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The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14

but if you undertake to straighten them. the dentist will have to keep all kinds of machinery in your aching mouth, for weary weeks. But the strengthening of crooked teeth and pigeon toes and bent backs and cross eyes is easy compared with the re- forming habits, when they have be- come set
 Those who have looked into the workings of the brain and nerves tell us that, when we think. certain amount of energy is discharged in the brain. and that energy goes tear ing through the nerve tissues. making a path as it goes, and the next dis charge of energy will follow that same path. till all of It flows that way, unless we prevent It. Habits make roads and roads must always run in the right direction and be De built Of right material. Even when a good road has been built. some wrong thought may send a discharge of energy in the wrong direction and quickly cut out new path for the ittb Ol hel9Al CO OIlt hdS lO @dlCu all his life A habit will live for ever unless it is interfered with As most of us get some undesirable hab- it's started we are apt to have the perpetual task of forming good ones and reforming bad ones.
 The great habit forming time is when he is from five to twelve years old. The golden age of memory is from ten to fourteen Dr. Hawies says that, if one wants to adapt his muscular and nervous habits to the playing of the violin. he must begin before he is ten. l undertook it. aft. CT l was thirty. and soon quit. At twelve a boy comes more under the reign of law and of conscience and of his own intelligent will.
 No one knows when some emer. gency may arise that will require all the stores of strengtl secured through the aid of habit. Down in Ludlow Ky. deaf old man was crossing the railroad track, when he looked uu and saw an engine coming upon him They had given him the signal but he l did not hear and, coming around the curve, they were not able to stop He did not have time to go on and climb some steps up from the level of the tracks. nor to turn around and go back. He turned a handspring 1 backward and got out of the way with a few harmless bruises. He did 1 that because his muscles had formed the habit of doing such things, years
 before. Every good habit the boy forms will be needed in the ordinary
 tasks or in the emergencies.
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Settled Them.

I've sight O sons-thirteen alto gether," remarked a prosperous old farmer, and all of ems done me credit save the three eldest, who sowed wild oats at pretty rapid rate. and then came home and sad dled my shoulders with the harvest
 Well, I own 1 was glad to see 'em back, and I feasted 'em, and petted 'em. and set 'em on their legs again, only to see 'em skedaddle off afresh when things had slowed down, with all the cash they could lay hands on.
 That thereabouts sickened me, so called the rest of 'em together and said:
 There's ten of you left, and if any of you 'ud like to follow tother three I won't try to stop you. But, under stand this. though there may be a few more prodigal sons. therell be no more fatted calves I've killed the last of 'em.
 And continued the old man, tri- umphantly, I've had trouble wi none of 'em since,"
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and I acted like one" That discloses reason why a boys best must be recognized. To attribute a bad motive for the freakish and prankish ways of boy is one way of making them bad, while the surest way to make them Sood is to consider them so and let him know that you do.
 His motives will also need protec- tion. Those that are temporary, like temporary teeth. may be treated in a way to disfgure him for life; in fact. the temporary may be made the per manent by false treatment A brutal attempt to suppress the outflow of his tumultuous nature may make it in growing. may bottle it up to be emit ter. all his life, in inopportune ways. The war-whoop may become malig- nant. if it is not allowed to come out in all it's innocence. The genuine good will must be allowed to effervesce in it's own way as protection to his whole nature.
 His motives will also need infection from without. so as to correct and complete them. Our growth is al ways by expansion from within and infection from without If one wants to get yellow fever, he only needs to let some ambitious mosquito bore into his cuticle, with a bill that has been dipped in a cauldron of germs, and crawl over him with feet that have a good assortment of germs clinging to them. Then the victim is ready for the worst. One can also have health infection, as in antitoxin and in the infusion of pure fresh blood from some one. Judge Baldwin of Oak Park gave his invalid daughter some Of his own vigorous blood. not long ago, by infusion. It Is of the highest importance that boys motives be frequently purified by fresh infusions Of motives of the highest kind.
 When he is thus assisted. direction will be needed more than correction. Formation is good substitute for reformation; if the former is right. the latter will not be necessary. To discover his best motives. to discrim- mate them from the secondary and temporary, to direct them in righteous and rational ways-this is some ones high and unacceptable duty.
 One thing more, and it cannot he said too frequently and forcibly. he must have concrete instance of the very best motives that can be pro duced and must find them in those people who, because of their natural relationship to him and their personal attractions for him. are charged with sacred sponsibilities for him-those who create the atmosphere that en- ters into his fiber. furnish him a con science before his own is in com mand and supply him with motives that reshape and guide his own.
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14
Her Ezthar's Child

