The Forrest City times. [volume], November 26, 1909, Image 6

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Seeing France with
Uncle John
| lly AWE UARSER \
~rVOXNE to Her MOTHER
j : + -o* U&i«ri
Vire.
Dear Mamma: The morning after 1
last wrot- us. .e had me w... dupat
seven and wrote on a strap of paper,
■'We i. ait for Bay. .% at i 1 was
Just about sick ft>r I kn» w he wasnt
able to, and then, beside? if we left
so early, 1 surely shouldn t see I*-e
again But I got up and dressed, of
course, and 1 w as b. side myself to
find !- ■ • way .»f ►< nding lr> a r;.;
of a good by before we took a < »b for
the g ire I'm e was in h;g;. spin’
over getting out again, and all w.-nt
well until It canje the minute to get
him on to the train Well, 1 do be
lieve he was scared himself Getting
on to a French train is almost like
going up a ladder that slopes the
wrong -vay, I always think, and it took
two commissionaires to hoist uncle
Into the • o-,pe lie was awfully wor
t- ip thtuaihg Luv. funny it w as that
the Normans, who w»-re regarded a
barbarians by the FYeticli, w r«
lock-d up-on as tremend sly efTei- by
the Kngiish Uncle too* a dea,
pleasure studying the whom thing
and we were there till it was t.me fur
lunch We had a n; •* lun h at a
clean little place, and then • a:ae t
r..b There was nothing to do t.i,
train time, and that t-rrib'.- :<
the gate. I had brought a bo- s ai : -
so 1 could real aloud, 1 ,t ■ .- - u
only a woman would < ::.c to Have ,x
and read a novel, and that I reminded
him of Aunt Jane- V- kr.< w how ter
rible it is w hen any one r-minds hn.i
of Aunt Jan- so I closed the book at
once, and said I'd do anything he
liked He sa-d that that was more
like Aut.’ lent than ever, to t lit
back and throw the whole burden on
"And It Was Lee"
rled over It. 1 could see. for he talked
about what an outrageous idiot Mr
Chopstone was all the way to Hav
en't We had to get out there of
course, and 1 was beside myself to
know- how to manage In the end
uncle came dow n so suddenly that he
nearly crushed me and a m« k. y -1
hearted little Frenchman who had
kindly offered to assist
The gare at Hayeux is quite a walk
from the part of the town where the
sights are and there wasn't a cab or a
thing on \ 'heels I didn’t dare look at
uncle, for there is no train back till
four in tie afternoon, lie seemed a
bit staggered at first, and then he
said well, it was level, and w • d go
leisurely along and enjoy the fresh,
pure, sweet air of the country So we
walked along, but I could see he wasn't
enjoying it a bit, and it took us a half
hour to get to where We were gi ;tig
We went to the cathedral first, and
t
. to him. and then lit sIkmiW his watch
and h**ld it to his ear and said "Hum!"
| too. one right after the other. I was
almost beside myself to know what
to do or what to sugg> st. and just
then something came puffing up he
hind us and stopped right at our side
It was a big automobile with three
men in it. and one jerked off his mask
and jumped out over the wheel and
grabbed uncle by the hand And it
was Lee!
You never saw anything like uncle's
j face! He seemed reparalyzed for a
few seconds, and Lee kept shaking hi
hand and telling him how glad he was
| to see him. and how he must get right
into the automobile and go on with
them to Caen My heart just about
slopped beating, I was so anxious, but
Lee never stopped shaking and the
| other men took off tiu ir masks and
I got out. too and told uncle he really
I must do them the honor and give
“We Passed Elfnaa and Her Sister To day. Pedaling Along for Dear Life.
uncle sat right down and said he
wanted time enough to , njoy the
ground w ork of (lie \ uniting and that
1 could just leave him and go around
alone. It was my first chant■> 'o look
at anything as slow as 1 lik 1 and 1
really did enjoy myself very much.
