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The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
Fate of the Tough Boy.

boy stands on the street corners smoking cigarettes. using slang, be- coming an adept in the fiResse of po- Ete swearing, making remarks about all the women that go by. and telling exactly where old Tom Smith misses 1t in the management of his business affairs. He dotes on the appellations of June sweetener" tough" and
 peaehereno," applied to him through out the community. His conduct. says the Nebraska City Times, is connived at by the witless girls of the town on the road to God knows where: he Is dubbed the proper stun" by his asso- eiates, while the younger prodgals look upon his reputation as a consum- nation deyoutly to be wished After little there is an opening in the firm of Stoddard X Stoddard for promising boy. offering a good salary 10 start on. But our young peach ereno' doesn't get it. No, sir he doesn't get it; and he can't understand why he of all the young men round about, should not have been ap- preached with that proposition at least three days before anybody else was thought of. Miserable, incorrigible fool' Poor, wretched. wryheaded in capable. with distorted conceptions of lifei What hath a business house to do with thee? Or, why should a re speetable institution of whatever na- ture coYet thy presence? Boys, busi ness men of your town know you bet ter than your own parents do. Their eyes are on you when you are least aware. You may slip away from your old mother, who sits busy with her knitting, You may dupe and deceive your best friends you may elude the watchful eye of your teacher; you may trifie with the confidence of your Sun day school superintendent. but you cant fool the business men of your town when they have a position to be filled
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

don't you know. because he made me d special price. and l couldn't take them back. He'd think I was pretty cheap. Just let them go"
 When Genial got into his suit he foun l that the trousers were three inches too long. and the vest did not quite meet them at the top. The coat was padded higher in one shoulder than in the other. and while the top button would fasten all right the bottom one could not have been made to meet the bu,- tonhCie with shoe buttoner
 Did you get that from a friend too?' Mrs. Genial inquired, sarca5- tlcally
 Yep Genial replied. with a guilty smile
 T suppose you'll refuse to take that suit hack" madam pursued
 Well. dear Genial apologized. T don't see how can very we'll You see Jones made me a special price on il, he being a close friend of mine. and as long as I accepted his saerl- fee l can't really in good grace put him to any further trouble
 "Of course not" Mrs Genial replied. with smireh. Of course not
 When it came 10 the shoes and tho socks they likewise were not of the
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
THE BLOOD CRYSTALS.

scope. and their nature establshe l beyond doubt The stains are treated with little alkali. eyaporated 10 dry ness and then heated with acetic acid and minute amount of sodium chloride, says Knowledge and Scien- ufc News, London. If the stain is from human blood. small but charac- teiistiC crystals (haemin crystale1 will appear. These crystals muea masEifed. are illustrated in Fig. l.
 in forgeries the investigation re. solves itself to the microscope and
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.

An interesting hygrometer is n,aaa by dipping strip of calico in so. lution of one part of cobalt chloride 75 of nickel oxide and 20 of gelatjns in Poo of water. The strjp k erAe, In fine weather, fading as moisture appears.
 Novel use of Roentgen rays is masa by Berlin company maunfaeturing submarine cables. The cables ara tested by being passed over two eva pulieys over an X-ray tube, the screen above showing any defect correctly and with greater certainty than the resistance tests usually employed.
 Small protuberances. like drops ot melted metal. have been noticed by N. Orloff on the surface of an alnm. mum plate that has been used to cover dish containing radium bro. mide. Publications from these pro. tuberances showed no lessening after six months, and 1t Is inferred that par. ticles of radium accumulated around slight nuclei ot aluminium 10 form stable alloy.
 Electricity is fatal to the discern. ment of certain colorg. Yellow and pink, two totally different eolors. look strangely alike by electric light. Heliotrope is also cutie pink, and sub. ueties of shade are quite lost in 1t No light shows up shades and colors as wax candles did. It is certain that all the modern artificial illumnants mix up colors and shades iuextricably, and electric light is worst of all.
 Glass containing manganese is slowly turned violet by sunlight and Sir William Crookes has found that radium produces in a few days a col oratlon as intense as that caused by the sun in years. F. Fischer has now been studying the effects of ultra violet rays. and reports that the light of a mercury arc lamp in quartz tube gave a slight color in l5 min utes to four out of eight glasses and an intense violet hue in l2 kours The color proved to be due to manganese silicate.
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
BRAINS AND TEETH.
Some Humorous Lines on the Remark of an English Scientist, Sir
 Olive Lodge.

