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The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19
the maiden on her bridal. the dress maker is alike indispensable


 
 The house is kept al concert pitch un- LII the work is under good headway men the potentate of the occasion re- iaxes her severity and conversation be- sihs' eddylng Tn and out. rippling on like brook, swirling around familiar topics ana gleaming with gayety and gossip ,'olng as she does everywhere. the dress maker hears no end of pleasant things, ana knows no end of interesting occur rences. She is no yender of malice or purVeyor Of scandal. She is only hard working little woman. who earns every doliar she receives. and who entertains her employers agreeably by a bit of chat rom the world outside, even when she dictates to them most firmly as to the length of their petticoats and the height or their stocks. Do not grudge her the money you pay into her faithful hand.
 oi course, while she is with you call CTS cannot be admitted, committee meetings must be eyaded. and parties of pleasure abandoned By an unwritten but imperative law, the dressmakers days are her own, and she takes prece- dence for the time, every other engage ment lessening in importance before hers. For this reason the woman lavish prefers another course from that of the woman economical She sends her goods to dressmaking establishment, goes there to be fitted, and has her dresses sent home, wrapped in many folds of tissue paper, and finished to the last fluting and frill, with bill far in ex cess of the one presented by the itiner- ant seamstress. One who has big bank account, or a deep purse, may save her self trouble by going to the dressmaker, instead of summoning the dressmaker to her.
 In India. this whole branch of handi- work is given to men. who charge very little. yet perform miracles of beautiful needle-craft. European and American ladies have great satisfaction in the eve hing gowns made by gentle natives, with delft hands and smiling faces. They dress the Mem Sahibs as those gentle women wish. making anew or making over with swift dexterity But when they dress Mohammedan or Hindu bride, the gown is something like one described by an author who writes ot India. and whose words quote
 She wore purple petticoat em- bossed with a rich border of scattered punches Of flowers, each flower formed of various gems, while the leaves and stems were of embroidered gold and silk threads. Her bodice was of the same material as the petticoat; the entire vest was marked with circular rows of pearls and rubies. "
 We have nothing 10 show quite so superb as this.
The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19
SOME PERENNIAL PLANTS.
A Few of the Flowers That Will Re- ward the Gardener from Early
 Summer to Late Fall.

Any of the following will give satis- faction and beauty for many years: Perennial Phlox, a grand flower. and can be procured in great many col ors and shades. good selection of these improved phlox. we'll cared for, IS bed of beauty from June until late frost after the first year. Good rich soii should be selected for these plants and a sunny location is best to bring out their colors; place them IS inches apart. If small plants are procured, thls may seem to be too far but they spread very rapidly by root increase. Weeds must be kept down. and the roots not be allowed to dry out: cut tho blooms just as soon as fiorets begin to fade. if not before, as seed bearing rap idly exhausts the plant and prevents reblooming. A few seeds let ripen in the fall will insure quite lot of nice seedlings the next spring
 Hollyhocks. both single and double. should be had, and while the cut leaved double dwarf ones are pretty anywhere, tue Tall single ones are incest in group in some corner. or along fence or build Ing. Have all eolors of the single ones mixed. If the bloom stalk is cut of before seed forms. the plant will bloom the second time. the same season, but the bloom stalk will not be so long. Hollyhocks are rank growers and re- quire good. rich soil.
 Golden Glow. Shasta Daisy. Pinks Tn variety. Dyleta tbleeding hearD Platycodon, Perennial Topples and Asters are a few more that are very desirable and once started. except the garden carnation and dianthus pinks and Sweet Williams, will rapidly in crease in both plant and flower. Those excepted need to be renewed every third year. but they are so sweet and desirable in every way that they are well worth the extra trouble.
 These plants. without mentioning the bulbous rooted desirabes which will require an extra mote, will furnish flowers for bouquet and garden from early spring until after frost. Many are very fragrant. By an oversight. hardy chrysanthemums were not men, toned. The house ones are lovely. al- most beyond belief. but the hardy ones Ii not so large. nor so many colored. are just as nice in foliage. and the white ones and yellow ones, when well fed and cared for. will furnish very large blos- sons i'll abundance. These increase very rapidly. Don't omit these very de- sirable plants. Where one has some time, sunny location and few extra dimes. l know of nothing that will re- turn more enjoyment than half dozen or so of mail size tea roses. They re- qulre rich, clayey soil. sunshine and to be watched that insects don't get foot hold, but they are indeed beautiful.- Farmers Review.
The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19

