterrupted, means speedy aud certain death.
Afirts +. 4. SioCum, VI. e, 9S Pine street, New
York, aud when writing the doctor, please s We
express aud POStofhce address, and also mention
res,.irs this article in the BOLIVAR BULLETIN.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06

ard magnolius" love letter, tellin me to
meet her there and we would go to
church together. And in regards to the
little messment between Blew Scrog-
gins and the three gentlemen from
fuckers MILL didn't have a blame
thing to do with that. From what |
have saw with my own naked eyesight
[ couldn't say for certain that anybody
went down to the spring branch cross
in Sunday evenin. But if you take and
add up two and two together, you are
more than probable to git four for the
answer. And from all the signs and
outside appearments l have no earthly
doubts but what the widder, Dolly
Mayfeld, and Blew Scroggins, and also
| Squire Leatherwood, and Buck Collins,
and Babe Peterson all went down to
the crossin, and got there about first
dusk sharp.
They had sung one old familious
hym, and the preacher had took his
text when Blev and Dolly Maytield
come swashin through the side door
arm in arm, and took their seats right
up next TO the amen corner. Dolly was
| all over in a futter, and lookin as pale
as whitewashed horse rack on moon
| light night. Blew wore his best Sun
day clothes, a white neck tie, and
smile as big as a crib door. When he
looked around and saw me his left eye
went shet slow and cautious like, and
he puckered his mouth to give low,
soft whistle-come to his senses
caught his breath, and then looked at
the preacher as meek and lowly and
contrite and humble as q white kitten
with the sore eyes.
Fifteen or 20 minutes had wore
off when one of Squire Leatherwood's
boys come in, said something to old
DR.. Travis, and they went out together.
Blew looked at me, closed his left eye
and helt up one finger as much as to
say:
That's one."
Presently somebody come to a win
dow and sent word to old Misses Peter
son-which you will recollect Babe is
her onlyest boy. The old lady caught
her breath rale quick and scrambled
out the door.
Blev Scroggins shet his left eye oncst
more and helt up two fngers-which
said to me as plain as United States
language could speak it:
That's two"
The next minute two of the Collins
boys, both full brothers to Buck, lit out
through a window, and went off in a
lope towards the spring branch crossin.
Blew shet the same eye and helt up
three fngers-which seem to say to
me:
That's three, dadblame 'em, and
Rocky creek sends her doublebreasted
compliments to fuckers MILL
Blev Scroggins maintains till yet that
the world amt square, and that three
of a kind will beat two pair.
The gay and gorgeous widder, Dolly
Mayfield, is still healthy and happy, still
single and still ''supinely beautiful to
behold"
Buck Collins has got one missin eye,
whilst Babe Peterson has shielded seven
of his front teeth, and old Squire
Leatherwood has got one arm in a sling
which all put together is a goodness
gracious plenty to make them remem-
Der the time when they all three went
to meet Dolly Mayfeld down at the
spring branch cTossin on Sunday even
in at first dusk sharp in durin the three
DAYS meetin at old Sweet Water church.
oT1I7T-G CANDI.PG
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
TERRIBLE FLOODS.
Nothing Like 1t Has Occurred In siIesIa
for a Century.

for Century.
BERLIN, Aug. 1.-The devastation
cause by the floods in Silesia is wide.
spread. Nothing like it has occurred
in that district for century. The loss
already reaches many millions of
marks. It is estimated that a hun
dred persons have perished by drown
ing in Silesia and Bohemia.
At Loebtan, the town hall, recently
built, and two other large structures,
have collapsed. The rivers are still
rising.
AT Ishol the people are leaving their
houses. It is feared that the great
Elizabeth bridge will be swept away.
A large bridge at Lauffen has been torn
down by the floods.
The emperor, who displays the great
est interest IN the situation, is being
kept closely advised from all parts of
the devastated district.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
.ewhen the widder Heaves in Sight