The six-year-old daughter of well. known evangelistic preacher was playing on the sidewalk one day when a shabbily dressed and downcast man approached her fathers house.
 Halting at the foot of the steps, he looked at her, and in weary voice. the voice of an unsuccessful book agent-he asked if her father might be found in his study
 He isn't home said the little girl drawing close to him, and gazing up into the tired face, but he'll be home pretty soon. You go into the house you poor, perishing soul, and mother'll look after you till he comes. Youth s Companion.
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14
ROBBERS MISSED THE MONEY
Footpads Failed to See Cash Victim
 Held in His Hand

Stuttgart - Street Commissioner Frank Johnson was the victim of a bold daylight assault and attempted robbery while inspecting the sewer age septic tank in the west part Of town. Johnson has only one arm, and when two strangers approached him and demanded that he hold up his hands and give them what money he had on his person, he grasped a roll of bills in his pocket containing about SEQ and held it unseen by the robb"Ts. He at first gave battle, but was tapped upon the head by sand bag that rendered him half uncon- scious. The robbers then dragged him to a elump of bushes, forced some kind of a liquid down his throat and then went through his clothing. He then lost consciousness completely, but awoke still clenching his money in his hand His assailants in their hurry had overlooked it.
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times, and said that ought to have an operation. I would not listen to that, and when Q friend of my husband told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Gege- table Compound and what it had done for his wife, was willing to take it. Now look the picture of health and feel like it, too. I can do my own house. work, hoe my garden. and milk COW. \ can entertain company and enjoy fhsm- l can visit when l choose, and walk as far as any ordinary woman, any day in the month. l wish I could talk toevery sufferingwomanandg dgirl" Mrs DEMA BETuUSE, Sikeston, Mo.
 Tine most successful remedy in this country for the cure of all forms of female complaints is Lydia E. Pink kam's Vegetable Compound.
 It is more widely and successfully used than any other remedy. It has ! cured thousands of women who have ] hecn troubled with displaeements, in. ] fiananation, alteration, fibroid tumors, Irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing down feeling, indigestion, and nervous prostration, after all other means had failed. Why don't you try itS
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14
Snakes in Prohibition Maine.

Snakes emptied two saloons in Port land of the crowds of customers a few evenings ago. A nonresident ordered 2 box of snakes sent to him from the south for the purpose of cleaning out a vast number of rats from his place The snakes were given chance to demonstrate their rat killing ability and the large snake destroyed 15 in few minutes. The snakes were then taken to two different saloons and in q few minutes cleared them Of the crowd kennebec Journal
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14
A Boys Motives

