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JNO. T. BRHDY, Watchmaker and Jeweler, And Dealer in All Kinds of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware ui Biassonds. Engraving on all Goods purchased of me Free of Charge. |3F“Sperial attention will be given all kinds of Repairing in my line, and satisfaction guaranteed. Repairing of fine watches a specialty. solicit your trade and invite you to call and exam ine my new stock. Remember the place—Sol Lewis’ Dry Goods Emporium. In Sol. Lewis’ Dry Goods Emporiumy FORREST CITY, ARK. . "^•"A Drink Hoi and Then is Relished by the Best of len,"^ AND THE MOST PALATABLE BEVERAGES CAN HE HAD AT THE ★PEARL^SALOON* IKE MALLORY, Proprietor. The Best of Tennessee and Kentucky Whiskies, Imported and Domestic Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Beer, Ale, Porter, etc.| Special Attention Paid to the Jug Trade. A Beaietiful Line of Bottled Goods. North Washington Street, next to J. W. Beck & Co. Geo.P,Taylor &,Co.“is' FORREST CITY, ARK. Real Estate aid General Insurance Agents and Brokers' Representing the Old Reliable, Time Tried and Fire Tested Companies. Gins, Saw Mills and Farm Property a Specialty. We Pay Taxe<?, Redeem Lands, Sell and Exchange Property and Negotiate Loans. We Sell Fire, Life, Tornado and Accident Policies, AND REPRESENT THE if Equitable Life Assurance Association ★ CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Lock Box 21. Office in Rollwage Building, Up-Stairs. L. R. GROBMYER, Proprietor of the CITY MEAT 3IARKET West Side North Washington Street. Keeps Fresh Meats of all kinds and Gantio in season. Buys and sells Live Stock, paying the highest Market Price for Hogs and Cattle. Your trade and inquiries solicited. J. M. ALI.INDKH W B. YOUNG. T. W. ALLINBEE. #4. cm vncliA —1’ROl‘RIETORS OF THE— Palace Saloon. Hancock Building, North Washington Street, Forrest City, ArL —DEALERS IN— pii?e U/ii}es,Ciquor5 ar?d Qi^ars Case Goods a Specialty. The Celebrated Clifton Springs Whisky—Regular Four Dollar Goods—will be sold at $3. We are Sole Agents for the Old Canadian Rye Whisky. Everything Urst-elass. and a share of the public patronage is invited. Fair and courteous treatment guaranteed to all. MODEST CLAIMS OF SILVERITES. Conservative t'.atlmate ot the Standing of the Htatea. We have on several occasion* directed •ttcntion to the extravagant claims made by the republicans of states and electoral votes wherewith they expect, or profess that they expect, to land Hanna's man in the white house. The claims have been uniformly so out rageous that argument in connection with them was out of the question; the only way to treat them as they de terred was to laugh at them. Within the last two or three day*, however, the representatives of the free silver democracy have tried their hand at the same business, and they have compiled a list which, from its unmis takable modesty and conservatism, must challenge the respect of the re publicans themselves. Here is the roll of states with their electoral votes which they pronounce to he "absolutely safe" for the Bryan and Sewall ticket: Alabama . 11 Arkansas . 3 California. 3 Colorado . 4 Florida . 4 Georgia . 13 Idaho. 3 Kansas . 10 Kentucky . 13 Louisiana . 3 Mississippi . 3 Missouri. IT Montana . 3 Nebraska . 3 Nevada . 3 North Carolina. 11 North Dakota. 3 Oregon . 4 South Carolina. 3 South Dakota. 4 Tennessee . II Texas . 13 T’tah . 3 Virginia . II Washington. 4 Wyoming . 3 Total.M3 That is, without exception, the most “likely" list that we have hitherto seen compiled on the free silver side; the ■tatca that are claimed in it are. every THE VITAL POINT. Shall W# Vote for a tioeernment by or • (internment by Money? The American people will soon go to the polls and decide the issues that are now dividing them. The most con spicuous of these issue*, the one about vdhieh there is more writing and talk ing than about all others, iathe money question. But important as thnt ques tion is, there is another of incalculably deejier moment to this republic. The supreme issue before the republic is: ' Shall this nation be ruled by it* money or its men? On the one side we have McKinley, backed by the concentrated wealth