ESTABLISHED 1871. 1 VOL. XXVIII. FORREST CITY, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 8, 1899. 50.
OUR FIGHTING BRIGADIER. it was the brrkct of the mighty west That mothered him, every part! -he gave him luck, and she gave him pluck, she gave him a hero's heart! From the tropic clime to the arctic rims He never held tryst with fear; Then out for him with shout for Our fighting Brigadier! What he lacks In strength, what he wants length. Why, he makes It up In grit; Once he riddled the rules of the scolds and schools, Like the foes at Calumpit. It was "go as you or Through the whole of the "grinding" year. With a merry scoff at the frowning Our fighting Brigadier! He was never fain upon trail or train To shrink from the face of strife; And he quaffed the breath of the "Vale of Death" As though 'twere the balm of life.
O'er the grim backbone of the Yellowstone He was one of the first to peer. Then a cup for him brimmed up for Our fighting Brigadier! There was ns fright In the northern night For his rare and roving soul; With the same unhaste that he ranged the waste He'd have parlied with the pole. In canoe or camp. In the dry or damp, His courage shone clean and cliar; Then here's to cheers to Our fighting Brigadier! Not long could he bide the roaring tide Where the city's canyons pour, So he joined the few of the dauntless crew, And was ofT for the Cuban shore. He raised rare fun with his dynamite gun, And he scattered the Spaniards sheer.
So a song for him ring strong for Our fighting Brigadier! Though wounded, when there was call for men To sever a bars. Who but he to the fore should be To strike for the "stripes and stars?" From sand to strand Was no vallanter volunteer Than this hero-arm from the Deer Creek Our fighting Brigadier! Everyone knows how at Malolos He charged with his reckless How he swam the stream in the wicked gleam Of the fire. but to name him for all to claim him, Our "Madcap peer; Then hail to the man of Our fighting Brigadier! Scollard, In N. Y. Sun.
-W Unappreciated Humor TOW'Dyou like to be the I inquired the stationery man as he walked into the shop where the South side tailor was cutting the sleeves of a morning coat out of a piece of black Melton. As he spoke he threw back the lapel of his waistcoat and disclosed, pinned on the inside, a miniature pair of lee tong's holding a cube of glass. The tailor looked at him with the bitter scorn, and the anticipatory grin on the stationery face became sheepish and slowly faded away. suppose you expect me to haw-hawright out at remarked the tailor, rubbing the dent that the shears had made in his thumb. thought wipe my eyes and tell you that's about the best thing I ever seen and ask you to let me have it to take home and show my wife.
You read the directions on the wrapper. What you want to do is to ait until some other chump asks you the same darn fool question. Then you spring that funny little toy on him and give him the equine giggle, he naturally concludes got to buy you 12Va cents worth of liquor to square himself. I "Sure thing, you the drink replied the stationery man. joke would be on him, wouldn't It? He'd be a lobster if he got you down said the tailor.
the other chump says: Let's go and take something on be shows that a good fellow and don lay it up against you because you re smart. How much did you pay for that little piece of 0ny one said the stationery buttoning up his waistcoat again. 1 might have got two for ten cents if I had thought of it. Say! The feller that got those up was a dandy. I'd like to have all the good stuff he gets out of (i would agreed the tailor; there enough weak-minded persons right here in Chicago to make him rich.
iou gave five cents for that? That Keans enough to knock the profits off stick of liquorice and two or three evening papers. Perhaps an give that up without a murK'ir for a thing an intelligent kid would pass up. sorry for JKi. 1 am, on the 1 he tailor resumed his cutting, and jhe stationery man whistled an air that direct connection with the subject the tailor's reproof and appeared to revolving some sort of retort in his Ktnd. Presently he said: suppose you ve had another misfit suit thrown back on your asked the tailor, blandly.
1 notice that you get one of those prickly grouches on you whenever that happens. hate to be your feel bad about said the ailor. mean to make you feel if you welcome. You want to get the idee that I was mad. I Just got a spell of nausea.
subject them when a man comes around and hKkes them kind of cracks. Why do 'you ask me how like to be the here does the funny part come tn. I suppose you mean to say that the iceman has a good time while the hot weather lasts. all right. As a matter of fact the iceman that conies P.rouad in this street has to sit in the sun to drive and then he has to drag anywhere from ten to a hundred pounds of ice about the sidewalk, and nine women out of twelve tell him that they know there no ten pounds in that piece.
