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The Forrest City times., 1909-03-19
DEMOCRAT TIMES

Wea are having some beautiful wealth CT now, but it is little cool yet.
 The people here are ready to go 10 farming.
 Our school is progressing finely, and We are having an excellent school at Democrat, and especially fine school teacher. We had two pupils Tuesday, but we are in hopes we will have more in few days.
 Nearly every lady over here is sick. Miss Katie Smith, Miss Mamie Wal lace, Laura Anderson and Miss Ben nie McCord are all on the sick list and have been for several days.
 MT. J. H. Smalley, of Tennessee, re- tuned to Democrat Tuesday to start his gin rolling
 Squire W. $. Thomas anl Master Bradley Guest went to Memphis Mon- day and returned Tuesday. They made a flying trip. They were afraid of the levee breaking and oyerflowing the country so that they could not get home.
 We have fine Sunday school here now. It keeps progressing ever day.
 Mrs. Pearle Lamb, wife of Mr Einas Lamb, has been sick. and is not quite recovered yet, and their baby has also been sick.
 The Chronic Kicker has started hospital She has three patients.
 Miss Burlye Thomas, daughter of Squire W. s. Thomas, is feeling fine these March days. She says she feels better than anybody in Democrat.
 Mrs. w. s. Thomas is not we'll and neither is Miss Sallie Hays.
 Sambo and Pat Murphy have plowed their garden, and are ready to plant, but they are afraid of Jack Frost yet awhile.
 Prof. Geo. l.. Jackson, the school of tho Democrat school, is doing fine over among the Democratites.
 MT. !. M Gunter, sheriff, and Mas ter Ira Gunter, made flying trip tol town, and have not got back yet.
 We are in hopes that the overflow won't get to us. especially Squire Thomas. SILVER BILE IT,
The Forrest City times., 1909-03-19
OUR CEMETERY

A visit to our City Cemetery, and thoughtful inspection of its gullies, weeds. broken fences, sunken graves and generally neglected condition, cannot fail to bring the thought that we are falling far short in our duty to our dead.
 one of the highest evidences of civilization is in charity and love for the living and reverence for the dead and tender care of the graves that hold all that was mortal of those who were our friends and loved ones.
 Tn our very generous gift of sympa- thy and assistance to our stricken neighbors we have very recently given proof of our desire to help and succor the living, but, alas our poor delapi- dated cemetery is q silent but shame ful testimony to our lack of reverence 10 our dead and love for their memory.
 Some of our generous, unseltlsh and owing women have recently been among us asking of our abundance q Httle-just pittance to redeem our cemetery from it's neglect, and to re- move from our dear little city and from our people the reproach that we are not doing what we should to care for and beautife he l;st rest ing place of our dear dead ones.
 The ladies received many generous contributions, but the total sum is far short Of what iS needed to carry out the work as they have planned. II is their desire to grade and gravel the drives fill some of the gullies, repair the fences, remove logs and stumps, cut weeds, round up sunken graves, set up fallen monuments, and do many other things none of them so very great or expensive, but altogether re- quiring lots of work and considerable money. They want to keep man employed for several months to care for the place after il is put in order and to prevent decay and repair dam age as il occurs, instead of allowing it 10 grow until it is almost beyond re- pair.
 The ladies asking for this money are among the best in our town which means the best in the world land they give their services freely and with no hope of reward but the happiness of seeing this important work done They propose to supervise the work and see that all our money is we'll spent and their call on us is for money only the easiest thing in the world to give'
 Can't We all be more generous to them? Many of us can double, treble, quadruple our subscriptions without feeling the slightest inconvenience, and surely money so spent will bring a blessing upon us.
 When the ladies go around next week 10 collect that already promised let us give them freely the sum they need, and so free their gentle hearts of any suspicion that We men are sel- fish or cold hearted. #@*
The Forrest City times., 1909-03-19
Cosmos Club.
ARBOR DAY.


