THE INDEPENDENT
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Animal Fun.
A thick-fleeced lamb came trot-!
ting by;
“Pray whither now, my lamb?”
quoth I,
“To have,” said he, with ne’er a
stop,
"My wool clipped off at the
Ba-ba shop.”
—Christian Endeavor World.
A little horse 1 chanced to see;
He borrowed some cough drops
off of me;
"It’s nothing serious, of course,”
He said, “I'm just a little
hoarse.”
(Jhieago Inter-Ocean.
A kind-eyed cow came walking
by;
"Fray, whit her now, kind cow! j
quoth I,
“I’m going dry, kind sir,” she1
said.
)—St- Louis Post Dispatch
A bob-tailed cur came trotting
by;
"Whence come you now, Sir
Pup?” quoth I,
Said he, as swiftly by he sailed,
Prom a tailor’s, sure—to be
curtailed—Fort Smitli Times
Record.
A crazy goat came rushing by,
"Who, and why such speed ?” de
manded I,
“My name is Harry Thaw, quoth
he,
* “The lawyers, alienists—all do
ride too much on me.
A woman's mind is cieaner far
Than a man's (this truth we can
not soften.)
Because, you see, quite readily.
She changes it so often.— J
Memphis Commercial-Appeal
A Despicable Weakness.
The public has recently had
two glaring instances of the
weakness of public men who
would hide behind skirts to pro
ject themselves from censure,
blame and punishment for their
own acts. Men who do so should
hardly be given credit for
smartness or even knowledge of
human nature, for the world
heartily and thoroughly despis
es the man who would unload
his guilt upon others and partic
ularly upon a woman’s shoul
ders..
Governor Sulzer allowed his
pood wife to take upon herself
the expenditure of his campaign
money in market speculations,
but all to no avail, for the people
did not believe her. They rec
ognized her unselfishness and
willingness to sacrifice her own
good name and their contempt
of Sulzer grew all the more.leav
ing him in a more pitiable plight
than that to which a knowledge
of the real facts had condemned
him.
In California, too. the convic
tion of Diggs was made easier
for the government, because
the jury were not willing that
his sin and depravity should be
charged against a young wom
an, though this had been the
whine and excuse of the defend
ant. And our lows too. need
changing to recognize and moot
this viewpoint, that has come J
to be more generally accepted.
We despise the man who pleads
that the woman sinned and en
ticed him. but we don’t go far
enough under the law to make
the penalties equal against the
two.
Pulling Down Boundaries
When the governor of Kansas
and Missouri had concluded two
days of actual road wor last,
week, the governor o! Xai -as. jn
a public interview sa:d:
"Whatever imaginary i, / uula
ries have existed between Kan
sas and Missouri in the past are
swept away today V\ e are one
in the common purpose of im
proving our roads. Kansas
wants to take lessons from Mis
souri if Missouri has any to
teach. And Kansas is willing
even to show Missouri how to
build roads. But together we
should stand shoulder to should
er in the campaign for federal
aid for our roads.”
Governor Hodges asserted that
the national government might
as well afford to cut down its ap
propriations for the army and
navy and spend the money on the
national roads.
“Kansas, as much as it contrib
utes by indirect taxation to the
support of the national govern
ment, receives back in return on
ly an occasional postollice build
ing- We want fewer postollice
‘plums’ that aren’t ‘plums’ and j
the money spent on our roads, j
Why, the money the government ;
spent to send the ileet around ;
the world a few years ago would !
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11 cl V t. UUlll Cl ft ICCil littuuuw*
way from New York to San
Francisco and been an everlast- J
ing monument to our civilization
and progress.
“Kansas is telling her con
gressmen that they must work
for federal aid in road building.
This is a common cause to Kan
sas and Missouri and we should
fight for it as one state.’
The governor of Kansas is
right in his declarations and nqt
only does he voice the sentiment
of his own people, but those of
other states. The time has
passed when the constituency
of any congressman should be
satisfied to see the national
treasury turn billions into post
officebuildings that are not need
ed and fall to a few cities and
towns to boast of. when greater
projects are given a cold shoul
der by our law makers.
A city that does an annual
postoffice business of over $10.