And then the weather hot been a cool summer. But wt-Ml say he does have a good lime. Is that the reason why you snicker when you talk about him? Put me next. I want to laugh too if I can get a good reason for man who ants a reason for laughing before he commits himself can get a job as a funeral director said the stationery man. don't want to be the iceman; a double condenser ice plant yourself.
a gag, if you want to know, just one of them gags that people get wish it was one of the kind people can't get said the tailor, viciously. would save a whole lot of suffering. like to gag every man the minute he bought one of them things and tie his hands so he make motions. If I remember rightly you were one of the first men in the city to buy a chestnut bell and the last to give it said the stationer with an air of modest pride. cousin in New York sent me one by mail just as soon as they come out too bad we have to look to New Y'ork for all our bright said the tailor.
as if we ought to be able to get up something of the kind right here in Dunning, anyway. You got lots of fun out of that bell, "I rung you off a time or said the stationer, defiantly. admitted the tailor. would come in here and if you do anything else you would ask me what 1 thought of the weather, and ring when I said that it looked like rain. Nobody could come around you and open his face but you had to ring.
You neglected your business just the same as doing now, and went about tinkling that little gong like a barrow. You thought you were the thing ever happened until you got thrown out of that vaudeville house for ringing off the Irish "He needed "So did you. And you were in the same fix when you got slugged for pulling an Tm-something-of-a-liar-myself card on the new bartender down at "I did a little of that slugging. He didn't operate a slugging trust and control the the story you told the police judge when yon was able to appear. I thought give up them live-cent inside lining joshes after that, but I guess keep on until somebody gets out of patience with you and kills like to know what it is makes you miserable whenever anyone gets to feeling said the stationer.
a person comes around you with sunshine in his soul and a gladsome smile on his face you take it as a personal insult. I look to see you get a stick of dynamite and blow up a Dutch beer garden some night just because the people are enjoying themselves there. poison an said the tailor, with decision. "I'd poison the organ-grinder, too, if I got a good any kids that happened to be dancing on the sidewalk to the added the stationer. you got any friends besides you my friend lend you a dollar note any time you, needed it and I had it, if you were able to give me any kind of security that get it back.
people that calls themselves your friends that do that for my said the tailor, want to keep your ice tongs and chestnut bells hid when you come into this shop. If got any celluloid buttons with the Only Sossidge in the or Got Troubles of My or any other gags you leave them on the grand piano before you start out to entertain me. How'd you be the iceman have me come into your shop three times a day and rub your teeth with a be all right if you did it in a friendly spirit, but 1 want you to understand that you come in looking the way you do now and take them kind of liberties. got to be pleasant about The tailor threaded a needle, scrambled up on his bench and, crossing his legs, began to sew. be pleasant about he said, as he jerked a kink out of the thread.
next time you get off any of these funny little automatic side splitters on me get down on you in a friendly spirit and hammer you with the smoothing iron until need a certificate of identification to get buried in the family lot. You go home now and think that over and take your ice tongs with you. Hold on, go off road. You can take a little josh yourself, you? The stationery man put his hands in his pockets and hewed the end of hla igar rapidly as he turned at the door. 1 he tailor was smiling, but his neighbor seemed offended for once.
"If you're getting hot you want to think about your friend the iceman," said the tailor. off, Billy, cool The stationer took his cigar out of hit mouth and cleared his throat. you'll be back soon, anyway," implored the tailor, but the stationery man went out, silent and unappensed. As soon as he had gone the tailor -unwound his legs and looked around the shop until he found piece of cardboard. He laid this carefully down on the table, wiped the dust off it and tnkhis marking brush printed on it in large letters: THIS IS MY BUSY DAY.
Then he got up on the bench and whistled softly to himself as he resumed his Daily Ilecord. POPULARITY OF AUTOMOBILES There Han Been an Immense Increase In the Demnnd for IlorseIcnk Vehicles. Attempts are being made to exclude the motor carriage from certain towns, and at Bar Harbor, the aristocratic summer recort, it has been virtually barred by special by-laws. But the vogue of the automobile can no more be stopped than the tide of the sea. A single order for 4,200 vehicles, which has been received by a New York firm, will not, it is said, begin to supply the demand.