A boy is more apt to have fairly good motives than false ones. He starts out in life with something in him that will grow into sense of right. and if he gets tangled. it will be because he is taught it, through the eye or the ear or in both ways. If a boys motives are entirely bad, he is seldom. if ever. entirely to blame for it. There Is a reason. It may be, in fact, a case of atavism. in which he has gone back and appropriated the fetid tastes of some vile ancestor and his parents were not wise enough to protect him against the ravages of the atayistic beast
 At the outset, We must concede the difficulty of knowing exactly what a boys motives are, for his deepest, most dominant motive is often tangled with superficial, secondary and tenn porary ones; and these may be so complex and active as 10 discourage Us. How We can ever detach the real motive from this tangle of impulses and make it the dominant thing is the problem. If he asks you a ques- ton. you are never sure of his pur- pose. l. may be fun or fancy or an evasion of duty.
 Two things encourage us One is that these surface motives are not the deepest things about him They are not the symptoms of anything bad. but of a new stage that he has Nt-b1 1E tb h,z and faculties of the mind are being released He hardly knows what hurts him. but something Is keeping his eyes wide open and his nerves all jumping The other encouragement is that these are the curious ways in which his very deepest and truest nature is finding itself. His devotion the gang is the spirit of loyalty start ing toward universal brotherhood: his fondness for contests is the first exhi- bition of the warrior instinct getting ready to fight the good fight of faith; ; his Bohemianism, an incipient cosmo- politanism; his local attachments, the prelude to patriotism; his battles for his partners. the forerunners of his battles In the higher interest of his fellow men
 His motives will need several things. First of all they must be discovered and recognized by the older people 4 young man who had lost a position. because of inefiieiency. was employed by another firm, because they were compelled to have some one and he was the only one they could get. Soon they noticed that he had good sug- sestions to make and he found that they would listen. He began to climb md. before long. was in a very respon- sible position and was indispensable
 the firm When asked why he
 ou!d not keep his first job. he replied they treated me as if was a fool.
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V ZHe V N 'BQypl33le(VD By DRJS.kIRJLEy SlG
He and His Habits
By yDRJS.kIRTLY

A boy needs quite number of hab- its, and he must have them, if he ever expects to be much of a boy. or to become a man. His body needs the habit of turning food into blood and then blood into boy His mind needs the habit of turning sights and sounds into truth and character His memory is to be merely the good hab- 1t of holding on to what he has learned. His morals. at any time. are very largely the sum of his hab- it's in learning and practising truth and right. When nature equipped him with the power Of forming hab- it's. she did him great kindness. for. without the reinforcement they bring. he would be no farther along the day he dies than he was the day he was born. It is that powes which makes 1t easier to do a thing the second than the first time. still easier each subsequent time. till, by and by. the thing almost does itself
 It really may have deterrent ef- feet on him to know that he can get used 10 lying and stealing and drink ing and doing every kind of badness and become more and more skillful at It and more inured to it. through the help Of habit. Then he will keep his eye on the dangerous thing And he can more grow lazy and shiftless and cruel and selfish. or avaricious. when he once starts at it, till he becomes a bundle of vicious habits. Let him know this and also know that he can start in the right lines and form hab- it's that will be a propeller and pro- lection and form his most valuable asset. The great Dr Broadus used to say to his students Practise makes perfect-bad practise makes perfect ly bad"
 boy has to have help, at first. in initiating his habits, for he is likely to start some wrong ones. He gets the muscular habit of walking from seeing others walk and from the guidance and support of hands that show him how to take the first step. He will need some habits. after awhile, that he does not now know he will need and will not start, un- less some one gets him at it in a di- rective way. And he will get some to going that he will find a great in jury to him. but he does not know 1t now; and the most serious thing about it Is that he will find 1t diff cult to ever get rid of them. at all. Yet 1t does seem easy sometimes to give up good habits. while the cor rection of bad ones is one of the hardest things ever attempted. It seems no task to grow crooked teeth,
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14
SEASON FAVORABLE
 TO COTTON CROP
WHILE LACK OF MOISTURE IS LELT AT PLACES. COTTON
 HAS NOT BEEN HURT.
In Most Places Rains Have Fallen In Way to Do Most Goo5-Boll Weevil
 Damage Reported.

