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The Green Forest tribune., 1908-08-14
HE CHANGED HIS MIND
After Reading F1ash1ight Spec
 ial E. A. Wall Won't Sell


 E. A. Wall, one of our sturdy old farmers, had just finished reading his Flashlight special through when he came up town Monday to swap some yarns with the tired merchants and burn up few pipefuls of long green.
 "Have you seen that big edi- tion of the Eureka paper," said MT. Wall to The Tribune editor.
 "Well" said, MT. Wall,, "that fellow is sure enough a good one. He told our fortunes here in good shape. The blow up this paper gives the country reminds me of a fellow who once went to list his farm with real estate agent. The agent wrote down q glowing description of the place and read it over for the old farmers o. K. as to the correctness. When the agent got through reading the old man, said just take the place off your book. It is exactly the farm I want and didn't know it. That is sorter the way it is with me l was thinking some of selling out and leaving here till I read this issue of the Eureka paper and now I have decided to stay here. It is just the place was looking for and didn't know it."
 While MT. Wallis story teens with a little bit of pointed humor, yet it is fact that the people of this country do not fully appreci- ate it's real value. They get used to it's advantages without ever thinking how it compares with others. A stranger coming in fresh from less favored sections is quick to see our advantages, and making due allowance for for the establishment that is al- ways necessary to throw around facts to make spicy reading, we consider the Flashlight has not overdrawn to any great extent concerning the possibilities of Carroll county.
 True, the instances as to the big things that have been done in raising of products, are for the most part remote cases, but that is sufficient to prove that it can be done, and what one man can do another can if he will only try.
 A blind man can see that this country is not being worked up to it's capacity. Not one farmer in ten is getting all out of his soil that he is entitled to. This is due to different causes, but the main reason is that the possibili- ties of the country are not under stood and appreciated.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-08-14
Berryville flour at Thorn s.

Berryville flour at Thorn's. Lee Poynor is reported quite sick of fever.
 G. A Thorn has everything in the way of fresh groceries.
 Adrian Firestone is out again after a brief attack of fever.
 Corneal Skinkle is able to 'mope around" again after a severe illness.
 Whoever borrowed A. J. Cox spring seat is requested to bring same home at once.
 James Shipman is back from Texas on his annual visit to see his relatives and friends and re- new his relations with the ex- Confederate pension board.
 Herbert Shibley has bought the lots on which T. S. Phillips, residence was burned and will erect a Groom cottage for a home. The contract has been let to J. B. Reeves.
 Charley De Burger, residing on J. w. Snyder's place on Route 1, was bitten by a copperhead Sunday evening while husking feed corn in his crib. He is re- covering nicely, notwithstanding he has been very sick.
 To the people of Green Forest: |: l desire to say if you will give me your patronage I will endeavor to keep first class meat market. 1 must have your trade to do this. If you prefer to buy meat out of wagons then 1 will have to do as all others have done, quit the business. J. T. Cops.
 A fine English bull dog was re- ceived at the local express office Tuesday addressed to Miss Maggie Gregory, who resides out east of town. The animal came as present from her brother, Ed. Gregory, who is station agent at Pioche, Nev. The "gentleman" seemed to be no worse for the long journey he had taken.
 The cam cry is still running by spells not having sufficient amount of tomatoes to make an all- days run. The quality of the fruit brought in so far is the finest that has ever been handled by the cannery. Indications are that the finest pack of tomatoes will be made this year that ever has been made here. It is ex- pected that the cannery will be running in full blast within 8 week.
 Hon. Rollo s. Granger, the Republican candidate for Repres- entative, was in Green Forest Saturday, renewing old aquaint- ances and making new ones, and talking little in interest of his candidacy. MT. Granger is at the head of the Granger Kelley Lum- Der Go. ,and as a business man he ranks high both in qualification and popularity. He thinks he has a good show to represent Carroll county in the next legis- ature.
 Riley Orrell presented us last Saturday with an exhibit of FL berta seedlings that looked good to us. The Elberta seeding is a little later peach than it's parent variety. MT. Orrell says the tree presents a little more thrift, spreading out quite a bit more than the Elberata. The fruit, however, cannot be considered an improvement over the Elberta proper. It serves well, however, for variety.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-08-14

