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C. H. WALTON
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Washing called for and delivered
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LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
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” Malaria or Chills & Fever
Prescription No. 6G6 is prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS A. FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then ns a tonic the Fever will not
return. •. !t acts on the liver better than
Calomel and docs not gripe or Bicken. 25c
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The Bathroom That Pleases
is one which completely satisfies
the demand for sanitary security,
durability and beauty of design.
A Modern Bath
room installed by us with a careful
regard for sanitary efficiency and
the following out of your instrnc*
tions will please you. •>
r Ask for booklets.
W. R. Whitten
McLain Bldg. Phone 154
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No. 666
This is a prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER:
Five or six doses wiil break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 2ac
MONKEYS PROVE
MEDICAL THEORY
Open Air Treatment By Gentrj
Brothers Saves Simians
From Ravages of
White Plague.
In the evolution of medicine
and surgerythe masters of these
professions have resorted to the
use of the lower animals in mak
ing tests by which the human
family profits. The rabbit and ,
the guinea pig are tin* lower ani
mals in which the heart action is
closest to that of the human be
ing.
The monkey tribe, however, is
the family in which the action
of the lungs is closest to that of
man. Monkeys are part icularly
subject to pulmonary tuberculo
sis, or in plain language, con
sumption. Among monkeys the !
deadly white plague reaps it* toll ’
almost without resistance.
Several years ago the medical
world evolved the theory that
open air was the surest prevent
ative for tuberculosis of the ;
lungs. This scientific disclosure I
was quickly caught up by the
Gentry Brothers, proprietors
and owners of Gentry Brothers’
All New Feature Shows. To
them it meant much.
Conducting a trained animal
exhibition, that has arisen to the
apex of fame, Gentry Brothers
used monkeys. The loss among
the simians from tuberculosis
was appalling. When the fresh
air treatment was expounded
Gentry Brothers decided upon
drastic moves. They decreed
that monkeys for all time should
live in the open air
Following this decision came a
most remarkable demon
of how nature provides for her
own. Nature soon provided the
simians, destined to open air in
a northern winter, with heavier
coats of hair. These coats were
heavier than any ever before!
seen on monkeys. The monkeys |
were left in open air all the year,
their only protection being a dry
goods box. Since then Gentry
Brothers have lost but two mon
keys, whereas twenty-five was
the usual toll of the plague in
winter.
The monkeys, strangely
enough, welcome their new mode
of living. All summer they are
left in unconfined spaces. In
winter they are offered only
enough protection to break the
wintry winds- The result is that
the simians are acclimated, there
is no tuberculosis among them
and the only troupe of year
round open air monkeys in the
world are with Gentry Brotheis
All New Feature Shows which
will be in this city Saturday.
September 20. (Adv.)
HAPPY WOMEN
Plenty of Them In Newport, and
Hood Reasons Eor It.
Wouldn't any woman be happy,
After years of backache sul
fering,
Days of misery, nights of un
rest,
The distress of urinary trou
bles,
When she finds freedom.
Many readers will profit by the
following:
Mrs. E. M. Bake*-, W. Pleasant
St., Searcy, Ark., says: "Kid
ney trouble fastened it sell upon
me in a mysterious way and 1
ran down so rapidly that 1 was
in bad shape before I realized it.
I had backache and dizzy spells.
The kidney secretions were also
disordered and my joints swell
ed. When I was fortunate to
learn of Doan’s Kidney Pills, 1
got a box and used them. They
soon gave me relief. 1 willingly
confirm my former endorsement
of this remedy.”
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan's
—and take no other. (Adv.)
Mutual Relations and Interests
of the Bell System and the Public
The suit brought by the United
State- questioning the purchase of
certain telephone properties in the
northwest, as well a; the pending
Interstate (Commerce Commission
telephone investigation, have caused
many inquiries. Without taking Tip
anything going to the merits of
these proceedings, it has seemed to
us proper to state generally what
has been our policy and purpose in
the conduct of our business.
We have found, or thought we had,
that ou; interests were best served
when the public interests were best
served; and we believe that such suc
cess as we have had has been be
cause our business has been conduct
ed on these lines.