of the country. Every trust on which I class legislation in the interest of the rich and influential confers the privi lege of taxing the masses for private profit; every syndicate that has made, or hopes to make, millions by raiding the treasury of t.hie United States; every combination of capital that sees gain to itself in the contraction of the currency; every rich man who has come to think that the government should tie run for the benefit of him self and others like him—every one of these elements is striving for the suc cess of the republican candidate. The accumulated wealth of the country is working by every means, fair and foul, for the election of McKinley. On the other side we have Bryan, whose only strength is his cause ami himself. Bis appeal ia straight to the people on the principles for which he stands. Be asks no quarter from the trusts. Be defies selfish wealth and challenges it to exert, to the utmost its jower to corrupt, to coerce and to con fuse the issue by controlling the voice of the press. Be. liega for no man's vote who does not think it best foT the country to give it to him. Be urges the people to study the questions at ia HAS IT COME TO THIS t one of them, strongly bimetallic, and there is not any reason to doubt but that every one of them will help the democratic ticket on its road to vic tory. Two things will be observed in the list that are striking. The one thing is that, contrary to all precedents in such cases, a claim is not made for the full 224 votes which constitute a major ity of the electoral college vote; and the other thing is that not one of the big states of New York, Ohio, Illinois or Indiana is claimed, although the com mittee has good reason to believe that all of the three last named w ill go for Bryan. The 26 states included in the above table are to be supplemented by the other four state*, of Delaware with three vote*, Maryland with eight votes, Minnesota with nine votes; and the previous 203 votes which thedemocratic committee pronounce to be “absolutely safe” for Bryan, swelled by the 26 fur ther vote* of the four btates just named, which the committe pronounce to be “reasonably certain” for the free silver ticket, will give the 224 votes* necessary to elect, w ith five to spare. But while the committee give out this list of states and electoral votes as the list on w hich they expect to win, they do not by long odds convey an in timation, or even squint toward the Idea, that these are all the states that the democrats are likely to carry. They contend that the Bryan ticket has a thoroughly good fighting chance in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan, and a poorer chance in Ohio and Iowa. New York, ow ing to the detestable treach ery of Senator Hill, who cold-blood edly but successfully “queered” the democratic state convention, the com mittee appears to have abandoned alto gether, just as green-eyed i>oliticians like Blackburn and Dorman have done. But as New \ ork is not necessary to democratic success, its loss may be contemplated with equanimity; the free silver ticket will win in a canter without its assistance.—N. O. Tirnes Dcmocrat. -No candidate for the presidency was ever maligned as Mr. Bryan has been, but he lias not lost, his temper and goes right ahead with his effective talks to the people. The slanderers are not accomplishing their object.—N. Y\ Journal. -Every time another of those 1P90 free coinage letters turns up. poor Maj. i McKinley cursoR the man that invented ! I*n and ink.—Albany Arjrus. buc and then vote as their knowledge direct*. His is a brave, a frank, a ra tional, a manly and a truly American appeal. Bry an Bpeaks for the welfare of the industrious many; McKinley for the welfare of the opulent few. Is there a thoughtful man in the whole I'nited State* who does not know that the greatest danger which is threatening this republic is the steadily grow ing power of conscience less money? Does not every thought ful man feel that unless the grip of wealth upon out government shall tw looaened we must ultimately have a republic in naoue and an oligarchy in fact? Citizens equally honest differ sincere ly on the currency question. Silver men