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The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20

q know one lady, the mother of three children, who suffered greatly in the birtb of each, who obtained bottle of Mothers Friend of me before her fourth confinement, and was relieved quickly and easily. All agree that their labor was shorter and less painful" :"
 JOHN G. PoLHILL, Macon, Ga.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
The Teachers are Coming.


 The Fifth Annual Session If the 1 Northeast Nfkausas Teaehers' Associa. ton vii meet in Forrest City. August a6 2. 1887. The citizens have arranged to entertain the visitors and We hope they wi;I epj y themselves the city will be turned over tp them Gufiu. their stay. and We want them n feel pelfectly at home. The following is the PROGRAMME: THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 26, 10 o'cLocK. Addresss Of Welcome ............. ....... Otto Rollwage. Forrest City. Response. L. Ferguson. Brinkley Presidents address. Music.
 Parchment
 THURSDAY AFTERNOON. The History of the State in our Public Schools T. r Doan, swifton, w. A. Bonner, Spring Creek J. :. King, Haynes. The Advantages of Uniform Text Books...... E. D. Rivers. Osceoia. The Objection to ;he Uniform Text Books l.. F. Anderson, Trenton. How can we Rest Relieve the Crowded Course of Study?......C. l.. Sampson. Little Rock
 T. W. Campbell, Maynard. Co. Supt vs. Co. Examiner .....................
 J. E. Sanders. Forrest City
 H. P. Tally, Salem
 R. E. Montgomery. Jonesboro THURSDAY EVENING, $50 O'CLOCK. Music
 Recitation....... ...........Miss velma Evans Music,
 Character Building. .....J. J. Doyne. Lonoke Recitation ...........Miss Pauline Henderson Social Reading.
 FRIDAY hoRNISG, 9 O'CLOCK What Attention Should be Given to Current Events and Local History? ........
 Geo. R. Hopkins, Paragould
 Mrs, NJ. NJ. Goodrich, Osceola
 Prof. Lowe, Vineyard The Arkansas Industrial University :. ..
 r. A. Futrall, Marianna Morals in schools.s. F. L. Brown, Paragould
 W. II. Paslay, Forrest City
 W. l. Moore, Lagrange Some Aims in Education ................
 J. w. Conger, Philadelphia
 D. l.. Thompson, Jonesboro FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 1 80 o'clock. Aohotony Tn schools ......C E. Morris. Rector
 Miss Della Mack, pdragould
 Miss Eva Blackmon. Howell The Advantages of Teaching Mental Arith. hetlc....t.-........B B, A. Gohlston, wynne
 N. A. Moore, Corning q, E. Ii. Caldwell Salem "o" can Taste for HeaIthful Literature be euiuvated?...F l.. Alexander, Jonesboro
 Miss Inn n.,N ,tIa T3.a Mrs W. w. Shaver. Vanndule que Training of the Will l......................
 J. II. Hinemon. Pine Bluff Music
 "..'"uon ..........,..... Miss Mamie Webb Music
 ,,uuress Hon Junius Jordon, Little Rock ''ioh'.''....,...... Miss Mary Lancaster hiection of Officers.
 Adjournment.
 COMMITTEES. %tVtfTloN-J. R. Williams, J. E. Sanders, Beck, ''"' '"'''"s' '' "' '.NsERfAINMEET-Ms Alice Rollwage Miss >annie Nindfeld. Miss Lucy Williams, Miss ua M holIwage. Miss Mattie Moseley. me teachers are cordially invited to make our office headquarters, and if !Uu ton see what you want, just let /" oe known, and we'll do the rest.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20
Difficulties Removed.

''l was all run down and could not cat or sleep. | suffered with a tired feeling and also had chills. 1 began taking Hoods Sarsaparlla. and when four bot ties had been used was able to steep well and had good appetite. 1 an mnclt stronger and am relieved of my former difficulties. Mrs. l.. $. Rodgers, Dod,t City, Texas.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20

s1.oo PER BOTTLE at all Drug Stores,
 or sent by mail on receipt of price. oonYc Containing invaluable information of Duvho interest to all women, will be sent to FHts. any address upon application, by rut sRapriElo REGULATOR CO. .ArlanrA. GA.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20

Hoods Pills cure ueausea, sick head ache. bliousness, and all liver ills. Price 9 cents.
The Forrest City times., 1897-08-20

Books Tn Sets-Standard Authors at actual cost and carriage. These arc so cheap that you will actually wonder how they can be produced for the price. Don't miss them. and como early. All 2Oc and 25c paper back Novels, Stories and Coin Series will go at this sale for 10c each. 50c ones at 25c.
 One 2-vol. set Biography of Jctfer- son Davis, worth S6. You may have thom for S1 50.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
WCTORlA'S QUIET GUESTS.
Conversations at Her Banquets Not Live
1y or Engaging.