We believe that our company has
an interest as vital as that of the
public in the proper administration
of the problems of electrical commu
nication. jrhe success and prosperi
terity of our company depend upon
a solution of these problems which
shall be sound from both the stand
point of the company and the public
which it serves.
Following our own best judgment,
supplemented by the best obtainable
advice, we have endeavored to do
what would best serve the public in
terest: wherever possible oar plans
have been disclosed to the public in
advance, and what has been done in
carrying them out has been done
along ordinary business lines, with
the expressed approval, authority or
consent of the municipal and state
authorities directly interested. Our
effort has been not only to obey the
law, but to avoid everything which
might even have the appearance of
an attempt at evasion.
Our business methods and policy,
and practically all the details as to
the transaction of our business, are
matters of common knowledge and
are, and for many years have been,
well known to the government. We -
will willingly furnish the government
additional information which is in
our possession or under our control,
and will cordially co-operate with it
in obtaining such further information
as it may require. Every possible as
sistance will be given by us to the
courts in their efforts to determine
whether our policy is or has been in
imical to the public interest. We de
sire that anything wrong be correct
ed; we will voluntarily rectify any
wrong that may be pointed out to us;
and, so far as it may be determined
that our policy or any act under it is
against the public interest, we will
promptly conform to such determina
tion.
We believe that if each of our ex
changes were made an independent
unit and if each connecting line were
put under separate control, the ef
fect upon the telephone service of the
country would be a condition so in
tolerable that the public would refuse
to submit to it and would immediate*
]y require such physical connection
and common control of these various
units as would amalgamate them into
a single system. Physical connection
in the case of telephone of telegraph
does not mean transfer of all messag
es from one line to the other. It
means such a connection as will per
mit one person to have the actual po
session of the particular line of com
munication from one end of it to the
other and this can only he given un
der a common control, and that is
wh t the Bell SysU m is.
In this connection, and for general
information, we will restate the poli
ev which controlled the building up
of the Bell System, and our belief as
to what a telephone system should be,
and what are its relations to the pub
lic.
We believe in and were the first to
advocate state or government control
ami regulation of public utilities; that
this-control or regulation should be
by permanent quasi-judicial bodies,
acting after thorough investigation
and governed by the equities of each
case and that this control or regu
lation, beyond requiring the greatest
efficiency and economy, should not
interfere with management or oper
ation. We believe that these bodies
if thev are to be permanent, effect
live and of public benefit, should be
thoroughly representative; they
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should so conduct their investiga
tions and deliberations as to com
mand such respect from both the
public and the Corporations that
both will without question accept
their conclusions.
We believe that the public would
in this way get all the advantages
and avoid all the manifest disadvant
ages of public ownership.
\V'e believe that centers of business
and population exist for the conveni
ence of the public as a whole, and
that no such center can prosper with
out sufficient and efficient means of
intercourse with other centers and
tributary territories; that such
means can only he afforded by pros
perous utility and service companies
and that fail rates are essential to
prosperous companies. We do not
believe that any public either desires
or can obtain, nor can any service
utility furnish permanent, and effi
cient service at less than cost, includ
ing capital charges. We believe that
ultimately the public either directly
or indirectly pays the losses involv
ed in ttie efforts to furnish such serv
ice at less than its fair cost, either ;
through the loss of capital involved, j
t he losses incident to poor service or j
the necessary increase in charges re- I
quirod to pay for duplication of cap
ital.
We believe that the highest com- \
mercial value of the telephone serv- :
ice depends on its completeness -on j
the extent and comprehensiveness of
the facilities for intercommunication,
not only between individuals, hut he- j
tween centers of population; that no
isolated section can he considered in
dependently of any other section or
of the whole; that rates must be so
adjusted as to make it possible to ob
tain the maximum development by
making it possible for every one to
be connected who will add to the val
ue of the system, thus giving the
i
greatest value to the greatest num
be, • that the inter-dependence of the
telephone service and the value of
complete and universal intercommuni
cation justify and require some serv
ices partly at the expense of the
whole for the benefit of the 'v hole.
