THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
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One Word She Could Say.
An earnest London stum worker re
cords her unremitting, patient en
deavors to Improve Hie accent and
vowel enunciation of her little
protege, Blanche, for tho sake of the
child’s future destiny "on tho styge.’
Once, falling in all else, she tried a
mild dose of gentle ridicule. "You
can't say ‘food,’ can you, Blanche?’
she smiled, teasingly. "I can say
•ful#!’" was the child’s crushing re
tort.
Strange Names.
Every clergyman <«n tell tales o"
the strange names which he has
been asked to bestow upon children
at the baptismal font; but tue place
where that sort of thing is rampant is
British Guinea. Nannie Bellonn. John
Pantaloon, and Frank Locust are
among Christian names imposed on
the offspring of native converts.
Worse still are "Whisky Emmanuel"
and “Seriatim ad Valorem.”
Reduce Cost of Reading.
There are two clubs in New York
that are designed to reduce the coBt ol
fresh reading matter. One Is com
posed of women who contribute 25
cents a month and have the use ot
all the best magazines, which are
later sent to a hospital. The other
buys new books for the same price
to each member and the books are dis
posed of by a lottery system, although
each member gets ono There are
hundreds of ways to save money.
Reason for Superiority.
The demesticatlon of animals and
the utilization of plants doe, not go
very far except under a civilized peo
ple. Contrast the age of Peru and
Mexico with that of Egypt Itabylonia
apd China; nnd one reason for old
world superiority in the mastery of
nature Is plain.
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Love.
Love la watchful, and. sleeping,
Blumbereth not. Though wearied. It
Is not tired; though pressed it is not
straightened; though alarmed, it is
not confounded, but as a lively flame
nnd burning torch, it forces Its way
Upward and securely passeth through
all.—Thomas a’Kenipis.
Assessment Notice.
The assessment of local im-'
provement No. One—Bridge Im
jrovement No. One of the City
of Newport, Arkansas— was
filed in my office on the 14th day
of July, 1913, and the same is
now subject to inspection.
B. J. GRAHAM,
Clerk of the City of Newport,
Arkansas.
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Lightning Struck Plant.
Walnut Ridge, Aug. 13.—The j
street car service between Wal
nut Ridge and Hoxie has been
out of commission for two days,
caused by lightning striking;
both dynamos and burning out j
the armatures. When the last
one was struck ihe other had
been sent to St. Louis to be re-j
wound and is expected back to-;
morrow.
Walking and hacks and vehi
cles resorted to the past two
days.
Real Optimist.
One cannot doubt the optimism of
thn hunter who. before he starts for
the woods, borrows enough money to
pay for shipping a deer home by ex
press.
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KmA For Three Summers Mrs. Vin
cent Was Unable to Attend to
Aaj of Her Housework.
Pleasant Hill, N. C.—"I suffered for
three summers,” writes Mrs. Walter
Vincent, of this town, “and the third and
last time, was my worst.
I had daeadful nervous headaches and
prostration, and was scarcely able to
walk about. Could no* do any of my
housework.
I also had dreadful pains In my back
and sides and when one of those weak,
sinking spells would come on me, 1
would have to give up and lie down,
until it wore off.
1 was certainly in a dreadful state of
health, when 1 finally decided to try
Cardui. the woman’s tonic, and I firmly
believe 1 would have died if I hadn't
taken it.
After I began taking Cardui, I was
greatly helped, and all three bottles re
lieved me entirely.
I fattened up, and grew so much
stronger in three months, 1 felt like an
other person altogether.”
Cardui is purely vegetable and gentle
acting. Its ingredients have a mild, tonic
effect, on the womanly constitution.
Cardui makes for increased strength,
improves the appetite, tones up the ner
vous system, and helps to make pale,
sallow cheeks, fresh and rosy.
Cardui has helped more than a million
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t 1(51 r TH SOUND
Statement Sounds Inci'-d >, but Ex
periment Will Speedily Demon
strate It to Be a Fact.
Tt seems incredible t' it a beam of
light sould be made to produce sound,
but such a thing can be done. A ray
of sunlight is thrown through a lens
a a glass vessel containing lampblack,
colored silk or worsted, or any like
substance. A disk having slits or open
ings cut in it is made to revolve swift
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 hears
strange sounds 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
trum The disk It tnrned and the col
ored light of the rainbow Is made to
break through It Now, if the ear be
placed to the vessel containing the silk
or other material, as the colored lights
of the spectrum fall upon it, sounds
will be given by the different parts of
the spectrum and there will be silence
in other parts.
