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The Forrest City times., 1907-12-20
Stop That Cough.

If you have a cough, cold. sore throat or chest. don't delay q moment cure 1t. Simmons Cough Syrup is a sure remedy. IL makes you well.
The Forrest City times., 1907-12-20
Here's tsood Aduee.

0. $. Neoiefer. one eff the best known merchants of Le BaysYille. \. r., says: 1T you are ever troubled with piles apply Bueklen's Arnica Salye. IL cured me of them for good twenty years age Cures every sore. wound, burn or abrasion. 25c at all druggists.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-20

ways. arc strangely remiss in the general
omission of industrial training. Not until
the arts and crafts mot as trades, but as
artistic accomplishments in the several
lines comprised in this designation be-
come a prominent part of the curriculum
of our schools both public and private
for boys and girls, will our young people
be truly educated and properly prepared
for the responsibilities Of life
In the old country Ohe writer is a
native of Sweden) the arts and crafts are
taught everywhere. and the people are
self-reIiant, c0ntented. and domestcaHy
peaceful. Divorce courts are unknown
Americans have some things to learn
from the Old World. TO their profit and
improvement, along this line.
President Roosevelt has done much to
direct the people TO a fuller appreciation
OF sound. wholesome aims. How many a
home, long unused TO childish pTattle. is
now blessed with the patter of baby feet
since his famous prOnunciamento against
race suicide" This is an awakening Pc
Rod in the national experience. If the
President would. with characteristic vigOr
blow the trumpet Of reform in behalf Of
general attention to the arts and crafts
be would add 10 the lusteT Of his fame. in
coming years, as national home-preser-
Yer as well as a home-build4r.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-20
WHY SHOES DON'T SQUEAK.
How We Have Been Rid of an Ancient
Nuisance.

From the Kansas City Star.
do you remember" asked the shoe
salesman, the days when new shoes
creaked? And how you used to have the
shoemaker put wooden pegs in the middle
Of the sole about every week to stop the
noise? Sometimes you soaked the soles
Of your shoes in water and then had to
run them with lard or some other kind OF
grease TO get them flexible You don't
have to DO that now. The new welt has
taken the squeak away. In the old days
the sOles Of shoes consisted Of two even
pieces Of leather, and the friction of these
two pieces caused the squeak when per-
son walked. Shoes are made differently
now. You see that little piece of ridged
leather that runs from the heel around
the outside Of the sole? That's what we
call the welt. It is q piece of leather
about an inch wide. sewed to flap cut
and turned under the inside. The space
between the outer side and the insole is
filled with ordinary tar paper, which holds
the soies in shape and also prevents
squeaking by taking away the friction.
This system of welt was invented thirty
years ago, but at first it wasn't a success,
because the sOles were sewed with q
straight needle. Couldn't explain it to
you in one hundred years. but to prevent
the squeaking the soles Of the shoes have
to be sewed with a crooked needle
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-20
DRIFTING INTO A MONARCHY
Mark Twain Says Americans Are
Like All Other People.
Garry in Their Blood Seeds Out of
Which AriStOcracies
Are Grown.
From the North Amcrican Review.

From the North American Review.
Human nature being what it is. I sup
pose We must expect to drift into mon
archy by and by. It is a saddening
thought. but we cannot change our
nature; we are all alike We human be-
ings, and in our blood and bone, and in
eradicable, We carry the seeds out Of
which monarchies and aristocracies are
groWn-worship Of gauds. titles. distinc-
tons, power. We have to worship these
things and their possessors; we are all
born so and we cannot help it. We have
TO be despised By somebody whom we re-
gard as above US or we are not happy:
we have to have somebody 10 worship
and envy or we cannot be content
In America we manifest this in all the
ancient and customary ways. In public
We sco1 at titles and hereditary privileges.
but privately we banker after them. and
when We get a chance we buy them for
cash and daughter. Sometimes we get
a good man and worth the price, but we
are ready to take him anyway, whether
he be ripe or rotten. whether he be clean
and decent or merely a basket of noble
and sacred and Iong-descended offal And
when we get him the whole nation pub
licly chaffs and SCOTS and privately envies
and also is proud of the honor which has
been conferred upon us.
We run over our list of titled purchases
every now and then in the newspapers
and discuss them and caress them and
are thankful and happy. In a monarchy
the people willingly and rejoicingiy revere
and take pride in their nObilities and are
not Inundated by the reflection that this
humble and hearty homage gets no re-
turn but contempt Contempt does not
shame them; they are used 10 it and they
recognize that It is their proper due We
are all made like that. In Europe We
easily and quickly learn to take that at
titude toward the soveTeigns and the
moreover, 1t has been OBJ
served that when we get the attitude We
go and exaggerate it, presently becoming
more servile than the natives and vainer
of It. The next step is to rail and scott
at republics and democracies.
All of which is natural for we have
not ceased to be human beings by be-
coming Americans and the human race
was always intended to be governed by
kingship, not by popular vote.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-20
CHINA'S REAL RULER.
Yuan Shi kai, Powerful VicerOy of
PechiIi, a Celestial Napoleon.