Conversations at Her Banquets Not Live
" or Engaging.
Concerning Queen Victoria's enter
tainment of ''dine and sleep" guests at
Windsor, London correspondent
writes: These visitors, who are invited
by the master of the household, arrive
about six o'clock in the evening, and
they assemble in the corridor everyone
III full dress) at $3.50 o'clock, when the
lord in waiting settles the order in
which the company are to go in to din
ner. The queen enters from her own
apartments exactly at s.: As o'clock, with
the princesses and lady in waiting, and
the party at once proceed to dinner in the
oak room, which adjoins the corridor.
The conversation at the banquet is not
lively, her majesty strictly combining
her remarks to general subjects, such as
art, literature, music and scenery. Any
allusion to political or personal topics
is absolutely prohibited. After dinner
queen and ladies retire to one of the
drawing-rooms (there are three-the
white, the green and the red), which
open out of the corridor, where they are
speedily Joined by the men of the party.
Formerly the queen went round the
circle, saying a rev civil ana Pheasant
words to each person. but now her
majesty does not leave her seat, and the
guests are taken up to her in tours by
the lady in waiting and the lord in watt
ing, after which she retires to her rooms
with the princesses (if any are present.,
and the company finish the evening
with music and whist. The guests
apartments are very comforta able, with
large baths and capital fires. Smoking is
strictly forbidden except IL the smok-
ing-room, which is far removed from
the queens own part of the castle. In
the morning guests breakfast either
in their own rooms or with the house
hold in waiting. Chicago Times-Her-
aid.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
USEFUL AFTER DEATH.

Part Played by the Carcass OF Horse in
the Commercial World
The leg bones are very hard and
white and are used for handles of pocket
and table cutlery.
The tail and name are especially val
liable and from these are made the hair
cloth of commerce.
The ribs and head are burned to make
bone black. after they have been treat
ed for the glue that is in them.
The phosphate of lime, acted upon
by sulphuric acid and calcined with
carbon, produces phosphorus for luci-
fer matches.
The short hair taken from the hide
is used to stuff cushions and horse col
lars; thus the dead are made to minister
TO the comfort of the living.
The hide furnishes a waterproof
leather known to the trade as cordovan,
and is used for the manufacture OF
high-class hunting and wading boots.
There is an animal oil yielded in the
cooking process which is deadly pois-
OF, and enters into the composition of
many insecticides and vermifuges.
In the calcining of horses bones the
vaFors arising are condensed and form
the chief source of carbonate of am
monia, which constitutes the base OF
nearly all ammoniacal salts.
The hoofs OF the animal are removed
anc after being boiled to extract tue
oil from them the horny substance is
shipped to the manufacturers OF combs
and what are known as A1ikado goods.
The bones to make glue are dissolved
in muriatic acid, which takes the phos-
phate of lime away, the soft element
retaining the shape of the bone is dis
solved in boiling water, cast into
squares and dried on nets.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
PURE OXYGEN FOR MINERS.

Device of Two Vienna Scientists to Over
come Noxious Gases.
An ingenious apparatus, called "pneu-
matophor," for enabling miners, fire.
men and others to breathe when sur
rounded by after-damp, smoke from
fires on board ship or ashore or other
noxious fumes, has been invented at
Vienna by Chevalier de Walcher-Uysdal
and DIR. Gartner, professor at the uni
versity. 1t consists of an air-tight In
dia rubber bag containing first a steel
bottle holding 60 liters of pure oxygen
at pressure of 100 atmospheres, and
secondly, a glass bottle protected by
metal one containing 425 cubic cent?
meters of 25 per cent. solution of caus-
TIC soda. By means of hand-screw
outside the bag the oxygen can be let
into the bag at intervals as required for
breathing, while the turning of an
other hand-screw breaks the glass bot
tie inside and allows the caustic soda
to flow out and be absorbed by the net
work of knitted strips of dimlty in the
bag. Then there are an India rubber
breathing tube, with mouthpiece and
two nose clips, one spare one. After
stTapping the apparatus on to his chest
the user lets some oxygen into the bag,
breaks the caustic soda, takes the
mouthpiece between his lips, and
puts on a nose clip so as to
breathe only through his mouth.
He inhales pure oxygen. while
the caustic soda absorbs the carbonic
acid he inhales, and thus sets the
oxygen to be rebreathed. This makes
it suffice for more than half an hour if
he is moving, and about an hour and q
half if at rest. In its Satchel ready for
use it weighs four and half Kilograms
and costs only few pounds. Numerous
tests recently carried out by the Vienna
fire brigade and in the Silesian coal
mines have proved its absolute eff
ciency.-St. Louis Republic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

