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The Green Forest tribune., 1897-03-11

WHEN bilious or costive, eat a oasearet,
candy cathartfc, cure guaranteed, Zoe, 25e
Plenty Of rain.
The trees have begun to show
forth evidence of spring.
Remember that DR.. Reynolds,
the dentist, will be here April L.
When in Green Forest call on
A. Blasingame, the leader OF low
prices.
Don't allow The lungs to be i'm.
paired by the continuous irrita-
ton of a cough. 1t is easier to
prevent consumption than to cure
it. One Minnie Cough Cure taken
early will ward off any fatal lung
trouble. ). e. Harbert.
Prof. John VI. Smith returned
Sunday from the Indian Territory,
where he had been conducting
several singing schools.
E. Il. Turner of Compton, Mo,
writes us that after suffering from
piles for seventeen years, he com
pletoly cured them by using three
boxes Of tDeWi1t's Witch Hazel
Salve. 1t cures eczema and severe
skin diseases. J. E. Harbert.
The Green Forest tribune., 1897-03-11
A { I ak About
(5IOthiing.

70 our already large stock of
clothing We have just added several
hundred eastern made suits from
a Cincinnati house which writes us
regarding our order as follows:
CINCINNATI. O.--Jau 18th 1887
Messrs. W, r sneed & Co,
Green Forest, Ark
Gentlemen:--We are in receipt of your esteem.
ed order through Chas S. Yates.
Wehave put your order in work as sew
eral lots we shall manufacture especially for
you, III order to give the exact sizes. We thank
you for the order, and assure you we shall try
our very best to please you in every way. The
bill ofgoods has been sold by MIR. Yates at
closer figures than we have sold bill this sea-
son, but we are very anxious to enter our bus
mess connections with you and did instruct Mir
Yates to sell the bill, no matter how close it
would be.
Thanking yau again for this favor, we re-
quest q continuance of the same, ana with
truly yours,
BL. on, Com & Co
AS you will see indicated by the
above letter, we have purchased
these goods direct from the manu-
factory at exceedingly low rates
considering their excellent quality.
OUR WINTER STOCK of
clothing we are now CLOSING
OUT at prices that simply puts
competition clear out of the way.
In anything like q full stock of
clothing there will always be sur.
plus on hands at the close of the
season. In order to save carrying
them over we mean to let our
customers have the benefit of q
GREAT REDUCTION SALE.
Come and examine for yourself.
Look at our goods. We are moro
than willing to compare quality
and price with any house, not only
in Greon Forest, but IN North west
Arkansas, W. r. SNEED 4 90.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
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AUNT MARY'S PAINTING.
Ii Wns the First and the Worst Thing
Saved at Mount HOIyokc.
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
One of r.. II. Halc'S amusing stories tells
of a young couple who We're bur,ISued
Throughout their married life by a hideuus
painting of The PrUdigaI Son" which 4
relative. too rich To be angered. had be-
stCWcd upon them a wedding gift and
which they were ashamed to hang upon
the walls of their home.
When they heard. while away from town
Of the total destruction by fire of their
household effects. their grief was tempered
by the reflection that total destruction
implied the loss of The ProdigaI Son
The first news they received from home
informed them Of a daring deed by which
this one picture was saved by some bold
youth. so that ii alone remained to them
when everything else was gone. In the
recent burning of Mount HolyOke college
something like this tiny comedy was en-
acted.
Among the pictures of dead and gone
presidents of the institution was a paint
ing which was so ugly that the subjects
relatives had alwayS rebelled against its
place of honor. In her letter of coincidence
TO n member Of the faculty. one of these
relations said: After all. if Aunt Mary's
picture was burned. / shant be altogether
without rejoicing at even such a bad state
OF affairs But the teacher in question
had TO inform her that the very first article
she herself spied on pile of rescued fur
nture was Aunt Mary's painting. quite IN
damaged by the fire that had injured so
much and totally consumed SO many prica-
less belongings.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
MAY BE A P0sTP0NEMENT.
Movement to Delay the Consideration
of the Cameron Resolution
by the Senate.