 summer or winter, day or night,
 The woods are an ever new delight;
 They give us peace and they make Us strong such wonderful values to them belong.
 So living or dying, f'll take my ease.
 Under the trees, under the trees.
 Roll Call: Report the planting of a tree.
 Paper. Forestry Needs of Ark Barrow.
 Music: Mrs. Gatling.
 Paper: The Profession of Forestry Mrs. Baugh. &f !
 At the close of the program the were invited by the hostess, Mrs. Baugh, into the dining room, where they were served with refresh- ments. The next meeting will be held Dn Monday, March I5, with Mrs. N. W. Norton Corresponding Secretary
The Forrest City times., 1909-03-19
Kills WOnld-lBe Slayer.

A merciess murderer is appendi- eitis with many victims. But Dr. Kings New Life Pills kill it by pre- vention. They gently stimulate stom- ach, liver and bowels, preventing that clogging that invites appendicitis, cur ing constipation, biliousneSs, chills, malaria, headache and indigestion. 25c at all druggists.
The Washington times., 1909-10-25

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The Washington times., 1909-10-25
CEMETERY BACKERS
ACCUSED OF BRIBERY
New Jersey Court Sets Aside Grant to Locate Grave
yard IN Return For Privilege OF Running
Trolley Line

TRENTON. n. j., oct Holding
that a promise 70 operate "a trolley line
in return for a grant 20 locate a ceme-
terry was m effect a bribe, the supreme
court today set aside as Illegal the grant
made 10 the Clinton Hin Cemetery As
sociatlon by the board of health of the
township Of Union, Hudson county
The variOus proceedings We're at
tackled by two writs OF certiorari insti-
tuted by Dennis Long and Fred Krue-
ger One of the WrIUs attacked the or
diranCe Of the township committee,
passed on March Is, last giving the as
sociatiou the right To establish the ceme-
terry; an agreement between the assO-
citation and the township that the grant
was only 10 be effective IN the event OF
the establishment of q trolley line WIN
certain trafnc privileges and the per
mission Of the board Of health 10 locate
tbs cemetery ip tue IoWnEhip.
The Washington times., 1909-10-25

Il appeared from the testimony that
8ublic sentiment was at first against
the cemetery, az a public meeting only
two speakers being favorable to the
proposition
The cemetery association then set
about changing the sentiment by prom
Using the township $4,000 i'm bonds to
insure it against loss arising from the
immunity Of the property from taxa
tion. agreeing TO secure the construction
of an electric railway from Irvington,
adjacent TO which the cemetery should
lie. TO be operated by the PuDlic Service
Corporation for a scent fare. The rail
way was TO carry passengers TO the
Pennsylvanla railroad station in New
ark between "A. Tn. and ~ p. m.
The result Of this was 10 bring about
la change of public sentiment generally
farorapie 10 the cemetery association
Justice Reed holds that some of The
inducements were Illegal particularly
those that related 90 the installation oi
the trolley company
The Washington times., 1909-10-25
WOUNDED ACTRESS
CHEEREDBY
Parent Bitter Against Her
Dead Son-in-
Law.