United States got too hot for them, and
they crossed the border into Mexico.
Capt. Lawton followed them, and the
Indians. pursued by our troops and the
Mexican troops at the same time, found
themselves in a tight place.
This was in the middle of August.
It was learned through deserter a few
days later that Geronimo's band was
encamped near the town of Fronteras,
in the Sierra Madre. and that they were
exhausted by the fatigues of their
long flight, were short of food and near
ly out of ammunition. The Apaches
were trying to make terms with the
Mexicans on the basis of peace with
them, while they should be left free to
raid northward into United States ter
ritOry. With Capt. Lawton's command
was Lieut.. G. B. Gatewood, of the Sixth
cavalry, an experienced Indian fighter,
who spoke the Apache language and
personally knew Geronimo. He volun-
teered to go to the Apache camp and
treat with the Indians for their sur
render. With two Chiricahua scouts
as companions he set out on his errand
in advance of the column of soldiers.
He was well acquainted with the In
dian character and fully realized the APP
palling risk he ran in trusting himself
in the Apaches' power.
THE Indians were encamped in an
old abandoned Jesuit mission village.
built of adobe houses. with an adobe
wall about it. On arriving near the
place Gatewood left his horse with the
two scouts outside and walked alone
into the village. At sight of him the
Indians seized their guns; recognizing
Geronimo among them. he laid down
his carbine and beckoned to him. The
chief came forward and the two sat
down on pile of stones to talk to-
gether, while the warriors waited in
ominous silence for the orders of their
leader. Geronimo's first emotion
seemed to be of establishment that the
white man should put himself into his
power, and his first words were of SIN
lister import.
"'Are you aware of the danger you
run in coming into our Campo he said.
You are foolhardy. Do you expect to
leave this place alive?'
''Gatewood, knowing that his life was
| in the balance, answered him with per-
| feet composure.
Certainly, you can kill me- he said.
But would that be the act of a great
chief toward one who has given him
his confidence? What have you to gain
by it? Our troops are coming upon
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

you from the north and the Mexican
troops have surrounded you from the
south. Would you not better surren-
der to us than be killed or trust 10 the
mercy of the Mexicans?'
1.-The conversation thus begun led by
degrees to the subject of capitulation.
Geronimo, at first resentful and sus
picious toward all whites, gradually
came around to the views of his visitor,
who. knowing the Indians character,
piled him with a judieious mixture of
fattery, intimidation and appeals to
his self-interest. Gatewood was en-
powered TO offer no terms but uncondi-
tional surrender, with the agreement
that the prisoners should not be MUIR
dered by the soldiers. Gen. Miles, he
said, would decide all matters of that
sort when Geronimo should meet him.
The chief was very anxious to learn
all he could about Gen. Miles, whom he
had never seen.
rs he large man, and how does he
carry himself?' Has he a bright eye
or dull eye?' Does he talk slow or
fast? were some of the questions that
he asked. Lieut.. Gatewood replied that
Gen. Miles had bright eye and did not
talk much, but that what he said could
be relied on.
"As the conversation proceeded the
officer could see that Geronimo was be-
coming pleased and was beginning to
regard with favor the overtures for his
surrender, and the feelings of their
chief were reflected in the faces of his
gaunt and hungry warriors.
Tomorrow, on your assurance that
I shall come and go in safety, will go
to Capt. Lawton and talk with him.
said Geronimo at last. You shall take
this message to him that he may expect
me-
''T his closed the interview and Lieut..
Gatewood walked out of the camp with
his mission accomplished. where an
hour before there was a far greater
prospect that he would lose his life
Next day Geronimo had a talk with
Capt. Lawton, with the result that he
agreed to go northward with him to
came around to the views of his visitor,
They started the next day, Geronimo's
band and Capt. Lawton's command
marching in parallel lines, and often
camping very near each other at night.
After marching in this manner IL days
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
A MISSPELLED TALE.