Abiding 10 a recent article by Sir Oliver Lodge, in which the writer gives it as his opinion that the more bralns one has, the less teeth one has unless they are artificially pro- vided a writer in the Westminster Gazette is stimulated to break out into verse as follows:
 Belinda dear. once on time.
 My best beloved of pretty girls, IL was my wont to turn a rhyme
 And say your mouth was full of pearls "In blissful ignorance of yore
 l thought my compliment but truthful: But knowledge grows from more to more-.
 Only the braiuiess now are toothful. ''So take cab. Belinda dear,
 Hie where the dentistry Is painless. Have out the pearls which 7oS l fear
 Are merely teeth 10 prove you hSs taless."
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
GET A GRIP.

# you fancy your bod on your fortune Is lost.
 Get a grip: 1T you just missed the buoy some passenger tossed
 Get a grip. For yea.H find as you creep through the Valley Of Care Where the pathway IS rough and the feds are tee bare. That the man whe hangs oa is the man who gets there.
 Gel grip. There ls nothing that's lost tha; is hope .essly lost.
 Ge; grip The prize We may win fl We work for the cost.
 Get a grip The man who courts failure can sin it. l knew He has but to give up and let the thing 20. But the fellow wko wins must stand 10 the blow
 Ge: a grip. I am preaching this sermon not only for you
 Get grip For need | mt sci. I most certainly do-
 Get d grip. B.i; I've watched the great game til know how it's played. And the man who wins out is the man un- dismayed By the blow that another would lay h the shade
 Get a grip "A. J. Waterhouse. In Sunset Magazine
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
S'(ji:iEN{,EE;$yE!Ra1IeIi i &sslsS,& 1NISS
MICROSCOPE DEFECTIVE.
Its Unerring Revelations of Blood Stains and Forgeries Make It
 Terror to Criminals.

One of the surest means of detect ing fraudulent addition to O.. changes in documents is by the use of the microscope. Mysteries in crime that have baffied detectives for months have at times been laid bare by the intelligent use of this instru- ment. The guilty fears this meehan- ical witness against him as he fears no spoken evidence. A skillful law yer can confuse and disconcsrt a hu- man witness and tear to shreds the most damnifc testimony; but whea the microscope. silent. infallible wit ness, lays bare to the vision the fm- mutable fact, he can only hold his peace.
 Suspected bloodstains on clothing may be examined under the mic.o-
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
VETERANS QUEER HOBBY.
Scraps Which Weighs 525 Pounds

For 12 years. day and night utiliz- inS all the spare time at his command Charles II. Wolf. a veteran of Com pany D. Eleventh Pennsylvania volun- teers. and for the past l5 years super iatenGent of the town hail. German town has followed a most unique hob by says the Philadelphia Record For the first time. he has just revealed the nesting facts connected with his singular diversion, that of making a soild tinfoil ball We ghing 525 pounds. winch TO two msn can lift.
 It measures IS inches in cireumfer- ence and contains 36 750 pieces of tir- foil secured from wrappers and bags containing various brands If smoking ana chewing tota- co. which reaches the superintendent from many parts of the United States, but prime paily from tom ades Of Ellis Eosf No. |. c. A. R of Germantown. res.d nt soldiers Of Gettysburg and friends in this city ard Germantown
 Questioned as to what prompted him 10 such an unusual undertaking. the perintendent repl;el. Vel. 1t was F years ago that I began rolling d piece of tinfofl that I had obtainei from bag of smoking tohacco. and it soon assumed a hall-like shape. It was then conceived the idea of making a Lall that wcu,d surpass anything O. the knd in the world I think have succeeded. and I am naturally proud O. my achievement.
 'I wfl continue adding pieces of foil tc the ball until January !. 1cG6. whec will cease the work. which is very tedious as it requires alm st three months time for me 10 accumulate suf- fcient tinfoil to add ten pounds of weight to the ball"
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

