The Forrest City times., 1904-05-13
The Manners of Men-
Copyright, 1904, by Daily Story Pub Col
By J. c. TETLOw

AA and thought unremittingly and cor rectly in his journey up the rounds He made his final success in soap He learned an unusually good way to make fine article and studied out an effective way to advertise it. When it began to pay it paid so fast that very few years served to make him very rich man.
 When his fortune had rolled we'll in- to the millions and was invested so well that his yearly income ran into six figures he sold his business at the behest of his wife and daughter and moved east to enjoy the fruits of his labors.
 Truth be told, he did not enjoy the new life as we'll as he did the one he had left, but his wife and daughter did, and, being an easy-going, full-blooded, xrmal sort of person, with plenty of philosophy, he made himself comfort able and found plenty of things to in- terest him, whether at the palatial home on the avenue in New York CT travelling abroad.
 AS the years sped, however, he began 10 hear a discordant note now and then, and to find himself somewhat without the pale of his own family cir ce He had not married early and his wife had not been the partner of his earlier struggles. But she had shared his hopes and fears during the crucial period of his career and their married life had been exceedingly companion able and sympathetic.
 Once in New York. however. and launched into the campaign to get into society, Mrs. Smith soon joined forces with the daughter, Nellie, and sought to obllterate all memory and connee- ton with the old life and to push res olutely toward those inner circles so jealously guarded against those who ever did anything useful.
 AS for the daughter, she was hand some young woman, as ambitious as her sire had been. and with ai1 this ambition directed toward an entree to the 400. "
 It was very soon after invading the east-in fact, when the palace on tEa avenue was completed-that Smith was stunned to see on the d0or-plate the name "Smythe." There was d great uproar and Smith stamped about for several days. pledging his word b two fearful women that he never would stand for it; but, swearing he would not did. Nothing could induce him to sign his name that way, but that was the way the name appeared in the so- ciety columns. the blue books and on the ladies cards.
 Later it evolved into Johnston Smythe and there was another scene ending in the rout of the head of the family
 There are so many John Smiths. :" sobbed Nellie-whose name had now been transfgured to Eleanor-"that we Will be positively lost. Who can identi- iy John Smith in a list of names?"
 These triAing storms in the life of John Smith, capitalist, blew over and he went on in the even tenor of his way, reading his favorite paper. smok- ing black cigars. hobnobbing with western friends of his old days when they came east, and taking a fly now and then at the produce market, just Tor diversion. Perhaps his greatest trlal was the dress suit into which he was poured with increasing regularity and the functions 10 which he was led as a lamb to the slaughter But he got used to the clothes and even wore them with sort of grace eventually The functions he despised. He thought everything of his wife and daughter ana was willing and anxious that they should have their hearts desire.
 And the career of the Smythes was heteoric toward the social goal They spent money like water and their en- teftalnmentS were the wonder of the metropolis.
 in the midst of it all a new factor appeared in the equation Leslie Archi- bald Van Not, scion of one of the old tst and most exclusive families in the metropolis, descended on the one side rom the Van Nots and on the other rom the Pastors. with close relation ship 10 the Ganderhilts. began to pay marked attention to Nellie. This near set lhe female section of the Smythe 
 +"nliy crazy. Young Van Not was one oi lhe best known society men in the Oity' and he was welcomed into the most exclusive circles Once secured al was won-the charmed portals @ould open. To be sure. the Van Not finances were at a low ebb. but what -'"',efed that-did not papa have plen- " of money?
 in III the meantime papa was hustled .n'o the background and the campaign vas "aged without his assistance The ~oneh feared that papa would make ooine break that would scare away the eorueh hsh nibbling at the hook.
 dpa saw all this and felt it more Iehiy ua than he admitted to himself. tbo e was man among men He held t respect of every person with whom
 nau ever come in contact.
 ra niS name had ever been the svno- eo, 9nl TOT commercial integrity and his ounsei had been eagerly sought in hnn,l important matters connected with