This order runabouts, golf traps and about 200 delivery wagons and 2,000 landaus.hansoms and broughams of varied design. It is expected that by next year one electric vehicle manufacturing company will have a capacity of 100 vehicles a day. It is believed that if all the manufacturing capacity of this country were to be suddenly increase! to six times its present status it would be insufficient to meet the overwhelming flood of orders coming from ali parts. Many cities are now about to use automobiles in their post office department for the collection of mail matter. This is one of a hundred instances where a special form of vehicle will have to be designed.
An interesting instance of this trend toward specialization in construction is the theater largest electric pleasure vehicle in has a capacity of 12 passengers, and can run at speeds of four, six and 12 miles an hour. It will make 20 miles on one charge of the batteries. Although designed specifically as a theater bus, it has a wide outside range of utility. At Newport, where automobiles is the rage, a most popular design is the low, handy This little machine costs very little, compared with the more pretentious vehicles, and enables a man to travel over the country at the rate of 20 miles an hour. Another electric vtVicle much affected at Newport is the an imposing carriage, having the advantage of a hansom in allowing the occupants to see the view ahead wholly unobstructed.
The carriage itself carries half the battery, the other half of which is in the box behind, over which sit the coachman and the footman. It is more than probable that before long the battery capacity of electric motor cars will be greatly enlarged. At an exhibition in London the other day an electric dogcart was shown, fitted with special accumulators sufficient, it is claimed, for a 90-mile Louis (ilobe-Democrat. All the Girin. The ancient and unique customs connected with Hoch Tide were lately observed at llungerford.
The morn was ushered in by blasts blown from John of horn. The Hoch Tide jury were sworn in by the town clerk, after which the constable (who is also coroner), portreeve, bailiff and tuttimen were elected. Two tuttimen are elected each year, and their duties are quite unique, as on Hochney day they have to visit each house in the borough and collect a coin of the realm from the males and have the privilege of taking a kiss from each female. These tuttimen carry long poles, adorned with choice flowers, tied with blue streamers and surmounted with oranges. The tuttimen are followed by the school children, who all have a holiday on Hochney day.
Each lady who receives a kiss is entitled to an orange. In this way, and in throwing to the children, about 4,000 oranges are distributed during the Inquirer. Her Mistake. you afraid to go downstairs and look for that asked Mr. wife.
not. I am perfectly willing to go and look for him. But, Henrietta, afraid you have been making a mistake with me all these years. You ought to have developed my conversational powers more. After I find the burglar I know what to say to him.
have to stand at the head of the stairs and do the Washington Star. Money. Money it on speaking terms with a good muny Daily CREELMAN ON BRYAN. Bo Considers the Nebraskan the Foremost Statesman. The Otmomllr of Throe Years Ago and of To-Dav Stronger Than Into tke Future.
Cincinnati, Sept. Crerlmnn, the well-known correspondent, thus voices his impression of William Jennings Bryan: Mr. Bryan is not one of the most impulsive men in America. The common idea of hint is that he is governed in all things by his emotions. Nothing could be further from the truth, liis habit of mind is orderly and deliberate, and he is usually desperately slow in making decisions.
Of all the leaders of the democratic party, as it exists to-day, he is, perhaps, more laborious and careful, more studious and more suspicious of issues that originate in popular clamor than any other. This statement niuy surprise men who look upon Mr. Itryan as a mere passionate orator. But it is the simple truth. His political passions are passions of what he conceives to be principles.
This is the key to the Bryan of to-day. He is conservative rather than radical, fundamental rather than practical. Since his nomination in 1890, Mr. Bryan has grown graver, broader, deeper. He has lost what was in him, sectional feeling, and looks to the swarming east to help the south and west in the struggle against the abuses of corporate wealth in politics, lie is more natural in Ids point of view.
To-day he seems to understand that a man may disagree with him on the currency question and yet be a democrat, as representing the party creed as a whole. Although 1 have not been a supporter of Mr. Bryan, I am convinced by personal contact with him and by my knowledge of what be has accomplished and is accomplishing now, that three years have changed him from a sectional leader, inspired but enthralled by a single idea, into a many-sided, responsible statesman. His patient tact, his courageous devotion to principle, and bis power of compelling confidence in nis honesty are gradually reuniting the democratic party. Moat Aitute Politician.
Let no one be deluded by the idea that Mr. Bryan does not understand party politics in all its ramifications. 1 should say that he is at this moment the most astute politician in the United States. Think of the extraordinary ability and knowledge lequiredto hold in union the democratic, populistic and free silver republican parties; think of a defeated candidate who can for three years, without power or place, hold the attention of the entire nation, speak boldly without reserve on every public issue in a time of constant and fierce excitement, and yet not make a single political blunder; in these three years he has become more moderate in speech and less rhetorical. He is reasonable rather than dictatorial.
