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The Forrest City times., 1906-06-01
school Board Meeting.

The Board of Directors of Forrest City school District No. :, met in the office of Dr. |. o. Rush last Saturday night Present John Gatling, presi- dent: ! C. Sanders, secretary: !. S. K. Cowan, !. NJ. Nichols, ]. T. John son and ]. O. Rush.
 Minutes of last meeting approved.
 Board eorganized for the new year by re-electing John Calling president. and ]. c, Sanders secretary.
 The president instructed the finance committee to make an itemi- zed statement of receipts and expen- ditures for last years work
 On motion the president appointed the entire board as committee to visit the Crowley Ridge property on Monday morning, May 29. to ascer- tain what improvements or repairs should be made prior to opening of next term, and ]. o. Rush and j r. Johnson 10 superintend such work as might be decided upon.
 The secretary was instructed to correspond with coal dealers with view 10 purchasing next years sup plies.
 On motion the present corps of teachers in the colored school was re-. elected
 A motion to proceed 10 the election ot teachers for Crowley Ridge Insti- tute was carried.
 Judge ]. S. R. Cowan then asked Ii any member of the BoaId had any request or any report from any com mittee which had previously been ap- pointed by the Board, which might assist the Board in selecting teachers for the next time:
 President Gatling said that he had such report from the three ladies that the Board appointed some time ago To visit the school and assist the Board in making the term of school a successful one.
 The members of the Board request ed that the report be read. Mir. Cat ling then read the report which recommended that the Hoard employ no principal 10 teach in the Crowley Ridge Institute who did not hold a state certificate. II said that the work of the principal Prof T. C. Nall was not at all satisfactory, and also recommended that the Board change teachers for grades five and SIX, the other teachers, according to their Judgment, were giving satisfac- ton This report was respectfully signed by Mrs. John Gatling. Mrs Jno Cowan and Mrs. W H. Alley, committee.s
 l. 0. Rush moved that the report be received and filed, seconded by !. Johnson, and carried
 j. NJ Nichols suggested that the eiection of principal be deferred in order to give Prof. Nall an opport u- hity To secure a state certificate.
 J. ;. R. Cowan moved to defer the erection indefinitely, seconded by J.. o Rush, and carried.
 Board adjourned
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Unknown Friends.

There are many people who have used Chamberlain Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with splendid re- suits, but who are unknown because they have hesitated about giving a testimonial of their experience for publication. These people, however, are none the less friends of this reme- dy. They have done much toward making il household word by their personal recommendations to friends and neighbors. It is good medicine to have in the home and is widely known for it's cures of diarrhoea and all forms of bowel trouble. For sale hy l T. Sanders.
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Mr R H Winfield. of Augusta

Mr. k. H. Winfield, of Augusta, a native of Forrest City, where his mother and other relatives now reside, has been elected member of the Board of Directors of the Inter state Cottonseed Crushers Asso- ciation, the annual meeting of which he attended at Atlanta, Geor- gia, on May l5-l7 ult. Mir. Winfield is one of the youngest members of the association, and we congratulate him upon the honor bestowed upon him.
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Special Notice

Rugs, Art Squares and Carpets. Rugs i'll any size and quality, Carpets oi every description We are agents Tor the Q. w. Richardson Carpet House, and We will order any kind of Rug, Art Square or Carpet that you may want, and guarantee quality and price. Becker & Lewis.
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De ath From LockjaW

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We Mean This!

The Swellest line of hose ever showr in Forrest City. Lisle Thread. Embroidered, and Lace.
 Prices 25e to sl.25 per pair. May he seen at The J. W. Beck Co.'S,
The Forrest City times., 1906-06-01
GraphOphOne Records

Price of the l0-inch Zon-o. phone Disc Records now BOG at the News stand. Fit any disc Graphophone.
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Notice to Teachers.

