THE INDEPENDENT j
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
Front St, NEWPORT, ARK.
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Why Not Good Roads?
The good roads question is
mow claiming the attention ol
the entire nation, and all states
are pushing forward some plan
by which they can better their
road conditions.
A great number of counties
here in the State of Arkansas
are pushing forward for better
roads; but here in .Jackson coun
ty, there is nothing said and
nothing done to better our road
'Conditions.
Now is the time to fix our
roads for the fall traffic. If we
wait until late in the season to
fix our roads, we could not ex
pect to have good roads in the
fall, but if we fix our roads now,
that will cause them to be well
packed for the fall traffic. Roads
that need draining should be
-drained now so as to be in shape
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in the fall, and if we wait until
fall to do this draining, then it
will not be done as then it will
he wet and muddy, and conse
quently cannot be done.
So, what will we do with this
important question. We have
the finest lands in the State,
mostly undeveloped and New
port is a splendid business cen
ter but we certainly are letting
>fne trade get away from us
S just because we hold out no in
ducements to the farmers in
our community.
No roads—and nobody making
any effort to better the condi
tion! It is a shame and dis
grace for a town like Newport
to sit still and let all of the bal
ance of the world lead us in this
roads building when we have
as good facilities as any coun
try under the sun to make good
roads.
Then look at our old, wooden
culverts. A miserable make
shift for drains. Why don’t we
put in these drains with tile so
as to stop this everlasting drain
on our treasury, besides mak
ing the road much smoother to
•drive over and stop digging ruts
in the road by jumping on and
off of these old wooden make
shifts.
It is a mistaken idea that good
roads are only good for a few.
Good roads are good for every
body—Good for the farmer be
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cause he can come to town any
time in the year, and haul a good
load; good for the merchant, be
cause it gives the farmer an op
portunity to market his prod
uct at any time of the year,
which always makes business for
the town in which he markets
his produce. It is good for the
country, because it will bring
immigration to our county, be
cause good roads are the great
est advertisement that any coun
try can have, and without good
roads we cannot expect to have
people come and settle and make
their homes with us.
Respectfully,
W. D. McLAIN. |
Japan Not "Little."
Whenever the Japanese gov
ernment becomes involved in a
controversy of any kind with a
great power it is the custom to
speak of "little Japan.” Friends
and foes alike use that expres
sion. Some deride the preten
sions of the Japanese on the
ground that their country is too
small and weak to be taken se
riously by a nation of the first
rank. Others show their sym
pathy with the islanders by call
< ing it shameful to bully so small
| a state.
I This is all a mistake, japan
j is not little. In area of course,
j the Japanese territory, occupied
1 or conquered, is small by com
parison with Russia, for in
stance, the huge empire which
the Japanese defeated in a long
and bloody war. But in popula
j tion the Japanese empire is not
I one of the little nations of the
world.
There are more than 52,000,
000 Japanese, not counting the
Formosans or the Koreans. They
have more than 3,000,000 sub
jects in Formosa and more than
13.000. 000 in Korea, or Chosen,
as they have named the country
j since its annexation. These 16,
000,000 Koreans and Formosans
are just as much to be counted
in reckoning the population of
the Japanese empire as the Fil
lipinos are in stating the nunv
ber of persons living under the
American flag or the natives of
Algeria and Cambodia are to be
i included in the population of
! France and its possessions.
But taking account only of
the Japanese it is evident that
52.000. 000 make a large state,
not a little one. That is the pop
ulation of Austria-Hungary. It
is 6,000,000 more than the in
habitants of the British Isles.
France stands about 13,000,000
below Japan. Italy is smaller by
17.000. 000. The population of
Japan is greater than that of
Spain, Holland, Bulgaria, Swit
zerland, Servia, Sweden, Greece,
Denmark, and Norway all taken'
together.
Obviously, such a nation needs
no sympathy because of its lit
tleness. It is equally clear that
it cannot intelligently be derided
as too small to have a chance of j
resisting any big and powerful!
country.—Little Rock. Demo
crat.
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Temptations of a Brother.
To the .Joplin Globe it would
seem that being the brother of j
the president would be rather
nice. Charles Taft always ap
peared to enjoy the distinction,
and there is no reason to believe |
it cost him any money or forced ■
him to resign any of his ambi-,
tions. That his was not a tvpi- j
ca instance, however, as shown j
by the experience of -Joseph Wil
son, only brother of the present,
president.
•Joe Wilson, as he is known, is
a newspaper man. Just at pres
ent he is city editor of the Nash
ville Banner and is pulling down
a salary of $35 per week. It has
not been so very long since he
was getting $25 and even less.