I speak of him as a profound and masterful politician, because that is the side of his character not generally understood. Neither Senator Hanna. President McKinley, David Hill. Arthur P. Gorman nor Hichard Croker is in the same grade with him as a party politician.
He seems to rule without threats, without promises and without money. He is building up an organization that will compare in completeness with any that has existed since the civil war. He is determined that this party shall not go into the next campaign in a fluid condition, if Mr. Bryan has a serious fault as politician, it is his inability to yield or seem to yield. His personality is something phenomenal.
He dominates everything about him. In this respect he unfortunately resembles Mr. Cleveland, but unlike Mr. Cleveland, he trusts the common sense of the common people. Mr.
deep religious convictions control him in his attitude toward the masses. He firmly believes that the hand of God is always present in the affairs of men, and that it is a part of the divine plan to work out every good thing through the average mind; in other words, through the majority. Ntrontrer Than Ever. No unprejudiced man can travel through the various states to-day without recognizing the fact that Mr. Bryan is much stronger and much more firmly intrenched in the confidence of the multitude than he was at any time during the last presidential campaign.
He is the supreme, unchallenged leader of his party. But what has most impressed me is the large and constantly increasing following he has among business men now. His refusal to engage in personal attacks on the president, his decent and dignified manner of speech and his opposition to a national policy of foreigu adventure seem to have broken down the prevailing distrust among legitimate business men. The is that. Mr.
Bryan is to-day the great barrier against state socialism in America. Were it not for his unceasing Inlmrs, his open nnd real sympathy for the millions who suffer in shadow of remorseless corporatt greed, and his power of convincing the desperate and that their cause can bo won without overturning the present order of state socialism would kindled into life. Hundreds of thousands of men who look with kindly eyes upon government confiscation of trusts as a relief for the present topheavy, unequal condition of tlie nation huve been drawn into support of the democratic party through their belief in Mr. Bryan's senccrity. He bridges a great gulf.
So long us the original nnd opportunities of the republic existed, there were no signs of socialism to seen. Mr. rise into national power is the last protest of old-fashioned continental Americanism against the new order of things reperesented by McKinleyisin, trusts and imperialism. Much ns I personally dislike nnd distrust. the free-silver idea, I am compelled by force of facts to recognize in Mr.
Bryan a really great man, a stubIsjrn and uncompromising champion of a mistaken financial policy, but a stateman and patriot who loves and believes in the plain people. Much hus been written nnd said about Mr. Bryan's failure to make a national name and great fortune a lawyer, but it must remembered that he was only 23 years old when he was admitted to the bar in a small Illinois town, uud that lie gave up the practice of law seven years later and entered upon a political career. Yet twice during that period he made himself In Jacksonville and again after his removal to Lincoln. Declined a Offer.
Besides that, lie declined to accept a salary of $10,000 year from the Standard Oil preferring to live more economically and tight against the abuses of such overgrown corporations. lie has a much more solid record at a lawyer and business man than President McKinley. For one tiling, ns man lias ever been called upon to pay his debts, and I personally know that he lias helped many an unfortunate friend out. of his troubles. Another fact, about Mr.
Bryan has become known since 1896: He can not be used by other men; lie is not weak or invertebrate. He is the master rather than the servant of those who surround him. It was said in the last campaign that if this youth from the prairies of Nebraska should lie seated in the White House, his every act would be dictated by cranks dnd fanatics. But to-day the whole nation can witness in every part of the country the evidences of this man's indomitable will and unconquerable courage. I am quite sure that if the next democratic national platform should fail to meet his convictions he would decline to lie the democratic candidate, although he would vote the democratic ticket.
My own judgment is that he will have no rival in the national convention and will lie nominated by acclamation. It is too soon to express a positive opinion regarding his clinnces of election, but I should say that he is much more popular than when he was last a candidate, and that if the contest is to lie drawn between Mr. McKinley and Mr. Bryan, the present prospect favors Mr. Bryan's election.
It is a long look ahead, but at the same stage of events preceding thrlast national conventions I succeeded in demonstrating to my own satisfaction at least Mr. nomination and election, and 1 do not fear to make a prediction now, with all the reserve arising from the fact that a prophet can never hope to lie as accurate as a historian. TOUR IN KENTUCKY. Col. Bryan Will Deliver Two Aildresses Dally, for Twenty Days.
