THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
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Had the recent election not
been a primary but a general
election, Arkansas might once
again claim the distinction of
two governors.
The Brundidge fellows have to
admit that it looks a little “Ha-:
ze.v.”—Batesville <Juard.— Yes,
but the “haze” is lifting and in a J
more clarified atmosphere, it
looks like Brundidge now.
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The Election.
Tin election Saturday in
Craighead county and through-:
out the state was wholesome evi-1
dence that the people are tired:
of elections and have lost inter-,
est in them. A few workers j
“tore their shirts' for Hays in j
4 113 OAnni x r • i fmif rvi a v n /4isT
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likewise for Brundidge, but the
people did not seem to care who
was elected and less than one
third of the normal vote was
polled. From the returns it was
clearly evident that even though
a full vote had been cast there
would be but little difference in
the result. There were a num
ber of precincts in the east end
of the county that were strong
for Brundidge and would have
cast a good majority for him had
they voted, but it is likewise
true that some of the other sec
tions would have given Hays a
majority. The principal work
ers for the Hays cause w'ere a
few enthusiastic Fan ers’ Un
ion men. and some members of
the Baptist church, but it is
doubtful if" a single vote was
changed on either side due to
these supporters in the field.
Back of it all lies the fact that
Hays was a Jeff Davis support
er and Brundidge made the race
against Davis. Men cast their
ballots in this county on this is
sue mainly, and as this has al
ways been a strong Jeff Davis
county Hays had a shade the
best of the fight. This is true
largely all over the state. We
have talked to men who never
saw Hays and never heard of
him until April—cared nothing
about his ability or previous
condition of servitude—but
they heard he voted for Davis
and they cast their votes accord
ingly.— Jonesboro Tribune.
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r.oc a mewlmt afflicted laiu'ly. an'
r- homo doutorlu’ d-*n't seem to dc
u,. ,'.:H>d. I thought I'd send for you
an if you could straighten us out.
he’->, a he's got something
* *-1ih her hronleal tubes so sh*
„ . i uieaUie like slio should. 1 been
i. ..via' a rag spread with goes*
-n* sprinkled with red pepper
»n' mustard on her front chlst, but
ottiiis to add to her ag’uy. Jak*.
tie's got a mts'ry all up aa' dowu big
«r'. ... bone, an' I been usin' ker-sen«
b<>*h sv'emal an' internal; >ut it ain't
dune him no good. Ldzsto Calls, she's
t.ow ready to give up with plum
i;go. as' bar stater Nancy has brea
gaaca for a weak. I think tkat
It s akiatta roomads that ails Nancy,
hue aka's afraid It's the new d'seas*
they cr”.s appendeshetue The old
wan baa beea torrtWe atlmsy far seas*
days, au' Rube, our oldest boy. la aL
Volte out with a rash that shew* hip
blood aint all rtgfct. Ha had a fur
rible spell laa’ night, an' 1 thought
ne waa in for eholery infantum. Ue't
had 1* off an’ on ever since he was 11
years old. I reckoned he'd outgrown
It, but It grabs him as hard now that
tie'a 24 as It did when ho was young
er. Wisht, Doc, that you'd Just turn
yourself loose an* sea If you Ida sort
s' atralghtan us oia"—Judge.
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BOTH CANDIDATES
CLAIM ELECTION
If Contest Results As Seems
Probable, Democracy May
Have No Nominee.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, June 24.—With .
about half of the vote cast in ^
the state, and scores of precincts j
holding no election at all, the
race for governor is still unset- j
Judge Hays’ friends are jubi- i
lant over the situation, claiming
that the Camden .jurist has won
by a majority of 5,000 to 8,000,
although unofficial figures made
by the local newspapers have j
been cutting down his lead from 1
nearly 2,000 to begin with to
about 300 Monday afternoon,
with the prospect of swinging
over to the Brundidge column
by Tuesday. Thlis condition is
due to the fact that the strong
Hays counties had all come in
early, while several of the strong
Brundidge counties were de
layed. Izard, with a reported
Brundidge majority of 800, and
Phillips, which was known to
have gone for Brundidge by 1,
500 or more, could not be secur
ed definitely. Union county,
however, which at first gave
Hava n mnioritv of about 1.