quite fond of seeing her husband in neat clothing and beams delightedly whenever she sees anyone noticing how nice her husband looks, chanced to look through her husbands ward robe with the idea of seeing that everything was in proper condition. His coats, vests and trousers were in tact, but were getting out of shape. and indeed they were somewhat shab- by compared with the impression of newness he always gave out She de cided at once that Genial must have a new wardrobe.
 My dear, she told him that even ing. T find that your suits are getting little rusty, your shirts are a trife
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
4 SAFETY APPLIANCE.
To Be Used on Locomotives for the Setting of the Air Brakes
 Automatically.

Reeently-compiled statistics show that the loss of life. and also the num- Der of persons injured, through col lisions on railroads. is greater in com parison than from any other cause. The desire of the officials of the larger railroad lines to establish records for high speed whether for long or short distances, is primarily the cause of these accidents and the consequent loss of life. Safety is sacrificed for speed. as the breaking of record means a good advertisement for that particular road. Of course, all railroads have
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
THIN BlO0D-WEAK NERVrc
Hams Pink Pills Quickly '''- Cure Both.

The steady use of particnIor
 muscles tends to chronic fatigue ,rL;'u VI produces faulty or difficult r,".. "Hieh trembling. cramps and even o.gitioh, Writers, telegraphers. tailors aTJ SIS. stresses are among the claSsas Seaih. ,s threatened Ill this way with inc most most tbelr power to earn living Tis los ot lowing instance shows that terr1. ,.e .'1. ioi' may be recovered after it seens e,l.:er poher lost, If the right means are tal,en "'ireiy 0. :. Blacksten, of No. 5s4 Na,,i. Ia 1hfs. man street, Mansfield, Ohio, says.
 Tor years my hands would booo.- so numb at times that I vvonld do1gile S4 anything l attempted to lift. Iatspp they became so bad that could po, se.. any longer, and at last 1 could seoroo's do anything at all with my hands
 night the pricking sensations yro,.a! ls come on worse than eyel, and my b,a bo'"si and arms would pain so that I draadess to go to bed. My family doctor gava veu ,.7a some nerve tablets. They heIped ,nne n'e little. but only for short time ait had taken them and if happened ,o ha without them for a day or two I wo,lS be as bad as ever or even worse. Fiuau. got box of Dr. Williams Pink paiy, and began to take them. s
 1.-The result was surprising. By ,bs time had taken the last pill in my srs. t box 1 could see a gain. Thanks to ns Williams Pink Pills, I am now all risb. l can sleep undisturbed by pain, and fa, two years 1 have been as well as evar n
 Dr. Williams Pink Pills feed tba nerves by making new, rich blood and md In this way have cured nervous diseases of every description from simple Test. lessness to paralysis. They have ban. ished the tortures of neuralgia. tbs weakness of nervous prostration. the disability and awful pain of loeomotor ataxia. They are sold by all druggists or direct by the Dr. Williams Medicips Company, Schenectady. \. '.
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

think l was nice sort of fellow to come in and make a complaint after they had gone ro the trouble of giving me all these discounts and every thing, Genial argued. Let it go. My ether clothes will last awhile yet. and maybe We can make hit with the hired man by giving him these thing next Christmas
 But you've got to have some new clothes" Mrs. Genial asserted. with a disappointed look in her eye You're not fIt 10 be seen the way you are I'll 20 down town with you in the morning and we'll get something to- gether.s
 That would-t be fair" Genial ob- jected. You see, all these fellows
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

right size. a n q Genial was equally certain that noth- ing could be done about it. He had bought them frorl personal friends. and he would not think of embar- rassing them by co m plainin g at what they h a | given him.
 W hy they would
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
The Price of Friendship