000 a year immediately proceeds
to ask for a postotlice building
that costs $50,000 to $100,000,
and in the larger cities a great
deal more. The buildings and
expense are entirely out of pro
portion to the volume of busi
ness of these postoffices and no
sane business man would for one
moment consider expending five
to ten times as much for a build
ing as his annual business
amounts to. The citizens of not
only Kansas and Missouri, but of
Arkansas and every other state
should make an insistent demand
for federal aid for public roads
and point the way of meeting
this expense by curtailing the
nonsensical extravagance of
wasting millions on government
buildings, which are really an il
legitimate drain upon the na
tion's resources.
Good roads, as President Wil
son has said are a national work.
They tend to cement a nation, by
lessening distances and bringing
the people of one section into
closer relations of business and
thought with those of another.
But our government will never
give the highways this attention,
until the constituency of every
congressman and senator or at
least a majority of them, give
expression to the popular mind
and voice the demand
When the Washington Herald
expressed wonder as to what he
would do if somebody were to
send Col. Henry Watterson a
bottle of grape juice, the Cour
ier-Journal suggested that he
would probably preserve it in
alcohol.
Our city and county health
officer. Dr. Elbert Watson, who
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is certainly to be praised for an
admirable zeal in bettering sani
tary conditions and public
health of the municipality and
county states that the house
boat' above the city water sup
ply pipe are going to be moved.
Some of the owners of these
boats have shown a disposition j
to resist this authority and
right of the city and we hope
they will consider the strong
public sentiment that supports
our health authorities in remov
ing such a menace to the city’s
welfare and avoid any issue or
contest
Over in Memphis, the direc
torate of the Tri-State Fair is
considerably agitated and divid
ed over whether Pastor Russell
should be invited to preside
This ought not to be an occasion
for division or argument. When
a minister has been charged
with all the double dealing and |
hypocricy of this man he should j
certainly he required to vindi
cate his good name and the sin
cerity of his pretensions, before j
such recognition and honor is |
paid him. It is a slap at every7 ■
church to give opportunity to
men who pretend to be bigger j
than churches and denomina- j
tions, because mey can nui i
place a scrutiny of their lives
before such organized bodies of
Christian workers.
Notice For Bids.
Newport, Ark., Aug. 25, 1913,
City of Newport, Jackson Coun-1
ty, Arkansas.
Bids will be received at the
county commissioner’s, office
(414 West Second street) for
repairing the heating apparatus
in the county jail and court
house located in the above men
tioned city.
Specifications may be had at
the county commissioner’s of
fice.
All bids must be filed with the
county commissioner not .later
than 10 a. m-,September 8, 1913
D. A. Carr,
24b 14 County Commissioner.
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
IRON MOUNTAIN
SOUTH BOUND
No. 3 leaves.5:20 p. m.
No. 20 (arrives 6:28) departs
at.6:38 a. m.
No. 5 leaves.5:00 a. m.
No. 17 leaves.5:20 a. m.
! No. 7 leaves.9:02 a. m.
I No. 23 (arrives 7:47) leaves 8:05 p. m.
No. 91 (local freight) leaves 8:25 a. m.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 24 leaves.10:05 a. m.
No. 4 leaves.10:22 a. m.
No. 28 leaves.8:50 p. m.
No. 18 leaves.10:15 p. m.
No. 6 leave's.10:45 p. m.
No. 92 (local freight) leaves 2:10 p. m.
WHITE RIVER DIVISION.
WEST BOUND.
No. 210 leaves.7:00 a. m.
No. 232 leaves.9:00 p. m.
No. 246 (local freight) leaves
.11:40 a.m.
EAST BOUND.
No. 209 arrives.8:00 p. m.
No. 231 arrives. .6:1S a. m.
No. 245 (local freight) arrives
.9:40 a. m.
ROCK ISLAND.
No. 607 arrives 12:35 p. m.
No. 608 departs 1:50 p. m.
Local freight arrives Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday; departs Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday.
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A Vacation
Drop the worry about where
to go—Colorado is the place.
And the way to go is
Via the
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7"’— Highway to the Heights
Ut strut travel—superb scenery all j
the way—comfort—courtesy—ser- ,
vici.‘"Our own” dining car service ' ,
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Newport, Ark.
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Statement oo-inds loc - c. 111 . -*■
periment Will S P £ £ • / ~ ■1'
strate It to Be 3 rset.
It oHf*n
light sou
but such a uu»s va« « -
of sunlight is thrown through a lens
r,„ a glass vessel containing lampblack,
colored silk or worsted, or any like
‘oibstance. A disk having slits or open
ings cut in it is made to revolve swift-1
ly in this beam of light, so as to cut
it up." thus causing alternate flashes
of light and shadow. When one places ;
his ear to the glass vessel he nears
strange soundH so long as the flashing
beam falls upon the vessel.
