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' FORREST CITY TIMES
UR0V0I6T 8 MOtKIR, Pitliihcrt.
FORREST CITY, - ARKANSAS.
CAUSE OF CROWDED HOMES
The Accumulation of Things Is a
Prolific Source of Woman's
Worry.
One of the greatest sources of worry
to the women In the home Is the
accumulation of things—things ancient
and modern; and this process dates
from the very day of the wedding, and
often before, when the bride’s mother
and the groom's mother vie with each
other to see which can heap highest
musty heirlooms upon the do
mestic caravan in which the courageous
young couple start out across life's
country, says the Canadian Magazine.
If wise, the two ocupants will “travel
light,” and it is not always their own
fault, for foolish friends follow their de
parting wagon, flinging things after
them, which are just as useless as the
proverbial old boots, making of that
which should be free and happy a weary
and tiresome Journey. To begin with
many of the wedding presents are
tawdry or unprofitable possessions, and
it would go out of fashion, excepting for
the pretty sentiment which surrounds
the gifts. For how can a woman hope
for an artistic home when its interior
belongings are selected by a hundred
different people? The first and the great
mistake is the big. showy ceremony pro
claiming the union of hearts, or rather
the supposed union of heart s, for the real
is seldom accompanied by the noise of
drums, the flash of fireworks or the rec
ord in the society columns of “numerous
and costly” presents. Think, too, of
the money squandered on the big wed
ding, a sum which would go far toward
paying for a comfortable home or de
fraying the current expenses of the first
year. There is no doubt that the fear
of not being able to support a wife up
to the present-day demands of the ordi
nary woman keeps ninny a young man
from taking the step.
Instead of being willing to start where
their mothers did many girls seem to
think they should start at a point
reached by lhelr parents, after years of
struggle and deprivation. The accumu
lation of things going on daily in the
house should be fought against w ith all
the force of character the young house- 1
wife can muster; for, after the habit of
hoarding up things is once formed, the ,
only cure for it is to move from house 1
to house. By this means she learns by ’
experience to discard everything thaf
is not absolutely necessary. Old friends,
old wine and some old books may b»
good, but don’t I beseech you. treasure
old clothes, dilapidated furniture, or old
" broken china. Go through your ward
robe once a month and throw out every
particle of wearing apparel that you
are not perfectly sure of needing again
Let the ragman in your lane or the
heathen outside the pale have the benefit
of the doubt; but. above all, don't leave
them hanging around for the undeserv
ing moths to devour. Quaint furniture
doubless pleases the eye when viewed
another person's house or in the an
tique shop window, but it gets on youi
nerves when you yourself are responsi
ble for the care of it. The same with
china. Of course, if it is the only proof
you can bring to convince fashionable
callers that your great-grandmother
was a lady, by all means keep the old
china in a glass case in the drawing
room. But if your own conduct is unas
sailable and your manners good, bring
forth the pretty wares and use them on
the daily table, where they will give
constant pleasure; otherwise they may
but serve as a bone of contention in the
hands of ungrateful children when you
are dead and gone.
ABOUT THE HOUSEHOLD.
Ornamental Articles That Lend At
tractiveness to the
Interior.
Among things decorative tankards,
chocolate pots, tea pots and candle
sticks of copper stand preeminent this
season. They are mounted in brass,
some of the articles are plain, others
present a surface in simulation of
hammered copper that is very effec
tive.
Copper and silver represents a com
bination of metals that finds many ad
mirers, steins of copper, mounted with
silver and lined with gold being a fa
vorite example.
The revival of embroidery on canvas
or scrim has brought about the intro
duction of a new weave of this mate
rial, especially adapted for this work,
as it permits the patterns to be
stamped thereon, thus obviating the
necessity of counting stitches as has
heretofore been the custom in sample
work.
Silk or satin ribbon ruffling for sofa
cushions has given away this season
to a canvas ribbon with a fancy bor
der, in which the colors of the em
broidered center are reproduced. Cords
divide favor with ruffles as a finish to
the niidish couch pillow and the new
ribbon makes a handsome frill.
Sofa pillow covers of chene Silk in
delicate tinting are found these- days
in company with the familiar fancy
silk weaves, the velours and the tapes
tries.
Brussels Sprouts, Creamed.
Select two quarts of small heads and
remove the withered leaves. Wash
thoroughly to remove sand and soak
in cold water 15 minutes. Cook rapid
ly in two quarts boiling salted water
(two teaspoons salt), in uncovered
dish, that the color may be preserved,
for 20 minutes, or until tender. Take
from stove, drain, and to each quart
add two cups of white sauce —Phila
delphia Press.