Washington, Jan. 2.-There IS a move
ment on foot in the senate committee on
foreign relations 10 have the consideration
of the Cameron Cuban resolutions postponed
until the question can be reconsidered by
the committee at its meeting on Wednes-
day of next week. The movement for re-
cession from the agreement for immediate
consideration is participated in by both
the opponents of any recognition of Cuba
under existing circumstances and the more
conservative friends of the Cuban cause.
The latter take the position that the pres
ent time is inopportune for consideration
of the subject. largely because the question
of executive prerogative has been raised,
which. it is claimed. would result in driv-
ing from the support of the resolution
many senators who are usually friendly to
the cause of the insurgents. They also
find that it IS doubtful whether day
could he secured for consideration in the
house if it should pass the senate. They
hold that the defeat of the resolution in
the senate or its failure to pass both
houses. after it is once taken up for con-
sideration, would be misunderstood and
place this country in a false light, both in
Spain and in Cuba.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
TO WATCH FILIBUsTERS.
Dynamite Cruiser Vesuvius and Dis
patch Boat Dolphin Ordered
to Florida Waters.

Washington, Jan. 1.-The dynamite cruis-
er Vesuvius and the armed dispatch boat
Dolphin have been ordered to Florida wa
ters TO reinforce the already numerous
fleet of government vessels now engaged
in the effort TO suppress the filibustering
expeditions bound for Cuba. There are
now two waTships, the Newark and the
Raleigh, helping the revenue cutters in this
service, and it may be that the cutter feet
also will be reinforced If it is practicable
to spare any more of the few vessels still
held on duty for the usual revenue marine
service on the Atlantic coast.
All of this force gathered in one TiCinity
is taken TO mean that the government is
determined to leave no sound ground for
complaint by the Spanish government that
it has failed to meet all of the require
ments of international law in preventing
the departure of hostile expeditions from
our shores TO aid the Cubans, and TO ena-
BILE it to assert that it has used the due
vigilance" prescribed as a condition of
avoiding pecuniary responsibilities for the
damage wrought by flibusterers.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
With Rnre knuckIcs.

Pugilism dies hard. Despite the most
vigflant efforts of the law, contests occur
daily in odd corners of the metropolis in
which gloves are despised as effeminate,
and the bare knuckles used as freely as in
the "paImy'' days of Young Dutch Sam or
Tom Sayers. Although dignified by the
name of boxing competitions, care is taken
against exposing their true nature by ad-
hitting only those who are known to be
safe The admission fee is fixed so high as
TO be practically prohbitive; and even
should it be proffered by a stranger, he
will be told-with more or less polteness-
that the hall is full
But there are many small Shopkeepers
and others in the East end who get up
private and select prize fights of their own.
When a contest is fully arranged, the fact
is notified by word of mouth.
Can YOU come round during dinner hour
TO my back yard?" one neighbor will cau-
tIously whisper to another. I've got two
pucky young chaps from So-and-SoS fac
tory. They've been having words and
want It place to fight it out. The purse
will only be twopenCe Il time
When the rival lads meet that dinner
hour in the back yard arranged, they find
ready for them experienced seconds, with
sponges. towels. ETC. and they can fight
their battle with comfort and security
amid a small but select crowd of apprecia-
tive sporting men. Not only do they thus
"avenge their honor but the winner will
he presented with the collected two
pence-a-time," and good show of pluck
and grit in either man will be duly
acknowledged by shower of extra cop
perS.
In the neighborhood of large factories.
such prize fights are common, and many a
celebrated boxing-man dates his debut
from the time when he first met a rival
work-lad in IS back yard
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
BESSIE Johnson.

friends had not only read of but had seen
the grand results from the use of DIR.
keeley's remedies, and the careful follow
ing out of the methods of treatment laid
down by him in every genuine Kelley In
stitute. She came to the institute with her
daughter. and they We're treated and cured,
and are both now in perfectly healthy
condition.
One of the great lessons to be learned
from the treatment of cases like this is the
absolute safety of Dr. Keeley's remedies.
That his cure is efficacious in morphine
and other narcotic drug addictions. as we'll
as in alcoholism is fact proven by years
of experience and thousands of cures.
Among the class of twenty to thirty pa
tients constantly under treatment at the
Kelley institute of Kansas City. Eas..
there are always number who are seek
ing relief from thralldom to morphine. CO.
caine, bromidia or kindred drugs, and they
are as certainly and permanently cured as
are those suffering only from alcoholism.
DIR. Keeley's institute at Kansas City.
Kas., occupies ten large and beautiful
rooms in tho Portsmouth building at the
corner of Minnesota avenue and Sixth
street fifteen minutes ride from the Union
depot by either the cable or Il car lines.
and enjoys the reputation of being one of
the most successful of all the great sys-
tenn of Kelley institutes which now eX-
tends throughout the United States and to
many foreign countries.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
DETECTIVES ARE BUSY.
Lead to the Arrest of the Train
Robbers Who Are Mt Large.