The most powerful parsonage in China.
we read in a fascinating account in Cur
rent Literature for January, is Yuan Shi
Kai, man little known beyond the
great wall that divides his country
from the Western world. At the age Of
thirty-fiye, Yuan Shi Kai-who is fifty
now-found himself an obscure bureau
crat His future was compromised by his
ignorance OF the three commentaries on
the Yih King. He could not deal in pen
tameter verses with the sound of the oar.
or the green of the hills. or the splash
Of swift water at flood. He was therefore
an object Of pity and contempt TO all who
ever gave Aim thought In that literary
caste, which until quite recently monopo-
lized the exalted posts in the empire. He
was pining obscurely in Korea as China's
resident there. having secured the post
only because it afforded no prospect
whatever Of distinction. Yet to-day he is
in China what Cardinal WOlsey was in
England before the Pope's refusal TO
divorce Henry VIII; what Richelieu was
in France when the Duke of Buckingham
trembled at the beauty Of Anne OF Aus
tria; what Bismarck was in Germany
after the battle of Sedan. The most pow
erful parsonage in the eighteen provinces,
remarked that high authority on China.
Sir Robert Hart. to Douglas Story twelve
months ago. IS Yuan Shi Kai.
Wa Tingfang. whom Americans must
remember as the only effective talker
ever sent to represent Pekin in Washing
ton. quite recently asked Mr. Story if ne
could name the real ruler Of the Chinese.
Yuan Shi Kai.' was the instant an
swer.
Right rejoined WI Ting-fang. '"The
will of the viceroy of Pechili Is law In this
land
will of iron, the gift Of foresight. an
Intellect naturally subtle and searching.
and the firmest grasp of the essentials of
administrative and diplomatic policy have
enabled this unlettered provincial from
Honan, where he was born En- poverty, to
lift himself to greater power and infu-
ence than are possessed by any other
human being in the land. not even except
ing the old Dowager Empress. The for
eign devil is still permitted to infer. II he
pleases, that the aged aunt OF the Sc
cluded son of heaven at Pekin rules the
realm. But so completely does the viceroy
of Pechili hold the old dame in the hollow
of his hand that he can, If he likes, select
the next Emperor of China. He means
TO do it, we are told by those who have
studied the man. He will. like Napoleon,
with his own hands crown himself.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-20
ABOUT THE CAPITAL
Tales and Traits of Human Nature.