Comforted and cheered by the pres
ence of her mother, whom she saw for
the first time this morning since the
bullets of an assassin husband sent her
to the pavement bleeding and unCOn-
scious, Mrs. William II. Short, or Eve
lyn Howard, the show girl, showed iHl-
provement and declared she should not
die. Ignorant Of the death of her hus-
band, she asked about his condition in
an Indifferent manner, thinking him IN
another ward of the hospital
But Short is beyond all earthly
troubles. on a board at the morgue
his body lies awaiting word from his
relatives Up 10 noon. none came. Mrs.
Mary Lewis, the mother Of the wounded
girl. viii have nothing to do with the
todv of her son-in-'aw. Bitter at the
manner in which Shurt has misused her
daughter through eigEt years OF married.
life only i'm the end 10 shoot her dowa
In a brutal. cowardly manner the
mothers face grows hE,rd when she
talks of him.
Glad He Is Dead.
If 1 was offered $1,000 to bring him
back to life and I could do IT, poor as
I am. / would not take the money.
am glad he is dead I could dance on
his dead body. He has caused me years
of suffering and he has made Evelyn s
life curse To her But, now, she IS
free, and if she RECEIVERS, she VIII go
back home where there is nothing but
love and tenderness for her"
All through the night. Mrs. Short
called for her mother. Waking from
Htful snatcEes Of sleep produced by
opiates, the stricken chorus girl fire.
quentIy asked the watching nurse al
The Casualty Hospital for mother"
we have heard from her; she viii be
here early in the morning the nurse
invariably replied while outside IN the
han she could hear the steps OF the
sleepless mother who had to wa until
this morning 10 see her daughter
Keeps All Night Vigil
Mrs. Lewis reached the city at z
O'Clock last night. She had been called
from a sick bed by the message Of the
shooting Of ger only daughter. In spite
of the advice of nurses and doctors she
kept her lonely vigil az the door ,t her
stricken daughter. her own mind re-
spending to the agony of the moaning
gi1 on the cot
"Oh. mamma. I'm so glad you're
here" the sick girl said this morning,
when the mother entered her ward.
And with the words came blood from
the wounded lung. In spite Of the warn
ing OF the anxious nurses, the girl would
talk a little although the effort evident
Iy hurt her and blood showed on her
lips. Once during the night the hem
orrhaEe Of blood from the lung was so
bad that the girl strangied and
struggled for her breath.
Am / going 20 die?' she asked OF
her mother this morning.
"Of course. YOU are not going &c die, %
was the reply. ''YOu are going TO live.
and there is nothing but happiness and
love for YOU IN the future You are go
ins home and quit this life.
Does Not Want to Die.
II do not want 10 die" the girl muir
INJURED II want To live and so back
nome to YOU and father and the boys"
| Mrs. Lewis has an invalid husband,
and her daughter has always assisted
| i'm supporting the family. Mrs. short is
/ the only daughter. there being six sons,
Each week since Mrs. Short has been
J Continued on Eighth Page.l
The Washington times., 1909-10-25
WEATHER REPORT.

The storm which has caused unsettled
weather IN the Atlantic States Saturday
and sunday has moved northWard along
the coast. and the center IS now near
she Bay Of Fundy.
TnseasonabIy cold weather stI pre-
walls east Of the Mississippi, and frOsts
are reDorted this morning IN the South
Atlantic and East Gulf States, except
Florida
Mostly fair weather win prevail until
Tuesday night IN the districts east Of
the Mississippi.
The Washington times., 1909-10-25

sUN TARLE.


Today-Eiigh tide. 4.Zg a. m and p
N, Low tide, ll.o9 a. m. and lI-36 p. m
TomoTow-Hlgh tide, $50 a. N. and
$3.50 D. m Low tide, 12.0l a.. m.
The Washington times., 1909-10-25
PRINCE CAN'T RETURN.

ATHENS. oct. Grown Prince Con-
stantine, who has beer travelling for the
last six weeks. has announced his in
tention 20 return here next week Hts
presence, however, would be distasteful
TO the military party. and it is said that
the King has persuaded HIM to abandon
his visit
The Washington times., 1909-10-25

Doors, Like Everybody Uses, 81 So Apiece.
Frank Libbey & Co.. 9Th < n. T. Ave.
r-AQyI.
The Washington times., 1909-10-25
ITALIAN MURDERER
SENTENCED TO DIE
Pietro Silverio Will Be Put to
Death at Paterson.