Bolognia sausage in brine al Thorn's.
 i The corn crops in many fields is looking good.
 c. B. Grim was in Eureka Springs Sunday night.
 Mrs. H. P. Burney has been down from Osage this week. Massey Seitz is improving some. He has had very severe attack of fever.
 Remember Eld. Stauffer's ap- pointment at the Baptist church for Saturday night and Sunday.
 MT. and Mrs. Setzer, of Musko- gee, Okla., were guests of MT. and Mrs. Lee Parker first of the week.
 Mrs. Charles Harbert is up from Omaha visiting numerous relatives and friends.
 Misses Mae and Chloe Fort and Lee Lewallen Of Cisco were pleas- ant visitors at the home of T. M. Buell. Saturday and Sunday.
 Judge w. A. Butt left Wednes- day for Bethany, Ill.,, to attend a reunion of the family of his mother. He will be gone week or ten days.
 Fred and Miss Clara Jernigan left Wednesday for their home at Corpus Cresti, Tex, after an ex- tended visit with their uncle and aunt, MT. and Mrs. R. l.. Jerni- gan.
 Mrs. Minnie Puckett is over from the Springs this week put ting up fruit and visiting with her numerous friends and rela- tives. Green Forest people are always glad to see Mrs. Puckett.
 Those who attended Miss Sad ler's recital Tuesday night are lavish in their praise of character of her entertainment. She is a young lady of exceptional at- tainments.
 J. s. Prather has sold his 30- acre farm mile and half north of town to A. A. Kelsey, late of Texas. MT. Kelsey takes possess sion at once and Mir. Prather will move to his former home at Sulli- van, Mo.
 Miss Sue Burney has been a guest of Green Forest friends the past week. She will leave soon for Tonkawa, Okla, where she has been employed as a teacher in a preparatory school of the University of Oklahoma.
 Mrs. Mary Linzee and her sis- ter, Mrs. Peck, of St. Louis have been in Harrison during the past two weeks, where Mrs. Linzee has been having her foot treated. It has been several months since she has been able to walk a step, but there are now good strong indications that she will soon be well enough to get about without aid.
 In order to encourage the maintenance of a wheat market and exchange in Green Forest several of the merchants are giving over the flour and feed business to Linen & Cox, who have opened up business at the old mill stand. The need of 8 market and exchange was be- ginning to hurt the town greatly, and it is fortunate for all con- cerned that a firm of reliable citizens have taken hold of the business. The firm has started off with a nice business.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-08-14
The Home Bakery

Can supply all the de- mands of Green Forest and vicinity for BREAD, PIES and CAKES.
 We Make a Speciality of Pies and cakes for or- ders Saturday for Sun. day dinners. We can furnish anything in our line cheaper than you can afford to do your own baking.
 NUNNALLY BLDG. MAIN ST.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-08-14
1 THE LOCAL MARKET.

Talk with c. c. Kirkham about insurance.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19
BY RAILROAD TO HAVANA
Big Bridge Miles Out Over the Ocean Brings Cub
Nearer to the Shores of the United States.

| rock for the viaducts filled eighty
tramp steamers, and the cargOes of
steel, lumber, concrete and supplies
shaded the seaboard with a trail of
smoke.
The care of 5000 men far from
the mainland was itself a serious
problem, but was solved with house
boats. In October, 1906, a hurri-
cane swept away the floating homes
and claimed the lives of 1870 labor
ers, but the work was pushed ahead.
The shaIlowness of the water made
it possible to throw up mile after
mile of entertainments by means of
suction dredges, but also made
transportation difficult. Light draft
launches found it impossible to APP
proach many keys on which hun
dreds of men must camp. Mississippi
river steamers, capable of navigating
in heavy dew, went aground.
Handicapped by lack of coal and
fresh water Engineer Meredith hitch
ed a battery of gasoline engines tc
work his dredges, set them up or
barges and when sufficient water was
hound they remained at sea. WheI
there was not enough water they
were yanked ashore, mounted or
wheels and slid along on steel rails
Ever since construction begaI
"booze" boats were a menace. Fail
ing to keep the rum sellers away by
pacific means a dynamite and rifle
war was commenced and many
"booZe" boatman dived overheard
lust as his craft assembled under the
| influence of a stick of dynamite.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19
A WILD SPRING MOVEMENT
SEVEN THOUSAND FANATICS TO
MAKE A PILGRIMAGE.
Fanaticism of the Sect Without Par
allel. Now Busy Rounding Up
and Getting Ready.

