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The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-18
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Potato Opi9nIsNs at Hardens
 Watches fpd chains at Fire stone's
 ,.ss..: ssss v''9 buy your small
 5000 bushelA of stock peas wanted. J. B. hrden. Esq. W. J. Callen of Blue Eye was here Monday.
 Ocie White and wife of Denver were here wednesday.
 Go to Harssf's for choice Ben Davis apples, Meents a bushel. $ Perry Cox orders THE TRIB- UNE sent to his address at Butte, Mont.
 Q Miss Golda Owens left Friday sof last week for Springfield, Mo-, where she will attend school.
 Esq. c. w. Moore and J. P. Cisco of Marble were appreciated callers at our office Monday.
 A. J. Tabor was in Springfield oathis week buying furniture and bther goods for his business. 1T. M. Bueh gan make you fine Fafices on floN bran, coal oil Y lid hay, wholesale or retail. Miss Edna Walker is visiting Her sister, Mrs. T. G. Nunnally, est Leslie.
 r Col. Iverson A. Jones was up |siirom Grassleaf Farm Tuesday nd Wednesday.
 Miss Jessie Curtis has recently ,osed very successful term of Ichool in Boone county.
 Mrs. c. E. Foreman and chll- ren of Eureka Springs are Green Forest visitors this week. |sA Miss Irene Bedding is suffering kom a very severe attack of ssacute muscular rheumatism. a Miss Viola Shipman visited ssfiss Jennie Jones at her home lorth of town Saturday night and Sunday
 R u. B. Coxsey left Tuesday Eening for Dallas, Tex, to take
 .arge of his grocery bushes at R t place.
 P. caresfhas horse and yelrgs, and soma household goods
 Sell at 4 barsain' See him Epw.
 & @ Loss Seitz, w. $. Hittson and
 P. Walker of Osage were not
 among the large crowd here L onday.
 pr. SpuNiYf will be in Green
 rest FebrHary, II, 12 and Is to
 it on any ohe in need of Dem
 l service.
 NR. H. Wrinkle of Raum was
 l long those who called at the
 ice last week and gave the A tor the glad hand.
 s. Firestone and family
 itsd at the home of G.. c. Mo-
 a, east of town, Saturday bee: :ht and Sunday.
 shy, boys,S ,Sqtne on. Here we
 again witN the best market Ece for fursg We are in shape Rno you good. F.M. BUELL.. lANN Walter Norton and Ura Lane rap5t te that they are highly pleased lifeh the Tyler Commercial Col ols'e 2 IS 6 of Tyler, Tex, which school ..d x entered first of the year. o' diaeorge Griffith of Rule found sites ee snakes out summing Sun. womf morning while walking over thfarm. How is that for Janu- e on weather in Arkansas? n it he Green lForest Canning t'ananpany is Ne3dy to make con- he ls, ssts for toma oes and other pro- bre bts for the Inext season. See
 ,. ReevesF manAger, for con- esseorits se and seed.
 av ,ei yslrs. E. E. Stires and little son polio elasis, Mo-, were here Monday Fs in out to Leslie to visit her sis-
 Mrs. J. w. Tanning. They <r0s-sreturn first of the week and n Id a few days visiting Green |N(ast friends.
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-18