PATERSON. N J.. Oct 25-Pietro Sil-
veriO, convicted of numbering Mrs. Rose
Gueranio ia Miovale June %, was SEN
fenced TO death by Supreme Court JUS
ticct James r.. MmtaTu today.
SlveTio VIII be put TO death Ia state
prison during the week beginning Mon
day, December ..
The Washington times., 1909-10-25

HARPERS FERRY. ". va, oct 20
Potomac clear and Shenandoah slightly
cloudy this morning
The Washington times., 1909-10-25

FORECAST FOR THE DISTRICT.
Fair tonight and probably Tuesday,
slowly rising temperature, moderate
variable winds
The Washington times., 1909-10-25
Eventually Country Must
Fight Private Battle of
Moneyed Interests.
SYNDICATES BLAMED
FOR CRANES RECALL
No Benefit Can Result to Nation
From Our Present Course,
Declares Writer.

NEW YORK. Oct. 25.-WIth the ex-
pressed opinion that the present policy
OF the United States in the Far East
is being shaped solely In the interest
Of a group OF Wall Street hnanclers,
and that no possible benefit to the na-
ton at large can result from it, Henry
George, jr., son Of the well-known single
taxer and publieist. In an exclusive
interview today declared that trouble
Is certain to result, which VIII probably
end in the American army and navy be-
ing called on TO fight the private bat
ties Of the American moneyed interests
under the guise Of ''uphoIding Ameri-
can honor"
Mr.. George has just returned from
several months spent in studying at
first hand the conditions which in his
opinion are soon to be very largely in
the minds Of the American people, If
the present policy Of the Administra-
ton is continued.
Asked what in his opinion was the
real cause back of the forced resigna-
ton OF Charles r. Crane, Of Chicago.
from the post Of minister to China. Mr..
George replied terselys
"A war of the big American syndi-
Gates"
It's Significance.
II do not pretend TO know more Of
the immediate grounds for the secre-
tary Of States action than have been
published" continued George Mr.
Crane may or may not have been in
discreet The thing TO note is not that,
but the Implication in Secretary Knox-s
statement that the Government IS
studying the recent agreements be
tween China and Japan in relation 10
Manehuria. with a view TO determining
whether there is anything in the agree
ments adversely affecting American in
terests.
ITO me. this is an admission Of the
gravest portent. a seeming admission
Of the very thing charged against US in
the Far East. that the American Gov
ernment is doing the work OF the Ameri-
can syndicates in getting concessions
and loan privileges in China and trying
10 force a way for them into Man
ehuria.
"At the dinner given to him in New
York. on September II. Mr. Crane is re-
ported 70 have said: It may not al
ways be necessary TO repeat the new
form OF hold-up in which the State De
partment has been so successfully en-
gagged in forcing money on China
The Chinese Loan.
This language sounds undiplomatical-
y bald and frank, yet 1t aptly describes,
according to the Asiatic view. what has
been done by our Government In the re-
cent Chinese loan. Our Government
practically compelled the other nations
70 allow our bankers 70 participate"
But how can a share IN thirty or
forty million dollar loan be Of any i'm
portance 10 American syndicates accus-
toned 20 deal In the hundred millions?'
George was asked.
While the share in that particular
loan may be a small matter" he replied.
''the many loans that are likely 20 be
made in the course Of the next ten years
fn China win make a huge aggregate.
AT the high interest that Iha- sum viii
draw the investment viii be a good one.
But it must be considered as very much
more than that. II Wiu really be a
Continued on Fourth PAGE
New-York tribune., 1909-03-04
SECRET SERVICE REPORT
Branch Should Be Made Permanent,
House Committee Says.