A little buoy said: Mother deer,
May Eye go out to play?
The son is bright, the heir is clear;
Owe, mother, don't say neighr'
go fourth. my son." the mother said.
The ant said: Take your STAY
The gneiss knew sled, awI painted read,
Butt dew knot lose your weigh"
'Ah. know" he cried. and sought the
street,
With hart sew full of giee
The wether changed, and snow and sIeet
And reign fell steadily.
Threw snowdrifts crate, threw watery
pool
He fiue with mite and name
Said he: Though Eye would walk by
rule,
Eye am not rite. it's plane.
Eyed like to meat sum kindly sole,
For hear gnu dangers weight,
And yonder stairs treacherous whole
Two sloe has been my gate.
"A peace of bred, gnefss hot stake,
Eyed chew If Eye were home,
This crewel fate my hart wood brake
Eye love not thus to rome.
Eye. week and pail, have mist my rode ''
But hear a carte came passed.
He and his sled were safely toad
Back to his home at last.
Mrs. e. T. Corbett. in N. W. Christian
Advocate.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

10 the United States troops"
The man from Tucson was talking,
and when his discourse is of Indians or
frontier desperadoes the people near
him in the Hoffman house office gather
to listen.
sit was in the last Apache war, ten
years ago, which had as its outcome
the deportation of the hostile Apaches
from Arizona to forts on the Atlantic
coast, where they were corralled be-
yond the power of doing further mis-
chief. After the renegades had sur
rendered, in March, 1886, to Gen. Crook,
35 of them, including Geronimo, their
war chief, and Natchez, the son of the
famous Cochise, slipped away by night
and went again on the warpath. For
five months they were at large, raiding
and massacreing over region compris-
ing 10000 square miles of mountainous
country, while 5000 soldiers on our side
of the line and as many Mexican soldiers
across the border were trying to run
down and intercept them. The trouble
was not in fighting them-a half COM
pany of our troops could have whipped
the whole band of renegades in fair
fight in an open feld-but to overtaI1e
and bring them to an engagement.
They knew the trails and passes and
water holes of the vast mountain re-
gion in which they operated as well as
n New Yorker knows the route between
his house and his place of business, and,
being swift and tireless runners, with
no baggage to impede them, they kept
up their game of hide and seek with
our troops for long time. Everywhere
that they went their coures was marked
by cruel murder and outrage, and every
horror of Indian warfare enacted in it's
worst form.
Following the appointment of Gen.
Miles to the command of the depart
ment of New Mexico and Arizona the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

eaten. The board should be "A inches
wide. 4 four-inch board will DO for l..
It is to support the grain trough IN
the figure the boards are shown slightly
separated so that the construction may
be seen more clearly.
One end of the grain trough may be-
closed permanently by a board nailed
from post to post, but that al end
should be hinged to L so that it may be
dropped to allow the trough to be swept
out, as it will need to be at each feed
ing.
The posts and arms may be of hard
wood, but all the boards should be of
lighter timber. We used hemlock. Il
should be planned, at least on the sides
which the sheep touch. Managers may
be made of any desired length.
We made them just long
enough to fit between the posts
in the stable. Unless very short
there should be three sets of posts to
the rack, as shown in Fig. p Cut
notches in the bottom boards to let the
posts in. This is necessary to give the
proper position to the arms.
This manager may be made double
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
AMONG THE POULTRY.

Picking ducks are good market fowls.
For large, heavy fowls have the roosts
low.
Dampness causes leg weakness in
ducks.
The good layers are active and gener-
ally on the move.
Dry earth is a good material to scat
ter under the roosts.
When thrifty bird is fully matured
it is easily fattened-
Early Matched, well developed pullets
make good winter layers.
Stale bread, soaked in milk, is good
feed for young poultry.
Thrifty, vigorous one-year-old hens
make reliable winter layers.
Scald and allow them to stand over
night in place where they will not
freeze; this is one of the best ways of
feeding oats to poultry.
1t is natural for some breeds of poul-
Try to moult lighter each year, and
hence what are often taken for defects
are only natural to the breed.-St. Louis
Republic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
SAVE THE BEESWAx.
Quite 8 Pretty Penny Can BE Earned by
q Little Timely Care.