anu OCltlHS hcduA'
Dispatches from Winnipeg, Mani
toba, report that the indications are
the coming spring will see the
Doukhobors leave their northwest
communities and go on another wild
pilgrimage All accounts agree that
the fanaticism of the sect has no par
allel in modern times.
Doukhobor leaders have been par
ticularly busy since the beginning of
winter issuing DEGREES and each new
PRONUNCIATION seems to have been
drafted with a desire to Guido the
preceding ones in inflicting hardship
and suffering on "the faithful"
Children are said to be dying for
the want of proper food.
The people are paupers. They
have obeyed an order to sell all their
cattle. With the beginning of winter
they sold 5000 sheep to mock the
benevolence of the Quakers, who gave
the focks to them. All products of
the lands go to the sect leaders. All
chickens have been sold in obedience
to a decree. Tea, coffee sugar and
pancakes have been tabOOed and the
general diet has been narrowed to
raw potatoes, onions, carrots, tur-
nips, and a few other vegetables.
Among the latest DEGREES have been
those abolishing time and looking
glasses. Agents of the leaders have
taken away from the people about
$1,000 worth of clocks and watches.
One of Peter Veregin's lieutenants
acted as looking glass collector.
The-women folk, who are noted for
their .deftness with their needles,
have been forbidden to make any
more embroidery.
The Doukhobor wheat is handled
! by a committee which does what it
pleases with it. This committee con-
trolls pretty nearly everything in the
way of labor. The gangs which work
on the railway and in the community
brickyard pay over their wages to
the committee without receipt. But
when it comes to the laborers get
ting their meagre fod allowances
from the committee they are COM
PEELED to give a receipt for every
ounce.
In one district five hundred persons
are living in two houses. Each adult
is allowed a sleeping space four feet
wide All have to climb into their
beds over the foot boards. The
younger men are slowed away in the
garrets of the houses after the fash
ion of canned sardines.
Nobody is permitted to wear more
than one shirt, no matter how cold
the weather may be.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19

The dream of Henry M. Flagler' S
life. the worlds greatest engineering
feat-the extension of the Florida
East Coast Railway through the
ocean to Key West-has been con-
summated, and regular train service
from New York to this most south
erly point of the United States is a
reality.
Within a short time the through
forty-eight hour all-rail service be-
tween the metropolis and Havana
will become a reality. The compile
ton of the swift ferries which will
transfer freight and passenger trains
across the ninety miles of ocean to
the Cuban capital is but question
of few weeks.
Until ten years ago the nearest
home port to Key West was Tampa
25O miles up the gulf. Then the
Flagler railroad was pushed to Mia
mi, 157 miles up the east coast. But
no man dreamed that the coral reefs
and mangrove swamps known as the
Florida keys, at the end of which is
Key West, would ever be hitched tc
Florida by bonds of steel and con-
crete.
In three years J. r. PARROT, gen
eral manager, and ]. G. Meredith
construction engineer, have spent
100000 of Flagler's money in
bridging the 1870 miles of ocean
coral reefs and mangrove swamps
They have built a steel reinforced
concrete sea wall which rises thirty
feet above high water mark. Over
this runs a single track railway
Some of the keys are so far apart
that the passengers are out of sight
of land, going to and fro on tracks
supported by concrete arches which
divide the ocean and the Gulf Of
Mexico.
Before they began girding the
keys the engineers had to force theil
way through the Everglades, build
ing thirty miles of embankment BY
means of dredges which created theiI
own channels as they piled up the
dirt.
At one time the constructors had
under charter every available freight
steamer on the Atlantic coast, carry
Ing supplies south. The crushed
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19
NO REP. FROM BEN HILL.
In Legislature Until Increase in Num-
Der Is Ratified.