-r.sb,rr,on March s-Legisletion should be
enacted by Congress giving a permanent character
10 the secret aservtce OF the government accord
ing TO the report Of the special COMMITTEES. Sub
r7itted 70 the House to-day The comnttee con
sisted Of Representatives olrnsted. OF Pennsyl-
vanis; Currier. of New Hampshire; Young or
Michigan; Brantley. of Georgia, and Bowers, or
aississsppi II was appointed to investigate the
amount Of appropriations devoted TO secret service
work and the number Of employees engaged therein
The report is unanimous. The committee says:
we deem it proper to call attention to the fact
Ts1artment now EXISTS without permanent au-
thority Of law. dependent entirely upon approPTl-
force In the Department of Justice is similarly
without permanent authority OF Ia" ana q Is @ psid
eTpenses whether the separate forces of secret
service men m fe pepartnent Of Justice should be
combined in on 9e not sftempt 10 decide but sug
.t Kat ubsther separately maintained whether
unaer one coit tSe,r duties clearly defined and lin
tied BY law
The total number Of employees engaged in the
detection or prevention of fraud whether called
ecrst Service men, detectives special agents. spe-
oi.l insoectors or by other names, in ali the de-
,artu,ents combined the report says. is found TO
have bsen lust one hundred more than in 1908. Ths
committee found that 81 $50 7os had been approprat
- q, ,,,o,p sums which might have been, but was
,o+ ,,sed IN detective work. In speaking Of the
Sacrst service division OF the Treasury Depart
Toent the supply Of TO meet the demands Of
a.. JlAoartnent Of Justice in the past touched
upon.
THE committee finds the report says on this
Lending Of men that while not strictly within the
,u+borzation of statute, 1t had originated years
eco IN the exigencies OF the case" Again the com
rnittee says:
ros,+ IN the few instances indicated In this re-
noTt We have found no branches OF the Secret
Ser,ace or persons employed therein, engaged in
80, jl,ty not contemplated by law; but whether
am s15ch persons have been or are engaged in any
duty not Contemplated by law or the approprta ton
establishing providing for such service could be
eIv aecertsined only by an examination OF
sssS Terson so engaged in any such service. which
e%sn,inafion could not be made within the life Of
The present Congress.
New-York tribune., 1909-03-04
BUSY IN CARMACK CASE,
Prosecution Has Cleo to Mysterious
Caller at s'Tennesseean Office.

Nashville. Tenn. March 2.-After a strenuous re-
cess day on the part OF counsel on both sides In
the Cooper Sharpe trial il developed that s j. Ben
ninEs the mysterious defence witness who said that
he saw ex- Senator Carmack revolving the cylinder
OF a revolver which It was afterward shown would
not revolve will be recalled for further cross-ex-
animation b. the It also developed that the
feverish activity Of the special police OF the prose
cltion was due to Attorney General McCarns belief
that he had discovered clew TO the identity Of
Of three mysterious who would make valuable
witnesses the prosecution.
Early on the day Of Carmnck's death three men
visited the office of The Nashville Tennesseean.
of which Csrmack editor. Each Of these
asked at the business Office II the clerk could give
him CarInacks address. and il he knew about what
time the Sens tor went home each afternoon Two
Of the men called In the morning The clerks in
the counting did not know where Carmack
lived But after the second inquiry they procured
the information, and when the third man appeared
after p. m, they gave him the address.
It became known to-day that the prosecution
would not crcss-exanine either Governor Patterson
or Adiutant General Tully Brown Attorneys for
the prosecution are political opponents of the chief
executive and they favored grlling the Governor
but as nine jurors Patterson supporters this
was not deemed advisable
New-York tribune., 1909-03-04
COPYRIGHT BILL PASSED.
"Canned Muac" amendment En-
acted bu Both Houses.