A still more extraordinary effect is
produced when the beam of sunlight is
made to pass through a prism, so as to
produce what Is called the solar spec- j
trum. The disk 1> turned and the col- |
ored light of the rainbow is made to
break through it. Now, if the ear he
placed to the vessel containing the silk
or other material, as the colored lights
of the spectrum fall upon it, sounds j
will be given by the different parts of
the spectrum and there will be silence j
in other parts.
For example, if the vessel contains
red worsted and the green light flashes
ui»on it. loud sounds will be heard 1
when the red and the blue parts of -.he ,
rainbow fall upon the vessel. Other
colors produce no sounds at all
C.reen silk gives out sound best in a
red light. Every kind of material gives J
more or less sound in different colors ,
and no sound at all in others. Har-:
per's Weekly.
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WORLD'S DEBT TO VEGETABLE
Possibly Sun Worship Had Its Origin
in Knowledge of the Fact of
the Dependence.
Vegetable life may worry along
without animals, but animal life can t
continue without vegetables. There
fore, says an English chemist, man
owes a great debt of gratitude to the
vegetable. He should do his best to
foster it. It Is not intimated whe .her
this is an argument in favor of the
theories advanced by the vegetarian,
but it is considered ample proof man
would not be here only for the hum
ble vegetable kingdom.
But vegetables, like animate life,
are dependent upon sunlight for their
existence. The vegetable, however,
is both the direct and the indirect
sustenance of animal being. Animal
life of certain species exists solely, or
almost so, on the flesh of other ani
mals. But that latter food eventually
is dependent upon the vegetable.
Time would eradicate animate life
should inanimate cease to exist. The
relations between plant and animal
form a beautiful dispensation. Man
owes to the vegetable more than he
does to lower animal life.
“Thus,” concludes this chemist,
“isn’t it possible the sun worshipers
perhaps had a greater realization of
the value of Old Sol than we of the
present century?”
Livingstone's Resourcefulness.
David Livingstone, explorer and mis
sionary, was a man of varied accom
plishments. Besides getting himself
taught on board ship, and later by
Sir Thomas Maclear, to take with
great accuracy astronomical observa
tions for fixing latitude and longitude,
besides acquainting himself with bot
any and geology, with patristic litera
ture and Egyptology, Livingstone was
an excellent mechanic, a steersman
and a mariner. His resourcefulness
was at all times remarkable. When
he was hard up for fuel on his first
steamer Journey up the River Shire
he landed in the elephant marsh. Here j
no trees existed and no fuel was ob
tainable, but his men found many
bones of slaughtered elephants, Liv
ingstone at once took the bones on
board, burned them in the furnaces of
the Ma-robert, and so continued his
journey.
Picture Statesmen at Work.
A moving picture concern recently
obtained permission to take a series
of moving pictures illustrating French
parliamentary life. Legislators soon
got to hear of the matter, says Les
Nouvelles, some of them showing
themselves particularly anxious to fig
ure on the film. The taking of the
film lasted several days, and the oper
ator took pictures of the chamber at
all times. Photographs will show the
deserted benches of the morning, with
a dozen or so deputies discussing laws
affecting the whole of France, the sol
emn arrival of the president, life in
the lobbies, a stormy afternoon ses
sion and the thronged refreshment
bar.
Very Rapid Descent.
At the exhibition of post-impression
ist paintings in New York two Boston
men were standing in front of the
much-talked-of canvas alleged to rep
resent a figure descending the stairs.
“This is the worst yet," cried one.
"Look at it! It is simply a tangled
mass of streaks and splotches."
"I think," said the other, after gaz
ing at it a moment, “that the fault
lies In the title, which is not sufficient
ly explanatory. It should tell us that
it is a figure descending the stairs aft
er the careless scrub woman had left
a cake of soap on the top step."
No Immediate Use for Them,
She tafter the quarrel)—I shall
send back your ring and other pres
ents tomorrow.
He—Oh, there’s no hurry. I don't
expect to be engaged again for a
week or two.
g “cut flowers floral designs
£ PAUL M. PALEZ, Lea^
^ Blooming Plants, Roses Phoru ; _
£ Bulbs, Shrubs, etc., 409 Main*., L. I
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