500, came in Monday afternoon
with a reduction of over 300. All
the reports during the day have
been gradually whittling down
the Hays lead.
“I am sure that my friend
the northern and eastern parts
of the state have done their duty
by me,” declared Col. Brundidge,
“and I expect to win by a large
sized majority.”
The people, so far as the re
turns have been received, have
seen fit to elect me, and I bow
to their will,” said Judge Hays.
The distinguishing features of
the election have been the small
I vote and slow returns, consider
ing that the ticket is the sho
jest ever votedat a state election,
j in most of the counties there be
i ing only the two names on it.
jin many counties there were nu
merous townships that held no
election, and it is reported that
in one township in a western
county, the judges delivered the
box at the county seat •>’
reporting that there was no use
in keeping the election open all
day, for everyone in the town
ship, 21 in all, had voted.
As the result is deferred from
day to day, the talk of a possible
contest becomes stronger. In
the event the majority for either
candidate is not more than a
thousand, it is generally be
lieved that there will be a con
test.
j And if there should be a con
j test, an interesting condition is
j liable to arise which some have
not taken into consideration.
Under the law, the county cen
tral committees will meet this
week, most of them on Saturday,
to canvass the returns, which
will be made to the state central
committee. That body must
canvass the returns not later
than twenty days before the e
lection, which would be July 3,
and the nominee must be certi
fied out by the secretary of
state to the county election com
missioners. not later than July
5.
Should a contest be started,
with the necessary taking of
testimony and all the machinery
of an election contest, it would;
be a physical impossibility tc !
complete it in time to certify the
nominee within the required
time.
The special election, called to
fill the vacancy in the office of
governor, is called without re
spect to party, and the fact that
any one party became involved
in a controversy over its nomi-j
nee could not operate to post
pone the election.
Unless the state central com
mittee should be able to settle it
PORCELAIN DUE TC ACCIDENT
How the Process of Enameling Was
Discovered by Chinese Workers
About 206 B. C.
Near the year 206 B. C., In the be
ginning of the dynasty of Han, some
workers 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 were 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 8ung (960—1280 B. C.).
Occasionally the action of the Are sep
arated the pigments and produced ex
cessive richness of color. The Mon
gol invasion checked the progress of
ceramic art. In 1368 Tai-Tsu, the
son of a day laborer, dethroned the
emperor and founded the dynasty of
Ming, whose reign 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
Teliua. 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.
TOOK HIS LirE BY REQUEST
fllrl Then Considered Annoying 3ultor
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
bad disregarded them with painful per
sistency.
“Dear one,” he exclaimed, hurling
himself tragically at her feet, “I love
you! My life is yours! Will you take
itr
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
tts leaves show magneta In the light
of the setting sun, or black and sil
ver In the moonlight, there Is no tree
of them all to compare with the oak
All a summer's day you may He out
stretched beneath It, so strong and
so friendly, not to you only, but to all
the little lives that swarm about its
roots. All kinds of busy creatures,
i ants, spiders, daddy-long-legs, beloved
of your childhood, go scurrying owe
you on this errand and that, as un
afraid, almost, as If you were dead.
! A feeiing of kinship comes to you;
1_1. nil tkla llfa oKaii#
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you tn oak and grass and insect, 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 aching head, there comes to
you the realization that soon fears,
hates, and loves forgotten, your tired
body shall rest under the trees all
the days and all the nights.—Month*
ly Atlantic.
...
As to Chickens.
They are the most dadbusted, «<n*
certalnest creatures that walk Ihe
family acre. Almost everybody tries
to raise chickens at one time or an,
other. Looks easy—that's the deceiv*
ing part of it.
And it is easy, after you learn ons
thing: Little chickens don't know
anything, medium sized chickens
don't know anything, big chickens
don’t know anything. If there is a
change of an intellectual nature as
the size increases big ones know less
if possible than little ones.
If there is a wire partition in your
pen with an open door at one end the
chickens will try to plnnge 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 ooffee.
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CUPID KING AT CAPITA'!
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ALL SORTS OF NEWLY-WEDS J
COME TO WASHINGTON.
Lovers, Sweethearts, and Brides and
Bridegrooms Consider It Pur*
Paradise, High Heaven, and
8weet Elysium, All in One.