lustration. where shoes, slippers and rubbers may be kept in orderly condi- tion, says a contributor to Farm ani Preside. This double-deck shoe-nest requires but little skill and very little practical knowledge 10 make, and as no definite size can be given the drawing shows quite clearly how one or several of them can be made to fit the space in any closet In a small closet no legs will be required under one corner of the nest as both ends can rest on the top of the surbase; in large closet. how ever. where il is not desired to extend it along the side. the unsupported end is held up by a leg.
The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19
ORESSMAKER COMES
AN AUTocRAT BUT A FAITHFUL
 FRIEND IS THIS VISITOR.

Lady of Scissors and Styles Person. age of Distinction-Man Is Super 1uous Furniture, When She Ap- pears-She Regards Most Elegant Stuffs with Indifference-Never Vender of Malice, She Cleans with Gayety and Gossip.
The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19
To Thicken Eyebrows.

Comb the eyebrows and clip the edges of them. Then use the salye accom- panying until the growth is increased: : Red vaseline, two ounces; tineture of cantharides. one-eighth ounce; oil of lavender, 15 drops; oil of rosemary, E drops. Mix thoroughly. Apply to the eyebrows with tiny toothbrush once day until the growth is sufficiently stimulated, then Iess often.
The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19
The Hvoiene of Perfumes

Perfumes are not selected for their hygienic value. but such they have. may be made anliseptic by the use of perfume. The action of the spirit of the scent and the essential oils can de- stroy the grms. Lavender is supposed to soothe the nerves. That is why the bed linen is lavender scented Jas mine induces nerve exhaustion and de- pression. Don't use strong scent. Use delicate, clean perfumes only
The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19

After a little, the dressmaker, in the place Of commanding officer, assigns to each member of the family her task. One presides at the sewing machine. another meekly stitches according to direction another bastes; each does as she is told If three or four gowns are in process of making at once, there is superficial con some half-hours of trying on of hang ing skirts and adjusting sleeves.
 The latter indicate the ebb and flow of fashions waves. One year they puff at the shoulder, the next they flare at the wrist Sometimes the puff is below the elbow. Sometimes the sleeve clings to the arm, as the rind of an apple to the fruit. Turn to any toilet-chronicle of the past thousand years. and observe how sleeves have varied in caprice and whim all the way along the centuries, just as they do now. Empires crumble, dynasties wane, battles rage, the map of the world is changed, but sleeves main tain their whirling dance through all. and the dressmaker sits as calmly on the top of heap of ruins as in the palace of queen.
 Princesses indeed bow at her behest. Our first lady of the land could not have gone to the inaugural ball the other eve ming in March, had not some lady of the shears fashioned her splendid gown, from yards and yards and yards of fri descent brocade, woven on special looms from pattern immediately destroyed. To the queHp on her coronation day and
The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19
For Poisoning,

For accidental poisoning, vomiting should at once be produced to eject the poison from the stomach. Mustard, salt water, weak borax water or an ac- tive emetic will any of them produce .hs desired effect.
The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19