After his brother was elected ^
president a New York insurance j
company offered Joe a salary of j
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company offered him $2,000 a i
month. But Joe appreciated
that they were in reality merely
offering to buy the Wilson name,
and 30 far as he was concerned
that wasn’t for sale. He declin
ed these offers with comparative
ease, although declining a raise
in salary from $35 to $500 a
week would not be an easy mat
ter with most people, especially
when it really could be accom
plished with no sacrifice of hon-!
or.
But there were other offers ;
that appealed desperately to Jo
seph Wilson. For years he has
had an ambition to become a
Washington correspondent. Af
ter his brother’s election to the
presidency last fall letters began
to roll in from the big papers of
New York and other cities, of- J
fering him just that position.
He did a little figuring and found
which he could do by syndicating
his stuff, he would be insured
the neat little income of $15,000
a year.
But Joe, who is a full brother
of our president in every sense,
only figured it up as an idle mo
ment’s pastime. In another idle
moment he answered all the let
ters, declining all the offers. He
knew as a Washington political
writer he would be regarded as
reflecting all the views of the
president, which most certainly
would at some time or another
embarrass his brother mightily.
So he will content himself, for
the present at least, with his $35
a week.—Fort Smith Times-Re
cord. j
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Remarkable Popular ignorance.
Some one has remarked that at
the height of Napoleon's fame there
were men in the back alleys of Paris
who had never heard his name. This
Illustration of popular ignorance was
recalled by a Judge who was examin
ing candidates for citizenship in New
York city recently. He asked one of 1
these prospective citizens, "Who Is
the head of your native country?** I
The king." "Who becomes the head •'
when he dies?" “His son.” "And ‘
who is the head of this country?* 1
"The president" “And who would
become the l^ad if he died?" "His j|
ion.” And yfct, as the Judge remark- !!
sd, all these men know enough to j
urn their dally bread—the rest is a ;
natter of schooling
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Famous Author Was Especially Fsnd
•f Thess and His Other Pet*
at Abbotsford.
One of my pleasant recollections lc
that of seeing Sir Walter Scott out on
a stroll with his dogs; the scene be
ing In the neighborhood of Abbots
ford. In the summer of 1S24. while as
yet the gloom of misfortune had not
elouded the mind of the great man
There he waa limping gaily along with
his pet companions amid the rural
scenes which he had tolled to securs
and loved so dearly
Scott’s fondness for animals has
perhaps never been sufficient!#
acknowledged It waa with him a
kind of second nature, and appears to
hare been Implanted when as a child
he was sent on a visit to the house ot
his grandfather. Robert Scott, at 8aa
dyknowe. in the neighborhood of Dry*
hurgh Here, amid flocks ot sheep and
lambs, talked to and fondled by shep
herds and ewe milkers, and reveling
with collies, he was impressed with a
degree of affectionate feeling for a ok
mals which lasted through life. At s
subsequent visit to Sandyknowe. when
his grandfather had passed away, and
the farm operations were administer
ed by ‘‘Uncle Thomas," he was pro
vided with a Shetland pony to ride
upon. The pony was little larger
than many a Newfoundland dog. It;
walked freely Into the house and was 1
regularly fed from the boy's hand. He ,
soon learned to ride the little pony j
well, and often alarmed "Aunt Jenny*
by wintering over the rough places in
the neighborhood. Such were the be- ,
ginnlngs of Scott’s intercourse with
animals. Growing up, there was some- j
thins extraordinary in his attachment \
to hii tog*, his horses, his ponies ud
hls cats; all of which wore trsatog by
him. each In its own sphere. as qm
able companions, and which were ah
tasked to him In turn.—W Cham
born.
ORIGIN OF OUR CALENDAR
jttery ef tho Year and It* Da ye, as
New Constituted, Teld
Once Mere.
The Julian year consists ef 8(914
(ays and exceeded by 11 minutes li.M
leoonds the solar year of 3tS days I
tours 41 minutes 43 seconds. In eon*
tequence of this, the equinox In the
lourse of a few centuries fell baok oo» !
ilderabiy. In the time of Julius Cao
jiar. It corresponded to Marsh IK
tnd by the sixteenth century It had
retrogarded to March LL It was at
this time that a physician ef Vsrons
lamed Ghiraldl proposed a plan far
amending the calendar. He died bo
fore he ,had opportunity te carry 1!
forward, but hls brother presented It
to Pope Gregory XIII., who assembled
n number of learned men to dlseuss It ;
It was passed upon favorably and
adopted, and thus was given to the
world what has since been known aa
Che Gregorian calendar. In 1582 Greg
ory Issued a brief, apolishlng the Julian
ealend&r In all Catholic countries, and
introducing the reformed one.