r HAT may be false impression
 you have of our old friend Genial He has had no setback so far as his finances are concerned; no particularly dark shadow has crossed his path. he IS just as happy as usual think. and no doubt you were to ask him he would say with laugh that this is great world We live in.
 Yes. he does look a trife shabby those are his last years clothes he is
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

denee. no matter how well otherwisa the forgery may have been executed
 The most painstaking forgeries are the Iaost apparent when viewed through the microscope. In tracing the additions the pen has been lifted many times. perhaps; or the words CT signature have been first traced +. with pencil. and these things pro claim themselves by imperfectiors that may not be doubted.
 For work of that nature a 1-G in is a sufficiently high power. A good sub-stage illumination by means of d condenser is required, however. and opaque objects must be illuminated by means of bulls-eye or in some othe~ way.
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

you some new things to-day? And then we'll go out and make few of those calls We have been owing so long
 And Genial. who could refuse no one. promised. Long before he came home the next night there were sey- eral boxes delivered in his name at the front door. Mrs. Genial peeped into them and saw that there were some new shirts and collars, a few neckties. some socks and other wear. ng apparel. A few days later suit of clothes was delivered from the tailor and a hat box contained a brand-new straw In celebration of this extensive wardrobe Mrs. Genial called up her dearest friend Mrs Curt, and announced that she and her husband would that evening make that long promised call. She also let drop something about tho lovely new clothes her husband had just got and Mrs Curt was prepared to be invaded by yeritable fashion plate on that eventf.l evening
 Genial first tried his shirts and they were made little short in the sleeves and a trifle generous in the neckband
 Where in the world did you get
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
AN AERIAL ROWBOAT.
Novel Structure for Navigating the Air Which Is Propelled with
 Big Oars.

A late feature of the attempts to navigate the air is an aerial rowboat which has been constructed by Ava L. Reynolds, of Los Angeles. Cal. It is composed of gas bag whose equator is much nearer the front of the bag than usual. and a light framework which supports the occupant It is raised and lowered. propelled forward
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

the trained observer. If a paper has been folded and afterward opened, and an addition. change, interlineation
 etc, made in it, minute quantity cf ink would follow the fold. did single stroke of the pen cross it. \ difference in the pen used by the forSer is brought out under the micro scope, or the strokes may be meas ured up to the ten-thousandth of aa inch. The color of the ink may no, be the exact shade, or may vary be.
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

know me quite well, and if they saw me wearing other clothes. aft CT I bought these they will think s o III Q thin z i3 wrong wouldn't have them think that forthe world.
 "If they see you wearing those old clothes they Il
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
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THE FORGED LINE.

cause of difference in the age of the writing.
 Where figures or letters have been changed the joining of the new strokes with the old is certain to be imper- feet. This is illustrated in Fig. 2. where in the numeral IT. one of the Is has been changed to a :.
 In Fig. 3 the words "in full to date" have beer added and the fatal error made of allowing the cross of the "t' in the word date to pass over a let ter Tn the signature This. unGer the microscope is incontrovertible avi-
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

lrayed and your collars and cuffs are out of date. B c s 1 d e S your shoes must tire you, you have W orh tn e m so long. and your hat-I think you would look so much better in one of those new shapes. To please me. won [ you stop In and get
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
Artistic Advancement

The directors Of the Louvre are be- ing urged to get rid of the many spu- rious works of art which have found their way into the galleries. IL is pointed out that the clearance need not mean a financial loss to the insti. tuition. as such objects could easily De sold to wealthy Americans.
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

W c a r l n z but many a man wears his clothes several ' 6 ar $. Besides. Genial has plenty of new clothes al h o m e but he does not care a b out wearing them. The truth is. Genial is the victim of his friends.
 Not so very long ago Mrs. Na3nJ
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

those 2 his wife asked anxiously
 Got them from Smith. " Genial re- piled sorrowfully. Hes a friend of mine and I've promised for so long to buy mJ next things from him that I just thought I'd make good this time. ''
 ell you'll take them back the first thing in the m O Tn n g
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

An Eldorado. Kan. man. a bride groom. makes this inquiry of the Re- publican: shall tell my wife ey- erything, or shall l tell her nothing 9" Not knowing thing about it. we asked a man who has been married 50 years to explain. lie said: Tell your wife everything" But the neigh bors say this old codger is henpecked. We then called on man who has had three wives and is now looking around for No f Tell them nothing" he said If you tell them the truth they will think you are lying. and if you lie to them they will catch you Look wise, say nothing and avoid trouble" ,"
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27
I.ikelv to Win.

