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Arkansas, as second-class mail mat
ter.
The question of Mr. Brun
didge’s election as governor has
almost resolved itself into a cer
tainty, but the suggestion of the
Texarkanian that this editor be
tended the position of private
secretary to His Excellency, is
as far removed from the mind of
Judge Brundidge as the Republi
cans are from the political pie
counter. The Citizen’s support
of our distinguished fellow
townsman has been absolutely
free from selfish motives. We
have had no political ax to grind
and will not have after July 23.
But mind you. if our friends in
sist that the private secretary
ship be extended us, we shall
gracefully accede to their wish
es, and prepare to desert the
bread and water diet of a news
paper fellow to join the innumer
able horde of pie-eaters- We
promise now, however, that if
the appointment of private sec
retary is tendered us we will
usurp the duties of janitor in the
executive office long enough to
raise all windows (top and bot
tom) and apply a goodly supply
of disinfectant to every niche
and corner of it.—Searcy Citi
zen. A
We haw only one\objection to
the Searcy editor beepming sec
to our next governor. He
good a newspaper man
Protecting The Game
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 21.—E. V.
Vissart, the Arkansas game
-'enthusiast, left last night for
East Arkansas to place men
in the field rescuing deer and
other game which has been ma
rooned by the overflow. For sev
eral weeks Vissart has been out
over the state collecting dues
and soliciting new members for
the Arkansas Game Protection
Association, securing the funds
with which to carry on the work
in Eastern Arkansas.
The game is now sufficiently
cowed through weakness, to
submit to rescue without a fight.
After being well fed the deer
will be liberated on high ground.
Aside from rescuing the game
the agents of the association
will collect evidence against hun
ters who have slaughtered the
marooned game, or killed it out
of season, which will be present
ed to the next grand jury of that
Vcounty. When this work is com
pleted the Association will
place agents in other counties to
gather evidence of violation of
the game laws. It is the inten
tion of the association officials
to prosecute vigorously under
the existing laws, and conserve
game as much as possible until
the next session of the legisla
ture, which is sure to pass more
adequate game laws.
Weekly Letter of John H. Page.
In the heart of every man
there is more or less prejudice
against anyone who undertakes
to suggest a better plan than the
one he is already using. No man
will thank you for telling him
that you know his business bet
ter than he. These facts have
their truest expression in the
relation which now exists be
I tween the so called book farmer
and the farmer himself. Every
farmer, who in truth is a farm
er, feels keenly the attempts of
the scientific farmer to show
him better methods, which is
! human nature and would be true
1 in any business. In any partic
ular case which may arise the
human nature position will pre
I vail, unless there has been a
concrete example of the practi
cability of the other side of the
issue.
That is just the question; there
has been a concrete example of
the practicability of almost ev
ery great principle of scientific
agriculture in every community
in the state of Arkansas, no mat
ter how small. Every farmer
in our state has seen it proved
that roation of crops pays; that |
live stock pays; that leguminous j
fertilizers pay; that commercial J
fertilizers pay; and that scien
tific care of the orchard pays;
that cotton is not the only mon
ey crop that can be grown in
Arkansas; that seed selection
pays; that shallow cultivation
and lots of it pays, and a hun
dred other comparative new i
deas have common sense in
them after all. The truth of
which, nearly every farmer or
anyone else, wpuld have been
slow to admit until shown, sim
ply because the great majority
of these ideas sprang from ex
periment station work and dem
onstration work and were given
to the farmer by the so-called
“book farmer.”
The time has now come in Ar
kansas when good judgment de
mands that we throw aside all
ou rlittle prejudices and don the
spirit of hearty co-operation
with all those who are being paid
to transmit a little of the truths
learned by experiment and es
pecially to agree when we have
so many concrete examples of
good practical scientific farm
ing in every community. Preju
dice is the worst enemy to pro
gress on the farm. When the
truth is shown, good judgment
demands that we accept it or a
bide by the results. The book
farmer is the farmer’s best
friend.
In this office we have books o 1
nearly every farm subject, and
the results of thousands of ex
periments, the majority
which have been proved to
sensible by our farmers in /.'
kansas. There are a very few i
farmers who are able to buy
text books or have time to keep
up with the experiment work.
I We are here for your service,
and we have the experiences of
thousands of others in every
phase of farm life, which are
i yours for the asking. Let us
hear from you.
JOHN H. PAGE,
Commissioner.
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The Mule.
If the mule could speak as c. .
re of his famous ancestors in
Biblical times, he might seize
the opportunity to indulge just
now in a horse laugh at the ex
pense of his more aristocratic
relative, the horse.
The mule has ever been a de
spised •. .d abused hybrid, alto- j
geCier unjustly. It was Charles :
CarrOll, one of the signers of the !
Declaration of Independence ■
who first recognized his merit-.1
and offered a prize for the best I
article on the mule. Willis Pom
eroy, of Massachusetts, took up
a defense of the mule, and prov
ed him to be one of the most
valuable of the barn yard ani
mals.
I-’or while Uncle Sam continues |
to maintain a firm affection for;
him only equaled by the person
al drivers, who betoken their sin
cerity by friendly oaths, the
mule will not be dependent upon :
vagrant inventions as has beer,
the horse.