Special Agent Byrnc. of the United
States Express Company. and Special
Agent w. S. Cain, of the Chicago & Alton
rail'oad. vino have been at work for the
past week securing evidence in the last
Blue Cut robbery, were at the county Jail
yesterday evening and held a long con-
sultation with Marshal ChiIes. The mar
shal is acquainted with everybody and
every foot of ground in Jackson county
and he gave the detectives some valuable
pointers which may lead TO one or more
arrests to-day. 1t is known that two
brothers living at Independence are under
suspicion of being implicated in the Blue
Cut robberies. and as they have disap-
peared since the announcement of Ken
nedy's arrest was made, it is thought
Marshal Chiles gave the Eastern detectives
Information where they could locate their
men. Frank Gamble and J. B. Lane, as
sistants to Mr.. Byrne. from Chicago. ar
rived in the city yesterday and have been
put to work on the case.
Kennedy. the man under arrest. evident
ly thinks the authorities have very
strong case against him, as he is nervous
night and refuses TO be interviewed or to
have anything to do with people who call
10 see him.
rumor gained circulation yesterday
that the notorious "Bill' Ryan, who was
once member of the James gang and
who served term in the Penitentiary for
train robhiug. was implicated in the Blue
probably on account of kennedy's strong
friendship with Andy kyan, fireman ~
No ( engine house, who is a brother of
Bill Ryan.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
A SURPLUS LAST MONTH.
With the Aid OF bond SnIes. December
Receipts Are Made to EN-
crcd ErncnditnreS

Washington. Jan. THE monthly com
parative statement of the government re
ccipts and expenditures shows the total
receipts during December to have been
s2a.;Z57, Ia. and the expenditures S25Sl2,66i.
which leaves a surplus for the month of
Ss.oH,i5n. For the six months of the fiscal
year. however. a deficit is shown Of So,
go2 81 This is the first time within six
months and the second time within the
year that the monthly receipts have ex-
ceeded the expenditures. The surplus this
month is largely accounted for by partial
receipts from the recent sale Of first mort
gag, bonds of the Pacific railroads belong
ing 10 the Central Pacific sinking fund.
which appears in this statement as a re
payment to civil and miscellaneous cXpend-
iturc~- There was also further reduction
of about s, 5000 in interest payments dur
ing lhs. month. independent of this bond
transaction. the surplus this month would
have been about SJ00.0e0. The receipts from
customs during December amounted TO SIG,
80 ~, a gain for the month Of about $500
Dcn. The internal revenue receipts aggrc-
gated Sl3lgS ,996 a nominal gain over No
yomber. As compared with December 1875.
there is "a loss of about 81. .3@l.600 in the Gus
toms and gain of about $iiS.poo from in
Jernal revenues.
The monthly treasury statement of the
public debt, issued to-day. shows the debt
on December q. less cash in the treasury.
10 have been 500. .a29 50. Il decrease for the
month Of s.. SO j1T. This decrease IS ac-
counted for by an increase OF $. 96}. .2S1 in
the amount of cash in the treasury. The
increase in the cash was the result of the
recent sale of first mortgage Pacific rail-
road bonds belonging to the Central Pacific
sinking fund.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
WILL ABOLISH NO OFFICES.
Kansas PopuIiSts Want More Instead
of Fcwer-Thcir Relatives Must
lie Provided For.

Topeka, Kas.. Jan. 2.-tSpeciaD Columns
of space have been devoted by newspapers
since tho recent election to telling Of the
many reforms the PopuIlsts proposed to
adopt when they assumed charge of the en-
tire state machinery, in the way of the
adjustment of supcrfluous offices This all
sounded very well to the ears Of the Pop
ulists. but it is not giving any inner circle
Popuist secrets away to say that no such
thing will take place. The Populists will
reform nothing. and will not abolish any
offices. There are not enough offices now.
and as the time draws closer for the legiS-
lature to convene there is less talk of di-
minishinG the number OF places and more
talk about increasing them. The Kansas
Populists can never be depended upon to
abolish something that would keep a rela-
tive out Of "a job. The state Officers-eicct
seem to have as many relatives as the old
Pupulist officials did. and each one Is after
a place. Besides this, the crowd of place
hunters outside of the relative circle is
larger this time than ever before. Every
body who applied for Office under Lew
elling and all his friends are now after
Ieedy. With this condition of affairs star
ing them in the face, the Populist leaders
have quit talking about abolishinc offices
and are now considering some plan of re-
lieving the market Of pie hunters.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
OUR CHECK SYSTEM.
English Visitor Tells People of the
American Way.