Dime Museum Manager-Nant po- sition here. ehe Huh! What are you remarkable for?
 Hungry Tramp-I'd like to take paf' In an eatin' match.-N. Y. Weekly
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

A sympathetic person sojourning in Holland writes home that Queen Will helmina has changed very much dur ing the last few years. The pleasing attractive face has lost much of its former charm and the lines around the mouth and the eyes tell you that you are in the presence of woman who has seen her dreams and expectations unfulfilled. While the Dutch formerly spoke of their young queen with sin cere enthusiasm with a happy smile on their lips, her name is now men, tioned with tender pity and anxiety.
The Forrest City times., 1905-10-27

Mrs. Genial added, positively.
 'I-I-couldn just do that. Ge- nial put in. You see hes a friend of mine and it would be embarrassing,
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-23
setter Do.e .. germany.

"The whole ceb-service Of German
b regulated in wey to make tn
American envious of German institv
tions," writes Ray Stannard Baker, h
"Seen in Germany" In most cities /
large proportion of the cabs are pro
vided with ''taxameters"-little dial
placed In front of the seat and so ar
ranged that they indicate just hov
much the passenger owes at an.
given time. For instance, when yo,
take q cab in Berlin the indicates
shows a charge of so pfennigs O.
cents) as soon as you take your seat
and as you drive the figures change
20 pfennigs at . time, and when yo'
are ready TO stop you pay the sum in
dicated by the dial, no more, no less
Thus there Is no chance for extortioI
on the part of the csbman, and NJ
as to charges, a feature
Of disagreeable prominence in LondoI
and Paris. And IL may be said il
passing that the charges are general
y very low compared with those h
cities.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-23

One of the greatest curiosities n the
neighborhood Of New York 10 now 70
be seen Ut the foot of the Palisades.
Between two frame houses built there
Is . giant bowlder - feet high and 20
feet wide, which fell from a great
height, Ut the top Of the Palisades, and
weeping down the front Of the cliffs,
uprottsd big trees, tore up tons Of
loose stone and cut Q wide swath the
entire distance. Finally, after Eg-
tagging from one side to the other, IL
rolled in between two frame houses
and stopped there. The people were
asleep in the houses when the rock
started. They had barely time TO
make their escape when il made its
appearance at their front doors. They
are now thanking their lucky stars
that the enormous stone did not hi,
ore Of the buildings. ,
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1905-09-23
OUT WITH THE TIDE.
An illustrative Instance - BoW
Ya< II VIII Garry Obtsses
Aa . short Ta1S.

Sew persons have any idea Of how
fast the tide runs or Of how far IL will
carry an object in a very few hours, {"
said the captain Of one of the dock
departments steam launches, accord
ing to the New York Times. mot
very long ago a raft of 20 or SO piles
broke up and went adrift one night
ut the foot Of East Twenty-fourth
street. Az these piles cost all the
way from eight dollars 70 go apiece,
they were worth chasing, 80 just -
oon a. the loss was discovered In the
ming / started out.
The search continued down the
East river and along the Brooklyn
side through Buttermiik channel, but
without results. Over on the south
shore of Governors island we found
eight or ten of the missing sticks.
We ian along down BY Bay Ridge,
and had about decided TO abandon
our efforts, when we reached Fort
Hamilton. But we thought we might
- well make q good job Of IL, and
little way farther on, just beyond
the Narrows and around on the north
side of Gravssend bay, We found
about half of the wsywArd piles.
They had travelled down there, q die
lance Of about tsngmises. ON one tide,
and thought ct the time that IL =
small wonder that 90. many drowned
bodies are never recovered n thsss
partA."