Our Annual Institute will be held Tn Forrest City, beginning the 1lth day of June and continuing through the week. All Teachers must attend or suffer the penalty of the law. Will hold meeting in the Crowley Ridge Institute building.
 L. II. Stewart will hold one for the colored teachers. at the same time in their Public School building.
 W. H. PAsLAY, Co. Ex.
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MT. and Mrs. Louis F. Rollwage had a visit from the stork last Sunday. and they now have fine young lady at their happy home, who weighs about eight pounds, and is getting along nicely. Louie is as happy as a big sunfiower, and is taking lessons from one of the store graphophones on how To sing some of Emmett's s lullabyS
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-23

On the farther side OF guich .
hundred feet or moro from bank to
bank we caught our first glimpse OF the
scarlet berries. There was but q small
clump of them and safe from interior
ence as far as we at least were con-
cerned- That was for US whetting OF
our desire. All down the rocky wall
were other bushes not yet IN bloom
Below was bed of brakes extending
as far as we could see, now brown and
dead. but still telling of their last sum
mer's luxuriance.
The morning was alive with bird
calls Quail hoped around almost at
our feet and the linnets flew on ahead.
hearing us. We saw whole families Of
snow birds. demurely feathered in
gray, the timid folk that arrive in the
mountains when the berries turn red.
1t was a wonderful song that these
birds sang. mingIing their notes, and
so harmonious We're all things that
none of us wished for the spring.
But momentarily these beauties were
overlooked as we gained the crest OF
a hillock and looked upon level space
aglow with berries.
Our coming. intent as we were In
carrying the pretty things off. seemed
foolish now. Why take them away
when here was fairyland and here was
holiday cheer. here the 5eweled Christ
mas trees. the peace and good wi1l?"
But, vanda1s born-and in that not
unlike the race--we proceeded to the
havoc. The abundance OF berries drove
away all fears that we had previously
entertained on that score. Il was a
matter merely OF selection; we must
have the fullest sprays or the most
graceful ones; only the choicest would
we take.
Redberries are 50 heavy that one
naturally wonders how their fran
stems are able to bear the weight. and
there, where every spray had reached
its utmost capacity, the marvel was
that they had not broken OF their own
heaviness and fallen from the bushes.
(But 1t may be an inacouracy to cali
them bushes, for they grow to a con-
siderable height. some reaching over
eight feet.)
With our arms full we az length
turned away from the bright gard sr
we had molested. Yet no one would
have noticed our inroad upon It; the
berries seemed as plentiful as before
After we had gone the snow birds
perched ON the topmost branches sing
ing their p1easurs-or so we took IT,
at our departure. The quail and the
blue birds attended Us on our way.
We came upon tree hung with mis-
t1etoe- The sight recalled US; we had
utterly forgotten our need of IT. For
where was the good cheer without a
sprig Of mistletoe?
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bent on gathering redberries. We were
staying in the neighborhoOd of Ben
Lomond. We set out through the VII
lage, along the avenue of sycamores,
walking softly over the thick fallen
leaves, across the bridge and on until
we struck a narrow wagon road turn
ing hillward- We passed stretches Of
land lying fallow. On one side was a
deserted cornheld. Later we passed a
vineyard whose vines now in the time
of their inactivity reminded US Of
stubble.
Between the wagon tracks was
bright green young grass sprung up
since the last rain. So live was the
eartn IN it's young winterhood that it
seemed to spring beneath our feet.
With the cold little less severe we
might have envied the barefoot boy.
BY the road no berries were left. So
we followed a trail of the summers
making, now just traceable among the
bushes As we broke through the