,J Denver first of the week on &C., count of the sickness of her father, James Purselly.
 J. B. Parr and family leave Saturday for their home at Justin, Tex, after a months visit at the home of Mrs. Paris parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. w. Ragsdale.
 Miss Martha Patty left Tues- day for the Indian Territory where she will engage in teach ing.
 Rev. George West and wife departed yesterday for Texar- kama where MT. West will take up his duties as state missionary for the Baptist convention.
 L. J. Leatherberry has secured a months vaca ion from his du- ties as guard at Ft. Smith and is spending the time with his family on Yocum.
 Willie Phillips orders THE TRIBUNE sent to him at Sancta Spiritus, Santa Clara Province. Cuba. He is in the service of the United States army there.
 Mrs. T. M. Buell. and Ira Watt of Green Forest and Isaac Watt of Oklahoma, were guests several days this week of their sister, Mrs. J. D. Hailey-North Arkan- sas Star.
 pr. spurlfe/will be in Green Forest Februksy, II, 12 and 13 to wait on aDy one in :.need of Dental service.
 Mrs. s.C.B. Grim has been spend- ing several days visiting her daughter, Mrs. c. c. Taggart, at St. Joe.
 A. J. Tabor has purchased through real estate dealer, Mart Trantham. an additional one third interest in the building occupied by his furniture store. Mr. Tabor now owns two thirds of the property.
 Fred Sweeney has been in a very precarious condition with rheumatism for the past two week His condition was very serious for several days and it was feared that he would not recover but he has been improving this week and is now out of danger.
 A horse-race is an interesting event to some but more of your friends are interested in any event that concerns you. If you go away on visit or friends come to visit you, see that the fact reaches this office before publication day.
 Theordore Jones of White Oak, I. T. was visitor here during the past week, a guest of his cousins, Tom and Monroe Goforth. MT. Jones moved from this country to the Territory eighteen yeats ago and proved a head right and he now exercises control of more than a half section of fine land, allotted to him and his children. MT. Jones' father was half breed Cherokee.
 Mir. J. A. Buell., cashier of the Bank of Green Forest, makes the following offer to the pupils of the Green Forest public school for the month of January. One dollar for the best essay by 2 pupil twelve years of age, or un- der, subject Moral Courage; one dollar for the pest essay by a pupil twelve years or over, sub- iect, Punctuality. All essays must be turned in to the teacher and delivered to the Bank of Green Forest not later than the 20th.
 We will offer a little free advice to the young men and young ladies who read this paper. Never marry until you are certain that single life is a failure and under no circumstances marry until you find some one who will have you. Be sure you arc right, then go ahead. Boys, remember that 8 girl rigged out in ribbons and paint may look good enough to eat; but that smile, however,
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-18
Mules Wanted.

We will be tt Green Forest Jan, 22; Alpsha Pass, Jan.,23 and Yocum JahS, 9, for the pur- pose of buying mules from IA 1-2 to 1e hands Ihigh. Will pay the highest market price,
 JARRETT & FRANKLIN.
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-18
Carroll County Abstract Co
 J. |. RUSSELL, Manager Central Block GREEN FOREST, ARK.

A new swindle is abroad in Missouri, according to the papers. The swindler sells barbed wire fencing stretch CT machines. He leaves the ma- chine and forty rods of good fence for trial, requiring the farmer to sign for the return of the stretcher. The farmer signs for S3, which turns out to be $500.
 T. E. Wilson tells of fellow who appeared at his meat market during the holidays with enough of the contents of a quart bottle inside of him to make him feel rich and who threw a ten dollar bill on the counter and said in stentorian tones: "Send dol- lars worth of porter house steak to my house, A day or two later the the same fellow appeared at the door of the meat market with one coat sleeve gone and, peeping through the screen wire, said in mild voice "send fifteen cents worth of liver down to my house, please, and I will settle with you in a few days.''
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-18

The deposits in the Bank of Green Forest Monday amounted to S11,287.40. The days busi- ness was considerably augmented by the large number of mule checks that were cashed by the farmers.
 A very ugly little fight occurred on the public road about three miles east of town on Thursday evening of last week between John Warrington jr., on one side, and John Walker and Gar land Denton of Berryville on the other. It seemed that a mis- understanding had arisen be- tween Worthington and Messrs Walker and Denton about some cattle that they had bought from Warrington and an effort to set. tie the matter resulted in the fight. Knives and other weap- ons were brought into play but beyond few rather ugly bruises no serious damages resulted to any of the combatants. All of the parties appeared before Esq. Me- Nemar Saturday morning, sub- mitted their cases and paid their fines. We are informed that each agreed that he had been hasty in the matter and that all differences were amicably ad- justed and that the parties quit as good friends as they had been before the difficulty.
 Since THE TRIBUNE has been enlarged, the following persons have spoken a word of en- couragement to the editor and pushed up the date of their
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-18