We believe that this highst com
mercial value can only be attained
bv one system under one common,
control and that it cannot be given ,
bv independent systems unless they |
are operated under agreements which
result in one common control anil one
common interest, in effect making
them a single system. , ,
We believe that rates should be so
adjusted as to afford the company
sufficient revenue to pay such wages
and compensation as will secure the
most efficient service; to maintain the
very highest and most advanced
standards of plant and apparatus, to
carry on such scientific and experi
mental research and inventions as to
apparatus and methods as to insuie
the highest standards, and to caiiv
to reserve and depreciation such a
mounts as will enable the company at
any time to replace old plant and
old methods with new plant and new
methods as fast as they may be de
veloped and found to be to the ad
vantage of the service. We believe
that in addition, such fair charges
should be paid upon the investment
in plant as will enable the company
at any time to obtain money necessa
ry to provide the plant required to
meet the continuing demands of the
public; and in order that waste and
duplication of effort may be avoided
and uniformity of purpose and com
mon control be enforced, that there
should be a centralized general ad
ministration in close communication
with and having general authority
over the whole on matters common to
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We believe that any surplus be
yond that necessary to equalize divi
dends on a fair basis should be used
by the company for the benefit of the
public and should be inalienable for
any other purpose, and should be
either invested in revenue-earning
plant until necessary to substitute
plant which may become inadequate
or obsolete, or should be used to make
the service cheaper or better.
We believe that under proper gov
ernmental control and regulation the
profits from promotion or operation
allowed to be distributed should not
be so large as to warrant or tempt
complete duplication of plant and or
ganization, with its duplication of its
capital charges and its organization,
operating, maintenance and deprecia
tion expenses; and we do not believe
that utilities giving at fair rates an
efficient and sufficiently comprehen
sive universal 'service should be sub
ject to limited competition, not giving
such service. Competition which ig
nores the obligation to furnish a com
plete and comprehensive service is
not competition, is not for the benefit
of the public in that it does not reach
the whole public interested.
If, therefore, complete duplication,
with its dual exchange connection and
dual bills for service, is a prerequisite
to complete competition, government
control and regulation cannot go
hand and in hand with competition.
We believe that the record of the
Bel! System will be accepted by the
public as fully in accord with these
declarations. Consistent adherence
to this policy has given the public of
the United States the best, most com
prehensive and cheapest telephone
service in the world and made the
Bel^ standards the standards of all
nations.
To remove any possible excuse for
misapprehension on account of the
many misleading statements which
have been circulated as to the over
capitalization and excessive charges
of the Bell System, the following sta
tistics are given. Except where stat
ed, the figures are for the Bell Sys
tem; that is, the American Tele
phone and Telegraph, and its Asso
ciated Companies.
The entire Bell System on June 30,
1913, had outstanding in the hands
of the public obligations (i. e., notes,
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I the par value of $770,000,000.
The book value of the total tangi
ble assets, which is considerably less
than their replacement value,
amounted to $960,000,000. Many ap
praisals of property included in these
assets have been made, and most of
them under the direction of public au
thorities. In no case has the value
as it stands on the books failed to be
sustained, and in most cases it has
been very largely exceeded.
The total dividends and interest
paid during the year 1912 amounted
to only 6.1 per cent on the average of
its outstanding obligations, and to
less than 5 per cent on the average
value of its assets.
The actual cash which has been
paid into the treasury of the Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph Compa
ny on account of the capital obliga
tions now outstanding amounts to
$22,000,000 more than the par of such
outstanding obligations.
The Associated Companies collect
ed from the public and paid back in
taxes over $10,000,000 during the
year 1912.
The steadily increasing necessities
of the public not only for additional
but for new telephone service can on
ly be met by new construction, involv
ing capital outlay. To meet these de
mands during the six and one-half
years from 1907 to June, 1913, inclu
sive, the increase in telephone plant
was as follows: Toll line wire in
creased from 1,460,000 miles to 2,242,
000 miles; exchange wire increased
from (i,000,000 miles to 13,000,000;
the number of exchange stations in
creased from 2,730,000 to 5,200,000;
the number of stations of independ
ent companies connected with the Bell
System increased from 343,000 to 2,
620,000. The number of independent
companies connected with the Bell
System is about 25,000. The number
of employees in the Bell System, not
including the employees of connected
companies, on December 31, 1912,
was 141,090.