! Inaugural Address of Go*). *Da*)is
Gov. Jefferson Davis was inatigurat
ed for a third term at 2 o’clock on
Wednesday afternoon, January 11.
His inaugural address la as follows:
Vo th'' General Assembly
Each of us. you as wll ns myself,
have just passed through one of the
most bitter partisan campaigns that
lias ever been witnessed In our state.
Werssarily each of you. to some extent,
participated in this campaign, imbib
ing Us feeling and bitterness, and re
joicing at or regretting its result.
We now meet, you as one department
of the government and myself repre
senting another, upon a common level,
and our only motive and ambition
should be to do tlie greatest good pos
sible for the commonwealth which we
each represent. Knr myself, the feel
ing of that campaign Is ended, and I
trust that each and every member of
th's honorable body will so far forget
it that he may do his whole duty to
his constituents, uninfluenced or un
biased by any feeling that this strife
may have engendered.
Charitable Institution*.
T desire that the session of tills leg
lslature shall l*.s one of affirmative good,
of affirmative work a session ttiat can
point, ns a result of Its labors, to some
tiling accomplished, to something done;
and In this connection I desire to rec
ommend and urge upon you the neces
sity of making an appropriation for
the purpose of building a permanent
home for the incurable Insane of our
state.
OO k SJ m 111 BVUVW*.
The suggestion that I would make
along this line and which I would ear
nestly impress upon you is this: Au
thorize the governor to appoint three
discreet citizens ns a committee to buy
a cheap piece of land somewhere adja
cent to Kittle Rock, say 160 acres, cost
lug not over twenty-five hundred or
three thousand dollars, upon which fair
crops might he raised, and place there
on for the present at least, buildings
to cost not over live thousand dollars,
wooden structures being sufficient to
begin with. Kct these unfortunate
white hoys, and negroes ns well, and
the fallen white women, be committed
to this reformatory, to he managed by
this board of three citizens selected
by the governor, they to select a super
intendent and matron and necessary as
sistants. and be empowered to buy nec
essary tools and machinery and equip
ments of every kind for the purpose of
starting. In a small way and on a cheap
rmsls. a reformatory of this descrip
tion. where white boys may be taught
some useful occupation and the negro
joys lie compelled to work on the farm
ind support the Institution while It is
lelng done. This would prove a bless
ng, not only to the white boy, but to
he negro hoy as well.
Anti-Trust Legislation.
Gentlemen, the King anti-trust hill
mist be passed by this body. You
;now what it is. the democracy of the
date, whoso servants you arc. under- •
stand it and have endorsed it. and.
whether its results are good or had. you |
‘ome here pledged and committed to
jass It and cannot escape this obliga
tion by any legerdemain or game of
hide and seek, that may Vie Insisted
upon by the most skillful obstruction
ists In tills body.
Taxation of Corporate Property.
We now conic to a subioot. gentlemen,
that lias engaged my attention more se- I
rlously perhaps In the last two years j
than any other subject, and that is. >
the proper mode for the taxation of |
corporate property. We do not want to i
he unjust to corporations, we do not
want to tax them unjustly: we want ;
all honest, legitimate concerns to com" |
to our state and help ns to make it the
greatest in the sisterhood, but in order
to do tills it is not necessary that they
escape their just proportion of ttie bur- I
dens of government. Who is it now.
gentlemen, upon whose shoulders the
burdens of government lest most heav
ily? I say to you. without the fear of
being called a crank or demagogue, ttiat
It is tlie small property owner, whether |
he be a farmer, a mechanic, a day la- |
borer, minister of the gospel or lawyer
at the bar; the fellow that has nothing
but a few household goods a small piece
of real estate, perhaps a little home in
a town or city, or perchance a farm In
the country, with a few head of stock
and necessary provender for their care
and keeping, pays more taxes according
to the amount of property lie owns than
any other class of citizens we have.
Now what is the remedy 1 wouid
have you adopt for this evil? I say
von should so amend the tax laws of
this state that all corporate propertv
should he returned, just as railro vd
property is returned, to the railroad
taxing Ixard of this state, composed
of the auditor, secretary of state and
the governor. This removes tin- assess
ment from local influences and loed
surroundings and places the responsi
bility upon three state officials who dare
not shirk their duty in the proper a -
sessment of this character of property.
Taxation of Franchises.
While on the subject of the proper
taxation of cprpo.ate property. 1 beg
to adviV' this honorable body that your
board empowered to tax railroad prop
erty nap had grave problems with which
to deal in tlie last two assessments of
railroads in this state. We have dealt
with that character of property as we
thought fair and lust. The railroads
have complained because their taxes
have complained because the basis of
taxing their property has increased
about twenty-nine and a half million dol
lars in the last four years.