In Kentneky. Lexington, Sept. Senator Blackburn, chairman of the Democratic state campaign committee, bus received a long letter from W. .1. Bryan, in which he says that he will lie here on October and will open the campaign at Lexington the following day.
He wants to remain Kentucky 20 week days. He wants to muke two speeches each day, und deliver them in as many county seats. Blackburn, although i sick man and unfit for work, went to Louisville Sunday night to confer with other members of the campaign committee in regard to the dates and places. It will puzzle the committee to carry out Mr. plans, as some of the counties are so large that it will be ditficult to reach two county seats in one day in time to make speeches.
Mr. Bryan has taken lunch interest in the Kentucky campaign, and his letter indicates that lie is familiar with the local features. He seems afraid that (loebel will compromise himself with the sound money democrats, ami lie warns him to leave the Louisville local ticket, suported by Wattersou, severely alone. THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Carter, of Moataaa, la Am Interview.
Specnlatea poa Their Fatare Government. Washington, Sept. Carter, of Montana, in an interview with reporter yeslerdny, raid that in his opinion the war in the Philippines would be ended by January 1. he said would come the question of the future disposition of the islands. The republican party, he believed would settle this question by iusistingon the retention of the Philippines as a matter of business protit.
added the senator, a practical age. We are going to deal with this question on the oasis of dollars ami cents. If the people that the Philippines are going to help us they will never let the lslunds go. If, on the other hnnd, they ilnd that the Philippines mean a constant drain and small return, you will ilnd the verdict of the people to lie against permanent retention. Neither religion nor sentiment will have much influence in determining the The great question will be: It If we can show the country that it will, as I think we can, the American flag will never come down from the sort of government should be suggestions will undoubtedly be made.
The first of all will be to ubimdon the islands entirely to the natives. I do not believe will meet the approvul of the American people. The second will be seize the in a firm grasp, assuring the people that we mean to give them a better government than they could enjoy under any other flag or could create for themselves, but that we are the masters and propose to remain so. Then the third proposition will be to throw a loose string around the people, holding their seuports and custom houses with our navy, but allowing them absolute freedom in their internal affairs. This freedom, in may judgment, would soon become anaruhy, und wa would have to rule anyway, so I should say that the second proposition is the one that ought to be adopted.
The firmer we are in our administration, the more respect will those people have for lisp. to the form of continued Senator Carter, should say that a governor ought to be appointed, by the president, with a council also selected by him. There might be a Filipino of promninet men from each of the islands, to discuss questions and advise the governor. 1 do not approve of a commission. 1 think the authority ought to be vested In a responsible head, not spread through saver'll commissioners.
THE SALVATION OF COTTON. Senator Moritan, of Alabama. llevea Manila Will be tbe Great Cotton Market. Chicago, Sept. special to the Times-lfernld from Washington says: Senator Morgan, of expansion will be tbe salvation of cut ton, and is about to start a crusade in the south to spread the new gospel, in his prophetic vision 1 sees the great cotton market of the world, instead of Liverpool.
Instead of paying toll to the llritish bookers, ners and shipowners, he predicts the time is coming when Americans in an American city in the Pacific isles will handle two-thirds of the cotton of the world and save billions to the cottongrowers of America. has built on American cotton, at the expense of American growers, while Manchester has thrived ut the expense of American said Senator Morgan. "Why should the price of the cotton growing in Alabama und Texas be fixed by men in Liverpool? offers the key for escape from this commercial thrnlldom. There at the very door of Asia is an American city with a splendid harbor, ami the day is coming when it will rob Liverpool of much of its cotton trade. Cotton and cotton goo.is will be shipped west to the 1'aciflc, carried to Manila and distributed from that port up und down the Asiatic coast without paying toll to Liverpool and Manchester.
There is not only the saving in transportation to lie considered, for the rehundling in effect entails a number of extra charges. Remember that Asia has two-thirds of the consuming power of the world, and you see the importance of this trade and the promise held out to Red Hot Utjr at l.elmnou. Ho. Lebanono, Sept. was the hottest day of the jear at this place.
The temperature stood for some time at 110 in the shade. The long-continued drought is becoming alarming. There has r.ot been uny rain except light showers for about six weeks. Vegetation is burning up, and the leaves are falling from many of the trees. Fruit trees of ell kinds are suffering, and many of them are dying.
Apples will be materially affected if it does not rain and become cooler soon..
