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Newport needs every citizen
behind the bridge proposition
nnd not a one in the way of it.
Properly bridging Newport
Lake doesn’t in any way lessen
the need of a bridge across
White River.
Bridging White River will do
more for Newport’s growth and
future than any one improve
ment has or could do. Failure
\ to bridge this river and make
\ the Oil Trough country more di
rectly tributary will be just as
big an obstacle to our advance
ment. Which do we choose?
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PORCELAIN DUE TO ACCIDENT
How the Process of Enameling Was
Discovered by Chinese Workers
About 206 B. C.
Xear the year 206 3. C-, in the be
ginning of the dynasty of Han. some
porkers in earthenware set their pots
fn the oven to bake, and forgot them
When they remembered them and
opened the oven doors they found that
the pots w«re vitrified in shining
spots In this way the enameling of
porcelain was discovered. When
freed of its dross the substance grew
lighter, become clear, and acquired
a grain as fine and smooth as vel
vet and a thin, hard, translucent body
that rang like a bell.
The art. of monochromatic glazing
was discovered in the time of the
dynasty of Sung (960—1280 B. C.).
Occasionally the action of the fire sep
arated the pigments and produced ex
cessive richness of color. The Mon
gol Invasion checked the progress of
ceramic art. In 1268 Tai-Tsu, the
son of a day laborer, dethroned the
emperor and founded (he dynasty of
Ming, whose r-ign persisted until
1644. Tai-Tsu lost no time in restor
ing the imperial manufactories. He
gave the national manufactory the
monopoly of the work in porcelain, ex
cepting nothing but the white pottery
manufactured by the artisans of
Tehua. Under the new impetus all
the ancient methods were revived and
perfected. The system of three-color
and five-color decoration, after a pre
liminary firing, dates from the re
naissance of art under the Ming dy
nasty.—Harper's Weekly.
MORSES LOVE THE SMITHY
Endearing Terms Used Led Massa
chusetts Animals to Run Away
To Be Shod.
Scituate has a blacksmith who is so
polite to animals that they go to him
of their own accord. Julian Sneed is
this village smith.
Scituate people accustomed to the
"Whoa there," and Git your tail outer
the way” meth<Hi of some other
smiths, stood around and marveled
. when Mr. Smeed assumed his duties
at the local smithy. Smeed may be
j heard almost any day after this fash
ion :
“Now, dear,” in the softest of
tones, "now, sweetheart, let’s have
your foot. Raise up now, please,
dearies."
Whatever the passerby might think
of this method, the horses undoubted
ly approve of It.
Two horses, Lady Jane and Lady
Mary, belonging to Henry T. Cole, the
owner of the local livery, recently es
caped from the stable. They walked
to the blacksmith shop, entered, hur
ried up to the hitching ropes by the
side of the work bench and held up
their feet to be manicured, desiring
to hear sweet nothings.
The story is true and goes to prove
that endearing conversation can be
combined with chiropody to good ef
fect as well in a blacksmith shop as
In any other place in the world—Bos
ton Journal.
MADE HIM STOP AND THINK
Leading Citizen Wanted to Be Remem
bered as Something More Than
an “Old Qrouch.”
I Stubborn Case
I "I was under tha treatment of two doctors," m
■ Mrs. R. L Phillips, of Indian Valley, Va., “and tUyJ
I nounced my case a very stubborn one, of womanly We(
M ness. I was not able to sit up, when I commenced
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■ I used it about one week, before I saw much chum
■ Now, the severe pain, that had been in my side foryt
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m (of special Instructions, and 64-pa*c book. Home Treatment for Women 'irtfr*’
Some of our lawyer friends,
i whose profession frequently
| calls upon them for services and
advice in the public welfare,
which they give without reward
or recompense, can greatly as
sist the movement for better
roads by advising the mass con
vention called by Judge Coe as
to how to proceed in the organi
zation of road improvement dis
tricts under the state laws. In
formation of this character will
be valuable to this assembly, for
to proceed, we must first know
how.
200 Veterans Will Go.
Batesville, May 7.—Traveling
i Passenger Agent Jerard of the
! Iron Mountain spent Tuesday in
| Batesville holding conferences
with loyal veterans who will at
tend the Chattanooga reunion.
; About 200 veterans will go from
■ this county. Col. V. Y. Cook has
announced that a one cent rate
has been secured from the Iron
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Mountain railroad.
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Remarkable Popular ignorant*.
Some one has remarked that at
{he height of Napoleon's fame there
were men In the back alleys of Parle
who had never heard his name. Thl*
Illustration of popular ignorance wa»
recalled by a Judge who waa examln
tng candidates for citizenship In New
Tork city recently. He asked one ol
these prospective citizens, “Who Is
the head of your native country ?"