The reform of the Gergorlan o» now
sn the Julian or old. constated la
dropping ten days after October It
IMS. so that tho 19th was reckoned
Immediately after the 4th. Svery snc
hundredth year, which, by the old style
was a leap year, was to be a common
poor, tho fourth oentory, divisible bp
•our, excepted; that Is, 1(M was to re
main s leap year, but 1T09, 1(09 and
1900 were not to bo reckoned as such,
while 2000 was to bo reckoned.
In this calendar tho length of tho
solar year Is taken to bo 2(9 days 9
hours 49 aalautes and 18 seconds, tho
difference between whleh and tho true
length Is immaterial.—-The Christina
Herald
•reenwfoh Time.
Standard time has been so long la
ase everywhere In the United States
that meet people appear to hove (or
get tea. If they ever knew, that It was
baaed epon the time at Greenwich, The
hour divisions were so arranged ifeot
Mew Terk. er eastern time. Is exactly
lve hoars behind London; centre!
time is sir hours behind London, and
m oa. The tendency Is evidently al
most universally to acoept tho Gtaben
wlch, meridian as tho starting point,
and to has# all ealsolitlons of time
sn it. Although tho United States
maintains Its own observatory at
Washington, and prsparo sits own nan
deal data, nevertheless, for all prmo
tlcal purposes Greenwich time and
calculations based on Greenwich
time, are universally need la both tho
savy and the merchant marine. While
It might reasonably he expected that
there would be seme sentiment and
satlenal prejudice against the accep
tance of Greenwich ttsse as the stan
lard all ever the world, the practical
benefits of a universal standard are
lee obvious to ho Ignored.
Keeps far Children.
The opinion is expressed by men
she have made a study of exercises
tar health, that <t Is a pity the skip
ping-rope and hoop have gone out at
bshlen for children.
It is suggested they ere more exoel- i
ent mediums for the physical develop. I
nent than bicycles and roller skatea 1
rhe fact that small ehlldren are aj.
owed to have bicycles, and cense :
luantly make no use of nature’*
naans of progression, Is offered as as
ibjectlon to them.
The skipping-rope and hoop require
:hem to run and walk. Young cbll
Iren should be encouraged to do thl*
uo much as possible, and always with
i springy step. They need to use
heir feet and legs, and exercise that
wOnan these Into elar *e
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SMALL DEPOSITORS*
! We encourage small depositors. Why? ReCdu H
■ of our large accounts began with a small i--, ,
small depositor of today becomes the larg^
ture. A checking account here is the first J^B
financial growth. ar^H
| The Farmers BanH |
of NEWPORT, ARKANSAS 'I
Home Influence on Writing.
Environment ha9 been held respon- I
ilble for many human frailties, but It ;
:» only lately that it has had to shoul- {
ler the blame for poor handwriting i
•Even more than temperament and ,
.•opv books environment influences a ■
jhlld’s handwriting," said a, hand writ- ;
ng expert. ‘*lf he sees a fashionable I
vrtt'ng or a clear business uund or, l
.able3 and desks at home he will imi
.ate that unconsciously, if only ac
ir.educated scrawl meets aim there,
le, too, will scrawl, let his Irsmrtioi.
a school be ever so thorough '
In Pra 3- a# Ceurag.
Certain virtues Jr. t,v. ,‘
.'Ices by so narrow i p;:i!} y/^ 1
• • :cern very clear;;,- to
'nee. Few men car. ; ?t;n
.rom vanity; persev -t, .7^>
ornness; economy -- ... d ‘ 0
ome Is true of co-.-..^ ^
-ruished from effrom.'-- Th *
■ “ ' 1QQ Co
eous man must har - lmblti
merely dream of wfut he ^
to have. The audi 'hus aaT,
found fault with for their brutaii
overcoming all obsm _out f
necessary to accomp 107 ran
pose.—Chicago Am«:; . ..
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CHATTANOOGA
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and friends the Iron Mountain will run a special train
from Little Rock to Chattanooga via Memphis and
the Southern Railway.
Leave Little Rock,2:00 P. M., Sunday, May 25.
Arrive Chattanooga, 7:00 A. M., Monday, May 26
Round trip tickets at very low rates will be sold May
23-26, inclusive, with return limit June 5. Upon pay
ment of 50 cents limit may be extended to June 25, _
1913.
Pullman Fare, Little Rock to Chattanooga:
Standard, Lower Berth_.$2.50
Tourist, Lower Berth_1-50
Reclining Chair Cars and Coaches without additional
charge—See that your ticket reads
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