From the London Mail.
The American constitution has been call
ed system of checks. So in American
life. When You want to travel you give
your baggage to the porter of your hotel
and he gives you check in return. At the
station you reclaim it with the check. and
pass 1t in at counter ami receive another
check. As you approach your destination
another functiOnary comes along the train,
takes your check and gives you another
check in its place. lie fishes out your bag
gage and conveys it to your hOtel-for Il
consideration. You have left your third
and last check at the office of the hotel
when you enter it, and thence 1t is deliy-
cred up on receipt of the baggage
At first you bless this arrangement as
the salvation of the traveller. After few
weeks of it the tyranny of the check be
comes SO CALLING that you begin to look for
the fine old English method of dumping
down your goods in front of the porter
and leaving them to find the way them
selves. You would even hail it as Il person
al triumph If some of your baggage would
get lost. But it never does. Sometimes IL
arrives late. but it always arrives.
Yet it seldom arrives in the state in which
it started, if that is any consolation. They
who have to do with baggage see to that.
You very soon discover why Americans
carry their goods in iron clad trunks and
why il is madness for anybody to do any
thing else. started out like an idiot with
a new leather pOrtmanteau. They ripped
the stout brass lock off in the first week
not for plunder. apparently, but simply be-
cause it is the tradition of the service. They
punched it and kicked and danced on it,
In softer hours. when literary inspiration
came. they wrote on it. My portmanteau
to-day is an epitome OF the political SEN
timent of the United States from New York
to San Francisco. As historical docu-
ment it is beyond price. and I am contem-
plating the gift of it TO the library of con-
gress at Washington. AS portmanteau
it has both feet in the grave.
The system of checks is not confined to
travellers luggage The conductor of the
train passes caTelessly to and fro asking
for your ticket. and giving you check in
return. or asking for your check and re-
turning your ticket. II you hand your stick
to "a hoy in a hotel while you write your
name i'm the register he dashes off to stow
ii away in some secret place and returns
triumphant with check. In the very hotel
bar when you buy seven pence ha-porth
of whisky you get check and walk two
yards across the bar to pay at a desk
But the apotheosiS of the check is at Nj
agara. When You go down to the caYe Of
the winds you strip off all your clothes
and leave them, well as your vaIuabIes,
in a tin box with the attendant. Then YOU
20 down to battle with the cataract attired
only i'm suit of pajamas. Il suit OF oilskins
and a check lashed around your neck and
rising and falling with the beating of your
heart. No wonder the American speaks
of death as handing in his checks II is
only by death that he can rid himself OF
them.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
INDIAN LOBBY ON HAND.
Trying Again TO Put Through the Old
Chickasaw and ChOctaw
CIuim.

Washington. Jan. 2.-(Special) There is
no little speculation over the possible
chute Secretary Francis will take on the
well known Chickasaw and Choctaw claim
applied to unsettled reservations in Okla
homa.
The old-time lobby handling that claim is
on hand, headed as usual by Robert l.
owen, of Muskogee. He is pressing the
claim on the Wichita reservation under
Il contract with the Indians to receive
% per cent of the money secured Mr.
Harvey Salmon, of Missouri who is also
associated with Owen, is expected in a
few days. II has always been his work to
make terms with Senator Vest, through his
agent, Joe Hickey. and there is little doubt
but the same Old-time combination will
work this session.
This lobby so far in its history has sue
ceeded in capturing in fees amounts aggre-
eating $4,000. If their plans carry they
will get S2j00O0 in fees this session out of
the Wichita reservation lands. Should
Secretary Francis refuse his support to the
scheme the lobby would not have it so
easy. but some insist he will not aim to
go out of office with the same Indian lobby
odor that clings to his predecessor
The lobby is trying to induce Mr. Francis
to refuse to open to settlement the Wich-
ita lands until their shadow claim is paid
With his support they may =be able TO pile
mp an Indebtedness on the land to be paid
by the settlers. OF course all sorts of
financial turns made against n reservation
are finally piled up against the settlers
The cattlemen, through their agents. are
aiding the lobby to tie up the Wichita res
ervation, thinking that complication will
result in the land not being opened to set
tlcment.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
A POP ATTACK ON PETER.
Pomona Enterprise Accuses Him of
NepOtism. BOOdiing and Other
PonuIistic Attributes