"When the Widder Heaves in Sight"
The mail to fuckers Mill goes by
here this evenin, Rufe," Blew went on,
land all three of the letters will go
through to their proper places to-
night, or in time for the old squire and
Buck and Babe to put on their Sunday
best and meet the widder at the spring
branch crossin tomorrow evenin at
first dusk sharp.
How do l know that Dolly will be
there? BY the IL epistles she has prom
ised to meet me there and let me have
the superb felocity of her company to
church and back home. You will please
keep in mind that have set up the pegs
and fixed the triggers, Rufe, and if
don't win out even with the three gen
tIemen from fuckers Mill, then the
world don't move and fits must run in
the Scroggins family. 1 will be there,
but not at first dusk sharp. I will pur-
posely hang fire somewheres around in
that neighborhood till the widder
heaves in sight. And then, when the
old squire and Buck and Babe meet
and mix and tangle up together in the
open field of combat, me and the wild
der we will cross below the crossin
and let the best man whip the fight.
You can bet your chin whiskers and
your Sunday pants on one thing, Rufe.
When old Squire Leatherwood and
Buck Collins and Babe Peterson all
three go down there to the spring
branch crossin to meet the wilder
and when the widder heaves in sight
the next thing in order will be free
for-all fight. Somethin is bound to
happen, and somebody must consequen-
TALLY suffer. They can't blame me if
1 happen to come along in the pinch
of time, and they can't say nothin to
Dolly if she runs away from a free
fight and tends night meetin with the
fourth man. All you have got TO do in
the main time is TO sing the song soft
and low. After tomorrow evenin at
first dusk sharp 1t mought be that you
can bear the wounded from off the
field, or go and fetch the doctor"
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
DESTRUCTIVE STORM.

Fully 100000 Acres of Crops Destroyed
in Minnesota and South Dakota BY a
Hail Storm.
SIOUX FALLS. S. D., Aug. IA de-
structive hail storm passed near here
last night. The storm started three
miles west of Dell Rapids, and went in
a southwesterly direction, destroying
everything in its path around Garrett
son. One branch of the storm passed
over Shermantown and Luverne, Mimi.
Here it went in two paths, one north
and the other south, across Rock and
Mobiles counties. 1t is estimated that
fully ] 1000, 900 acres of crops was de-
stroyed.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
REPORTS CONFIRMED

OF Severe Fighting Between Portuguese
Troops and Rebeilious Natives of GAIA
land.
LISBON. Aug official dispatches
from Lourenzo Marquee, South Africa,
confirm the reports of recent fighting
between the government troops and re-
bellious natives in Gazaland.
The battle took place on the 21st OF
July near Chimbutu, the capital of
Gazaland. The governor of Portu-
guese East Africa. Col. Albuquerque
with small Portuguese force, routed
1000 rebels. The Portuguese losses
were two killed and ten wounded. The
natives lost 3OO
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
THE SAMOAN QUESTION.
Mckinley VIII Not Pursue the Policy
Urged BY Cleveland.

Urged BY Cleveland.
CHICAGO, Aug. IA special to the
Times-Herald from Washington says:
There is reason to believe that the Nc
Kinley administration will not pursue
the policy urged by Mr.. Cleveland in
the matter of the abandonment of the
rights of this government in Samoa.
In discussing the Samoan question a
few days before his departure, the
president said that the annexation o.
Hawaii by the United States, and the
proposed construction of the Nicara-
guam canal under the control of the
United States government, had placed
value on Samoa which the country
could i'll afford to lose. Its location is
such that it is directly between Austria
liza and Nicaragua, and its value as
way station for vessels proceeding to
Australia from Honolulu or from the
proposed Nicaraguan canal will be
great.
For these reasons President McKin-
ley will not attempt to carry out the
policy favored by Mr. Cleveland.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06
The Three Love Letters.

In the next place Blew then showed
me the three love letters which he had
writ-all in a little, scrawny, crumpled-
up female handwritin. The one to
Squire Leatherwood went like this:
My Duckydaddle Dear-Buck Collins
and Babe Peterson have both been
lallygaggin around here two or three
days, tryin their loveliest to get my
company to meetin Sunday night. But
they are so young and fresh, and salt
is skeerce at my house. If you will
be so kind, condescendin and obligin
as to meet me down at the Spring
branch crossin late Sunday evenin 1
will go with you. Come at first dusk
sharp.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-08-06

down at old Sweet
Water church, with
three or four ser
monts a day and din
ner on the grounds.
The general crops
had been laid by, fod-
der want ripe, the
weather was sweltry
hot, and it was n
very good time of
year for a man about