The burden of this contention seems
to lie that we have no specific statute
In this state authorizing the taxing of
their franchises, that intangible prop
erty that is more valuable perhaps than
the physical property of the road itself;
and. while our constitution provides
that all propertv shall he subject to
taxation, and while 1 insist that the
franchise of a railroad is property un
der the meaning of this constitutional
provision and property subject to !>e
taxed, yet a specific legislative declara
tion on this subject would forever set
at rest this question, which is today in
the courts of the country on tlie assess
ment made by your taxing hoard.
Deaf Mute Deficiency.
I desire to call your attention to the
fact that tlie last legislature passed a
most sdtnii.ihle lull for the support and
maintenance of the Deaf-Mute Institute,
hut the same failed to become a law
!" e ms. of the fact that it was not pro
s' nted to the governor within the con
stitutional limit. We were therefore
confronted with the proposition, should
the legislature be called together In ex
tra session, or should funds be procured
from private individuals and arrange
ments made bv which this worthy char
ity might lie carried on until this hon
orable body should meet again in leg
islative session.
For tiiis purpose 1 borrowed from the
following named gentlemen and firms
the amount of money set opposite their
names, vis: <\ F Greenlee. $1,000: B.
-A Hardy. $1,000; R \ Furth. $1,000;
tills Blass Dry Ootids Company. $1,000;
Daskei- Bros . $1,000; G. C, Bennett.
$1 00»; F B. T. Hoilenb-rg. $300: Max
Mayt, $300, Sandefur Julian Company.
*500; George McKean. *500: Arkansas
1’ump and Pipe Company. 1500; Charles
Dugan, 11.000; F. VV. Gibb. *600; W. K.
Casey, *1.000; II. C. Stinson. *500;
.lames Garibaldi, *500; C. H. Wlllmans.
*1.000; l.ank of Atkins. *500; Ad flertlg.
*1.000; Herman Kahn. *1.000; J. T.
Morehoail. *600; A. Brlnolara. *500.
making a sum total of *16,500. with
which we have met and discharged
every obligation under this arrangement
up to the present time.
Fellovr-gerraEta' Bill.
Gentlemen, one of the most worthy
class of our citizenship Is the employe
on railroad trains. Their work is nee
essarll.v hazardous; It takes a man of
a brave spirit and one ready and will
ing to work to engage In it, and many
thousand helpless women and chil
dren in this state are dependent upon
tliis class of our citizens for their main
tenanep and support.
I think that the legislature of this
state ought to meet tills question fairly
and squarely; they ought to say to the
railroad corporations of this state and
to the courts of the country, "When
you employ a man and put him at tills
hazardous business, you are supposed
to employ ns his co-laborers nplv such
persons as are competent and trust
worthy, and if. by the negligence of
these co-laborers alone and without
fault or carelessness upon his part he
is injured, then the railroad must re
spond In damages to his wife and chil
dren. lust as it would to ttie wife and
children of any other injured person
upon ns trains.”
Wild Cat Insurance Companies.
A great deal of complaint has come
to my office, growing out of the fact
that a few adventurers, without means
and witli very little standing, have
gone into what is called "wild eat fire
insurance” In tills state They insure
any character and kind of property,
promise ail sorts of protection In case
of fire, two or three loafers on tile
street draw large salaries out of the
premius paid by honest though Ignorant
and unsuspecting victims of their graft:
a fire comes, the company "busts,” anil
there is nothing to pay with, and that
class of citizens, who are not able to
be thus swindled, are ruined.
Necessarily ttie business they do, they
do with tin- poorer element of our citi
zenship. wtio own small bonus and
small farms. Those people are not able
to have any such frauds practiced upon
them as is being done in Arkansas to
day. and I charge you especially to
make tlie fire insurance laws so rigid
in this state that these little wild eat
mutual comonnies that have been doing
in illegitimate business in tills state
may bo stamped out.
Reformation of the Wine Law.
Gentlemen, wo have In our state a
hardy rlnss of mountaineers, largely
of German descent, who have been In
vited to our state on account of its won
iorful productiveness in grape culture.
They have taken up many waste places,
land that the ordinary American citizen
ould not make a living upon, and built
for themselves splendid homes and are '
making good, law-abiding citizens They
took us at our word and have planted
vineyards, growing grapes and making
wine. Their Ideas on the temperance
question are perhaps a little crude;
they do not ouicklv adjust themselves
to the conditions along this line that
exist in this state.