think the single gold standard a potent cause of our industrial distress; gold men think that bimetallism would increase rather than lessen that dis tress. But honest Americans should be agreed in believing that a presiden tial election carried by the trusts and syndicates, under the leadership of Mark Hanna, would be immeasurably more disastrous and dishonoring to tine United States than the retention or in troduction of any monetary system. Lve-ry oitizen before he goes to the ballot box will, if he be intelligent and patriotic, ask himself the vital question: “Shall 1 vote for government by men, or for government by money?”—K. Y. Journal. -Mr. Hanna t>egan his career as tiM manager of a political trust by saddling McKinley with his syndicate; he fol lowed this by saddling the republican national conv ention w ith McKinley, and crowned his work by saddling the re publican t>arty with a crushing load of millionaire finance committees. The defiance of public decency and popular sentiment Into which the syndicate boss has led the republican party has never been equaled in the history of politics. The republicans realize their blundet now. They would give much to be rid of their mortgaged candidate and his IKilitical reeeiveia.—St. Louis Republic. -The Binghamton Republican quotes an act of 1873 to prove that the silver dollar in our currency lias a “gold backing.” The sliver dollar has been standing up since 1873. Prior to 1873 it stood up, too, but between these two periods it had no standing in the currency. What held up the silver dob lar from 17'.)? to 1893?—Binghamton (M. Y) Leader. CROWLEY RIDGE INSTITUTE! FORREST CITY, ARKANSAS TEAOKBR9_— High School. Mrs. C. R. Ross. Intermediate and Primary. Miss Irsns Rrssrwin, M usic. Miss Floy Ross. • | Elocution and Physical Culture, Mrs. B. I. Adklni Tbis is a Graded School, fully equipped for the thorough education of both mu,, In addition to the Common School Branches taught In the Primary and Uiera> diate Department*, clause* will be ■ustained in the Coliegiute Department, at ffll|**g A'gebra. Geometry. Trigonometry. Physical Geography. Botany, Physic*. Cbtm|*try Rhetoric, General History, Civil Government, Latin. Literature and Psychology TUITION, per Month—Primary, 12; Intermediate. §2 50; Collegiate, 13 pJW, bl* In ndvanee mile*' otherwise agreed. Music. Art. Elocution and Modem Languages, at usual rate*. Pupils enrolled last term..270. Term begins September 14, 1898. For particular*, adore** Mrs. C. R. ROSS, Principal, Forrest City, Arkansas i-lb-u--J-- ——1 - i ^LEADERS OF LOW PRICE8^> BECKER & LEWIS, E>E3JCL.Hm,8 IN ★Qeqeuql Fire Brick, Lime, Cement, Plaster Paris, Iron, Wagon Material, Curtains, Wall Paper, Oil Cloth, Carpets, Etc. FURNITURE AT ROCK BOTTOM FIGURES Will make it to your interest to examine their stock before purohaaingaiMirhag ★ R. J. IZARD, if FOR FIRE INSURANCE. Office over J. W. Beck <fe Co’s store. 1- MiSIILL, Prenlleat I. KOLl.WiUK. Tie*-President. ( HU. H HANDKSS, CuHa. Paid up Capital, $50,000. Surplus $5,000. BARK OF EASTERN ARKANSAS, FORREST CITY, ARKANSAS. Merchants’ 1 Bank Collections a Specialty. CORRESPONDENTS. P •uiiti national Bank Now York State National Bank. Mf |fcla CONTINBNTAL NATIONAL BANK St Louit. GERMAN NATIONAL BANK. LttUK Bttfc. DIRECTORS. J W BECK, of J W Meok A Co. JAMES ITBSBLL, of Pum«1I, Qrahtm A Co L HOI.I.U AKB Of L. Itollwacr A Co W H McDANIEL. Capitalist act Pantsr H W NORTON. Attorney at Law. A BROKER of Becker * Lewie CHAS L EOOLE8TOK. Meaphle WM M BLOCK. Reel Eetete Dealer. VeeaMB * ™ imw.1i,, oi wyiDi, u ud . MfBpoU. Ten* EVERYTHING NEW AND FIRST-CLASS TOLBERT & DUNCAN, BARBERS AND HAIRDRESSERS. North Washington Street, Forrest City. consolidated our two shop#, and everything being new and we are better than ever prepared to give entire aatifaction, and we Milett nl» eral patronage. G. HI. HAVENS IS NOW PREPARED TO DO WOODWORK AND BLACKSMITHINfl Plow Sharpening and General Repairing. Cross Cut Saws Gumming ft Sf** cialty, making them as good as new. Carriage, Furniture and Gen eral Painting and Vaanishing. Funeral Undertaker—Coffins of ail kinds. Shingles, Flooring and Ceiling always in stock. 1 ALL SHOP WORK DONE ON SHORT NOTICE.