Fo rthe latter, with the auto
mobile and the aeroplane on or.e
side, and the sturdy mule on the
other, seems in grave danger of
being backed off the boards,
both as an ornament and as a
iicofnl vaViiVla
True, he hath always his uses
in a horse race; but with legis
latures all over the country for
bidding betting at a horse race
of what use to race or to main
tain a racing stable?
But the mule plods sturdily
on. His faithful persistency in
the matter of labor, the pertin
acity which is mistaken for ob
stinacy has w’on for him a place
in the commercial world. He
lives forever and then dries up
and blows away, instead of vul
garly expiring, swelling and be
coming a menace to an entire
community while awaiting the
dead animal w’agon to haul his
remains away as a horse would
do.
His only recreation, seldom in
dulged in, is kicking. Yet we
have no poems of praise to the
mule- We have quatrains for
the horse, sonnets for the dog
and bench shows for the cat. No
one has immortalized the sturdy,
plodding mule in verse.
Meek in attitude, reasonable in
demand, never daring to claim
relationship with the horse, nor
presuming to complain of the
quality of his defects, the mule
does what many of us merely
discuss—he does his daily stint
of work faithfully and to the
best of his ability. Has no one
a good word to say for the mule ?
—Memphis News-Scimitar.
Cook-Lewis Wedding.
Miss Marshall Cook and Mr.
Nicholas Lewis were united in
marriage at the home of the
bride, on Monday, April four
teenth, Father Slatter of Little
Rock performing the ceremony.
The bride was beautifully at
tired in a gown of white char
meuse with pearl trimmings,
and wore a pearl necklace, a gift
of the groom, while the groom
was attired in the conventional
black.
The attendants were Miss Lou
Alice Rutherford, a niece of the
bride, and Miss Adele Lewis, a
sister of the groom.
Miss Rutherford was dressed
in a dainty gown of pink, while
Miss Lewis wore a dress of deli
cate blue.
The wedding was a quiet af
fair, with only the members of
the immediate families present.
Mrs. Lewis is one of Bates
ville’s most popular society mem
bers, and possesses many quali
ties that are very attractive to
her friends and to all who know
her.
The groom, Mr- Lewis, is also
one of the popular young men of
the city and has a lucrative
traveling position with a hard
ware firm.
After the c'-emony a lunch
eon was served, after which the
bride and groom left on the af
ternoon train for a lengthy tr.p
through the south.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis will be at
home to their friends after May
fifteenth.—Batesville Guard.
HAPPY WOMEN.
Plenty of Them In Newport and
Good Reason For It.
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Wouldn’t any woman be happy,
after years of backache suffer-:
ing, days of misery, nights of .
unrest, the distress of urinary!
troubles, when she finds free
dom.
Many readers will profit by the
following:
Mrs. Laura Mink, R. F- D. No. j
2, Box 92, Newport, Arkansas, |
says: “It gives me pleasure to
recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills,
for I know that they live up to
the claims made for them. My
complaint was weakness of the
back which was particularly no
ticeable just after I had been
doing housework. The pain was
in my loins and it came on sud
hpnlv. Mv back ached terribly
and I was driven almost prantic.
I had heard so many people
praise Doan’s Kidney Pills that
I finally got a box at Walker’s
Pharmack, and true to their rep
utation, the contents of one box
cured me. I have not had occa
sion to use this remedy since
then. It gives me pleasure to
recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills
to other kidney sufferers.”
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50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
— Remember the name—Doan’s
and take no other. (Adv.)
Reunion Of Scottish Rite Masons
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 21.— The
annual reunion of Scottish Rite
Masons convened at Albert Pike
Consistory Monday morning
with several hundred visiting
Masons in attendance. Grand
Commander James D. Richard
son of Tennessee, and John H.
Cowles, secretary general of the
Supreme Council of Kentucky,
are in attendance and will offi
ciate at the dedication of the
rebuilt Consistory. The class
to receive the degrees in this
branch of Masonry is much lar
ger than usual, no doubt drawn
by the presence in the city of
the supreme lodge officials.
The first day is being devoted
to the Acacia Lodge of Perfec
tion, with the dedicatory ser
vices at night. Tuesday will be
devoted to the Excelsior Chapter
Rose Croix, Wednesday to the
Godfrey de St- Omer council,
Knights of Kadosh, and all de
grees will be completed during
the afternoon.
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Back to the Farm for Elk.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 21.—Gloom
is to be cast upon B. P. 0. E. No.
29, the local lodge of Elks, for
the back to the land movement
has completely ensnared “Fan
nie” Reynolds, the wit of the or
der. Reynolds is a charter
member of the local lodge, and
until a few weeks ago conducted
a bicycle business in Little
Rock- Fire destroyed his place
of business, and after making
an adjustment with the insur
ance companies, Mr. Reynolds
decided to get back to nature.
He is now trying to buy a store
in a rural community, with the
expectation of growing small
| potatoes and worries on a farm
i he will purchase near by. Mr.
i Reynolds has no apparent pre
| ference for the location of the
'store, simply specifying that it
| must be in a “small” town.
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