It's a really wonderful old eath*
dral, and 1 found a nice old sacr -tan
behind the altar, and he took me i;n
derneath Into the crypt, and the , ryst
is the original church where Harold
took the oath It was slowly buried
hv the dirt of centuries, and when
they started t< put a furnace in a few
years ago they found it and dug it out
again H isn't very large, and tin
wails are of stone several feet thick,
with little hits ot arched windows set
up too 1 igh to se, from.
When 1 came back we w» nt to see
the tap* stry in the museum, and if
isn t really tapestry ai all it's a long,
long strip of lit • n about a f, >t w ide,
with scenes embroidered on it in Ken
aington, aud over and o\, r It's real
ly very well don, and it isn't a hit
badly worn out - only a :• *.v little h b-s
here ^ind there. Tin scenes are very
interesting, and some ,-f them are aw
fully funny The wav tier 1 uiled |
tlie horses over tin sid s of th, boat*,
when they landed in Eng ml tor < x
ample. The Saxons have 1 minis and
the N'onnans are shaven I couldn’t
tii. ni the ph-asur- , and in the end w
got him in. and la - won i t
Oh, it was such fun' \V« had the
i most glorious trip b:u k to t’.u n Th-o
I had an « xtra mask along uul ,ne!e
| wore it and sat on the front s.-at, .aid
Mr Peters, the man who own t e
automobile, was really lovely t, ;
I in le said Jt was a very so ot
1 automobile, and Mr Peters -ui !
him good all through to meet .on.,
one who recognized the good pc nts of a
good machine at onee. he said i ,t
“tie man In a thousand had brains
enough to know a good machine when
he was in it, and that he was over
joyed to have accidental :. r..-t tie
on* man who did discriminate \nd
uncle said ho should judg* ti;at au
tomobllng was a very easy way of get
ting over the ground when one was
trailing in Kurope. and Mr pe*,.rs
said it was perfectly bewildering ; , ....
the breadth and scope of uncle > n .nd
could instantan■ ouslv seize and w.:.h
ev*T> side of an intricate propo ■
and as ii..-' iti'anecusly solve it «
pletely l'y the tune we reached fa n
uncle was so saturated with Mr Pet.
that he even smiled on Lee as we g
out and ask. i hem all three ;
with us a» eight They accepted, and
wa nt to their hotel to dress, and in
< le went to hjs room ."Without one
word of any land to me.
| They fame and we had • rery alee
dinner in a little separate room, and
the way Mr Peter* talked to unci
was worth lis'»r.:r.g to surely And
when uncle was •...* "g he leaned : -
ward and paid a*- n\ n as 1* hi* i;f
depended on ev •-> w -d L!t
o'clocli r.cl- »s< tuppier thr.n 1 hav
almost -ur -- and Mr Pet-r
said it w ;s r us-1, we ju»t simply
must join *. - r : arty ar.d go on in the
aut.-m b: - \/e- began to laugh when
j he -u:d th. .-.r : said Now. Peters.
■ you'll learn s-nsation of getting
turned d 1 »'ts i It was an awful
s- - because 1 just felt ua
Bayeux.
• ■!• s '‘rrible battle between not want*,
j ing to go on with Lee and wanting 'o
contradict him; but in the end the
wanting to contradict overpowered
ev rything else, and he said Y< mg
man, when you are as old as 1 am
you'll be less ready to speak for oth
er j opi>- than you seem disposed to
do now "
*'.■ n he at < ; ted Mr Fet>;s*
invitation: So will you only please to
think of it—we are touring with Lee,
and to-day we came up through the
lovely valley of the Vi re to this little
town of the same name It is all too
nice !> r words; uncle sits on tV front
seat all the time, and when he gives
Mr Peters advice, Mr Peters always
thanks him and says that he n<ver
met any or.e before with s use
: enough to have figur d that out
We passed Elfrida and her sister to
day. pedaling along for dear life They
didn't know us, and they are getting to
look so awful that 1 thought it was
just as well, i'ncle says lie thinks
tie y are seeing Europe for 3o cents
a day now
It is raining, and I must go to bed.