Quite Pretty Penny Can BE Earned by
Little Timely Care.
If care is taken to look out for all
scraps OF wax, cappings and pieces OF
combs that for any reason are rejected
it viii make pretty piece of wax in the
course of the year. If a solar wax eS-
tractor is used of course it can only be
used when the sun is shining and the
weather warm, making it impossible to
render any wax except in not weather.
But there may be more leisure for it
now, and on one account cold weather
is desirable. In melting up old black
combs the cocoons in them absorb
large amount of wax which is lost. To
prevent such absorption soak the combs
thoroughly in water, so that the cocoons
already filed with water can take up no
wax. But you'll find hard matter to
soak the combs full of water unless they
are broken up fine, and if the combs are
not made brittle with cold it will be
impossible to break them up. So it will
be seen that cold weather is to an ex-
tent needed if you want to melt up old
combs. After the combs are broken up
fine they may be saved till hot weather
by the solar extractor, or they may be
melted up at once, of course after
One good way to melt combs in win
ter is easily accomplished with only the
ordinary appliances to hand in every
household. Take an old dripping pan
of course an entirely new one viii do as
well-split open one corner clear to the
bottom, and you have one of the best
wax eNtractors. Lay in the material
from which the wax is to be extracted
and put the pan in the oven of the cook
stove with the door left open, and the
split corner of the pan projecting out.
Put something under the inside of the
pan, so as to raise it up. then as the wax
melts it will run out of the split corner
of the pan. To catch the dropping wax
set any vessel convenient, and it may be
well to have in this vessel a little water,
SO the wax will not stick to the bottom.
Homestead.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

they met. at Skeleton canyon, Gen.
Miles. who had started from Fort
Bowie. and there Geronimo and Natchez,
with their band of followers. surren-
dered Internationally to him with the
single condition that their lives be
spared. Geronimo, Natchez and two
warriors were driven in an ambulance
to Fort Bowie, the nearest railway sta
ton. the others following on foot. From
Fort Bowie they were sent east to Fort
Pickens. A little later all of the Chiri-
caEua and Warm Springs Apaches re-
naming on the San Carlos reservation
were deported to Fort Marion in Flori-
da, and the southwestern country, for
the first time in its history, was freed
from the terrors of Apache warfare
NJ Y Sun
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

where it is desired to feed from both
sides. 1t will have to be made wider
by the width of the board E only.
When made double we walk in the
anger to distribute the grain. We. of
course, always see that our feet are
clean. The first rack we made on this.
plan was not very satisfactory, because,
as we learned afterward, we did not
have the proper dimensions. The tops
of the posts over which the adjus table
side revolves need to be rounded. Some
care will have to be used in putting it
together, to have it work easily.-H. p.
Miller, in Ohio Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

is open. Again the end boards are left
off to give a little better view of the
construction.
The boards D D and E. Fig. 1, make
the grain trough; the former are six
inches wide, the latter ten. When put
together as shown in Fig. 1, this makes
a trough five inches deep. The top of
the side boards Of the trough should be
16 inches from the ground, for average
sized sheep. The posts are two inches
square and 80 inches long. The arms
A, F, are of the same stuff, Is inches
long. The boards Z, B. b. are one foot
wide. This leaves a space about four
inches wide through which the hay IS
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04

by the gases and odors from the ac-
With this manger, water supply in
the barn, and efficient means of ventila-
ton, We do not expect to turn our sheep
cut of the stable from the time they go
in until grass grows the next spring.
Fig. shows an end view with the
boards closing the end left off, but rep
resented by dotted lines. The arm A is
shown here in the position in which it
is when the sheep are feeding. 1t is
fastened to the post P at the point 0 by
a bolt that allows it to be revolved until
the lower end is in the position shown
in Fig. 3. F. The sheep are then shut
out Of the manager by the boards, Il Is.
Fig. shows view from the side at
which the sheep feed when the manager
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-03-04
THE PURSUIT OF THE HosrILEs.

THE PURSUIT OF THE HOSTILES.
pursuit of the hostiles was carried for
ward with fresh vigor. Everywhere
that they were likely to go the noun
tains were thoroughly secuted, guards
we're stationed at the principal water
holes, and the Telegraph service, then
newly introduced, flashed orders to
troops in the field and information of
the movements of the Apaches from one
peak to another, over vast areas of
country. Capt. Lawton, of the Fourth
cavalry, led the direct pursuit of
band, and gave the Indians
no rest Several times he captured their
camp with it's provisions, stock and
munitions, but on every occasion the
Apaches got away among the noun
.tains in time to save their skins. The