Five subscriptions have been dis continued since the change in the size and price of the paper and fifteen new names have been add ed to the list. We are highly pleased with the encouragement our friends are giving us in onr effort to get out larger and bet ter paper.
The Green Forest tribune., 1907-01-18

2Uth.
 We will offer little free advice to the young men and young ladies who read this paper. Never marry until you are certain that single life is a failure and under no circumstances marry until you find some one who will have you. Be sure you arc right, then go ahead. Boys, remember that girl rigged out in ribbons and paint may look good enough to eat; but that smile, however, may be made to order and come off with her best clothes.
 A few of our subscribers, who are paid year in advance of the present date, have come into the office since the enlargement of the paper and rendered an ad- ditional fifty cents, thinking that the advance in the rate would ap- ply to them. Of course, when a subscription is paid in advance nothing more is required of the subscriber. It matters not how far you are paid in advance your paper will continue coming unti the time is out and there will be no additional charges.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-09-11
A WATCH PROBLEM.
Telling the Time In the Dark With the
Hands Removed.


Hands Removed.
Some time ago poor old peasant
who had invoked the kings wrath was
seized by the kings soldiers and placed
In dungeon, says the Scientific Ameri-
can. His majesty was present and had
the old man searched before being in
generated. All his personal property
consisted Of cheap watch, small
penknife, a shilling in cash and a lead
pencil. The poor old man begged for
mercy, but his pleadings awaited him
nothing. and he finally asked to be
granted the privilege of knowing the
length Of his sentence. In reply the
king took his knife and watch, which
lay on the table, and, after taking the
knife and prying the hands off the
watch, returned to him his watch, say
Ing, when you have learned to tell
the time correctly by this watch in
your dungeon cell you will be liberat-
ed" The poor old man, knowing that
the king meant a life sentence, stag
gered into his cell and wept bitterly.
Nevertheless he was liberated in TWEEN
ty-fOur hours, having accomplished the
time In the dark with a watch without
hands. How did he do 1t?
A watch derives Its power Of motion
from the recOil of the handspring and
the recoil Is governed by the balance
and lever For instance, If 1t takes
twenty-four full turns of the stem to
wind the watch and the watch runs
twenty-four hours when fully wound.
then for each turn of the stem 1t will
run one hour.
A more simple method is to hold the
stem firmly between the fingers and
turn the watch around In winding the
watch to run for one hour the ratchet
on the handspring will click, say, thirty
times, which proves that this watch
runs two minutes for each click Of the
ratchet which is attached to the main
spring. We will suppose it was IL
o'clock noon when the watch was last
wound up and you now wish to know
the time. Beginning to wind it up,
you count the clicks and find that be-
fore it is again wound up fully the
ratchet clicks 100 times. BY dividing
this by thirty we get four and one
third. or four hours and twenty min
utes, which added to II o'clock makes
the hour APO p. m.
While watches are not all exactly
alike, the principle is the same, and it
is simply a case of mental arithmetic
in order to be able to tell the time.
But you must always remember the
time of the starting point or first wind
ing and after that the time at the
last winding.
The above was the method used by
the poor old peasant, whose life mostly
depended on his release and who was
rewarded by the king
with his liberty and life pension.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-09-11
Denmark ORIGINAL of rhuIe2

Was Denmark the original Thule, the
worlds end land Of the ancients, be-
You'd which lay only the Sluggish sea :?
Pytheas of Massilia, who was about
contemporary with Alexander the
Great, Is believed by some to have
referred to what we now know as Jut-
land by this name; but, as there is
nothing to show that Pytheas had
visited Thule himself, he was probably
rather vague about it. Since he seems
to have represented it as land Of the
midnight sun, others have identified
1t as Iceland or even Greenland and
the Thule of the Irish monks of the
ninth century A. D. was certainly Ice
land. But the Thule of Tacitus. which
lay near the Orkney islands, must have
been part of the Shetlands.-London
Chronicle
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-09-11
Death In a New Guise.