Your very happy.
YVONNE
MONEY WAS NO TEMPTATION
Traveler Finds One Spot in the World
Where "Filthy Lucre" Is Not
King.
“1 had tn travel to the wi'ds of N>w
Guinea to obtain a new point of view
toward the fundamentals of our ind ;si
trial system." said a wanderer in
many climes recently.
"A small party of us. in charge of a
missionary and two soldi* rs. visited a
cannibal settlement some mile.- inland
in that savage and practical y un
known country. We met a croup of
the natives, huge muscular fellows,
with tm natrons heads of kinky :.a:r
and bones run through their « and
I litth* else in the way of c! tthinu I
I took a fancy to a carved spear which
I one of them held and sought to j ur
chase it. off- ring a bright silver Ger
| man mark
"The big cannibal looked at the
money cutn.asly and, taking it fr-uu
me. showed it to his f* ’.!• -v- It
amused them immens !v At this
point t’* mis- ioi ary. who knew snni0
11:ii ■ of *l;i ir language, explained that
1 *!* ' ’:■■•! the sp* ar in *-x hanc- hr the
silver lie told the rhap 11■:*• if he
, re.-se,l Hi. bay to the stein, hip 1 in-l
ing they would give him a p! . of ’
ha**.i f**r the coin at the - ire
"The owner of the spear s! ..
tills proposal for some r ■ ■< .,!>
sor: mi: his firs- lesson lr t: ■ a; ,e
*.f mom v Th.-n h* shook hi, !.- *1
nil re-turn* <1 the coin to m--. uttering
* few word, in his strange language.
His remark was translated t*y the
missionary In substatiee it was th.s
"1 don't want the thing If 1 tane
it h> will take my sp. ar Th t. 1 will
never liave my sp* ar again, it is my
spear.'
I iv! f* ss 1 could think of no an
swor Can you?"
English Sarcasm.
1 adies who cross th. v antic will
he well advised to put out their mg
arett.-s and hand ov.-r th* ;r unsmoke.1
supply to some male acquaintance
when the Immigration officials come
hoard We read in the Daily Mail
how .m Englishwoman of tin. de-cribed
unpr. - a diced fellow passengers as
a w man of refinement and culture,
much interested tn antiquarian ro
se.'-.rc " i- now detained on Ellis is
land as ■ probably insane." because she
■ n smi k ing a * igarette N at; n
al views of morals and manners dif
fer, n d mt-t 1 :t it is rather strange
to find a gr.-at country which will ad
mU Mrs 1'aukhurst drawing the line
at a woman who smokes Apparently,
* he madr.es, consists not in stnok
. ing hut in .b-:ug it in public—which
comes to ?! .- that it is mad to of
1 a- al: t :. • ry s v i. w f
ctiquet ■ e. At tins'rate it would be
well for the American authorities to
- qe• -. a print, d list for on h oard
liner of things which are quite o-.m
mcniy done in Ei;r e, but con-i,!* re 1
nsan > In America For all we kr. *w
it may be rule i t, *1 nett not to rhiV
ice water or to speak with au Eng
I Inh accent Fall Mall Gazette
BILLY
By Frank H. Sweet
(Copyright, by W . ti. Chapman.)
"You take dot girl 1 broke your i
b ad.” cried the little German, fierce
as he made a sudden and deter
mined rush forward w !h the rake lie
bad been using
B ;t tl." > mg runn only reached out
and caught th< rake handle in a firm
grasp, at th* sat:.* time smiling down '■
at his wrathful assailant.
“Let me . 'ain, Hans,” he urged
"There a n't t. ogspln n,” stormed i
the German Yc pot off away, quick. 1
My girl ain’t for no college man dot
won't work, dot plat mit golf sticks
and wear white clothes und hafe no
b :sines* S: better ;is dot. Her
fader make riels j - : . y, und gif her
everything to earn m.d to travel, und
to wear Dot all a mistake. I not go- j
irg haf no lazy :: an round mit her.