When she is expected an air of excite nent pervades the household.
 Breakfast is earlier than usual. The children are hurried off to schoo. Visi- ble impatience flurries the mistress. and the maid moves about as hastily as if looking for an invitation to wake. Should John choose that special morn ing to loiter little before going to busi- ness. saying that he has to meet man OF his way to the office and will take a later train deep dejection seizes his womankind. There are times when the best of men is stumbling block; when one waves q joyful hand at the most adorable husband as he disappears around the corner.
 Everything else yields to the urgency of the moment when the lady of the scis- sors and the styles appears on the scene Samples were sent for weeks ago. and goods anXiously selected and purchased Mother and daughters have reminded one another whenever errands have been made to the local shops. to bring home needles and buttons and braids and sewing silk aud Innings and hooks and eyes and twist. It would be too dreadful to find anything lacking when the dresSmakeris time had come.
 When she has taken off her hat and jacket, and unrolled her patterns, the artiste surveys the materials laid out for her inspection. The shimmering silks the filmy gauges the sheer lawns. the lowered organdies. the lustrous mo hairs. the soft wools, whatever the fab rics chosen may be. are spread before her with certain pride.
 Beautiful and costly they may be, but the dressmaker is never enthusiastic She regards the most elegant stuffs with indifference. as befits one who handles such goods daily. and to whom nothing is sumptuous or magnificent She is often naughty and occasionally condescend- Ing, hut take her for all in all, she is businesslike. and who does not know that between business and sentiment there is a divorce which cannot be ig- nored? If she says nothing critical. you may thank your stars if she approves. be certain that your horoscope was cast in a fortunate hour; if she waxes cordial in her glance and words, fate has indeed been kind to you.
The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19
Change
. 6iin1e@
 SERVICE

Effective Sunday, February 26, 1905, trains 5 and were discontinued. Trains and f now run through to and from St. Louis. and carry buffet sleeper between St. Louis and Shreveport, and sleeper between Memphis and Texarkana. Through chair cars.
 No. 1 arrives St. Louis. 51 p. m.; Nc. 3 leaves St Louis. 30 a. m.
 This gives d day service in and out of St Louis, which will be ap- preciated by those who do not like night travelling.
 There have been no important changes made in time of trains 1 and 2.
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The Forrest City times., 1905-05-19
TO HOLD ONES SHOES.
Here Is a Sensible Means for Keeping the Shoes Out of the Dust and
 Out of the Way.

A box can easily be conyerteI into a shoe nest, like the one shown in the fl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-14
THE CoLoNEL's VALET.
(By NJ. Ouad.0

Colonel Bennett of the Native Sixth
infantry, stationed in the province of
Bombay, had taken a native valet be-
cause that was the fashion. and he
expected the fellow to assassinate him
some day, because that was the Gus
tom of native Wallets. He thought the
event might happend the first year
then the second-the third-and when
four years had gone by and no at
tempt had been made on his life he
called Nizam to him one day and said !:
How is it that you have let me live
on so long?"
May the Sahib Colonel live for a
thousand years." was the reply of the
man with the impassive face who
stood before him in cringing attitude.
That's all CANNON, Nizann, an dyou
know it.ss Like all other EIindoos, you
have a deadly hatred of the English.
You wish for nothing so much as an
other rebellion and a, chance to cut
our Threats. Do I not speak the
TRUTH"
Great and powerful are the Eng
lish, and their rule is merciful and full
of Justice"
''AIl sheer hypocrisy on your part
Nizam. You'd like to put your knife
into a dozen of us today. You have
now been with me four years"
-Four long and happy years, Sahib
Colonel, and it would break my heart
to have you send me away"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-14
Gossin of the Players.


The only people who are tickled over the
cancellation of the New YORK american
dates in Jacksonville are the Bostohs,
who figure that they will draw larger
crowds there if they have the week 20
themselves, without having to follow
Griffith's men. President Taylor and Sec
rotary Green are also pleased at securing
April II for the worlds champions AT
League park. The Bostons will be IN
fighting condition by that time and ready
to play championship ball Their visit
of Parent and Ferris. who escaped be1ng
Reds only by the shadow of John I.
Brush, and a chance to renew acqualnt-
ance with Collins, Young Stahi Cr1ger,
etc.
Billy Conroy, the crack third sacker, is
the latest of Clark Grifith's understudtes
70 put his name to contract he Things
the New York Americans are undoubted-
~ strengthened, especially IN the pox, ana
that with any kind of luck they viii make
the champion BOstons hustle to retain
their present 1aureIs- This Is Conroy S
view of the future: we mad many acc1-
dents to contend with last year, but the
hoodoo cannot stick to US all the time
and believe you will see US kicking up
a cloud of dust through which the beam
eaters will be cropping most OF the season
But the Clevelands, Chicagos and Phila-
delphlas are all dangerous propositions IN
the American league, so nothing IS GER
tain
Happy Jack sutthoff doesn't like the
looks of the figures on the contract
Shettsline has sent him, and SO far re-
fuses to O. K. it. The document calls for
quite cut in the twirler,s last year s
allowance. The way they We got 1t nxeo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-14
AND NOW IT'S CHICO CIGARS
Interesting Talk by Geo. w. StansfieId
on What Makes Cigar Popular.