of the President is possessed Of par
tieularly girlish figure and charm Of an
imation.
An artistic living picture seen upon
the fashionable promenades on fair az
ternoons is that of a beautiful girI and
her dog. The former wears cream
broadcloth, severely tailored gown with
wide brimmed hat to correspond. the
one touch of color in the immaculate en-
semble being russell shoes and wavy hair
of an exact shade
The dog is also cream in col6- with
patches Of the indenticaI russell He walks
by the side Of his young mistress with
the grave dignity Of a thoroughbred set
ter who knows when and when not To
take an interest in birds The SYM
phonic pair is the observed Of all admir-
ing eyes. Presumably the mistress dress
eS up-Or dOwn-tO the dog. since the ease
could hardly be reversed. but which ever
way it is, the harmonious combination
furnishes one of the charming sidewalk
features Of the present season.
The one and only and quite the smartest
muff in society this winter is the curved
ermine affair, which casts the Granny.
pillow, and square-mat muffs completely
in the shade. This small-fortune-in-fr
Is owned by the debutante, whose grand
parents returned not long ago from Rus
STA. 1t is cut after the latest Partisan
fashion, and is called an elbow or stove
pipe" muff, though the title seems imam
plicable to ermine. The style OF the muir
Is direct response to the needs Of ell
bow sleeves, its Curving sides extending
UP the arms quite 10 the elbows Of the
wearer- II is strictly modish and up-to-
date, and should be regarded therefore
as model of beauty. The girl who IS
carrying it. with her heliotrope panne vel
vet reception gown, looks like a little
princess, the stOvepipe muff being right
bower 10 the companion stole. that reach
es quite TO the hem of the costly costume
On the coolest mornings Of the present
winter an artist with camp stool and
easel labors leisurely and lovingly over a
reproduction in oil of the statue of Gen.
Jackson. which presides the year round
in Lafayette Park
Buttoned into a fur-lined coat. with COL
lar upturned. this weatherproof painter
sits nonchalantly putting a cigarette. the
While his colors are laid on the canvas
with cool skill. The White House and
adjoining grounds, which furnish the
background to the picture. are faithfully
drawn, and an admiring audience Of small
boys and grown-ups in no way disturbs
the artists work
Yesterday, during a chance scattering
of the audience, two squirrels ventured
close TO the easel. Down into a eapacious
pocket went the artists hand, and soon
the frosty turf felt shower Of nuts
that was gratefully acceptable to the
frisky gray-tails. The artist smiled and
made swift sketches Of the little animals.
proving that two birds can be killed with
one stone by even painter Of park
statuary.
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Il IS an alarming condition in our coun-
try; worse than in any other country in
the world. We see it and know it. and
are sorry for it, but do too little to
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The educational systems Of America.
the most practical of countries in many
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In the Rnrnrard

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
I hate to see a hen. said the pig bit
terly. 1T always makes me think Of
bacon and eggs"
The turkey sighed.
And to me the sight Of a bog" he muir
muTed-'especially a cranberry bog"
But a man bearing an AK at that mo-
ment seized him by the leg. and his SEN
tence remained forever uncompIeted.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-20
nfsiIIuHion.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
She had played in amateur theatricals,
you know, and threatened to go on the
stage if her parents wouldn't let her mar
~ the duke"
And what did her parents do2"
They let her go on the stage, gave TIE
duke a check for a front seat, and were
not at all surprised when he sailed back
TO France the next morning.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-20
Her HONG.

From the Catholic Standard Times.
Kadley Rich-I saw a great deal of
Belle Swellman last winter. I saw you
talking to her this morning.
Cooley Bullion-Yes. she was telling
me she hoped you were going to winter
at Palm Beach again this season.
Kadley Rich-Ah. she's going there. Ell?
Cooley Bullion-No; she's going to
California.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-20

Senator Spoouer Travelled from New
York recently on the afternoon limited.
From the time the train pulled out Of
the Jersey City station. TO within few
miles Of Baltimore the Senator was en-
crossed in the perusaI of much finely
printed matter. He never lifted his eyes
from the sheets he was studying and his
forehe9d was puckered into wrinkles %
concentrated thought As the train near
ed Baltimore, the Wisconsin statesman
east frequent glances out Of the window
and as the speed diminished, he hastily
confined his pages and pamphlets within
rubber bands, seized upon his hat. coat.
and grip, and as the train came TO a
halt, walked briskly from the car. As
the train started again, few minutes
later. Senator Spooner re-entered the
Pullman with a look of sbeepish amuse-
ment on his genial face. Several persons
smiled in response 10 his apologize muir
mur: Studying that Brownsville affair
IS enough to make a man forget whether
he has reached home or is forty miles
short of it
It isn't everybody who can pay a visit
to the White House with the SAVIOR
faire of a certain small person who rode
into the executive grounds the other
day. trotted through the porte cochere.
and emerged by the lower gate with the
nonchalance of a society dame on a visit
OF state. The small person was quite
the tiniest grille that ever bestrode an
infinitesimal pony. If she was three
years old, she did not look the part. in
her shaggy red bonnet and baby coat.
Her fat little legs stuck straight out on
either side of the round little pony and
she Travelled at brisk trot preserving
her balance by sheer instinct Of horse
manship. Who she was nobody knew,
and people stared in amazement at the
unattended infantile appaTitiOn as ii
trotted down Jackson Place. effected a
tour Of the executive grounds and dis
appeared again beyond the Lafayette
Theater.
well, that beats me-" calculated an
officer on guard outside the White House.
THE whole thing isn't one-half the size
of Quentin and Algonquin"
At a recent afternoon concert the Hon.
Nicholas Longworth strolled into Mrs.
Roosevelt's box, explaining that it was
his wife's reception day, and he was
superfuous person at home. During an
intermission he took a chair directly by
Mrs. Roosevelt, with whom he proceeded
TO chat
Isn't 1t beautiful exclaimed a young
girl in the audience to her companion,
the attention Mr.. Longworth pays his
wife! Just watch him-isnt he the per-
sonification of devotion, and doesn't Alice
look happy and lovely under those lilac
feathers? I do wonder what they are
talking about, don't your which con
versation proves the power Of magma
ton over facts, and also that the wife
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ought TO Be Good Coz Thnt.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Young Father Cat department store)-I
don't know exactly what to ask for. but
1 want something for the baby to cut its
teeth on.
New Salesman-YouH find the files in
the hardware department on the sixth
floor.
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Rcgardea a. a peIicate Hint.