In Legislature Until Increase in Num-
Der Is Ratified.
There is one county in Georgia
which will have no representative in
the general assembly this summer.
Ben Hill county, with Fitzgerald as
its county seat, is the unlucky mem
Der of the group of 147 minor Geor-
gia governments.
Before Ben Hill, which is the
latest creation among Georgia's new
counties. can secure representation
in the lower house there must be rat
fled by the people constitutional
amendment increasing the number
of representatives from 1873 to 1874.
There is such a bill pending before
the present general assembly, but
nothing could have been accom-
plished by its passage at the last SEES
sion. as the ratification election can
not be held until next October, which
is the fist general election following
the creation of the county. Other-
wise it might have had representa-
ton in the present assembly at the
coming summer session.
Ben Hill county is fully organ
lied and has been for nearly TWO
wears. 1t has a full complement OF
county officers, and is in every re
spect a full-fedged county except for
it's lack of representation in the gen
eral assembly.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19
TO THE RESCUE.

fOrbiddng
smoke n public places)
Come ladies all of every and
who like ponderOus Whit the cigarette
who vearn day along cabs trolley
among behind big black
The Mayor gallant stroke
right
Hereafter a public place. proceed
To decorate with wreathng weed
blow all the peoples sight
with Hey Bill ight?
reekng breaths
This 1adv-lke accomplishment quite within the law
When velIow-saned finger tip husband dare assal,
cradle grip the paid coffin nail
To a Dula cultured daughters ought,
breath cooling babies choke
Then all Mayor who lets the ladies smoke
What matters rise and debts accumulate. -
pile while wait?
the lucke down.
And merger makers mortgage the town,
although the broke
when we have gallant who lets the ladies smoke?
49, J Montague.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19
THE RURAL RAILROAD AGENT
Mr.. Rives of SpringvaIe Relates Some
of His Experiences in Dealing
With the Public.


From the Macon Telegraph.
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
The general contention of the agent
at Hiram, Ga, is correct. | speak
from twenty-seven years experience
as agent of a railroad at various
small points. The complaints at
such places are mainly by violators
of the state and moral law, and gem
orally by both. At one place large
planter, innocent of the law, wanted
the agent to detach fertilizer tags
for him so that he could return them
to the manufacturers for rebates. OF
course the agent refused and was re-
ported to the superintendent for
being accommodating. Another
wanted an order to testify goods
without indorsing the bill of lading,
and again a report for refusing to
deliver goods And since prohibition
became an issue various phases, such
as wanting liquor sent by minors,
sent without receipting for it, deliV-
cred on Sundays, etc. And most of
those requests are from members of
prohibition clubs and anti-saloon
leagues.
The common, everyday citizen who
works for his bread, attends to his
business and wants no undue ad-
vantages, either for himself or his
children, is never heard from, but
the loud-mouthed fanatics and self
seeking agitator who is out for all
that he can get without regard to
the eighth or ninth commandments
of the decalogue is loud in his de-.
mands for regulating everybody's
business but his own. A lady with
long experience with bearders said
that those who had always been well
fed and well housed rarely com
planned, but the cracker who had
been brought up on potatoes and
branch water, and slept on a straw
mattress always warts sirloin steak
and feather beds. Respectfully,
ANDREW p. RIVES.
Springvale, Ga.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19
SHAKE IT OFF.
Rid Yourself of Unnecessary
Burdens.

Don't bear unnecessary burdens.
Burdens of bad back are unnec-
essary.
Get rid of them.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure bad
backs;
Cure lame, weak and aching
backs;
Cure every form of kidney ills.
Lots of local endorsement to prove
this.
Mrs. Molly Mosley, residing at
1896 Broad street, Augusta, Ga,
says: My back was very weak and
dched constantly. 1 could not find
anything to do it any good, although
l used remedies, wore plasters and
rubbed it with liniments. The dull
achlng caused me to lose sleep at
.lght and | would rise in the morn
ing as tired as when / went to bed.
me secretions from the kidneys were
req and full of sediment, causing me
10 end of suffering. The lack of
rest was undermining my general
health. At this time / heard about
loans Kidney Pills and got a box,
which l used according to directions.
NY backache was relieved the next
Jay and after taking two boxes OF
me remedy it entirely left me and
me kidney secretions cleared up and
pecame latural and my general
health improved"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doan's-
and take no other.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19
OLD CIRCUS MAN is DEAD.
Once RiVaIed Barnum and Had Many
Thrilling Adventures on the Road.