To those persons who draw thelt
breath of life from th« boiling and bi
t u m 1 n o u s
amokr of •
thousand fac
tories, mill*,
and shops, the
clean, quiet
city of Washington does not appeal
And those who hear sweet music In the
clamor, clang, and clangor of pound
ed steel and roaring furnaces find it
dull indeed. But the lovers, the
sweethearts, and the brides and bride
grooms consider It pure paradise, high
heaven, and sweet elysium, all rolled
Into one.
There come to Washington every
day twenty-six newly married people,
and In this town, which has a popula
tion of only three hundred and thirty
tnousand, there ar< issued every year
nearly five thousand marriage licenses
There you have it, jn thousand people
married in the city every year, and
nine thousand four hundred and nine
ty newly married visitors.
Things have come to such a pass
that the hotel people can recognize a
bride and a bridegroom three blocks
off, and figure to a dollar how much
the brldgegroom will pay for the hon
eymoon, writes James Hay, Jr.. In Sun
day Magazine.
On one occasion I asked the spieler
on a sightseeing automobile how he
Identified the honeymooners.
"It's easy enough,” he said with
great assurance; “they all have new
shoes.”
Washington every day is full of run
away couples and i>ord ULlin’s daugh
ters, bringing much money to the min.
tsten who marry them, and to tha
hotels that house them. Everybody
with the price of the railroad ticket#
goes a honeymooning In the capital,
the city of trees, flowers, and frag
rance. It la so awfully sweet, you
know, to begin yonr new life in the
atmosphere of Washington, the place
where you drink In the history of the
whole country! It Is uplifting, elevat
ing, and grand. Thus they swarm In,
a long line of newly-weds; some of
the grooms looking smart and tailored
as first class dudes and dandles, oth
ers resembling to a painful degree
Froggy Would a Wooing Go.
All sorts of newly-weds come to
Washington, the rich, the poor, those
from Virginia, and those from San
Francisco, the blushing young thing
of nineteen, and the elderly party who
just squeezed undar the wire and Is
proud of it. Most of them rush In
during the spring, when there is the
whisper of sentiment on the breeze
and the sunsets look like clouds of
romance hanging close to the earth.
But the procession never stops. It Is
good every day in the year, and some
people even go to Washington to be
married on Christmas day, figuring
that each one Is a fine gift to the
other.
Taking it all in all, eupld Is king
in the national capital. Ha wins the
president’s brightest smiles, hs has
members of congress waiting on him,
and he turns up hla nose at same of
the most sacred shrines of the nw
tlon’s history. He Is one of the moot
valuable advance agents the hotels
have, and the politicians and govern
ment clerks recognise his victims
every day, no matter whether they
sit stone deaf in the publlo galleries
of the senate or so down in the bue
ment of the treasury, where, smiling
fatuously and happily, they hold in
their arms for a moment a bundle
containing a million dollars—'“foe
good luck."
Plot Did Not Work.
A motion picture plot, to show a i
crank attempting to reach President
Taft, was nipped in the bud at the
White House recently. A squad of pic
ture men walked Into the White House
grounds, accompanied by a venerable
looking individual with a long white
beard. They set up their apparatus
In front of the main entrance of the
White House and the white bearded
stranger started up the steps.
Policemen on guard intervened be
fore the picture men could begin
business. The operators explained
that they were seeking to get a^xsal
lstlo exhibition of crank trying to
enter the White House. The actor
would have been turned back at the
door and the picture machine would
hare taken in the Interesting pro
ceedings following his attempts to get
Into the White House. The picture
men pleaded that the ylay be allowed
to continue, but the White House au
thorities refused.
Mr. Lodge Plsnts Tree.
Senator Lodge turned forester the
other morning and planted a young
oak tree in the Capitol grounds. Sev
eral senators as well as the vice Res
ident have planted trees lately as a
part of Superintendent Ellltt Wood's
scheme to conserve the natural re
sources of Washington.
Not So Bad.
Editor—There Is a sameness about
your poetry, I regret to say.
Magazine Poet (hastily)—WhatT
Editor—A sameness.
Magazine Poet—Oh. That’s bet
ter. I thought you said s&neneea,—
Puck
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