I call your special attention to this i
so that you may pass some sensible,
plain, unambiguous statute regulating
the sale of native wine in tills state.
State University.
I visited tliis institution n shore time
ago and was struck very forcibly with
the uncomfortable, and 1 might add un
healthy. quarters occupied by the poor
er boys of the umvers'Sy.
Altogether in the dormitory T think
we have about two hundred and fifty
young men. I found that their rooms
were poorly furnished. In a great many
instances, and that the sanitary condi
tion was not of tile best; so much so
that they were threatened with an epi
demic of typhoid fever, originating, in
mv judgment, from the uncleonliness
and unsanitary condition of the dormi
tory and its surroundings.
Another matter of tin* dormitory to
which 1 call your attention is this: A
gnat many of these hoys, when they g<>
there to school, are unable to buy first
class beds, bedding and fixtures for '
their rooms, therefore the dormitory |
presents an untidy and often an unclean
appearance, anil does not make a boy
feel that pride in its sanitation that he
would were he more pleasantly sur
rounded; and I recommend tint In your
appropriation for the university you
provide each room in the dormitory
with a white Iron bedstead and mattress,
a strong, substantial table and chairs,
and a neat, substantial dresser, tills
furniture to be the property of tlie
state and cared for under the most
strict military regulations. This would
enable every boy to have his room fur
nished ns well and as comfortable ns
that of every other boy and present a
neat and tidy appearance, such as will
give him pleasure to maintain.
A dormitory that would accommo
date. say, one hundred young ladles,
presided over by one of tin- faculty and
his family, together with the lady
teachers of the university, who should
be required to room there, would be a
helpful acquisition and one which the
state could well afford to maintain. I
would suggest that it he built some
where in the residence portion of.tin
city and not upon the campus. ;uui 1 >4f
its management and discipline be such
as characterizes the most up-to-date fe
male seminaries of the country.
segregation oi school Taxes.
The most cruel blow that was ever
struck a helpless and defenseless people
was the action of the general govern
ment in placing In tin; hands of an
ignorant, illiterate and irresponsible
race of people the ballot of a freeman
giving them the same rights and priv
ileges under tile general government as
were exercised by their former masters.
The civil war. the history of which
is written in the best blood of the
south, might have been forgotten and
its memory placed tenderly behind us,
had we not been left a constant re
minder of its many cruelties and bar- 1
barltles by the ever-present eating,
cankerous sore, the negro and his bal
lot.
Attempted education proves harmful
rather than beneficial, so I have come
to the point whore I. for one. am will
ing to step out and say "from this day
forward let the negroes in Arkansas
educate themselves, if it is possible;
let the sympathy for them come from
this carpetbag element that keeps them
constantly In commotion;-' and I most
heartily recommend that at this session
of tin* legislature you puss such a law
segregating the school taxes of this
state, as that the negroes mav receive
the benefit of the taxes collected front
their property, and the white children
receive the benefit of the taxes collect
ed from the property of the white peo
ple of this state.
It is said by some that this measure
would bo unconstitutional.
If in your Judgment you find that
tJlis Is true, then submit to the taxpay
ers of this state an amendment to the
constitution to be voted on at the next
general election, embracing this ques
tion. nn<!, my word for It. It will re
ceive sucli an overwhelming majority
as that it will not l>e necessary for any
officer of the state government to de
termine whether it has become a law.
But. In my judgment, such a measure
as 1 have suggested I* constitutional: at
least, if F was a member of the legis
lature and entertained my present views
on tills subject. I would pass the bill
ami leave tlie question of Its constitu
tionality to the judicial department of
tlie government.
The State Penitentiary.
Gentlemen of the legislature. It has
been my fondest ambition since 1 have
been your governor to have built and
put v in successful operation a model
penitentiary and convict system during
my term of office. I have labored for
three years hard and faithfully upon
this subloot, hut have been met at ev
ery turn and at every point of the com
pass with such bitter and stern oppo
sition ttiat I have almost abandoned
any hope of ever ameliorating the hard,
pitiable lot of tiie state convicts In Ar
kansas.
It has ceased to be a penitentiary,
and has grown to be a private snan.
I cannot discuss It witli any degree
of patience; tlie whole system, as to its
management. Is wrong, and I insi'ff
that you empower the governor to ap
point a board, one from eaeli congres
sional district, said board to be ap
proved by the senate, to manage this
institution and select Its officers. As
soon as this is suggested, you will hear
a howl go up from tlie penitentiary
"ring” because tlie election of the va
rious officers to ttiis institution has got
ten into polities and are farmed out all
over tlie state long before a state offi
cer. who is a member of the board, ever
becomes possessed of the office. The
governor should he charged with tlie
management of tiie penitentiary: lie
should be empowered to manag< it.
world s Fa.tr Appropriation.