"But I merely i to pay my re
s; >~rts and—”
’’Und make promise to call mit her j
some more, und talk, und talk, und
pretty soon w hen we not looking there
be a run off for marry B’h! I got
no use for college man w ho haf no
strength for work.”
The young man sTr* ■ i ed out an
arm suggestively
“Pretty good specimen, that," he re- !
marked. "It helped do s me record
breaking In the college nine, and went
w ith me Into a good many football
rushes. Just try the muscle.''
Han’s face showed his disgust.
“Pud maybe it fine to hold a golf
stick," he sneered, "and swing a cane
You ought to be 'shamed ”
The young man laughed
"Look here, Mr. Strohm,” hp ex
postulated, "can't you and I manage
to hit it off in >ume way? Haven’t I
heard Lena- Miss Strohm- say that
you need more laborers in the hay
making?”
"I not need you,” primly. "I hire
men w ho work ”
“Well, try me,” boldly. “You have
' some greenhorns who have to learn
I suppose you can rate wages accord
ingly.”
"You want to fix to be mit Lena ”
“Does Miss Strohm go out to the
bay fields or labor* rs visit your
F-’
"Shake Hands, Billy.” He Said.
parlor? I understand they eat with
your farm manager If I am not at
w< rk I shall v * ry Ilk* ly 1 ' ting
■ili it with my g<nf st:<-ks. and will be
sure to meet vour oiece occasionally "
"Y*-s. dot be so,' refiectiveiy ' If
\(<u b** working you need i * sc*. [.**1.1
fi''Oie more, und we make you work so
hard dot you think more 'bout sleep
•t-K " hen night come that* 'bout going
for walk Y*-es I think I d*> d..
way Mr Rayn* r. or whate- *t ur
1 mn\ he 1 take you fur my
hired man. und I pay y< , n:.i>!
cents for day -more than you be
worth."
Very well; that will be perfectly
satisfactory. You may fix wages ac
cording to my services, l shall come
oil this aft-rno* n But you m , du’t
use the word mister;’ just call me
Bill."
Har.s grunted
"Ain't no need say dot.’’ he an
swered "We ain't haf no mister in
| our hay field. Blit we haf on*- !; y
new so we shust call you Billy "
The first day Billy did his work
awkwardly, though his trained, knot
| ted muscles enabled him to do a larger
amount of it than most of the old
hands B ;t before the end of the s.. -
ond day the same faculties which had
bro ight lit in to the lead in college and
otl" r * ' -ts set him to taking the
a ad m the d. Hans looked on with
wonder, a little disappointment, but
finally with approval Above all
things in - estimation was a good
workman
"If you not dress so well. Billy," he
remonstrated one day. “you be more
like good workman. Everything you
wear -,-*■- iik. it made right on
you ”
^ ! su] pose it was "
laughed Bi. > "But look here. Hans.
1 heard y . tell Tommy Dodd yester
day th ,? ought to dress a little bet
ter a:.d th-r* was Pete Duffy right be
side him w: se lothing wasn't nearly
so g d A: d yet you said nothing to
Pete."
•'Because Pete rot able to buy more 1
r.nd Tommy is. V man ralt good wages
like Tommy urd n.d dy to look out
for ought to dr- s r* .-pec table.’’
\ es. I think s But the other
workmen dr*-ss '. tter than Tommy
arm v« 1 <?:* : v r than the other
workmen How .*
"Mine gracious!" with some little
heat; "ain't there difference niit cir
jin.-fanct s? Of course I dress better
as my workmen.**
"Hxhi tly. and perfectly proper,”
smiled Hilly as he threw the teeth of
his rake over the swath between the
windrows and began to rake Pack
aeiuss th* field. Hans looked after
him with a line gathering between his
f yebrows.