Little Rock-The week just ended. according to reports from all over the state. has been favorable to crops. especially cooton and corn. In many parts of the state rains. if any, have been light, but the lack of moisture has not hurt cotton. In portions where abundant rains have fallen dur ing the week, bumper crops of corn is expected. While early corn was considerably damaged by the drouth that lasted much of May and June, the late crop is promising and large yield is expected
 Cotton. with the exception of a few localities, is better at this season than for many years at the same time With the increased acreage planters expect a larger crop than has ever been made in the state The plant is fruiting well and, while the stalk in many places is not as large as has been in some previous seasons. it is more sturdy and is better able to carry the large amount of bolls.
 Most places report that there have been no washing rains, but that they have fallen in such a manner as to do the most good. Around Prescott the lack of moisture has been felt more than in most places. but on Saturday slow rain began 10 fall and it lasted most of the day. thus supplying all crops with just what they were in need of most.
 In localities adjacent to Philadelphia crops have been suffering for lack of rains and it is claimed that early corn has suffered to such an extent that is cannot recover Early corn, IL Is claimed. has been damaged, but with sufficient rains, it can still make a good crop. Lack of moisture in that locality has not hurt cotton. and 1t is reported to be in more flourish ing condition than it has been for years.
 In portions of St Francis county copious rains have fallen during the week. and crop prospects are better than they have been in years, is the report from Forrest City. In many parts of the county, it is said that cotton is standing three and four feet high and we'll fruited. Tn that county It has not been hurt by the drouth and the yield is expected to be greater than in many years.
 Crops are comparatively clean, the | long drouth that ended two weeks ago giving ample opportunity to farm | CTS to get out grass, and they too ad. l vantage of it. At the present time there is little grass in the fields | Owing to the fact that the crops have been so thoroughly cleaned farmers have been permitted to plant their | pea crops earlier than usual. All of | these crops are flourishing and the acreage is much greater than in any | previous vars.
 Reports from Star City are that in that locality the boil weeyil is doing | considerable damage to the crop. The stalk is fine. it is claimed. but the bolls are being punctured by the
 pests to such an extent that it is l feared the crop will be cut short
 Corn in that neighborhood. it is re 1 ported, is exceptionally good, especi
 ally that planted late. The old crop will be short. but even that is much i better than it was thought at one l time that it could possibly be.
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14
A Busy Place.

Where Is that spot you call the lovers lane,' diffidently asks the young man while the young lday waits on the hotel piazza.
 Right down yonder.' replies the clerk. Just keep going until you see the porter from the barber shop. Lovers lane is so crowded now that We have him stationed there to give the guests checks, so that each may have his turn Judge Library
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Answerinq the Dean.

greatest wit of all time"-Dean Swift of ST Patrick's cathedral. Dublin 0Sas as ready to take as to make a retort
 Why don't you doff your hat to r1c2' he asked a small boy who was ,ooaxins along an obstr porous goat.
 T will said the lad. If your Honor will hold the goats horns!" an answer which delighted the dean-Youth's s Companion.
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14
Wants to See Him Hanged.

Jonesboro.-In a letter written by Mrs. Ida Despair, daughter of Thomas Powell, who is under sentence of death for criminal assault on Mrs Despair. the woman pleads with the public not to sign the petition for ex- eeutiye clemeney which is being cir culated in Craighead county. Mrs Despair. in the letter. declares her father is guilty and that her chief de sire is 10 be present at the time 0: his execution. Gov. Donaghey has granted Powell q respite Of sixty days 10 present new evidence.
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14
Newspaper Chances Hands,

Paragould.-Riley B, Dunn, who has been editor and publisher of the Marmaduke Cackler. a weekly pape. printed at Marmaduke. in this county, If miles north of here, has sold the paper to H. H. Marshall of Mansfield, Mo, who assumes charge of the plant this week. Mir. Dunn and family will return to their home near Mansfield.
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14
Adam Was Grouchy.

The Serpent - Whats Adam so grouchy about today?
 The Ape-Oh, he says that the ar rival of woman means that all his plans for universal peace have been knocked in the head for good.-Puck.
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Maternal Instinct.