The great Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition has passed into history, never to
be excelled and perhaps never equaled.
Arkansas is one of the states carved
out of the original purchase, and with
an appropriation of but $80,000. took a
most conspicuous part at this exposi
tion. No citizen of Arkansas need hang
his bead in shame, no citizen of Ar
kansas need regret the small expendi
tore that lias been made, when lie vis
ited tile magnificent grounds of this
wonderful exposition, and beheld tlv*
prominence and place h< Id by his own
“fate.
Education.
Considerable has been said gentle
men. in the last campaign upon the
fact that my rm ssages did not hereto
fore deal specially with the subject
if common school education.
I did not do so simply because T feel
hat we have the best system of public
i-hools there is in the government
I'here Is no reason why any boy or girl
n Arkansas cannot obtain a fair eom
non school education in our public
uhoois, but if any of vn.i gentlemen
•an conceive of any method by which
his system mav*be Immove |. or that
svill afford greater facilities and nppor
:unities to tin* hoys and girls of our
“tate to help them to mori easily ob
tain an education, you will find me In
hearty accord with any measure you
may suggest along that line.
1 can think of this, which seem» to
me a very valuable suggestion, one verv
helpful especially to the poorer classes
"f our citizens scattered throughout
the rural districts, which is. Fur
nish every child in Arkansas with school
hooks free; let the district buv them
from school funds; h t a librarian be
retained in each school house, let th •
secretary *»f earh board of dir* etors of
each school district be a bonded officer
and librarian and responsible for the
care and preservation )(f the hooks be
longing to bis district and b t every
child in Arkansas be furnished with
just such school books as it may need
free of charge.
in this connection there is another
subject to which I desire to call your
attention, and against which I want to
warn you. and that is a sentiment
which has been fostered for years and
attempted to lie promulgated through
the south by the educational depart
mints of our commonwealth, which I
think is'harmful and detrimental to
ti l best interests of our free school ed
ucation. and that is the question of
county suprt in tendency.
Wc an today out of debt; that is we
have but ... bonds outstanding
and we have in tin- state treasury non -
lv one million dollars to tin credit of
the general revenue fund We would
pav this $12.5ini in tile twinkling of an
eve it we could tilld it; then 1 sax tr,
you. gentlemen, that I f.-, i w- can just
lx say that Arkansas does not owe a
cent and is out of debt
\\ e have enough money on hand in
the state treasury to absolutely pay
the expenses of the state government
honestly and economically administer
ed. for two years without the levy of
one cent of state taxes.
Then why not eut the state taxes
half in two?
.■Von will he told perhaps by your
auditor that this cannot be done; that
you might reduce it a mill. 1 suv to
you. gentlemen, that it can he done;
but if you cannot reduce it but a mill!
do that much, because every dollar not
absolutely needed in the administration
of Pub,ic affairs is wrongfully tfiken
from the people when taken unnecessar
ily.
State House.
imrr nas iM'On eo]lPc*t«*r] from the
'taxpayers of this state <628.212.72 Of
tills amount there has been spent $22r* -
3m SO. and still we have not enough
state house to create a suspicion TIi's
docs not take into account the vast
amount of convict labor used un to the
present time.
1 say to vou that the architect em
ployed in this case will never put up
the building that lie originally planned
and have it delivered according to the
plans and specifications originally sub
mitted, for a million dollars. He lias
already received *34.334.51 of his com
mission. He is to receive only *50.000
in all. This haves only a sinsil bal
ance due him. with no substantial part
of tho work done, and I imagine that
lie feels verv little interest In the re
mainder of this scheme except the draw
ing o 1 the balance of his unpaid com
mission.
Hut there is one thought, while deal
ing with the matter of the stat. house
that I desire to impress upon you most
seriously, which is this: Out of the
wre, k and ruin of this unholy enter
prise, you save the old state house
Save it for sonic worthy purpose as i
monument of Arkansas’ past, her pres
ent and her future.
The last act of the legislature pro
vlded that these grounds and building
Should he sold and the money appro’
printed towards the erection of a n,.u
state house.
1 trust you will so amend that 1 ,w
as to preserve Intact these grounds and
building, and 1 would suggest that i
small sum be appropriated f,,, lts '
modeling and preservation, and nut of
the east wing make a public unr,rv
and out of the vi M wing a governor’s
mansion
Respect fully s ubm it ted.
Jefferson lb.vis, Governor.
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Special atteniton given to new work. Satisfaction guar
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and Brokers.
REPRESENTING
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