brush, branches flying back at us
showered us with cold drops. One of
us took step heedlessly and broke
the thin ice covering a diminutive pool
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The handsome man was a married
mana newly married man. His wife
had taken him previously with her to
the same shop to buy wedding grit
Coyly she had expressed admiration
for the necklace. The rest was easy.
No longer / deemed him unique, only
praiseworthy. But that Is much And
his wife? Shouldn't such as she be
called the best of wives? Is 1t not
wifely virtue to make rough places
smooth?
The town harbors strange creature,
sort of poet man. who is of the I'M
wise. He took last Friday for shop
ping and the. sorry things he did are
still the subject for. gossip IN, the
shops from end to end of the avenue.
If you speak his name the girls gigBle
His wife--a married man again, and
perhaps it's providence, but one plties
the wife-as every one knows, Is the
most refined and fastidious OF women.
Her, taste both as regards her nome
and her person is exquisite.
what may have been her husband
idea in buying for her as he did there
has been found no one yet wise
enough to discover. But the opinion
generally obtains that he had no idea
as to that whatevereIt is thought that
as he went from place to place some
great matter was holding his soul and
his. thought; that he was under the
spell of an obsession. Whether or not,
it is at least charitable to have 1t So
He bought her a dress that you
wouldn't wear and wouldn't wear.
and she, most of all, wouldn't wear. A
slazy figured thing with no character
to it. A silk to be true. but that was all.
He went to a pharmacy and bought
musk for her. Musk! And so ethereal
is she that in passing one inhales the
spring breath Of frail flowers. 1t sur
prised him that musk cost 80 little and
he looked about for something else to
: buy, but, being unable to decide, he
bought more musk
How, after that, he was able to re-
tain his rarely beautiful, even beatific
expression is also a thing not under
stood.
Next it was shoes for her and all he
knew about the size was that she had
little feet" Worst of all, he had the
temIerity to buy her a hat. Of all
things, hat. When I heard of the
hat l begged to hear no more.
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touched his sides as he walked. From
having gently entered upon the quest
he had become a composite monster Of
determination aQd despair
I followed GUY ously. From a sudden
relaxation of his whole frame ] was
aware that a change had come over
him. He had slowed down and seemed
Then / saw it was lady. Around the
lady's throat, was a marabout feather
boa.
Could 1t be that? 1t was. The lady
stopped, all oblivious, to look into a
window. He stopped. too. He APP
preached her with semblance of de-
termination, almost spoke and didn't.
He walked on, suddenly turned and
came back and then didn't speak, but
wheeled around again with his teeth
ground together.
And then / did a thing that you
won't approve if you are a grande
dame of the old school, but l couldn't
have helped it il you had been right
there. / walked straight up to that
distraught and pitiable creature. /
smiled a bit to relieve the situation.
murmured, It's a marabout feather
boa, and you can get There" motion
ing to one of the big stores.
He gave me such a look of gratitude
as no face ever wore before. / was
plunged into large appreciation of
myself and l hied away. I had put him
on the right track, but whether he
proved equal to choosing between the
. long ones and the short ones, the capes
and the others. the pinks and the blues
/ shall never know
One shopping man was seen to come
out of dry goods store whfstling, but
the solution of that is that being a
careless fellow and having failed in
his first attempt he was not slow to
change to something else, thereby at
least suiting his own convenience.
There are also ignorant ones to
whom success and failure are alike
agreeable. They are to be envied.
A handsome man saw who entered
a jewelry shop, glanced at the con-
tents ofstwo trays of necklaces, picked