Mrs. Rattle-I am sure that is ny baby with the pink ribbon oyer there.
 MT Cynic-How can you tell it so readilys
 Mrs. Rattle-I can recognize 1t by my pet poodle the nurse has win her.
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for four or five days at a time every month, and so weak 1 could hardly walk. l cramped and had
 backache and head ache, and was so nervous and weak
 that l dreaded to see anyone or have anyone move in the room. The doctors gave me medicine to ease me at tn so
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he MOdern Irend

How is the water in the bath, Eff ?" Please, my lady, it turned the baby fairly blue"
 Then don't put Fido in for an hour or SO"
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.sE Eop .YIFS,s ronT-FAsE

the Anti se ptic powder to shake into your shoes h
 Heyes Corns, Bunlons. IngroTlng Nails, swoilen an. Sweating feet, Blisters and Calious spos Sa everywhere 25c. Don accept any substttHt% ssn' pie FREE. Address Allen :. 0lnlsted, Le hos, ai
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14

Smile on wash day That's when you us Red Cross Ball Blue. Clothes winter than snow. All grocers.
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14

The successful borrower is as quick as lightning Also he never strikes twice in the same place.
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14

The silk stocking girl is very much in evidence.
The Forrest City times., 1911-07-14

The devil is proud of the man Tn' is mean to his wife.
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Mrs. Benham-The paper tells about man who stole head of lettuce and then went back and got another, be- ing arrested on the second trip.
 Benham-Ill bet you cant make that fellow believe that two heads are bet ter than one.
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SEVEN YEARS OF
 MISERY
AT Relieved by Lydia E. Pink. hams Vegetable Compound.

SikPston, Mo. -"For seven years I ssalTered everything. | was in bed
Evening journal., 1911-12-30
"MONKEY VEAL
CASE GOES OVER

John T. DuRoss was before City
Court this morning on charge of
violating the health laws of the city
in selling monkey veal.' Armon d.
Chaytor. Jr., asked for a continuance
until Thursday morning in order to
get witnesses. This was done.
Frank Belaske was before the
court the other day on the charge Of
violating the health laws of the city
by having exposed for sale monkey
veal" During the hearing Meat In
spector Denney testified that Belaske
sent letter to his Office TO come to
his store at Beach and Harrison
streets. When Denney went there he
was given a leg of the veal. Belaske,
in court. furnished the information
that John T. DuRoss had sold the
veal TO him. The court suggested
that DuRoss be arrested and Meat
Inspector Denney swort out the war
rant
Evening journal., 1911-12-30
CAN NOW SHOP
BETWEEN CARS
Traction Company Extends
Transfer Privileges Be-
yOnd JuRCtiOn Points
CAN BOARD CARS
ALONG MARKET STREET

In order to give patrons a chance
to shop while waiting to transfer
from one line to another the viii
mington and Philadelphia Traction
Company today announced that per-
sons holding transfers can board cars
almost anywhere in the business Sec
tion of Market street. instead Of
boarding cars at junction points only.
The transfers viii have to be used
by the holder on the first car arriv-
ing on the line to which the transfer
is issued as at present, but the holder
will not be required to board the car
at specific junction points like in the
past.
Many a person holding a transfer
would like to avail the few minutes
wait for the car desired by making a
purchase or Two in a Market street
store a block or so from the junction
point. This. in most instances could
not be done because the holder OF the
transfer could not get to the store
and back to the junction point in time.
Under the new plan this can be done
and ought to prove a convenince TO
Tic IdllWd. IdAiNno ahN a hNHNhN ~
merchants. The announcement of ex-
tension of transfer privileges issued
by the Traction Company today is as
follows:
For the benefit of our patrons and
until further notice transfers will be
honored on Market street, between
streets listed as below, by the lines
only TO which transfers have been is.
sued. and. in the direction indicated
if presented within the time limit
From the Delaware avenue line be-
tween Front and Tenth streets.
From the Washington street line be-
tween Front and Tenth streets.
From the West Fourth street line
between Fourth and Tenth streets.
From the Maryland avenue line be
tween Fourth and Ninth streets.
From the West Eighth street lint
between Front and Eighth streets.
From the Front street lino betweeI
Front and Tenth streets.
From the Darby line between From
and Tenth streets.