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THE INDEPENDENT
• ERCY h. VANDYKE,
i'ublisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
ONE-WAY RATES.
Every day from Sept. 15 to
Oct 15, 1904, the Union Pacific
will sell one-way colonists tickets
at the following rates, from Mis
souri river terminals, Council
Bluffs to Kansas City:
$20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake
City.
$20.00 to Butte, Anaconda and
Helena.
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los
Angeles, San Diego and many
other California points.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wenat
nViaa XKJ aoli
$25.00 to Everett, Fairhaven,
Whatcom, Vancouver, and Vic
toria, via Huntington and Spo
kane.
$25.00 to Portland and Astoria;
or to Tacoma and Seattle, via
Huntington and Portland or via
Huntington and Spokane.
$25.00 to Ashland, Roseburg,
Eugene, Albany.and Salem via
Portland.
From Chicago and St. Louis
proportionately low rates are in
effect by lines connecting with
the Union Paciffc to all above
points.
For full information call on or
address J. H. LoTHROP,^»g
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.
18tOctlO
TO THEfFAIR.
Tickets on sale to St. Louis
daily via the Iron Mountain route.
$9.55 for the round trip; return
limit fifteen days from date of
sale. T. H. Reamey, Agt.
New Hazel dray to all parts of
city. Telephone your orders to
the Hazel. 22d4w
CO-EDS FOREGO MARRIAGE.
Statistic* Shew That Chance* of PaV
lev* Women Becoming; Wive* Arc
Rapidly Dtercaalng.
Over four-fifths of the women gradu
ates of the University of Chicago are on
the high road to splnsterhood. This Is
the startling result of researches con
ducted by Mayo Feeler, who, as general
secretary of the Alumni and Alumnae as
sociations of the Institution, has com
9>iea sunisucs or me university ana its
indents In the form of a general register,
, covering the first decade of the univer
sity’s history. The figures do not include
the women who have taken higher de
grees, but only those who have completed
the undergraduate eourses and who,
.therefore, might be expected to be win
some enough to tempt the heart of the
average man.
The register contains the names ol
598 women who have received bachelor
degrees from 1893 to 1902 Inclusive. The
fate of these coeds Is shown by the fol
lowing percentage table:
tage women married. tt
tag* women teachers...St
ta*e women "at h-omaf*.It
An examination of the table for each
, class shows that the chances of the ex
co-eds for becoming wives are steadily
growing less. The first class that gradu
ated In 1893 contained three women and
• all of them married. The next class had
^tne feminine members and not one of
,them has yet entered the bonds of matri
mony. The class of 1895 has a higher
percentage and then comes the class of
19M with & marriage percentage of 88
among Its women members. From that
time there has been a steady decrease. Of
1Ae 125 women graduated in 1902 bet all
as* cent, are married.
The Klondike Clean-fp.
Seattle, Wash., April 21.—James R
Ardoru, of one of the mining com
panics of Dawson, has arrived here
on his way to England. He says that
the clean-up this year in the Dawson
camp will, from a conservative esti
mate, amount to $30,000,000, making
it the biggest output in the history ol
, ■ - the Klondike.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln Monument.
Richmond, lnd„ April 21.—In tho
construction of the base of the mon
ument to Nancy Hanks Lincoln, at
her grave in Spencer county, a part
of the vault in which the remains ol
\braham Lincoln rested in the oh!
monument, at Springfield, 111., w.ll b*
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MONEY IN MAINE SKUNKS
Vliejr Are Worth a* Mach ■■ All tbl
Deer Killed In That State
In a Season.
It will no doubt surprise many peo
ple who learn that the despised skunk
la worth twice as much to Maine as It
the much-admired honey bee, but such
la the fact; and, counting things at
their actual worth, the skunk is worth
about as much as all the deer killed in
Maine in a season, says the Philadel
phia Record. The skunk is valuable
both for his fur and for the oil that li
In him, and both the oil and the fur
are in ever-increasing demand.
Fashions in furs regulates the price
of skunk skins. Four years ago the
coat of a dark skunk was worth $2.60
to three dollars, and the demand ex
ceeded the supply. Since then the
muskrat has come into favor, and the
price of Bkunk skins has fallen to about
two dollars for the beat. When, how
ever, there are a dozen fat skunks ts
be had on every acre of meadow land,
when a hardwood club Is the only
weapon needed for killing them, and
when every fat skunk contains at
least a quart of oil, worth five doll are
a gallon at wholesale, there is monep
In ths business.