out without hesitation the most deli
! cate and marvellous one OF them all,
paid for it, and away. AT the moment
/ said, There is a man unique; but
the day after I heard something that
made all clear.
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few months will be fully dressed In
russell.
In the by-paths where we have been
wont to stroll seeking for cool. in the
winter we will find cold and the leaves
that underfoot cracked dryly in tho
summer days will be crisp with frost.
Our arms. which were barred for pick
ing wild flowers, we shall have to make
warm for berry picking.
Redberries are sometimes gathered
for the purposes of commerce and the
greater part of all that are SO gathered
we owe to the diligence of the little
lads of the country places. They are
sent out to scour~the hills. and mar-
of them go bare-footed; some walking,
some horseback. Men offer a pittance
to have the berries gathered in from
: the. hills to convenient points for ship
ment. And money being very good in
. the winter and not over-plentiful, there
is no scarcity of boys for the berry
picking and the pittances.
Heavy frosts are death to the red
berries, turning their redness black
and soaring their leaves. So it is well
that the frosts delay at least until after
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I'm the hollow Of the ground. Every
sound, every motion Of the brush.
whether caused by ourselves. BY q
movement Of the air or By q sylvan
creature, was delightful.
Delights of Winter Picking
Christmas trees-secuoia giganteas
ana frs-were all about as. little ones
and big ones. The drops of moisture
on their branches were their ornaments
In the dark OF the forest they stood
forth brilliant. Hanging from sheer
cliff some forty feet above US and COW
ering it's face completely was mantle
Of wild myrtle with here and there
blue blossom among It's huge leaves.
We crossed a creek where water
rushed. 1t had been almost dry two
months before. A small boat tied TO
a tree, lying there idly then. we
watched tossing about and strainins
to get away.
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of things they don't hope for. and older
ones confident of their hearts desires:
but best of all are the men, the young
ones and the old ones, who get fused
with buying women's things.
From an Italian we have it that "A
beautiful woman by her smiles draws
tears from our purses" His remark is
significant beyond the bounds of the
boot-shaped country.
Yesterday l happened into furrier's
on the heels OF one whose purse was
on the verge of shedding tears. The
fioor-walker stepped up obsequiously.
What do you wish, sir?" he said.
That in itself was dfsconcerting,s be-
cause the gentleman didn't know In
q vague way he had thought that they
of the store would know.
'Furs," was the rather timid re-
sponse
Certainly, sir" (Nothing very spe-
cific in asking for furs at a furrier's. }
Then loudly tosa clerk, "Furs for this
gentleman"
What kind of furs?" She wasn't
a helpful sort of clerk, and that cast
him down.
Something soft. That is, you know,
she said she wanted-something-
1t came with an effort and didn't help
matters materially.
The lady moved slowly toward the
shelves with jeweled hand on the
after-puff of her hair and her gaze on
the entrance way. Languidly she pro-
duced blue fox, her eyebrows ele-
waited slightly to say. Does it please
your"
'Oh. no, That's not the stuff have
seen the things, but don't know what
you call them They're light and fluffy.
and-welf'-he pushed his hat back and
scratched his forehead nervously-
kind Of brown-some of EN-"
For an instant the clerk looked as If
she We're almost thinking, but what
ever the process of her. mind the re-
suit was most unsatisfactory. DO you
mean a feather boa?'
There was repugnance radiating from
every square inch of that mans coun-
tenance.
Il said fur" he replied so quietly
that / was afraid, but he strobe. forth
without another word.
Down the street he walked with
every muscle tense, even his fingers
drawn into clawlike thing that
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By Ida l.. Brooks

