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The Forrest City times., 1909-01-01
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.


 am a commercial traveller. Some times I eat Puget sound salmon the same day that it is caught; again l run into a little restaurant down in Los Angeles that is famed for it's hot tamales; up in New England I have learned to begin Sunday with beans. and down in Virginia I do my duty by spoon bread and fried chick en. can even stand for Philadelphia's serapple. Once the house sent me around the world trying out new line of goods, so l can tell stories about Japanese fried eels-I baked at raw fst-about Chinese roast pork, Korean mulligatawny soup. wherein you could hear the dog bark; currie in Ceylon and India, rank coffee, mostly grounds in Egypt, and good old English roast beef
 Tha. is another way of saying that l am rather cosmopolitan; for the landmarks of a drummer's journeys. as you know, are the hotel tables. By them he judges a city or country and it's people. Hotels, their food and service and accommodations, are al most as staple line of conversation among men on the road as stories that were not learned in Sunday school.
 But you have another guess coming if you think a drummer sees nothing in all his jumps except grub and customers. In the course of 10000 miles he finds himself up against good deal of human nature-and "hu- man nature" is d term which covers many things that are not pretty. The books say that travel ij as good as go- ing to college; although most of the travellers I meet seem to stay in the freshman class The proper study of mankind is man." you know, al though my friend Boggs says it is women Be that as it may, pretty much all that I know has been learned in this school kept by Experience who is a schoolmaster with a rod. l can tell you.
 A Hote Clerk and Some Preachers.
 The other day 1 was up in Mich igan, in a town which has put up a new hotei-and nobody should say word against any Michigan town that builds new hotel l tried this one, on the principle that it could not be any worse than it's neighbors, and might possibly be better. It was, too. But its new clerk will improve with age and hard knocks. When I entered the office he welcomed me as if I were the fatted calf for which the prodigal's feast had been kept waiting. He beamed upon me with a face that eXuded joy and violet water, and shook my hand affectionately, try ing one or two ledge grips on me, by the way, and inquiring about my health and journey as if he had been sitting up all night in solicitude over my welfare. Now I had come only from Lansing (which is a better place to come from than to go to). and there really was no urgent necessity
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that the gentleman with thes waXed mustache should die from joy over the sight of me. I'm not so handsome as ali that. He should have had sense enough to know that I would size him up as smiling fraud It was a case of an oyerdone glad hand, which is worse than an under done veal chop.
 There is certain minister known to me who is in the same class with this effusiye hotel clerk. He fair iy drools cordiality over every stranger he meets. and professes all sorts of undying interest in him. When they part his farewell hand shake is q soft and lingering and meaningful performance-the sort l cultivated when I was bidding Bess good night in our courtship days. Yet that minister Is as big fraud as tho hotel clerk, and for the same req. son: he thinks it "good business" He wants to make people believe that he is deeply and deyotedly interested Tn them, though I know few minis ters who are really less so.
 Some Shams We All Know.
 Nobody has an exclusive cineh on this sort of thing The church. the
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You're liar." Wouldn't that make the stars fly? Of course I haven't the nerve to do it; have to be con- tent to leave the job to Gabriel; for if l should poke the smallest stick into the smooth-running wheels of conven. tional religiosity, I should have to an. swer to Bess, who is my all-the-year. round day of judgment.
 It is because he gets his language from the books and handles only shop worn goods, that the preacher does this thing. He puts on his religion as he puts on his coat. I should like to hear John the Baptist, or the great CT One who came after him, rise up in a company of ministers with a Woe unto you, ye hypocrites," A few of his hearers would wilt, I fancy not all of them, nor a majority of them, for the most honest class of men on top of the ground are minis ters of the Gospel. of all creeds and names. But they are also lot of men who are terribly tempted to pre- tense, in speech and in manner. They are always under pressure to appear and do what men expect of them, rather than what in their sin cere hearts they know themselves to be. And in this respect the sheep are not greatly different from the shep- herd.
 Goods and Labels.
 TfzT- t. of the interior Pennsylvania cities which I visit, who, to the amusement of his friends, is fond of saying that whenever he sees an especially we'll dressed and smooth speaking mana drummer, for instance-he wants to cry out: Look out for him; he is after something, or has some rotten ness to conceal" Judged by this standard the doctor himself would never be mistaken for a confidence man. He makes the mistake of not really expressing. in words at least the interest in his fellow men which he honestly feels Of course, after his years of unstinted service to the sick and poor he is generally valued
 