For example, if the vessel contains
red worsted and the green light flashes
upon it, loud sounds will be heard
when the red and the blue parts of the
rainbow fall upon the vessel. Other
colors produce no sounds at all.
Green silk gives out sound best in a
red light. Every kind of material gives
more or less sound in different colors
and no sound at all in others.—Har
per's Weekly.
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 beat 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.
Hut vegetables, like animate life
are dependent upon sunlight for theii
existence. The vegetable, however
is both the direct ana tne inaireci
sustenance of animal being. Animai
life of certain species exists solely, 01
almost so, on the flesh of other ani
nials. Hut that latter food eventuallj
is dependent upon the vegetable
Time would eradicate animate lift
should inanimate cease to exist. Tht
relations between plant and anima
form a beautiful dispensation. Mat
owes to the vegetable more than ht
does to lower animal life.
“Thus,” concludes this chemist
“isn't it possible the sun worshipers
perhaps had a greater realization o
the value of Old So! than we of tht
present century?"
Livingstone's Resourcefulness.
David Livingstone, explorer and mi3
sionary, was a man of varied accam
plishments. Besides getting himsell
taught on board ship, and later bj
Sir Thomas Maclear, to take witt
great accuracy astronomical observa
tions for fixing latitude and longitude
besides acquainting himsalf with bot
any and geology, with patristic litera
ture and Egyptology, Livingstone was
an excellent mechanic, a steersmar
and a mariner. His resourcefulnest
was at all times remarkable. Wher
he was hard up for fuel on his flrsi
steamer journey up the River Shirt
he landed in the elephant marsh. Hert
no trees existed and no fuel was ob
tainable, but his men found manj
bones of slaughtered elephants, Llv
ingstone at once took the bones or
board, burned them in the furnaces o
the Ma-robert, and so continued his
journey.
Picture Statesmen at Work.
A moving pictur- concern recently
obtained permission to take a series
! of moving pictures illustrating Frencl
parliamentary life. Legislators soot
‘ got to hear of the mat r, says Let
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
aior took pictures of the chamber ai
all times. Photographs will show th<
deserted benches of the morning, witl
a dozen or so deputies discussing laws
affecting the whole of France, the sol
emit arrival of the president, life ir
the lobbies, a stormy afternoon ses
sion and the thronged refreshment
bar.
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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," criejl one
"Look at it! It is simply a taugiec
! 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
1 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.
HIS FIRST PUB .1 SKED ?R'<
Projaaly Nothing re *
\_.fr- Gave So- -min r':
More Exquis :c P'a:
My orother had - i~-:: • KV
gun to print a new. paper, re la • '-i
! jamiri Franklin in h:s autobiography.
; Ii was the second that appeared in
i America and was called the New Eng
| land • ourant. The only one before
! It. was the Boston News Letter. I
remember him being dissuaded by
some of his friends from the unde£
taking as not likely to succeed. OB#
! newspaper being in their JudgmeBtJ
| enough for America. At thl* ttm#
117711 there are not less than Hr#
twenty He went on, hower®, i
the undertaking, and, *fterh*»
worked in composing the t/D®
printing off the sheet*. I T
ployed to carry the pap«n
the streets to the customer*.
He had some ingenious me*
his friends, who amused
by writing little pieces for hi* P*P*r,
which gained it credit and made It
more in demand, and these f mitlOTMl
often visited us. Hearing their con
versations and their account* of the
approbation their papers were re
ceived with, I was excited to try my
hand among them, but, being still a
! boy and suspecting that my brother
; would object to printing anything of
! mine in his paper if he knew it to
j be mine, I contrived to disguise my
i hand and, writing an anonymous pa
I per, I put it at night under the door
j of the printing house. It was found
i in the morning and communicated to
I his writing friends when they called
j in as usual. They read it, commenced
j on it in my hearing, and I had the
exquisite pleasure of finding it met
with their approbation, and that, in
their different guesses at the author,
none were named Nut men of some
character among us for learning and
ingenuity. I suppose now that I was
rather lucky in my judges, and that
perhaps they were not really so very
good ones as I then esteemed them.
