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The Forrest City times., 1908-01-17
Saturday, the Isl Day of February 1903

a the west door of the court house in Forrest City i'll St. Francis county. Arkansas, offer for sale 10 the highest bidder, on credit of four months, the following described lands lying and being i'll the county of St. Francis. State of Arkansas, to-wit.
 SiXty-siX acres of the south side of the north half of the northeast quar- ter, and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of Section twenty seven l27l in Township five @ north and i'll Range three 3 east.
 A note With approved security will be required of the purchaser.
 NJ. N. SEABoRN. Commissioner
 January ld, l90s. pr
The Forrest City times., 1908-01-17
Commissioners Sale.

NOTICE k hereby given that the undersigned, as commissioner of the ChancerY Court of ST. Francis county, state of Arkansas, pursuant to the terms and directions of decree Of the said court made at the December term thereof, l9o7,i the cause wherein l.. x. Rolfe, q al. were petitioners.ex ex Dqrfp will nm
The Forrest City times., 1908-01-17

If you want jug of good whisky you can get 1t al the Magnolia Saloon where there k a great variety of brands 1t prices to suit. Also wines brandieS, mineral waters, bottle and Reg beers. etc. Call and see us T (. Folhre. IT. & Company.
The Forrest City times., 1908-01-17

Take your pearlsto Nrs Warshaysky Elect Flour-L F EonWage X c. Insure your property @ith Taylor Knight X to.
 New spring line of slippers at The ! " Beck Company.
 One car Lily White Lime iof sale ' Forrest City Grocer Co.
 59caSes ofncwost Yies Slippers Iusl arrived 1t The | N. Beck Company W. R. kendfick. of Nidpner. waS a business visitor iu the city Tuesday. loo Overcoats to elase aHt, less thar wholesale prices The J. N Beck co Judge E. D. Hatcher went 10 St. Louis the first ot he week to spend several days on business and pleasure.
The Forrest City times., 1908-01-17
CASTORIA
 For Infants and Children The Kind You Have Always Bought s'sss's's ss.ss 'ss of &hAZzzgv

The Rogers Cotton Cleaner in use by the Forrest City Gin Company better known IS the Red Gin. ,Iames Wolfe. Manager Enhances the value ot your cotton from $3 to Sl Der bale There ls u0 extra charge for if> Use.
 Our ladies underwear de- partmenti~ complete and We are making prices so low that everyone should take adyan. tage of them. Becker K Lewis.
 Mr. Wln. WorraH left "Wednesday night for Frederick. Okla. to loin his family, "h0 have already been there twelve months, and are highly pleas ed. He will make that place his home Ii he likes il as well 9S he expects. We wish him success.
 Hon. w. <. Thomas. Esq. r. NJ. S. D. r.. c. and mayor of Democrat was in the city Wednesday on busi ness and mingling with friends. He was accompanied by his charming little daughter Beulah, and tEey gave Us very pleasant cal.
 When you want a drink why not get the best in town II costs no more than the other kind old YanniSSee is the best and k served in any style by courteous and gentlemanly sales men by T. C. Folbre, .lr X Compauy at the Magnolia Saloon
 Don overlook the fact that  our assortment of ladies mus. lin underwear IS the incest We have ever ShoWn-and the low prices We are offering should not be overlooked Becker & Lewis.
 If your cotton is dirty. or if il has been careleSsly picked, and contains many bolls-hull and all-it will cer- tainly pay you to take il to the For rest City Gin Company. better Known as the Red Gin, and have II put through their Rogers Cotton Cleaner, machine that knocks out all the dirt and dust. breaks up tht hullS so the gins can easily remove them from the seed cotton. thus add ing from g to sa per bale to it's value Call and see IL in operation, and yot Will at once appreciate its value. NJ extra charge JAhEs WOLFE Mgr.
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saturday January Is, leos.

ai the west door at tht conrthoue in Forrest City. Nt. rHutis county. Afkanear offer fJr snle tu me highest bidder on 4 oredit of tniIr month-. the following described aut- iving aad hclng situated ID the county ot St Fran cle and State Of Arkansas, to-,sit:
 Noithcast Quarter Ne 2. ut section twelve. l2i Io'su-hip iouI | North. Range oue 1 East, containing one hundred and sf1fv fi60i acres oi lHud
 X note with approved security VII be rf. qutred at the purchaser.
 NJ. " SEABORN, Commlssioner. nargfu f.pt
The Forrest City times., 1908-01-17
Commissi0ners Sale,