From Town and Country.
DO you know if there is TO be a charity
ban?'
Very neatly put, old man. Come and
have one with me"
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Why do We have so many divorces IN
this country? Our men are good men, and
the best husbands in the world. And our
women are good. too, and tender-hearted,
and whole-souled Yet our domestic en-
t8nglements are a blotch upon our na-
tionaI honor-a byword in all the civilized
world, and a leading source of supply for
sensational stuff for our yellow journals.
Many mysterious murders are tTaceablc
To domestic difficulties. Our divorce courts
are overburdencd with the troubles Of
married life. There must be a reason for
this, and there is. Unusual prosperity has
for years encouraged idleness and luxury
among our women. Mothers rear their
daughters in ignorance of useful 0Ccupa-
tonic be the petted. selfish. exacting.
and petulant playthings of future men OF
wealth or position. Homes? What have
such spoiled. helpless dolls 10 do with
home-making? What do they know or
care about the serious side of domestic
life? COddled in infancy. and pampered
in girlhood. they have no purpose or
patience to meet the self-sacrificing con-
ditions of wifehood and motherhood
They may, in schools. obtain a smattering
of 'ologies." and even Of the classics and
mathematics, but for most part there IS
no definite application of their mentality
TO the accomplishment of any practical
or useful end. Result? Minds that dream
and play with life. Any education any
culture which ignores the hands is de-
fective. The hands are the executives of
the brain. The hands must be trained
along with the mind to do definite things
for the accomplishment of definite pur-
poses, to realize the best capabilities of
any one, especially women, who, as wives
and mothers. have the responsibility of
domestic management.
BY the current methods of developing
only the mental faculties Of our girls. we
quicken their capacity for activity with
out providing the means Of practical ap-
pHcation. The result is an abnormal I'M
rest and nervousness in a life Of leisure.
Human nature requires the doing OF
things. To have the constant impulse 10
activity without the knowledge Of how
10 do or what to do is disastrous to the
moral, mental, and physical being What
can we expect of our girls after they
have left school and have won the race
for a husband when the excitement is /
over and there is nothing 10 do. as they
think and nothing they can do but read
novels and talk gossip? Idle. nervous, i'm |
PEELED By active energies, but with use
less hands, Time drags. Relief in flirta-
ton, petty intrigue. Home neglected. /
Husband neglected. Children avoided. |
Unrest, discomfort, domestic discord, sus-
picions, accusations, determinations, di- /
vorce.
Il IS an alarming condition in our coun- |
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ARTS, CRAFTS, DIVORCE
Teacher Proposes Remedy
BY ANNA BOGENHOLM SLOANE.