Most of the skunk pelts are shipped
to a Philadelphia firm, where they are
made up into furs for export to
France and Germany, In whclh coun
tries they pass as monkey skins. It li
estimated that Maine's revenue from
skunks amounts to $160,000 or $176,00(1
annbally, which is double the sum de
rived from all the honey bees In the
state, and certainly more than all the
1,000 deer shot are worth to the men
who kill them. From 100,000 to 160,
000 skunks are killed in Maine every
in.ii.
The demand for oil is steadily In
creasing, and the price has advanced
50 cents to one dollar a gallon within a
year. The natives prize the oil for Its
virtues as a cure for rheumatism and
stiff Joints, and large quantities of it
are bought by country traders and sent
to druggists out of the state.
It Is estimated that the annual pro
duction of Bkunk oil in Maine exceed!
25,000 gallons, and the quantity is in
creased by adulteration with the fattj
oils obtained from hens and wood
chucks, a deception which has proved
most profitable to the skunk magnates
MAKING OF OXYGEN.
letereatlnsr Procen Kaown to Bai
Few Professional Sea and No
Ordinary Mortals.
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The manufacture of oxygen—or mor<
properly Its separation from the atmos
phere we breathe—Is an Intensely In
teresting process known to but fen
professional men and scarcely known
at all by the ordinary mortal, says a
scientific paper. A plant for the manu
facture of oxygen to be used in charg
ing Its distilled water was put in opera
tion recently at an ice plant in Los An
geles, Cal.
Oxygenated water Is now being pre
scribed by physicians In certain dis
eases, and hence a cheap and simple
method of separating the oxygen in th«
atmosphere becomes a matter of Im
portance. The process employed oy the
Los Angeles company Is based on the
principle that a certain chemical com
pound—manganate of soda—readily
parts with the oxygen it contains when
subjected to the action of a Jet of
eteam. A blast of air on the resldpum
reforms It Into manganate oi soda, this
chemical possessing the peculiar prop
erty of absorbing oxygen from the at
mosphere, parting with It when ex
posed to steam and being reformed
again upon exposure to the air. The
process may be continued Indefinitely,
when the ingredients are placed in the
retort and proper connections for air
and steam made. No more chemicals
are required. It may be likened to dip
ping a sponge In water, squeezing It
dry, and then repeating the operation
Indefinitely.
vaj^cu uinuu uj 11110 jiiui.coo, u im
claimed, contains no gas other than oxy
gen and no elements of any descrip
tion other than slight traces of atmos
pheric nitrogen!. Hence It requires no
washing to free It from chlorine nor
any purification whatever. The product
Is oxygen—and nothing else. The
oxygen, direct from the retorts, is
stored In gasometers, and then forced
into distilled water by means of a
Twltchell carbonating machine, which
pumps the water and oxygen at the
tame time, thoroughly agitating both
before bottling. The bottling Is done
under a pressure of 60 pounds.
New Calculation.
Prof. See has watched the duration of
the blue sky after dark, and found It to
continue for about an hour and 15 min
utes, and from this he shows that our
atmosphere extends to a height of fully
130 mllee. Astronomers have usually
found the height of the atmoephere by
computing the height of the meteors, but
none have mad® the height of the atmos
phere over 100 mllee. The etudy of the
blue color of the sky thus proves also
that our atmosphere extends consider
ably higher than scientists have hereto
fore supposed. On our dark days the
blue color of the sky Is shut out by
clouds, and combinations of colors due
to reflecting clouds and countless
myriads of particles In the ethereal re
gions high above the earth give the
bright light which Is so much relished
In dally life.
N(it York City.
New York city now contains more
Irish than Dublin; more Italians tnan
Florence; more Poles than Warsaw;
more Jews than Jerusalem.
As Improvement.
A new typewriting machine returns
the carriage automatically when the
»nd of a line is reached, so that the
Mtei U hot comnelled to Ban—
-NATURE NEVER GIVES UP/
—
A Phrase That Is Full of Meaning for
the Sick In Either Body
or Mind.
A phrase from a recent magazine
article is so suggestive and so full
of encouragement that it seems
worth while to make it the text for
one of our small sermons, says
Woman’s Home Companion. The
phrase is: “Nature never gives
up." You may with profit say this
over carefully and thoughtfully
and let its full meaning come to
you: “Nature never gives up.”