AHiee ts hereby given that the uudersfsn- ed. A,s Com iui.sluusr Gt the GbHncery Court ot >i ragel" county, state ni Arkansas, putsu. Ant tu The terms and directions at a decree of Satd Court made N he December Term there or. l%fi. m thu cause whereln r., r T4yior was pltlhuH aud ! ss Harper Nas defendant.
The Forrest City times., 1908-01-17
Office at the Hotel Ma rion, Room No. 20.

Office Hours from 2 to 10 Il. m. and from l2 to ? pm. Owing to having so much work on hand, Dr. Waldmann will re- main in Forrest City until next Wednesday. January 22d Consultation and advice about
 |our eyes Tree.
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.-nssssss.vrs"''as. "--rr~rNlkQysax,,r~ Livery RexaII Formula Is \ Public Property-And '
 Always Has Been
 This is age of inquiry. Not since the time of the Civil War has there been so much agitation in the minds of the people on various subjects. People "want to know" about everything J
 Ne do not say that the public has grown skeptical- quite the contrary. We believe il is day and age of enlightened, intelligent inquiry after facts.
 Each man and each woman now-a days wants To do his and her own thinking. They are not looking fer any concentrated essence of wis dom boiled down and given to them in capsule form. They want to figure out for themselves what is right, and what is wrong and what to do about 1t.
 Public sentiment has forced the government of thc ntcd States to compel patent medicine manufacturers to state their labels the ingre- d.eat, at the remedy inside ot every package.
 We believe that the RexaI remedies have had as much to do with the creation of this sen- neat a- any other one single element in the country.
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 simply because the Rexal remedies from tll,if inception several years ago. started out on entirely new line
 Inc first principle in the Rexal platform Was one remedy for each il not d cure all.
 Second no secret combinations. Every formula has always been open to the public any one cfn know what he i4 taking when he buys KeAaii and always could.
 laird-e1erl ReXail remedy has been sold r on the basis Of money back il you are not 2 more thaa satisfied.
 Ihi@ < frank sqAf.. open handed 6asta<ss, 2 that aH Batit faoie Eez.,l the greatest success ' ia the medicine world ia l very short time.
The Forrest City times., 1908-01-17

The Rogers Cotton Cleaner in use 6y the Forrest City Gin Company
 better known as the Red Gin. lames Wolfe. Manager Enhances the value ot your cotton from B to S3 per bale. There is Ga extra charge for if> use.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
Hall Cslne As A Child.