Washington. March S.-Both houses OF congress
to-day passed a bill 70 amend and consolidate the
copyright laws. Bills upon this subject have oeen
before the Senate and House for a number of years
but differences of opinion over the protection TO oe
given composers OF music especially When their
works we're reproduced by mechanical device, pre-
vented the enactment of law.
Early to-day the House passed the bill introoucea
during the present session by Senator Smoot ana
hv Representative Currier, and tonight this Dill
was passed by the Senate.
The canned music provision Is that the autnor
OF musical composition shall receive two cents
disc or roll when manufactured for reproduction
but il is provided that monopoly may &c createo
by q provision that when one concern mas repro
duced composition any other manufacturer of
records NAV reproduce the same selection on the
same terms The hill is q complete revision OF sl
Of the copyright laws.
The term Of the extension on copyrights IS IN
creased from fourteen years, as at present. 70
tuenrv-eght years giving the author ffty-six years
in all instead Of forty-two, and this addition IS
also made applicable 20 existing copyright The
law is also made uniform including books. music
art. etc The manufacturing clause OF the pres
ent lsv is modified by the omission Of books IN
foreign languages. The small advantage TO print
ers Of the old provision was recognized as not 10
ba compared with desirabiiity Of safeguarding
our foreign trade in copyright materials Wh'ch
now amounts 20 about s2,o0o.0o q year
By the new bill the foreign author has a period
of sixty DAYS IN which make his publishing ar
raugemonts in America without endanGering MS
copyright It is also believed that the security OF
oompcsits and encyclopedia work is assured
New-York tribune., 1909-03-04
DEFENCE OF CONGRESS.
Hensen1ody Says Estimates Hare
Been Cut S274, 900 900 in 8 Years:
[Fron rne Trihuns Hur.au. ]


Washington, March 5.-Senator Hemenway, In
speech 70 the Senate to-day. defended Congress
against the criticism OF extravaganza pointing out
that in the last eight years the appropriations OF
Congress had amounted TO s274.1294I3 % less than
the estimates submitted by the executive depart
rnents ana supported by full force OF executive
recommendations He sought to demonstrate how
unpopular had been the effort Of members Of Con
gress keep down expenditures in the face OF de-
mands from executive departments and cltizens
for funds nith which prosecute certain projects
and he spoke also of the criticism made of Con-
gress by persons who objected 10 large apprepria-
tions.
The estimates for the eight years. he said, ag-
greEated s72s7954. .29s against appropriations ag-
gregating SOB S24 Ss5. The reductions Congress
made from the estimates were as follows: In 1903.
SIS ST. and for the succeeding seven years as
follows: slz3eSz7o s4s SOL sS1, S15o5122 s2'00ool'
s22 sa2 49, o AS and for the fiscal year OF lso'
$50 OGoG0o Continuing Mr.. Hemenway said:
Although the estimates not reduced 70 ne
extent many Of US wanted Congress mas not aoosu
to its popularity with the people by the red'lC
II did make. the whole the people nave oeeh
with the EXECUTIVE In urging that al recoiItII nm
had not stood against the pressure brought cy
both Executive departments and by cltizels. III
place of having to-day cash balance IN the treas
Iry which I admit is rapidly melting away; We
would have been compelled 10 issue bonds 70 nsN .
paid running expenses 20 date. When adnitionaI
paw. they cen understand that Congress Is not
wholly at fault
New-York tribune., 1909-03-04
HOUSE DOES FAST WORK
Passes Many Bills and agrees to
Conference Reports.

Washington. March S.-on the eve OF anal ad-
to,Irnnent the House Of Representatives. to-day
transacted its business with facility unusual With
\ diving Congress although at times there was
much confusion which the Speaker had difficulty
in controlling With scarcely any debate the c'.n-
ference reports on the military academy, legisla-
tive executive and judicial and penal code bills
were agreed TO.
Tinted states in regard TO canned music was
passed as were also large number Of private
bills
Having prs silica lly wound up the consideration Of
ell other pressing business. the House at el5 p m
took recess until 10 o'clock tonight.
The House tonight rejected the bill providing for
the acceptance by the United States OF an invita-
ton 10 participate in universal and internationa
exposition 20 Re held in Brussels In 1910.
Just before l O'Clock Mr.. Tawney presented tne
conference rerort or the sundry civil bill. which wa
agreed to after brief discussion. At oS a. m the
House took recess until 10 o'clock.