Topeka. Kas., Jan. 2.-(Special) The
Pomona Enterprise (Pop) is out after
Senator PETERS scalp. The bewhiskcred
from Il Republican paper as he did in this
weeks issue of the Enterprise. Two
columns were devoted to the story. Fol-
lowing are a few of tine choice extracts:
The Republicans are now offering to
throw their forces in the legislature to Mr..
PETER in the election in January. They
can well afford to do that BY keeping Mr..
PETER in the senate they can still hang
Kansans up 10 the world as set of idiots.
while. by cajoling him with fat positions
for his family and providing him with the
best courtCsies of the senate chamber. they
have controlled his vote on most important
legislation affecting the people.
NO senator is guilty of greater nepotism.
No senator has voted for more corrupt
squandering of public money. No man
representing Kansas has put the state in
such contempt with the world over his
visionary and impractiCable bills for the
monetary relief of an oppressed people.
We have many prominent men of ability
in Kansas who are practical business men.
>rue PopuliSts. are not hunting office
especially 10 feather their family nest. and
whose presentation of true reform views
i'll congress would not put Kansas and re-
form measures into contempt. We owe 1t
To ourselves and to the nation We love to
give to the councils of the lawmaking
power. from whom alone relief can come.
our best and wiseSt cooperation. We
want practical men-nOt theorists; We
want honest men-Lot bOodlors.
For these reason We emphaticalIy pro-
test against the reelection of w. y. PETER
TO the United States senate. And we add
that our protest is none the less vigorous
because Mr.. Feffcr has seen tit in the past
few days to announce that he has modified
his views on the tariff
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
Explained Ghost.

From the ArEonaut.
This is Il true English ghost story Of
an unconventional kind. young lady ar
rived late at night on a visit to "a friend
She awokc in the darkness to find a white
figure at the foot OF the bed. While she
watched, the bedclothes We're suddenly
whiskcd off and the aDparitiOn vanished
After an anxious, not to say chilly night.
the visitor went down, with little appetite,
to breakfast. At the table she was intro
duCed to gentleman, a very old friend
of the family, who had. she learned. also
been sleeping in the house. He complained
of the cold. Il hope you will excuse me.
he said to the hostess. but l found il so
cold during the night that. knowing the
room next mine was unoccupied. | took
the liberty Of going in and carrying OF
the bedclothes to supplement my own"
The room, as it happened. was not unoc-
cupied, but he never learned his mistake
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
TWO KANSAS PARDONs.
james Wells. of Ford County, md
Daniel Bierer, of Afchison

Topeka, Kas., Jan. 2.-CSpecial) Govern
or Morrill, to-day granted a pardon to
James Wells, who was sent 10 the peni-
tentiary for ten years in 1894. from Ford
county, for killing L. f. Warren, of Dodge
City. He also pardoned Daniel Bierer, son
of Colonel Berer. of Atchison, who was
sent to prison from Douglas county short
time ago for a term of one year for lar
ceny. The boy is half-witted and he plead
ed guilty to stealing So from a farmhouse,
although there was question whether he
committed the crime. His brother is a
judge in the Indian Territory.
Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-03
MISSOURI FEDERATED CLUBS.
VIII Meet in Kansas City Some Time
This Month.

The women of Kansas City. especially
the club women, are making energetic
preparation for the session of the FEEDER
ated Clubs of Missouri to be held here
during January. In every section OF the
state there have long existed little bands.
chiefly of non-profcssional women, devoted
to the study of social educational and
ethical advancement. The increasing
numbers of these workers gradually
reached point where organization be
came eXpedient to promote mutual aims
and provide ways and means for further
and more widespread endeavor, and the
state federation was formed year ago.
Tho present officers are: Mrs. John y Al
len, st. Louis. president: Mrs. George l..
Brinkman, Kansas City. vice president:
Mrs. p ID. Fisher, Hannibal. recording sec
retary: Miss Ada Eliot. St. Louis, CORE
spending secretary; Mrs. Mary T. Me
Cluny, Sedalia. treasurer; Mrs. y. ..
Grubb Kirkwood, auditor.
Mrs. II. n. ESs. of Kansas City. is chair
man of the committee on credentials. and
the address of welcome will he made 10y
Mrs. ]. c. Horton. of Kansas City. presi-
dent of the Friends in Council.