Nature is on the side of health,
and sanity, and consequent happi-j
ness. Hard as your case may be,
the great Mother is lighting the
battle with you. Has disease got
into your bones ? Nature has mar
shaled her forces to combat it,
and with marvelous strategy has
set engines to work which are en
deavoring to circumvent the en
emy. Nature is working in con
junction with the physician and
yourself. That is a thought
which ought to cheer you. You
have been imprudent, possibly—
have done and left undone. You
have taken such ill-care of your
God-given body that your friends
have set you down as hopeless or
worse. You have told yourself
that there is no hope for you. Na
ture has not given you up. She
wants you to live and work and be
healthy and happy and in the
event of your neglect of yourself,
she is still fighting for you. She
has no moral idea in doing this.
CVtA 4naf 1+ Porll Q TXfll VA11 H P
serve to be given up. Many of us
do, it sometimes seems. But Na
ture is blind to that. Of course,
she is not all-powerful. She can
be overcome. She fails often.
But you will do well to remember
that in every case whil^ there is
a spark of life left, she is trying.
Let that thought brace you. Buck
up, and give Nature some help.
I should like to think that we
could carry the analogy into the
moral world as well. Do you not
believe that there are forces as
yet unvalued which are fighting
the fight for good in the souls of
men? Bad a man or woman may
be—there is exterior pressure to
make him or her better. There is
law; there is education; there are
all the societies and institutions
whose object is to help the down
fallen and the unfortunate. But
are there not other forces, too?
Does not the great Mother of
Souls fight continually for the
spiritual health and sanity of all
people? The thought is comfort
ing, stimulating, encouraging. It
Is the business of every individual
to add all his personal strength
to all encounters with evil, physic
al or spiritual. He can do so more
heartily and with better faith for
success if he remembers that “na
ture never gives up.”
INTERESTING CHILDREN.
Toungstera of Oriental Ministers mi
Washington Never Heard of Christ
mas Before Coming Here.
There are in the foreign colony
In Washington quite a number of
children who never heard of
Christmas until they came to the
land of the free, says the Wash
ington Times. Among them are
the two sons and the daughter of
the Chinese minister, the young
sters of the Korean legation, and
Osman Sureya and Ali Haidas,the
' black-eyed little sons of Chekib j
Bey, the Turkish minister. When
Wu Ting-Fang was Chinese minis
ter he adopted *he American!
Christmas to the extent that his
young son was allowed to go to
the white house each Christmas
morning with a bouquet almost as
large as himself designed as n i
1 token for the first lady of the
land. In the Chinese colony are
several children who have beeu
enjoying an American Christmas
for some years pat t. These for
tunate youngsters are the chil
dren of Yung Kwai, the secretary.
Interpreter, whose wife is a New
England woman.
--
Magnificent Distances.
The diocese of Kiswatin, inltu
pert’s Land, is one of magnificent
distances. Bishop Lofthouse once
walked 200 miles to fetch a doctor
for his wife. Many of the Indians '
walk 25 miles to church, and the
bishop has baptized scores of ba-1
bies which had been carried 150
miles on their mothers’ backs
over hard-frozen snow. At night
the family sleep, wrapped in the
• deer skins, on branches laid upon
I the snow.
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Gives More Heat,
Barns Less Fael, i
Than any stove made.
We have almost any kind of a stove
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We Suit Payments
to Your Income
You may test our machines
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be delivered to your home.
Guaranteed to be a simpler,
stronger and more durable
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that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
thing when shown its merits, we
recommend our Golden and Cas
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It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
and 3 pound tin buckets. For
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Ask for it and take no substitute.
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for quality on the market.
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Houston and other Texas points. Also to all
points in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, except
where one fare plus $2.00 makes less.
Tickets on sale Sept. 13th and 27th.
ROUND TRIP, ONE FARE PLUS $2.00.
To all points in Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
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$8.50 one way to many Texas points, including Amarillo, Dal- ' ,
hart, Colorado, San Angelo, Kerrville, San Antonio,
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over old times with them; tell them what you are do
mg in the Great Southwest, and if possible induce
them to come back with you and look the ground over.
On September 20, 27 and October U Rotind Trip
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To nearly all Indiana and Ohio points and certain I
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