■ What* ver's the boy hinting at
now ?” lie thought perplexedly. "He's
smart as Lena is niit words and dot
way lie switch me off haf some mean
ing to it If I don't drive him from
dis farm right away qun k. he's going
to tw-.st he round niit tiis finger like
he haf Lena und all the men.”
The farm was in the midst of a rich
agricultural country, but where there
was no satisfactory market for the
crops, fine day a ru.nor came of an
enterprise being started in the near
est village that promised to solve this
difficulty, and as the rumor gained
stability the farmers became more
and more jubilant. Hans could talk of
little else. One moon he took dinner
w ith the men at the manager's a.-- was
often his custom.
"1 tell you this Is going to be the
greatest thing for famers around here
that ever was," he cried, striking his
close.; fist upon the table for empha
sis "Dot muu. lie going to build a
packinghouse two hundred feet long
u: i ninety wide, und he going haf
offices und a factory to make barrels
und boxes und crates und everything.
Ail the farmer haf to do is to * arry
his crops to *iot packinghouse und
sell for cash, und let dot man pack up
uml send wherever the farmer sa>,
und then take his commission. :i it
be one bushel apples, one pound of
butter, or one thousand bushel of
wheat, it all right. Everything •**•.
Am t you see al! dot is being spoii
on th'- farm now going be save?"
"3ui won't this man try to skin yon
!ik-> the commission houses have been
doing?' asked one of them.
N". no. people ion't talk do* way.
They say he own most ail t! e big rail
road dot run through the next valley,
md dot he tell our railroad if it don't
give him good freight rate he going
1'uild a branch over to his own road
He say dot he like for them to make
fair profit, but not to make everything
Vi u know how it been mit us When
we go to the railroad und sa> you
charge two. four times too much, the
railroad laugh und charge two time
more This man semi off by tram
load, und he make do what he say,
NV hat he save on rate going make good
profit for him and more profit for us.
People say he rich man. und whi.e he
•■ant some profit he doing this
more to develop country und help the
far; er if only the thing don't break
through now und giv.- up '
Oh. it won t do that." declare..' an
other workman positively. ••[ w ::i
town last night and bought a paper,
and there are two columns in it about
this very matter. The ground is al
ready bought and lumber ordered tor
the- building. I only read part • f t
hmt night, i was so sleepy. [ meant
to have let you see the paper, hut for
got when we started to work thn
morning."
H-‘ rose and went out to wher- ' la
coat was hanging on a nail h ths
r. soon returning with the ,-ap. i
whhh he passe,! to his employer
Ha:;- took it eag>-rlv and mi: bis eyes
"’.vn the columns. Ifi-,- .nt|v h- gav.
u'f-rahce to a Bus;-, am! Ids ev,-a
rj~" •’» t!‘" paper to seek Hilly .m
Pi ' s. :e of the able. : t
' • ar the ; a; er again and tin
Hilly
... gracious!" he cried, am.,/, !
" I ai“ r say dot man who me,
■■ rnilr -ad und is building up dot --n
'>rp;..-- is name William Kay tier "
T! " merely stared at him. Tt
them the name meant nothing.
1
I'-iH.v is name William Rayner. H!ii>.'
sternly, "is dot man you?"
"Why, if you mean the railroad is
the next valley, I believe I do owr
some stoc k in it.”
"I'm! dot enterprise?”
"I'm thinking of starting a sort o,
forwarding house, yes "
Huns rose and stretched his arm
across the table
"Shake hands. Billy." he said "I
! at try you und you c an work und 1
find your clothes fit to your station
1111,1 -’ou think bout other peoples mit
■our money Ir is a!1 gO0l) No„
'•ou may go und speak mit Lena."
The Fearless Farmer.