The story of how became 8 novelist takes me back nearly 50 years, when, as child of 5, was living off and on at intervals in a little matched cottage on the highroad through one of the remoter parishes in the Isle of Man, says Hall Caine in his autobiography, beginning in the September number of Appleton maga- zine. 1t was the home of an uncle who was small farmer as well as a butcher. In his character as farmer he cultivated some 30 acres of land, much of 1t hilly and hungry, and some of 1t boggy and peaty. In his character as butcher he killed the sheep he had grazed on the mountain slopes, and made Weekly jour neys to Douglas, the chief town of tho island, to sell the meat from a stall which stood in the market place under the tur- ret of an old church.
 On one of these journeys I was permit ted to go with him, and though knew 1t so little at the time think now that not only my first clear impression of the Isle of Man, but also my earliest sense of life and the world. must date from that expe- rience. A range of hills crosses the island from the northeast to the northwest, and our home lay on the north side of them, while Douglas Hes on the south. My recollection is that contrary to the usual practice of farmer butchers, which was to go round the little range. my uncle trav- eled to Douglas by pass that crossed the mountains through the valley called Sulby Glen. In order to realize what that jour- ney meant to me, and the Impression 1t made on my mind 1t Is necessary to think of me as a child.
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ter invites a certain class of people to come to Him. And 1t is instructive to note the class that He invites. The most authoritative records which, at first hand, deal with the gods of the ancient heather world, agree in depicting those gods as intensely aristocratio in their tastes. When they interfere in human affairs, it is to favor some great warrior, prince,
 king, chief or nobleman. The great dig nitaries of the world are the objects of their interest and regard gAgamemnon, Achilles, Ajax Hector, Priam, Aeneas- all chiefs. kings. princes, renowned war riors-ean hope for more or less familiar intercourse with the gods; but the peas- ant, the private soldier, the laborer, the mechanic-which of the gods ever wasted a thought on these? Meelzness had not been invented, and humility was vice.
 How different from all this is the re- ligion of Christi Jesus could be as deeply interested in the poor widow of Main as in the rich centurion of Capernaum. He does not pet Jairus and huff Bartimaeus. And there Is a reason why one system concerns itself only with the princes, while the other condescends to beggars. Christianity ennobles human nature, with scant regard to its accidents, or to its in- cidents. The most important the most valuable, the most interesting thing in this world is a man; and the thing that makes him so important and valuable and
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going with the diamond ore to the fields or floors where 1t is left to weather, and In following 1t to the washing machines where the Jewels are finally won. As the rock comes to the surface 1t bears no sign of them. l have looked over several thousand cars of it, but have not seen a single bril- liant imbedded in the blue, and l am told that the priceless stones are sell dom discovered, except when they come out in the washing.
 This blue ground Is as hard as rock. I can just scratch 1t with my knife. It is so hard that you could drive a nail with @ chunk of 1t, and it takes h eavy hammer to break it. The ground is carried from the mines to the floors and spread out there to a depth of one foot, all over the surface. 1t lies out for about year, being plowed and har- rowed from time to time. If the weather is dry 1t is sprinkled, and as result it so melts or softens that the diamonds can be washed out of it.
 Every one of these great mines has it's own fields for such rock -weathering. There are at least 5000 acres in all. Of these, in the neighborhood of 1000 acres belong to each pipe. and all are now covered with this rock, containing diamonds. There are about 10,000,000 car loads lying out under the sun, and I am told that there is something like $25, 900 worth of diamonds in them.
 In looking over these fields one seldom sees diamonds, but the brilliants are there and they must be carefully guarded. Think of s25,O0O,00O being scattered over the earth within easy reach of any town of 30000 in the United States, and you have the situation at Kimberley. You would imagine that the fields would be raided and the stuff carried off. It is not. The fields are guarded day and night by men who march around them with guns in their hands. They have electric lights which keep them bright from sunset to sunrise, and they are surrounded by high fences of barbed wire, the strands being go close together that q man can not crawl through, and so high that he can not easily climb over them. There are two of these fences around every field. They are about 20 or 30 feet apart, and the guards march between them. If a thief could crawl over the first fence he would be sure to be shot before he got to the second, and so the diamonds are comparatively safe.
 This blue ground Is brought to the
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REST FOR THE WEARY-By J C. Fden, D. D.