"The king.’* 'Who becomes the head
when he dies?" “His son." “Atvl
who is the head of this country’"
"The president." “And who wo;>:<
become the h«cad If he died?" “Hi
•00.“ And y% t, as the Judge re mar’
ed, all these men know enough t I
•ern their dally bread—the rest is
Vetter of schooling.
Subscribe for the Independent and
get all the news.
So often a little factionalism
creeps out in a city or commun
ity to retard the acquirement of
industries and improvements.
Let’s bury every semblance of
such feeling in this enterprise
of bridging White River. It’s
too great a proposition in what
it will do for Newport, to let any
snrvall feeling interfere.
Judge C. B. Coe has called a
county meeting of all citizens in
terested in building better
roads/to he. held in Newport Sat
urday, May 24. This gathering
t oufght to be attended by every
jfioad overseer and a number of
s representative citizens from
each township. There are no
delegates. It is to be a mass
convention. Let your county
pride, progressiveness and in
terest in this great question del
egate you to come and help
start a movement that will build
good roads throughout Jackson
county.
A bridge across White River
at Newport will afford a cross
ing of that stream which none
of the lower cities enjoy. It will
bring through travel this way
and in a few years, when a great
highway from St. Louis to Lit
tle Rock and the Southwest will
be constructed, it will bring that
route this way. Bridging White
River will settle the issue of ■
whether Newport is to stand
still or go forward and become
the city her natural advantages
predestined for her.
makes the difference
To buy your own farm—or slave for another man
from early morn till late at night, is the question you
should answer right now. A bank account makes the dif
! ference. Start saving today. We will help you to pur
j chase the farm.
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Come and let us tell you HOW.
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TOOK HIS LirE BY REQUEST
(girl Then Considered Annoying Suitor
Dead and Wanted No Corpse
in House.
He was a theatrical lover, and she
didn’t like his style in the least, for he
Was constant in his devotion, which
made matters worse. She had tried
gentle means to get rid of him, but he
had disregarded them with painful per
sistency.
“Dear one,” he exclaimed, hurling
himself tragically at her feet, “I love
you! My life is you.i’. Will you take
it?”
She did not look like a murderess,
but she responded, with calm deter
mination:
“I will.”
He gazed at her rapturously.
“Don't do that." she begged, draw
ing back from him as if in horror. “I
have taken your life, as you requested
me to do, and you are henceforth to
all intents and purposes dead."
He seemed dazed.
“I do not,” she continued, turning
aside, “desire to have a dead person
in the house, and if you do not go
away at once I shall send for an un
dertaker and have you removed to the
nearest cemetery.”
Then the dreadful situation in which
his own precipitate folly had placed
him was revealed, and he removed
himself with promptness and dispatch.
Brave Old Oak.
Whether Its branches show green
against a dark-blue sky—gold where
the sunlight touches them—whether
Its leaves show magneta In the light
of the setting sun, or black and sll
ter in the moonlight, there is no tree
of them all to compare with the oak.
All a summer's day you may lie out*
stretched beneath It, so strong and
so friendly, not to yon only, but to aU
the little lives that swarm about lta
roots. All kinds of bnsy creatures,
ants, spiders, daddy-long-legs, beloved
•f your childhood, go scurrying orm
you on this errand and that, as un
afraid, almost, as If you were dead.
A feeling of kinship comes to yon;
a knowledge that all this life about
you in oak and grass and ljisect, and
the good dog lying at your feet, Is
but a little part of the ageless flux
and reflux; soothingly as a cool hand
on an aohlng head, there comes to
you the realization that soon fears,
hates, and loves forgotten, your tired
body shall rest under the trees alf
the days and all the nights.—Month
ly Atlantic.
As to Chickens.
They are the most dad busted, en*
certaineat creatures that walk Che
family acre. Almost everybody tries
to raise chickens at one time or an>
other. Looks easy—that’s the deceto
lng part of it.
And it is easy, after you learn one
thing; Little chickens don't know
Anything, medium sized chickens
don’t know anything, big chickens
don't know anything. If there la a
change of an Intellectual nature aa
the size increases big ones know lesa
If possible than little onea.
If there Is a wire partition In your
pen with an open door at one end the
ehlckens will try to plnage through
the wire Instead of going around and
walking through the door.—Puck.
Safety Devices.
Redd—I understand the French gov
ernment has offered a prize of $80,000
for a device that will make aeroplanes
safe.
Greene—Why, don't they at the
same time offer a prize for a device
that will make falling out of a tenth
story window safe?
Interested.
“The earliest, mention of coal Is
said to have been made by Theophras
tus.” said the professor, at break
fast.
“And what did he say was a ton,
professor?” inquired the landlady,
pouring the coffee.
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“I had a little lesson several weeks
ago,” remarked the man with the gray
mustache, “and it called me in good
shape."
“Go ahead,” said the stout man.