'! dined with Glenn H Curtiss at
nh'ims in aviation week," said a
member of th. Aero club as he wait
ed on a Hoboken pier for his baggag.
to be passed
I complimented Curtiss on his dar
mg He has always be -n daring tie
did his mile on a motorcycle, yoi
know tn 2? seconds at Ormond
turt:-s said that in motor. vclin»
an<I in flying fear must be put a=ide
He told me at. .at a Kansas farmhand
v- h. d have made a splendid flyer
* u r 11 s* > c, i he once camf, upop
the ,armband at the top. of a long
st. ep. dangerous hill He had an old
fashioned saf. ty bicycle, and he knelt
beside it, taking . ff the chain.
U hat s the matter?’ Curtis*
; sited
• Nothin’, drawled the fa-n h-n.l
calmly. Tm jest inkin’ this her.
chain off to freewneel down the hiiL “
Easing for Ctrength.
The greatest pleasure to h*.
rived from eating is th * piea.^
gets in the knowledge that hf = » °ni*
Because of this fact there is a
stant increase ir. the consumer con'
Quaker Scotch Oats; «
strength making qualities of Qua£*
Scotch Oats have been tested 7* r
entific investigation or b ,
in faniili.-., it has bee/SSf??*
a feed without an equal. t0 b*
V builds th*' muscles and brain with
out taxing the digestive organs
costs so little anyone can afford it
ar.d it is so carefully prepared ms
packed that it is absolutely P„J.
clean A Quaker Scotch Oa-, Vthc
family is always a bealthv f • .. n*
Besides the regular size parka..
Quaker Scotch Oats can be bought
hermeti, ally sealed tins Packed'
this way it keeps fresh and sweet »
any < limate. 8 1 ™
LIKE SOME PEOPLE VVE KNOW.
Sambo (to Dinah)—You sav TOa
Yes, , q .
trufT, but you n-vcr b-t any oat.
RECIPE FOR CATARRH.
Furnished by High Medical Authority.
Gives Prompt Results.
The only logical treatment for ca
tarrh is through the blood, a pre
seription which has recently proved
wonderfully effective in hosr •;,! work
is the following. It is easily mixed.
One ounce compound syrup of
rilia* on ..... Tor oom
I'""nd. half pint first-class whiskey.”
eil in
•i 1" "h and used In tabb-spo. n dose*
L* fore each meal and at bedtime,
h* in. redients can be gotten from
'•11 stocked drugget, or h- will
g..t the.a irom his wholesale bouse.
Ready for tne End.
11 1 te. and a farmer were dis
'h'. subject ot pork one day
..i d tlu rector displayed considerable
• n a pen of f 1-si d Berk
Th. pigs r.-; yours are In
In. condition. Toml.in. on,' he re
A • -. s—; they be," replied
tie in \t* r-i.f-fac r'.i.-nier. "Ah, sur, if
w* is .1 of u only as fit to die as
:■ t * . i,» w • d do London News.
Important to Mothers.
Exam':.- ' i ar--fully every bottt* Of
AS . • >KI \ a sate and sure remedy for
•nfants a;; 1 . hihlreii, ami see that it
| Bears the
Signature ot
In T'-r- For Over :»«> Years.
The Kind You Ha.e \1 ways Bought.
Her ODservaiion.
"Lovf ' remarked the romantic
■1 ung i*. -ti, is id io b: ighten the
. i
1 dot ' kn< v about that,” rejoined
'h< pi a ii a! «n • id, "l--. it k is a ten
dem y iu disarrange one's hair."
~cr Headset.. icy hicks’ Capudine.
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'• I.. I.-Ki 1 • . ■ • ...
<t:.d . • i at L) :■■
When ’'A') n login o talk over
the back fence bis Satanic majesty
hears a lot at fit theis u ighbors that
h< n- \ ■ t evt n sii.-p-'Ctetl
The grand* st iitne <a man lias is de
iil-ing to hi . . i . %a, ; how an
let tion is ( timing t. .t and the busiest
■ xplamitig \vh> it didt.'t.
WESTERN GIMADA
What Prof. Shew, the Well-Known Agri
culturist. Sfty3 About It: -1 "
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