Thrilling Adventures ON the Road.
Colonel Burr Robbins, 70 years
old, at one time one of the best
known circus men in the country and
a rival of Barnum, is dead at his
home in Chicago. Death was due to
heart trouble, complicated by grip.
From the time of the close of he
civil war, in which he won his way
to a colonelcy, until twenty years
ago, when he retired from the show
business, Colonel Robbins toured the
states with his own circus.
He was the first man to tame
hyenas, and introduced many inno-
vations into the show business that
made him a close rival of Barnum.
He began circus life when young
man at a salary of SIS per week.
His duty then was to look after the
properties of Charlie Fish, the cham
pion bareback rider of the world at
that time. Later he employed Fish
in his own show.
His career had many ups and
downs and was full of thrilling Incl
dents. On one occasion he became
his own lion tanner for day be-
cause the man he had struck for
higher wages as the parade was start
ing through town. Colonel Robbins
jumped into the cage himself and
RODE with the lions all the way.
Colonel Robbins was a thirty-sec-
ond degree Mason and a Shriner.
He was born at Utica, n. Y.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19
A Smart Man.

How come dat man got sich a
reputation fer wen he never say a
word?"
Oats des it. Folkes thinks dat
he know too much to talk 'bout!"-
Atlanta Constitution.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19
A Georgia Society Item.

We find the following in one of
our Georgia exchanges: "Mr. c. j.
Park entertained recently with de-
1ightful 'collard course with side
entries of potliquor and buttermilk.
Green was the leading color, each
guest being presented with hem
stitched dishrag as a souvenir of the
occasion"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-02-19

Foley's Honey and Tar cures the
most obstinate coughs and expels the
cold from the system. as it is mildly
laxative. It is guaranteed. The gen.
uine is in the yellow package. Geise's
Pharmacy.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-12
Value of Little Savings.

The order of the Postmaster-Gen-
eral that, owing to the advance in the
price OF jute, less string must be used
In the tying up Of packages by postal
employees, and that twine must be
saved and used twice, when it is pos
sible, may seem to inculcate a small
economy, but it is the economies in
small things that count in a service
so great as that OF a Government de-
partment. In the ordinary affairs OF
life a conscientious man will be more
careful in the use of materials be-
longing TO a neighbor than OF those
which are his own property; when It
comes TO the public service, however.
one must be more than indifferent
honest" not to indulge in a degree OF
wastefulness, tendency which POST
master-General Meyer has acted WISE
ly in attempting to counteract.-Les-
lies Weekly.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-12
Embroidery Scissors.

One of the difficulties encountered
by the lover Of art needlework In
finishing up a piece of lace insertion
is to cut away the cloth over which
the lace is sewed without injuring
the lace at the same time. OF course
1t Is impossible without inverting the
article to see the point Of the scissors.
which Is below the cloth. In this way
piece Of the lace is easily cut away
In mistake. This can be avoided by
the use Of the scissors shown here.
patented by a New Jersey man. The
upper blade is pointed, as usual. The
lower blade is longer and is provided
with a guard in the form Of projec-
ton, which is located beyond the line
OF contact Of the blades. The pro-
lection Is not sharpened, but is round
ed on top, and extends beyond the
end of the other blade. A piece OF
cloth upon which the lace is sewed
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1908-06-12
In Darkness Learn to Sing.

We shall learn In the end. II only
our faith fail not, that the best treas
ures OF life and character come out of
the dark, painful hours. In days and
nights OF pain We learn endurance.
In the struggles with doubt and fear
We find at last bright, blessed faith.
In the darkness Of sorrow we learn
the song Of Joy. In weary suffering
we get sweet pity from others. Meet
every hard thing. every obstacle.
every trial, every disappointment.
every sorrow, with faith; be more
than conqueror over 1t through Him
who loved you. and 1t will leave bless
ing. treasure. enrichment, in your
iife.-Scottish Reformer.