IT Is said that holly berries get
their name from being used in maxi
ing the holy tree, the tree Of Christ
mas, beautiful. II that is so, then
we are at liberty to call our California
toyon. or redberries. holly and so give
them a name replete with happy asso-
citation.
Shall We make excuse for our red
berries, inasmuch as their leaves are
not as shapely. though shapely indeed.
and in respect TO quality not as thick
and glossy as the Eastern or English
holIy2 Then let us say that the berry
sprays themselves are more beautiful,
more graceful, more generous of red
ness Hundreds of them cluster close
together in richness of color unex-
cellod. each tiny brown stem of all the
fretwork Of stems stoutly sustaining
the weight OF its one bright globule.
But redberry or holly, is is all one
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NNFF HEN men are wise they do
w S 's:.s Christmas shopping By
Now mans Christmas
shopping is feminine shopping. Why
not2 In buying gifts for his own kind
There attaches no such weightiness as
the term Christmas shopping generally
signifies.
The trouble begins when a man goes
out Of his sphere and launches upon
an enterprise of which he knows not.
That's what makes him so testy the
week before Christmas
AS a matter of fact men never really
shop, even in December. They lack the
natural impulse to follow the course
IN all its ramifications. Shopping is a
ceeoing bitter 1t presents all the
aspects Of gambling and in it you
oftenest lose. But it's a womans game.
Still, merely buying, as a man does,
at Christmas is as misunderstanding to
him as purchasing cigars without prop
er advice is to his wife. IL she is a
woman of conscience.
There's not a thing TO be said about
a mans generosity or his good inten-
tions, either. but would that that were
all It's his incapableness. There
the rub. And that's not so bad. but
fsith.-its what he says, and what he
does and what he is when he finds IL
out. I'm always glad I'm not his wife.
He is like a millionaire who, dream
ing unp1easantly of his own selhshness,
wakes in the morning bent on being
generous. He doesn't know where 10
begin.
When you see man Christmas shop
per strolling up Van Ness avenue with
his hands in his pockets and his eyes
turned distrustfully asidewise toward
the shop windows you may rest as
sured that he's lingering coins that
would have been spent long ago il he
had only known how. It is pretty safe
70 put him down as bachelor without
any sisters. But perhaps he is just
strong headed and foolhardy. Men are
built in so many ways.
There are all sorts OF cheerful things
10 be seen on the streets and in the
shops just before Christmas: there are
little boys agape with wonder over
this and little girls all bursting with
delight over that, young girls covetous
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TO US in Frightening the Christmas
DAYS. Less scarlet ribbon with the Cal
ifornia berries and more with the holly.
Less greens for the holly and more for
the redberry. And so it is all one.
10 our large cities. They have reached
the fate OF all wild things when cities
come into being in their midst. Flow
CT vendors send far afield for them.
most being brought from the Santa
Cruz Mountains, where they grow In
luxuriance.
We of the cities who are familiar
with the Santa Cruz Mountains know
them chiefly at the time OF the year
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when azaleas- and johnny jump ups,
baby blue-eyes and cream-cups rule
the woods with their daintiness. We
know them when dust is thick in the
roads and wild overhanging growths
set sunshine and shadow sharply
against each other. We have made
them our home when men disport them
selves in white and girls wear colors
that vie in delicacy with the flowers.
We quite overlook the robbery
bushes in the spring and summer and
cannot imagine the woods transformed
into the deeper brightness of the win
ter days. Yet there stand the bushes,
waiting, through the long, hot months,
their turn to make the world gay.
There also are the very leaves that in a
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the Christmas days. !. Otherwise in MAX
ing cheerful, sones must use the man
zanita or madrone berries. which are
less gorgeous and therefore not COW
eted. For the redberries will be. killed
In the open spaces where there is no
shelter for them and will bo found
either, deep down In ravines or high on
mountain ridges out of reach Of frost.
Then. as I have said. tho boys must
take up Sthe quest for climbing goes
with boyhood. and SO does fearlessness.
and q clump on the edge of q point
considered inaccessible may be reached
only by an urchin.
However early in its season red
berry picking is quite as alluring as
any of the various woodland entice-
ments of other seasons.
Gathering Mountain Berries
On the morning Of the first day Of
December found myself one of aparty
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Ny father owned. among other
negroes, q great stupid boy
about 10. named Sinclair. Sin
clair's energy seemed to con-
centrate in his jaws. He was eating
eternally, and when not eating was
sleeping This was during the war.
Every Sunday Sinclair ate big din
ner: at the quarters. another aboard ths
blockade runner and another at the
house In those days my namesake.
Dr. Grier, was pastor of our Presby-
terrain church On a certain Sunday
my aunt said: Sinclair. il you don't
go 10 sunday school you shant como
here to dinner" Accordingly. next
Sunday Sinclair appeared as usual for
dinner Sinclair" asked aunt. have
you been to Sunday SCHOOL,
''Yy-yas'm.@ Well. what ala Won
learn?" Well, de fac is, Miss Anne.
Miss Grier came dere to one o. dem
troughs where was settin' an axed
me who mex me an all dat fool talk.
an lef'.''
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SOUTHERN NEGROES

a gilt crown. sprang out within a few
feet of her. Overcome with terror She
made a curtsey and ejaculated: How
yer do, Mars Jesus? Hows yer par
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STORIES OF /.

A, Tenth Regiment" Buz-z-z-
Jim Smith" 'Herer' Company b.
Tenth Regiment" 'Buz-z-z-" George
Williams" "Here," Company G. Sec
ond Regiment ''Buz-z-z='' "Zeke
Pepper! Zeke Pepper. Zeke Pepper
Here, but haint a-gwiner' The last
that was seen of this volunteer he was
being carted off, tied with a hay rope,
to fight for the Confederacy.