In little village OH the Hungarian
frontier not far from Presburg a
peasant woman recently received 400
kronen $3.50 from her husband in
America. She promptly deposited it in
the local branch Of the postoffice saw
ings bank and then the next day went
to withdraw the whole amount. The
bank official was somewhat surprised
and asked for an explanation, when
she said that Death had appeared to
her during the night and threatened to
take her away with him unless she had
the 400 kronen ready for him the next
night. The gendarmerie were communi-
Gated with, and when Death made his
promised appearance he was found to
be very much alive in the person of the
local judge The woman's money.
adds our Vienna correspondent who
sends the story, is still in the bank,
and the judge is in jail.-Pall Mall Ga
Zette.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-09-11
Persian IDEAS.

An American traveller in Persia learn
ed that the common soldiers Of that
country supposed that the English
practice Of firing salute at the burial
Of soldier had for its object the driv-
ing away of devils. Other mistaken
impressions no less absurd he reports
In his PERSIAN Life and Customs"
A village soldier asked me if I knew
Of dog wOrshipers. told him had
heard Of fire worshipers, COW worship
ers and the like. but not of dog wOr-
shippers. He said he had seen some in
Teheran. Some foreigners there had
fed dogs at their tables, had washed
and clothed them, fondled them in
their laps and taken them riding in
their carriages. Were they not dog
worshipers?
An English sea captain, whose ship
touched at Bushire, took a horseback
ride through the streets of the city,
but made so poor a display Of horse
manship as to astonish and amuse the
people. The next day a vender of
fruits came on board the ship and
said TO the captain:
'I have made such an explanation
NJ to free you from all reproach.
There Is no one who does not think
that you are an expert rider, as be-
comes one of nation of horsemen."
"And how did you do thatY asked
the captain.
Il told them you were drunk"
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-09-11
He QUOTED ST. PAUL.
A Bishops 8Iunder and the Clever Way
It Was Corrected.

A Bishops 8Iunder and the Clever Way
It Was Corrected.
A certain bishop of one of the middle
states is described as a man who pos
sessed great learning, but had not the
saving sense of humor. In "Reminis-
cences of Bishops and Archbishops''
Bishop Potter gives an instance of the
absence of this quality.
1t happened on one occasion that an
episcopal election had come up for re-
view in the house of bishops, and ques-
tons as to the bishop elect were being
asked and answered with considerable
freedom. A bishop who knew the bish-
opss1ect in a very intimate way was on
his feet and was being catechised
when bishop called out, "What kind
of wife has our brother elect"
Ills present wife, began the bish-
op thus challenged, when the middle
state delegate sprang to his feet.
Zone momentw he cried. do l un-
derstand my brother Alright? Did he
say his present wife, and apl l to un-
derstand that by that phrase he means
to imply that the brother elect has had
q previous wife? Because, if so, can
not vote for his confirmation. st. Paul
says, "A bishop must be the husband of
one wife,"
For a moment the house, in which
were a number of bishops who, having
been ber1aved of their earthly part
ners, had supplied their places, sat still
in stunned silence, until 'prelate,
whose sense of humor was as keen as
the last speakers was feeble, rose in
his place and said, do l understand
that the bishop regards the language
of the apostle which he has just quoted
as mandatory"
"Certainlyw exclaimed the man who
had objected.
Every well, then, Mr.. Chairman"
said the .interrogating bishop blandly,
''if the bishop regards the language Of
st. Paul, when he says that a bishop
must be the husband of one wife, as
l should like to ask him
what he proposes to do with the bishop
n bachelor bishop-"who
hasn't any?'
There was a shout Of laughter, amid
which the bishop who had objected
took his seat, flushed and angry. The
humor of his blunder was wholly I'm.
perceived by him.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-09-11
A MAN AND A MOB.
The Way Lyon PIayfair Handled the
Lancashire Strikers.