 at his true worth, in spite of his blunt speech and unfashionable clothes. Ger tainly it is better to be found out as having a sympathetic and generous heart hidden beneath brusque manner than to be found out as having facile tongue for protesting brotherhood, while at the same time there is only an enlarged perpendicular pronoun un- der ones vest where a heart should be.
 The righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees,' l take it, was that their goods did not come up to the label. A man should be genial, of course. but he should be genuine first, if he wants to advertise the religion of that best Brother of men, who called himself The Truth.
 THE DRUMMER.
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found that his road was waiting foi him. Huntingtons surveyors never had discovered the road and he didn't even know it was included in the pur, chase. Huntington did not claim it so Green said he owned it. He made a trip of inspection and found that the ties had routed or been carried of by the farmers for firewood The rails had rusted out; the roadbed was overgrown with grass; station houses and depots had been converted into barns and all that remained oi the railroad was the right of way Green announced that he was going tc improve his railroad" and imme. diately started to work regarding the roadbed General offices were estab ished at Terrel. Tex. Depots were built; new ties and rails put down and soon cars and locomotives were ordered The Texas Midland Rail way Company, E. H. R. Green, presi dent" was an actuality.
 The Texas Midland perhaps is the shortest railroad (a complete system) in the United States. It runs from Ennis. Tex, to Paris, Tex, a distance of 126 miles. It is said to be the most luxurious road in America. Yet 1t is cot considered money maker. Greer runs it more as a hobby than as ar investment. The passenger cars are the most modern and complete thai can be made. Every convenience has been provided, including bathtub in each car. All the cars, includine those for freight, are green inside and out. The stations are painted green and plush on the seats and the com pany's mark on the linen also is green The largest and fastest locomotives turned out by the Baldwin locomotive works are running on the Texas Mid land It has less accidents per mile and the rolling stock costs more pel mile than any other railroad in the United States.
 Green has other hobbies that prob ably cost him nearly as much as his railroad But he lives in the sure knowledge that some day-if he out lives his mother-he will be wortt s100, 0,000, 900. And that should be celn torting to most men.
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Looking the Part.

An actor doesn't have to know much these days sighed the frayed one. All he has to do is to look the part. Not long ago Frohman sent for me to take small part. The moment he looked me over he said. quickly: oh. you won't do.'
 "The part was that of corpulent and well-to-do bank president. Fancy a half-starved actor out of job trying to look part like that."
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Looks Like Electric lioht.

A very effective gas lamp has re gently been introduced, which has every appearance of an arc lamp, but gives a softer and more steady light. It consists of incandescent gas man. ties, which are inverted so as to throw all the light downward The mantles are protected by globe of ground glass, which distributes the light and conceals the fact that the lamp uses gas instead of electricity.
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Youthful Confidence.

There Is a period in every child's life when he feels himself master of some profession. A little boy of this particular age-f0 years old-was no- tieed making great efforts at his draw ins.
 What are you drawing dear?" his mother asked him?
 "A picture of Cod" was his ready reply.
 "But my dear. no one knows just what God looks ike said the mother softly and with an air of reproach.
 They will after they see this con ndently answered this young prodigy.
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T[yNDUsI.R!Y}99SS) .!9y }99SS) z. jG AND @' @
 'TffECHANICY '
PREVENT LADDERS SLIPPING.
Simple Device, Easily and cheap,y
 Made, and Quickly Put On.

The bottom of machine shop lad ders often slip on the wooden floor on account of so much grease. A cor respondent of the American Machin- ist devised foot as shown in the il- lustration which has been quite sue cessful It is made from malleable iron and is inexpensive The one shown is for a ladder three inches wide at the foot and has ten stag gered teeth on the bottom about three fourth-inch centers. It is fastened to
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Eneruy from Waste.

In German cities and towns consid- erable attention is paid to the gener- ation of electricity from heat obtained in the destruction of refuse. Statis- ties for a number of German towns yields from 0.6 kilogramme to one kilogramme of steam at a pressure of 8 to 12 atmospheres. The following ta- ble has been compiled to show how much electrical energy should be ob- tained per day in cities of different size:
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Efficiency of Wireless.

The efficiency of wireless telegraph for communication between the earth and balloons or airships was recently tested near Brussels. Messages were successfully transmitted to a balloon. which also received signals from the Eiffel tower, in Paris. One of the ob- jections to wireless apparatus in bal. loon is the danger of igniting>the gas with sparks generated by the ap- paratus.
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-01
A PORTABLE DOOR LOCK.
Made Out of a Strip of Tin, a Few
 Carpet Tacks and a Nail.

An effective lock that may readily be adjusted to any ordinary door, and which is especially adapted for the use of travellers, is shown in Fig. 1. The lock is made from a small strip of tin about two inches wide and five inches long. two or three carpet tacks
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sized washers on the axle to form the shape of the hole worn in the hub, as shown in Fig. 2. The washer axle will retain the oil longer, says Popular Mechanics, and cause the wheel to run as straight as a new wheel.
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Marriage Service" Defined.