MANY AND STRANGE DIALECTS
In Standardizing Her Language China
Is Facing a Problem England
Has Not Yet Solved.
China will have to start on a kind
of standardization of her language, as
we started, seriously, in the fourteenth
century. It isn't only a matter of
words and grammar; more important
still are construction and pronuncia
tion. Our English dialects are prob
ably as diverse as any. Put a Cornish
miner and a Northumberland miner
together for the first time and each
would only have a faint glimmering
of the meaning of the other’s speech.
What would the Cornishman think of
“What mak' o’ yan Is sha?” He would
i express the same meaning in “What
j be her like, then?" The ordinary Eng
I lish, of course, is “What is she like?” I
> have known a Londoner, fresh to the
fine Dorset dialect, completely bewil
dered by a farm laborer's talk; he
could only get a glint of meaning here
and there.—London Chronicle.
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Right and Left-Handedness.
At first, it has been contended, men
used both arms indifferently, and those
who when fighting pushed the right
• side forward had the advantage of
shielding their hearts and so lived to
produce descendants who inherited
their tendencies. Be this as it may.
there is no doubt that the two sides
of the brain have different functions,
and right or left-handedness is by no
means restricted to the arms alone.
One investigator was very often able
to recognize left-handedness by the ex
i amination of the left eye. The center
, of speech is on the left side of the
brain of a right-handed person, and
on the right side of that of a left-hand
ed person. Children show unmistak
able evidence of two speech centers,
though one atrophies owing to the
i preference given to one hand. Never
theless, experiments show that it can
be successfully resuscitated.—Knowi
i edge.
Unconventionalities.
• “It was printed in your paper, was
j it, mister? That's the reason I didn't
see it.”
“You don’t seem to notice, Gerald,
, j that it's nearly midnight, and I'm
j yawning to beat the band!"
, | “There's no need of your apologiz
ing for these sliced tomatoes, Mrs.
J Nayber; I saw they were spoiled, and
1 haven't touched 'em.”
"Yes, I notice, Mrs. Sykes, that your
! boy Rill takes my Mary Jane to the
! moving picture shows quite often.
What she sees in him I can't imag
ine."
'Oh, well, Mrs. Glizzard. my Bill
goes to see your Mary Jane because
nobody else does; he kind o' pities
her."—Chicago Tribune.
Treat rent for Nervous Child.
With highly strung children there is
a sad readiness to pick up nervous
! tricks from their elders. Thus from
i one lio learns to stammer, while from
I another he adopts various nervous
] movements of the muscles of the face
i or limbs. Such children need to be
’ well fed and kept as luUcli as possible
in the open air, to lead a quiet life
without excitement, and without over
exercise ; i the brain. Ah. ve ui., tlu .
must be kept as muoh as possible
away from those people from whom
they seem to be taking: the tricks of
nervousness.
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Ticklish Question.
"Is your wife truthful when it
comes to telling her age?”
"Yes. Rut try asking her once how
much she weighs.”
Dr. John D. Cole
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1 HENDRIX COLLEGE 1
Advantages—Noted for high standard of scholarship and tV ■ I
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[UTq kansas. A faculty trained in the best universities of this cou'/fl
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brO in the dormitory under supervision of a professor, or in privat^B
fiJcj homes. High school graduates received on cert.:': .ate-: Location®
central and healthful. Climate mild. S
Academy—The college has a strong, well manned academy®
for the benefit of students who are not prepare! for the college®
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Young women—While the college is primaru for men, voung®
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rjY at Hendrix. A young ladies’ home under the care of a professor®
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has a faculty of 80 specialists, and an equipment valued at more
than a million dollars. A new $40,000 building, modern in every
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Bpj Next session opens September 17. For catalogue or bulletin con
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g§ PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY, j
gS Fayetteville, Arkansas.
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Arkadelphia, Ark.
A very excellent school for boys and girls. Splendid government
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Nine courses: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Piano, owe.
Violin, Art, Expression, Domestic Science, Commercial. Mo era
charges. Beautiful campus. Imposing building. Good equipmen
Pure water, almost perfect sanitation. No death has e\ er occur
^ among the boarding students of this college.
H Address GEO. H. CROWELL, President.
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