The Way Lyon Playfair Handled the
Lancashire Strikers.
During the great labor riots In Lam
cashire about the middle of the last
century the ready resources of Lyon
Playfair saved one of the only two
mills which remained open at the time.
The government was anxious that
these two should continue in action,
and supplied the workmen engaged
with muskets. But great force of
strikers advanced upon one Of the
two, and 1t was obvious that the day
was lost. The mob meant to wreck
the place. Playfair, who was a friend
them, keeping the proprietor out Of
sight. He put the case frankly to the
strikers. The gates of the mill were
closed, but the numbers of the strikers
made them irresistible; hence 1t was
Of no use their all going In and wreck
Ing the place. Let few of them enter
the premises, remove the plugs from
the boilers, and thus, without damage
to the works, secure their stoppage.
Even a disorderly mob, bravely met by
a man Of courage and tact, will listen.
So did this one. Playfair's proposition
sounded faie, but might not treachery
lie behind 1t?
He Immediately put their doubts at
rest by offering himself as hostage.
He would accompany the deputation
while the others kept guard over the
works. The men agreed, and Playfair
strolled OF with the men chosen. To-
gether they, went to the boilers and
withdrew the plugs. This stopped the
works, but did no other damage. While
thus engaged Piayfair was able to lis
ten to the story of the leaders, and
found many of their demands most
reasonable and such that afterward it
was possible readily to concede them.
The little party returned from their
innocent wrecking and found the mob
honOrably preserving order. The sci
enlist gave them a couple of sover
eigns with which the buy food, and
they returned him three times three
In cheers. There remained only one
other mill to close, that at Clitheroe,
and upon j.. this the strikers now
marched Again they were thwarted,
but this time not by pacific means,
but by the might OF the military.-St
James Gazette.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1907-09-11

Old Chestnut Seller of Genoa and Her
Fortune Hunting Spouse,

Old Chestnut Seller of Genoa and Her
Fortune Hunting Spouse.
It does not seem possible that one
solemn place as a cemetery, yet there
is, so the optimist assures us, little
comedy In every situation. Surely in
the romance of the old chestnut seller
Of Genoa and the chagrin Of her for
tune hunting spouse, both of whom
figure In the local gossip and one of
whom is immortalized in marble in
the Campo Santo, one must admit that
the situation Is not without its lighter
side. The most serious minded smile
as they read the inscription which the
shrewd old lady commanded the sculp
tor to chisel on her tomb.
Not so many years ago, so the story
runs, one of the best known figures in
the streets of Genoa was that of an old
woman who made a living selling
chestnuts. She was without beauty,
but was gifted with a quality which no
doubt stood her in better stead-a ma
tive shrewdness which enabled her to
buy her wares prudently and to sell
them with a profit. 1t does not require
n large income to live in Genoa, eSpe-
cially when one has not acquired ex-
travagant tastes, so gradually the for
tune of the worthy tOiler grew and
finally became large enough to be talk
ed about. A lad more noted for his
good looks than for principle or intel
lect caught the rumor of the fortune,
sought the chestnut merchant. and
made straight for her heart, which was
not long in responding. The subse-
quent marriage of the pair caused the
knowing ones to smile.
After short honeymoon it was
brought to the notice Of interested
aeighbors that the young husband was
In search of work. His elderly bride
lisclaimed all knowledge of the rumor-
I'd fortune and said that, as she was
almost without a penny, she expected
that he, too, would put his shoulder to
the wheel. Between them a comforta-
BILE home might be supported and an
occasional evening at the theater might
be enjoyed. Not even yet having given
up hope that the fortune would one
day appear, the young husband led for
time an exemplary life, but finally
patience gave place to encouragement,
and loves young dream was shattered.
Several years later the deserted wife
died, and. like mushroom in the
night, sprang up in a conspicuous place
In the Campo Santo handsome monu-
ment representing, aside from the plot
which it occupied, a snug fortune. The
marble statue, of life size, represents
the old lady, dressed in full gathered
skirt, silk apron, fringed shawl and
rosary wound around her fingers. Lest
there should be a doubt about the his
tory of the original and her romance
the entire story is set upon the pedes-
tai of the statue, explaining how the
lady had been. wooed, not, as she knew
at the time, for her beauty or her vir-
tue. but for her fortune, and how she
had thwarted her mercenary lover by
the purchase of this lasting memorial,
which not only represented her hus-
bands disappointment, but might also
serve as a warning to others. The
statue is one of the most striking In
the entire place.-Leslie's Weekly.