purple, than in Lazarus covered with rags.
 Christ's invitation is marvellously broad. Not even moral evil can shut 1t off from the sinner. It comes to help you in your helpfulness, to enlighten you in your dark ness. to purify you from your unclean- ness. to lift from your heart the burdens of sin and sorrow.
 Is thy life all dark and dreary?
 Is thy portion toll and pain? Are thy cherished expectations
 Fallen neer to hope again? See that humble Man of Sorrows
 Hear Him speak, and speak to thee; Art thou weary, heavy laden?
 Come, poor pilgrim, come to me. Is thine heart oppressed with burdens.
 Weights which thou canst neer remove Jesus was oppressed" afflicted
 He will sympathize and love. Hear that Savior's loving voice,
 Saying, "Come, ye toil-oppressed Come, ye weary, heavy laden,
 Come to Me, I'll give you rest Ne'er can care or trouble harm thee
 Whilst thy Saviours at thy side Let thy strongest faith forever
 In that Saviour then abide. Then in death, poor, weary pilgrim
 Lean thy head on Jesus breast;
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interesting is not what he has, but what he is. Young lady If what is in you is not worth a great deal more than what is on you, then you are very poor speci- men of womanhood.
 When Christ brought life and inmor- tality to light through the gospel He added enormously to the value and the dignity of every human being. When Achilles, In his interview with Ulysses, in Hades, says: q would rather live on earth, the slave of a needy master, than to be king of all the regions of the dead" he gives the key to the interpretation of the moral coarseness and barbarian of life under heather conditions. So in- significant was "private" man that our word idiot" was derived from it. "Idiotai' meant private citizens, who held no official position in the Greek state. So obscure and uninteresting was the life of the average man that neither history, nor poetry, nor drama furnishes adequate ma terial for drawing a picture of that life. "Tve often wondered, honest Luath,
 What sort O life poor dogs like you have, An when the gentrys life I saw,
 What way poor bodies lived ava lat all. I see how folk live that hae riches,
 But surely poor folk maun-be wretches."
 Heathenism carries It's human origin
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upon it's very frontf Man made gods in his own image When the German pro- lessor, Fichte, said to his class at the close of one of his lectures on philoso- phy, "Gentlemen, tomorrow I shall pro- ceed to make God" he was arranging to do what heathenism had been doing for ages As the heather religions were of man-graven by art and mans device of course the heather gods could be nothing better than they were. They were subject to the passions, the frailties, the infrmities of fallen man. Gods lied and stole and quarreled and were unelean in their lives Greek heathenism, with all it's art and philosophy and literature, was an illustration of Christs remark, That which Is born of the flesh Is flesh.
 But Christianity is no work of man. The sentence, God Is no respeeter of per sons," expresses a divine thought, utterly foreign to the heather mind. Somebody once said to an old negro woman who had been kidnapped from Africa and sold into slavery In this country, and had been converted to Christianity, "Auntie, don't you think 1t Is very wonderful thing that the great God, who owns and goy- erns the world, should have come to this cabin and converted you-poor, ignorant and a slave?" Her reply was genuinely Christian in it's tone: Why, mo- honey; it's just like Him." Christianity takes no more interest in the rich man, clothed In
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-04
Reluctant English Courtesy.