During this same period the num
ber of shareholders of the American
Telegraph and Telephone Company,
not including either the associated or
connected companies, increased from
17,000 to about 54,000. About 47,000
shareholders hold less than 100 i
shares each; 6,500 shareholders hold
from 100 to 1,000 shares each; 347
shareholders hold from 1,000 to 5,000
shares each, while there are only 16
share holders of 5,000 shares or over
in their own right. A majority of the
share holders are women.
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND
TELEGRAPH CO.
THEO N. VAIL, President.
(Advertisement.)
Many Deer and Turkeys.
Mountain Home, Sept. 15.—
Deer and turkey hunters are be
, ginning to take advantage of the
i open season, and some very good
bags are being killed- Cicero
Martin and Tol Galloway of Mc
Fhearson in Baxter county, each
bagged a deer Saturday in the
Leatherwood mountains, on the
south side of White river. Clyde
Johnson of the same place killed
half a dozen fine wild turkeys.
The outlook for game this
year is good as the season was
dry. Quite a few deer are re
ported in the Leatherwoods, and
they will likely increase in num
ber, as there is a big bitter mast
that attracts them. Quail are
plentiful and a good many tur
keys are in the hills.
HELPLESS AS BABY
Down in Mind Unable to Work,
and What Helped Her.
Summit Point, W. Va.—Mis. Anna
Belle hmey, of this place, says: “I suf
fered for 15 years with an awful pain in
my right side, caused from womanly
trouble, and doctored lots for it, but with
out success. 1 suffered so very much,
that 1 became down in mind, and as help
less as a baby. 1 was in the worst kind
of shape. Was unable to do any work.
I began taking Cardui, the woman’s
tonic, and got relief from the very first
dose. By the time I had taken 12 bot
tles, my health was completely restored.
1 am now 48 years years old, but feel as
good as 1 did when only 16.
Cardui certainly saved me from losing
my mind, and 1 feel it my duty to speak
in its favor. 1 wish I had sonte power
over poor, suffering women, and could
make them know the good it would do
them.”
If you suffer from any of the ailments
peculiar to worpen, it will certainly be
worth your while to give Cardui a trial,
it has been helping weak women for
more than 50 years, and will help you,
Try Cardui. Your druggist sells it
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REBUIID LEVEES
SAYS GOVERN!
Will Be His Advice So M
Meeting of Land
Owners.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Sept. 16,
have not yet formulated i
line of action with reference
the proposed St. Francis La
District mass meeting which
have suggested should be call
at Marion, Sept. 30,” said G
Hays Monday evening, “I si
attend the meeting, and si
endeavor to assist the Board
arriving at some definite und
standing of the course that is
be pursued in providing re
for the people who are entit
to the most complete protect
of the levees. “Get busy a
build the levees,” shall bei
advice. “The people are entit
to that.”
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over nor nays iuwuuoj
dressed the following letter
each of the twenty-four m<
bers of the Levee Board:
“I have requested Mr. 1
lough as president of the Bo
of Directors of the St. Fnn
Levee District, to call a meet
for Sept- 30th at noon at
town of Marion, for the poi
of tryingto bringabout diff®
conditions in the district a«
arrange, if possible, to ge
[ lief for the people interest®
hope you will make it a p<>"
attend this meeting.
‘‘I am also calling for a m
ing of the tax-payers J
same time and place,
to attend this meeting «
son‘” request
The governor is ,
’the newspapers in eac’
eight counties of the*®
give the meeting a
publicity. ^
The last legislature an
ed the Board to float a ^
sue of $1,500,000, a ^
est, as a maxima . ^
not been done ye • ^
the governor is not
vised.
A La Mo®*- ^ 0f
“What was the c ci9P
woodchoppers in ..pork*”
Bpent your vacation^ ^ 0f ®
tatoes, served ’u Sci*#1*
and chips.” Christian
ltor.
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