A Boston cynic of the female per suasion defines the marriage service" as waiting on ones lord and master in the capacity of cook, laundress, seanStress and maid of fall-work."
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Rain or Shine.

Small Wallace accepted an invita-, tion to a party. as follows:
 Dear Louise-I will come to your party if it don't rain" (then thinking that he might have to stay home in that case)-"and if 1t does. ."-The Do lineator
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Not "Just as ooodv-l,'s the Best

One box of Hunts Cure Is unfailing. ly. unqualifledly, and absolutely guar anteed to cure any form of Skin Dis ease. It is particularly active in promptly relieving and permanently curing all forms of itch known
 Eczema, Tetter, Ringworm. and all similar troubles are relieved by one application: cured by one box.
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and soon cause the wheels to wabble and not stand upright. The worn hub will have the appear ance shown in the cross section Zig.
 D. This may be easily remedied by putting different
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hanger. The pins are fastened one to each end of a looped galvanized
 wire. This wire should be about $ inohar lnnn affar
The Forrest City times., 1909-01-01
 SIMPLE DlSTlllING PLANT,
How You Can Obtain Fresh Water
 from Sea Water.

A common method of getting salt rom sea water is to place the liquid Tn shallow vats, and expose it to the sun until the water is evaporated.
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More graduates of all the British universities except Oxford are found in the Wesleyan Methodist ministry this year than in 1907.
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in the sketch. The diameter of the wire should be about 1A-inch
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For Colds and Gripp-Capudine.

The best remedy for Gripp and Colds is Hicks Capudine. Relieves the aching and feverishness. Cures the yold-Headaches also. It's LiQuid-Effects immeda tely-l0. 25 and soc at Drug Stores
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He isn't much of baker who eats all the bread he kneads.
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Keeps Ladder from Slipping. the ladder with ordinary wood screws, and adds almost nothing to the weight.
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HANGER FOR TROUSERS.
Made Out of Couple of Metal Spring
 Clothes Pins.

Secure two clothes pins of the metal spring kind for the clamps of the
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REPAIRING A WORN HUB.
Here is Suggestion Which will Prove
 Big Help.

Cast iron hubs of wheels used on farming implements wear very fast
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PILES CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS. PAIo OINTMENT Is guaranteed to cure any cass of itching Blind, Bleeding Protruding Piles In to l4 days or money refunded. 50c.
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Where the White Paper Goes

The last edition of the New York Telephone book weighed 2,0Q0 tons.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-12-17
HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits UnconsciousIy Formed
and Hard to Break.

An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces.
sary to break lifelong habit would.
If 1t could be transformed, lift weight
of many tons.
1t sometimes requires a higher de-
gree of heroism to break the chains of
pernicious habit than to lead for
Torn hope in bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town:
From my earliest childhood I was a
lover of coffee. Before was out of my
teens l was miserable dyspeptic, sui.
fering terribly at times with my stom.
ach.
Il was convinced that it was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
could not deny myself a cup for
breakfast. At the age of sc was in
very poor health, indeed. My sister
told me was in danger of becoming
a coffee drunkard.
But | never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast, although it kept
me constantly i'll, until tried Postum.
learned to make it properly according
to directions, and now we can hardly
do without Postum for breakfast, and
care nothing for coffee.
Il am no longer troubled with dys.
pepsia, do not have spells vi suffering
with my stomach that USED 10 trouble
me so when I drank Coffee"
Look In pkgs. for the little bool 1.-THE
Road IN Wo1lvil1o - HvTh o,o,o - d.. .op -
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of human
interest.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-12-17

study them order that their merits and dement's
may be determined In this means long and
continued study and it is not at all unusual thing to
find committee chairman giving the joys OF the
home life Christmas Gay to consult precedents and to
formulate arguments to be used against
posed legislation, and to find him doing this in the
clusion of a stufy office Christmas day.
good many Washington people, especially those who
here from the SOUTH into Virginia to hunt
Christmas day In parts of the Old Dominion fox
hunting is still the order Of the winter day. and If the
fox is not in evidence there always rabbits and quail
while the lower Potomac and in the marshes along
Chesapeake bay In winters the ducks and the geese
fairly abundant The outdoor life appeals strongly
to the southerner and in the northerners
who have to the Potomac country have formed the
hunting habit and join the Christmas day outing parties
of their southern cousins
Christmas is the great holiday Of Washington. From
high to low the people make the of it. There is good
cheer everywhere evident and charity not forgotten
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-12-17
Stated in Cold Figures.