remedy the evil We are so busy making
more money to bring up our daughters
in greater luxury and idIeness that we
neglect to give them what is a thousand
times better-ability to use their hands
and brains in correlated activity TO def
mite purpose.
A practical training in one or more
branches OF the arts and crafts Will give
any normal woman more genuine salts
faction and more fitness for real life than
viii the most luxurious bringing I'D in
indulgent idIeness. Such training gives
TO woman a domestic inclination. The
adornment of her home viii have n large
place in her thoughts and plans Unset
fishnesS viii be fosteTed in the pleasure
able preparation Of presents for friends.
Contentment will follow self-reliant ac-
complishment.
A girl who, Is given a training in prac-
teal arts viii have less desire for ex-
travagant. fashion-plate clothing. In the
middle-class station of Iife she will not
need to learn stenography and typewrit-
ing, and work in the physically and NOR
ally unwholesome atmosphere of the Of
fee, in order to earn money with which
to buy fashionable clothes for evening
wear She knows how to design her own
clothing. And too, her mind becomes
larger than a fashion-plate figure. She
has something to talk of and something
to do more than to dress and gossip.
Women whose minds and hands are use
fully employed do not get the fever Of
domestic discomfort. They have no time
or inclination to indulge IN petty social
intrigues, or venture into unsafe domestic
experiments.
Our girls are not less domestic by ma
ture. or less womanly, than those Of other
countries. 1t is only the fault of the
American plan Cor lack of plan) in their
up-bringing that results in the disastrous
conditions of domestic life so generally
deplored
And the boys, too, need to be trained in
the arts and crafts. If, as young men.
they enter business or professional life,
they so often become victims of the ner-
vous disorders produced by the high-ten-
sion strenuosity of present-day cOmpeti-
ton. Too often they seek relief unwisely
IN indulgences which only aggravate their
ills. Practical training I'm some line Of
the arts and crafts steadies the impulses.
clarifies the judgment, and directs the en-
ergies 10 methodical, self-reIiant, and
equipoised action. This gives a quality of
assurance and stability 20 every venture
which avoids the feverish excitement of
distracted pursuit
The best recreation, too, business or
professional man can have Is the practice
OF some light handicraft. It is better than
medicine to quiet the nerves. and a more
effective preventive of nervous breakdown
and insanity. And it is the best kind of
physical culture"
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the most practical of countries in many
Evening journal., 1907-02-18
RESCUED DIED FROM SHOCK

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Feb. 1S-One
death from excitement and exposure.
six firernen overcome by smoke, one
badly burned about the face, and an
other injured by a falling beam, and
damage amounting to $4,000. were the
result of a fire which when finally sub
dued had destroyed Wedderburn row.
a block OF houses on Albert street, be-
tween oronoco and Pendleton streets.
Alexandria.
The fire was caused by the overturn-
ing OF a lighted lamp
Mrs. Sarah r. Skillman. an aged wo-
man. was in in bed with pneumonia.
When the flames extended to her home
she was carried to the sidewalk, but
died while being hurried to the hos
pital in an ambulance.
Six firemen were overcome by smoke;
George Walker was burned about the
face, and John Travis, a volunteer fire
man. was struck by falling beam and
rendered unconscious.
An explosion In the saloon owned by
.P. II. Everett, in one Of the burned
buildings, while The fire was in pro-
gress, CAUSED great excitement. knock
i'm gseveral firemen and spectators TO
the ground. IL was supposed to have
been caused by a barrel of whiskey be-
coming overheated and exploding.
Evening journal., 1907-02-18
YOUNG FOLK MUST
BE HOME AT TEN

"Curfew shall ring tonight in Cliff
ton Heights. according to Joseph Lind
say. the newly elected burgess of that
town. He is Of the opinion that the
young folk have been keeping too late
hours. SO he has decreed that 10
o'clock at night shall be the limit.
But the road which the burgess is
travelling is not paved with asphalt;
there are rocky obstacles all along the
way. Because Of his latest pronuncia-
mento jagged rocks have sprung up in
such plentiful numbers that the white
haired burgess is almost compelled to
use a pilot. The edict referred to is a
proposed curfew ordinance which the
burgess says will pass Councils. and
afterward be enforced to the letter.
The age limit for both boys and girls
has been fixed at 16 summers. and
when the town bell has rung at the
hour Of 10 all under that age, unless
chaperoned by parents or guardians,
must be of the streets OF Clifton
Heights.
Alr Lindsay has been considering
this phase OF borough regulation some
months, but he did not present his
ideas in crystaliized form until the
meeting OF Councils on Tuesday night.
The old board. while generally approving
the proposition, decided that il should
go over for the action OF the new
board, to be elected on Tuesday next
The burgess at once put a rough draft
Of his ideas into the hands of the bor-
ough solicitor who will whip ii into
legal shape. In the meantime the bur
] CESS has sounded all the candidates
Of both parties and as a result he has
no doubt the curfew law will he passed
whoever wins