From Success Magazine.
 That gifted publicity man, A. Toxin Worm. made the preposterous claim in London last winter that he would sec to 1t that there was no "booing'' of tho actors at the opening performances by E. H. Sothern. This popular English di- version consists of believing through the hands and no first night is supposed to be complete without these vocal inter- ruptions.
 On the night of MT. Sothern's first performance some 45 evil-looking men, bearing blackjacks in their sleeves, were distributed throughout the gallery and pit There was no Interruption from the audience that night, but only the occa- sional dull thud of black-jacks upon knuckles. Every hand that was raised. as preliminary to the ''booing' pro- .cess, received a quick blow. Mr. Worm says that he never saw so many limp hands. and so many bewildered faces as- sembled in any one place as he saw that first night among the crowd that left the theatre.
 At the close of the week that dignifed journal the Times, commented gravely upon tho growing courtesy of English audiences toward American actors. and witnessed the case of six productions by MT. Sothern without . single ''boe."
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ment of the blacks and they have a right to lay their complaints before a 'protec- tor of labor" appointed by the govern ment The natives are never hired for less than four months, although the com pany is glad to keep them as long as they will work.
 These 10000 miners are practically in prison from the time they begin their job until the end of it. They have to contract that they will stay inside the compounds great walled inclosures which constitute the native quarters of each mine, and the company sees that they keep this part of their agreement. They do not go outside even when they enter the mines, for every compound has a tunnel from it into the works, and they march down under guard to where they dig and blast out the blue clay far below the surface. Those who work above ground are not allowed to mix with the men who work underground; and every effort is made to prevent them stealing the diamonds and smuggling them to their fellows.
 Take for instance, the Dutotspan com- pound, which I visited today. It contains about seven acres and looks for all tho world like a great racing park walled with stables. Right in the center of it is a platform which might be compared to the grandstand, and all around the walls are rooms about 20 feet wide and 30 feet deep which correspond to the stalls in which the race horses are kept. The grand stand is the public bath where the black boys come, when fresh from the mines, and wash themselves right out in the open. They stand in the sunlight as naked as Adam before Eve gave him that apple, and the water sparkles like dia- monds as it pours down in shower over them.
 I took a look at the rooms where the men live. They are walled with hunks and about 30 natives sleep in each room. While at rest, or loafng about in the court, they take off their clothes and ire quently have nothing but blankets about them.
 The men buy their own provisions and do their own cooking. There are store ! houses inside the compound which fur nish groceries, and butcher shops where meat Is sold lower than anywhere else in i South Africa. Connected with the build ings are the offices of the managers of
 the compound, a hospital for the sick
 and rooms for the guards.
 The natives are carefully watched to
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The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?"
 Often is the human heart oppressed with some secret grief that preys upon the soul, and forces it to cry in the morn- ing: Would God it were nightv' and at night, "Would God 1t were morning!'
 Oftimes, when the bodily frame Is fin agony, and the lines of pain are clearly traced on the countenance, these outward signs are but faint shadows of the suf- ferlngs which are desolating the soul. Truly men are often weary and heavy laden, and in sore need of rest.
 To such souls overburdened with grief; to such hearts crushed with woe; to such spirits broken with agony, how like tho shadow of a great rock in weary land should be that call of the Prince of Peace: "Come unto me all yet that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" That call never grows old. Ut- tered more than IS centuries ago it still preserves its sweetness and It's freshness. The words are as true and as precious today as they were when first uttered by the blessed lips of him who spake as never man spake.
 The words are an invitation The Mas
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Come, ye burdened, Hell relieve VOL,
 Co.ne, ye weary, He has rest. Heaven then shall be thy portion,
 Glorious heaven, peaceful, calm; And the host of heaven shall join thee,
 Singing praises to the Lamb.
 There all care shall be forgotten,
 We shall be forever blest;
 When the wicked cease from troubling
 And the weary are at rest"
 Are you tired of sin7 Have you found it a hard master2 Do you really long to be free from the burden and the slavery of sin? Then listen to him who wept over human woes, and who now longs to lead you by the still waters. His love is stronger than death. His sacrince-the sacrifice of himself-is all-suffcient. His ways are ways of pleasantness, and all his paths are peace What has this world to show that is half so lovely as Jesusf Out of the depths of your stricken and sin-sick soul you will not cry in vain "Is there no balm in Gilead2" Is there no physician there?' Accept his call, and your rest is sure. But if that call be re- jected; if you seek some worldly place of rest remember the warning of the prophets The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on 1t, and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it,
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which is perforated with holes and this Is sunk into boiling water As the water touches the grease it melts and goes to the top and may be poured off, leaving only the scraps of metal and the dia- monds The diamonds are picked out and cleaned and sorted, after which they are ready to be valued for the market. I spent some time watching the dia- mond sorters pick out the precious stones after the grease was poured off. Each man had on a table before him handful of diamonds of all shapes and sizes, and he was picking them up one by one with pair of tweezers and dropping them into tin cup. which cost, venture, less than cents. As I watched one of these men he lifted up a little white stone, saying: "rhis is worth $500," and then showed mo another, not much larger, worth double that sum. The manager afterward poured out a pint of diamonds on the table, showing me some that were worth S60 a carat and others much cheap CT. He took up a little scoop shovel and with it threw the diamonds back into the cup, handling them as though they were peas.
 Later on I visited the companys offices in Kimberley itself, and was shown quarts of diamonds from the various mines The sorters can tell by its shape and color from just which pipe each dia- mond comes, and was shown specimens from every mine. I had in my hand a little bundle which contained about a pint of small stones, the value of which approximated half a million dollars, and I was shown other bundles containing brilliants as big as the end of my finger Some of these rough stones had smooth edges and they were almost pebbles fin shape. Others appeared ready for set ting, and some were broken and clipped from other stones. Many of the diamonds contained flaws, but there were many which were absolutely perfect. The dia- monds were of different colors. Some were as yellow as topazes, others light blue tint and others pure white.
 All the diamonds of the De Beers com pany now go to the diamond syndicate. This is a sort of a trust which contracts to take the whole profits of the mines up to a certain point for five years at a time. It agrees to take so many mill lion dollars worth of diamonds every year at fixed price, and more if the demand justifies it. The syndicate can not take less than it agrees, but it may | buy more at the same price if the dia-