"I was In the garage where I keep
my car and happened to overhear a
conversation among the boys. A cer
tain man had been Injured while trav
eling abroad—very badly Injured, it
was reported—and one of the boy*
was telling the others about It. ‘The
story In the paper says he can’t get
well,’ the youngster went on. 'Did
you know him, Pete?* And the boy ad*
dressed promptly replied, ‘Sure, I
know th’ old grouch.’ Say, that htt
me pretty hard. Here was a leading
citizen dying and all the boy could re
member about him was that he was a
grouch. Yes, sir, It made me sit up
and think hard. And I got in my mind
that when I passed out I’d like to be
remembered for something different."
He paused.
"That’s worth considering,” said the
other man.
“Good text,” said the first man.
“Good sermon,” said the other.
New Women of Persia.
Persian women are essentially fem
inine. They want our dress, our edu
cation, our freedom, our happiness.
Dress, it will be observed, comes
first in the catalogue of feminine
wants, but a change of dress or coif
fure seems essential to all revolution
ary movements.
In Teheran, in place of the face veil
of white cloth, the Persian new wom
an now wears a smalt square of black
net or woven horse hair; her shoe*
have high heels; a European skirt
has taken the place of the short skirt
and narrow trousers; the head ker
chief 1s being abandoned. One lady
tried to Introduce an outfit to take
the place of the “chuddar," leaving
the face heavily veiled; but It was
too revolutionary even for Teheran,
and, after being mistaken for the ex
Shah In disguise, the wearer revert
ed In disgust to more orthodox
clothes. In her home the new woman
offers cigarettes instead of the water
pipe.—Moslem World.
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How the Eiffel Tower Moves.
That the Eiffel Tower mores dally
In a vertical and horizontal sense has
long been beyond doubt. Apart from
the scientific laws of expansion and
contraction, which Inevitably affected
it, one could see it during a gale sway
ing from Bide to side. But its vertical
movements were a mere matter of
conjecture until M. Guillaume under
took to investigate them. He shows
that the great iron structure may vary
an inch in height every day. The ele
vation or depression Is not equally dis
tributed, as only one of Its side* may
be affected by the Noe or fall of the
temperature, and thus the tower may
ha compared to a person shifting his
weight alternately from one foot to
the other.
Festival of Old Maids.
St. Catherine's Day. the festival of
eld maids, was celebrated gaily in tha
Roe 4e h Paix, Paris.
It is the custom in Paris dressmala
tag establishments for the workgtrla
on November X to crown with white
caps those comrades who, daring the
year, have reached the age of 26. The
other girla pat on cape of various
kinds, and carry sprigs of orange bios*
torn. During the afternoon, If the head
of the business la generous, they drink
the health of the old maids in cham
pagne.
Exception.
"How did you find the roads up
around Jingievllle Corners?" asked
Bllkins of Slathersberry, who had
just returned from a motor trip.
"Oh, I wasn’t particularly stuck on
them,” said Slatherberry.
"Reilly?” said BUktns. "Well, 1
guess you’re the only man that wasn't
I wan stuck on 'em for a whole day
last '.'ear."—Harper’s Weekly.
Wearing of the Hood.
In England the hood was not final
ly given up until the early part of
fifteenth century. The “great velvet
hat furred” worn by the mayor of Lon
don. John Welles, In 1432, Is cited ae
I a singularity by Stow, who states that
1 previously "the coverture of men's
heads was hoods, for neither eap or
hat is spoken of.” In point of fact
there are a few earlier Instances of
hats being worn by nobles and even
the middle classes
Isey te Find Fault.
X does not require any genius or
titfnt to find fluitt; but to give credit
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Woman Finally Recovers
From Nervous Breakdown
Impoverished nerves destroy many
people before their time. Often be
fore a sufferer realizes what the
trouble is, he is on the verge of a
complete nervous breakdown. It
is of the utmost importance to keep
your nervous system in good con
dition, as the nerves are the source
1 of all bodily power. Mrs. Anna
i Kounz, 211 Mechanic St., Pueblo,
Colo., says:
“For many years I suffered from
nervous prostration; I was unable
to do any house work and doctors
failed to help me. Remedies I
1 tried from druggists did not do
me a particle of good. A neighbor
told my husband about
Dr. Miles' Nervine
and he procured a bottle. After the
first few doses I showed a marked
improvement and after taking two
bottles I was entirely cured. I have
been perfectly well for years and
; cannot praise Dr. Miles’ Nerviee
too highly.”
If you are troubled with loss of
appetite, poor digestion, weakness,
inability to sleep; if you are in a
general run down condition and
unable to bear your part of the
daily grind of life, you need some
thing to strengthen your nerves.
You may not realize what is the mat
ter with you, but that is no reason
nrhy you should delay treatment.
Dr. Miles' Nervine
has proven its value in nervous dis
orders for thirty years, and merits
a trial, no matter how many other
remedies have failed to help you.
Sold by all druggists. If first bottle
falls to benefit your money Is returned,
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