The remarkable success Of Wadsworth
Bros Chico cigar in getting into the
mouths of smokers in Topeka is aston
ishing.
Less than a year ago the Chico was
unknown here. Today, it is the most
popular cigar in Geo. w. Stansf1eld's
large stock
advertising alone will not make
cigar popular said Mr.. StansfeId. "a
cigar must be good to meet with a sale
in this city 1 do not know of a town
where the smokers are as discriminat-
ing as they are in Topeka, and the fact
that they have made Wadsworth Bros.
Chico their favorite. speaks volumes for
its quality While it sells for Sc, it is
better than the average ten center, 50
that it reaches all classes Of smokers. 1t
is an all long Havana filled cigar, and
a good one, that I am glad to recon-
mend to my customers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-14

/ now, though a player has to sign where
ne belongs or get out Of the game, SO it's
tually. Mike Kahoe hasn't signed, either,
tory, and he'll put his name down as soon
as he finds time.
President Hermann has approved
Architect Hake's plans for the double
decker in left field, where the bleachers
now are, and work viii go forward at
once.
Pitcher Pfttinger has signed with the
PhfHiess Just as all the other buffers viii
90 curing The next three weeks. Pitt
claimed he had a chance to make big
money managing an independent team in
Pennsylyanias and announced that he
wouldn't Join the Quakers, but he weak
ened early
The Cineinnatis have arranged thir-
ana they won t win a third of them, says
the Washington Star. This is good one
TO cut out and file for future reference,
Just 70 see now poor a prophet the young
man is. He wouldn't have dared to say
1t II i've OF the thirteen were with the
lation of the New York American series
leaves only nine American league games
tor the Reds, three with Detroit, four
with Boston and two with Cleveland.
Would the Star man like to bet a hat that
the Reds don't win five out of the nine?
Owing to Clark Grifith's backdown,
FRANK Bancroft will arrange a couple of
extra games with the Jacksonville team,
REDS last week in training quarters.
Frank Bowerman, the New York CATCH
er, gave a muskrat supper for some
friends in Romeo, Mich where he lives,
the other evening. In this line of cpl
curean endeavor he is likely to stand
alone.
Il am not what is known as a hard
loser in baseball" says John T. Brush,
unless a game is lost through stupidity
l have not particle of sympathy for a
player who makes a stupid play, but
never mourn when a game is lost after
having been well played
lone of the best speeches I ever heard
was made by one of the boys on my Mil
waulxee team at the close of the season.
says Joe Cantillon. THE players were
ready to scatter when this one stepped up
to me and said: Joe, the gang got me
into this I'm bum on the spiel, but here's
darn good diamond we want to give you
Tor burryragging US all summer. That's
ALL And that speech did me more good
than II 1t had been delivered by Chauncev
De Peach, and had told me was the best
manager in the world
Ben Hooker, the veteran third baseman,
is considering an offer to umpire in the
American association.
In their mad rush for players the Sat
urday and Sunday league managers need
NOT overlook the following clever players:
McheeVer, Jack O'Conner, kenney
Ritchey, and Bushelman, pitchers; Alick
Me, Leo Sanders and John Texter, catch
ers; Summers and Pete Long, first base
men; Joe Herman, second baSemau:
courtney, McBrair, shortstops; J. Hoo
1lant tnIrd baseman, Harry and Archie
McBralF, Bud Hayes, Jimmy Donnellon
eugene o. Brien, who made such a repu-
tatlon playing first base for the Charles
ton, w. Va, team, has an offer to play
at Waco, Texas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-14
Years of Work Of a Mound Valley
Woman in Vain.
Her Husband Had a Former
Wife the Records Show.
NO DIVORCE GRANTED.
Now Her Years of Labor to Save
Are Of No Avail.
Man in the Case Had Property
of Considerable Value.