1t costs on an average ABOUT $25t
to cure an incipiert consumptive or
to care for an advanced case of tuber.
culosis until death. If he is left in des.
dilute circumstances without proper
attention he will surely infect with
his disease at least two other persons,
and possibly more. Considering that
the average life is worth to society
in dollars and cents about 81 500, the
net loss which would accrue to com
munity by not treating its poor con-
sumptives in proper institutions would
be, for each case, including those who
are unnecessarily infected at the very
lowest figure, S4,250. On this basis, if
the poor consumptives in the United
States who are now sick were segre.
gated from their families, and either
kept in institutions until they died, or
else cured of their disease, the saw.
ing to the country would be the enor
nous sum of S1,275,000,000
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-12-17

day time he spent in the fields armed only with an
sass with which he studied the winter birds, always
WIN an eye sharpened to the possibility of finding
species that was rare
president Taft loves nature too in way, but he is
not much of ramper excepting where the walk leads
over the golf links which he spends his holiday after
Moons, Christmas included for in Washington because of
the comparative midness Of the climate the game Of
eol1 IS possible nearly every day in the year.
There are several hundred officers OF the and
Wy stationed in Washington, most of them being detailed
for office work in the departments for OF four
years The naval officers perhaps enjoy their holiday
making in the capital than do their brothers OF
the army for the sailors have been compelled spend
many Christmases at away from their wives and
families while here they may gather families about
them and not break regulations in doing The
army officer, whether he to the Philippines to
distant frontier post ordinarily takes his family
with him and so Christmas day does not to him
sariy bring with it the of loneliness homesic-
ness that it brings to the at
In the biological survey, which is bureau of the de-
partment of agriculture there many scientists at
work Most of these men have spent large part of
their lives in the wds studying birds mammals, and
shells, plants and fishes to nothing of reptiles The
office life is rksome to these scientists. They belong to
the free air, the barren plains and the pine
it is that every hoidy that brings with it release
from office cares they take to the open fields. About the
hills in many places about Washington Christmas day
there to be the little camp fires of the scientists
who cooking their midday Christmas dinners
the open Sky.
Some time ago all the bird students in the United
States asked if they could to make trip afed
Christmas day and to make list of the birds that they
found Thousands of bird lovers followed the suggestion
and still following it. Each of the students
report to central headquarters giving the
the birds that Christmas day fell under his observa
ton. AS result of this practice the Washington
entiss have valuable notes concerning out of
son" birds For instance the report Washington
a Christmas or two ago. that the holiday four
knocking birds and positively identified
fields Boston, Mass. Other birds reported
from other northern localities birds that in the ordinary
of things ought have been far the Ma
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-12-17
ACCOUNTING ITCHING.
Eczema for a Year-Got No Relief
Even at Skin Hosptal-ln Despair
Until Cuticura Cured Him.

II was troubled with severe itch.
Ing and dry, scrufy skin on my ankles.
feet, arms and scalp. Scratching made
1t worse. Thousands of small red PIN.
Piles formed and these caused intense
itching I was advised to go to the
hospital for diseases of the skin. did
so, the chief surgeon saying: "Inever
saw such bad case Of eczema" But I
got little or no relief. Then tried MANY
so-called remedies, but I became so
bad that almost gave up in despair
After suffering agonies for twelve
months, was relieved of the almost
unbearable itching after two or three
applications of Cuticura Ointment !
continued its use. combined with Cuti.
cura Soap and Pills, and I was com.
pletely cured. Henry Searle, Little
Rock, Ark, Oct. 8 and 10, 1907"
Potter Drug Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Boston
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-12-17
AMERICAS CHRISTMAS
THE BEST OF ALL

An occasional Jersey commuter, familiar with the re.
gious section of Barclay street. is commonly the only
sort of American in New York who knows presepio by
sight Yet the presepio is the sign of the Latin Christ
the fir tree is of the northern. The manger of
the Barclay street windows shows only the inside of
stable with the figures and the cattle done in Italian
Gotta. But the real presepio in it's native land may
show the whole countryside WELL and If the pilgrims
vending their way the manger good Sican peas
ants, bearing good Sican wine and cheese on their
donkeys, they only the more interesting.
St. Francis. born in the quaint little town of Assist
among the brown Umbrian hills, 1882, invented the
presepio to make the Christmas story plain the simple
iliterate common people During the 800 since it
has remained favorte devotion in Latin Europe The
Italian and Spanish call it the presepio the manger
French the creche, the CRADLE and the Hungarans
Begians, Betleim or Bethlehem.
Only few since not carpenter could be hired
In Rome Naples for weeks before Christmas. They