Parsons, Feb. 1.-THE Sun says:
A hard luck story comes by way of
LeavenwOrth with terminal facilities
in this county, that has the story of
Enoch Arden skinned and is only an
other link in the chain of circum-
stantial evidence that has been piled
up in the garbage garden since the
time of Adam and Eve that when a
woman contemplates engaging in
matrimony she can't go too far back
into the history of her husband in her
investigation of his record, both per-
sonal and impersonal. According to
the story County Clerk Neihaus, OF
Leavenworth county, recently received
a letter from Mrs. Alice r. Jacobs Of
Mound Valley asking that if there
We're any records in the court house
at LeavenwOrth showing that a Ii
vorce had been granted to Moses. 3.
Jacobs, who formerly lived in Labette
county. The letter is as follows:
Mound Valley, Kansas, Feb. .,
1905--kind Sir=Please look over the
court records and see if Moses B.
Jacobs ever applied for a divorce from
Ida Jacobs about thirty or thirty-five
years ago. Mr. Jacobs is dead and
there is a large estate that I halned
him to make and now this woman
(Llda JacObs) says he never got a di-
VOrce from her and if I cannot find
out that he has I and my children are
leIt out entirely I have been mar
ried to Mr. Jacobs for twenty wears
He hadn't anything when 1 married
MIN and what he has now is what he
made from my money. Yours respect
fully,-Mrs Alice r. Jacobs
Upon receipt of the letter the coun-
" clerk OF LeaVenWOrth submitted il
TO the clerk of the district court. but
a careful search of the records of that
ONCE failed to show that any divorce
had ever been granted to Moses 3.
Jacobs and so wrote Mrs. Jacobs
There are several people in Parsons
who know Mrs. Jacobs and she is very
well known in Mound Valley where
she now lives and is said to be very
mighty respected by her neighbours
She was married, so the story goes, to
MI Jacobs, at Oswego. who at that
time was engaged in the livery bust
ness Mrs Jacobs, or rather Mrs
Shields, as she was at the time of her
marriage, was a widow with two sons
by former marriage and the two
sons now live in Mound Valley Years
ago Jacobs went to Kansas CITY to
was received that he had died in that
city, and Mrs Jacobs went there to
look after her property interests only
10 md that the man whom she was
supposed to have married had a wife
already living no decree Of divorce |
could be found separating him legally !
from this woman and now his first
wife steps in and claims all the prom
erty and the wronged woman finds
cumulate during twenty years of toll
and self denial will go to another. !
who 'toiled not neither did she SPIN
to acquire it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-14
Glade Says He Is Not Married.

a st. Joseph MOD newspaper
printed the following telegram from
Fred Glade. now at Grand Island,
Neb.. the young. Browns pitcher, in
regard to the report of his marriage:
"A report sent out last week to the
effect that 1 had been married in
Woodbine, Ia, is untrue. Kindly
deny the same and oblige.
FIRED NJ. GLADE"
The report of Glade's marriage was
given out last week as an accom-
plished fact, and as it was known that
he had been engaged for some time,
it occasioned no particular surprise.
Most of Glade's friends in St. Louis
are waiting for him to show "cause"
other that his denial in the St. Joseph
paper before accepting him as
bachelor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-14
OIL MEN ASK FOR RAILWAY.
Kansas Producers Petition NJ, K &
T. Official for Branch Lines.

Parsons, Kas., Feb. 14.-Business
men from the oil fields west of here
met with the Parsons Commercial
club and formulated a proposition to
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-
way company pledging money if that
company would build a line from this
point to various towns in the oil field.
The proposition was filed with Gen
eraI Attorney T. N. Sedgwick to be
submitted to General Manager Allen
and President Finney, ana a meeting
of the officials and the petitioners will
probably be held soon to more fully
consider the matter.
Such a line was frequently discussed
by the officials at the time the Rookie
Teller interests were in control of the
road, but no action was taken.
The Oil Producers association seems
to be behind the enterprise, but with
the Standard Oil company's new pipe
line in operation it is thought the rail-
road will be slow to build.