THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
Front SU NEWPORT, ARK.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Daily—Singla c py, o cants; par
w«ak 10 cents; per month, 40 cents;
Cr year, $4.60 in advance, by carrier
city, by mail in country.
Weekly—$1.00 per year, payable ia
'advance.
Entered at the postof&oe, Newport,
Arkansas, as second-class mail mat*
One of our state officials, who
has made a particularly good re
cord, is our newspaper friend,
Earle W. Hodges, a Randolph
county boy, who is now serving
Jiis second term as secretary of
state and will probably be a can
didate for re-election. He has
given his various duties close
business attention and carefully
followed the advice of the attor
ney general in all questions of
law that have frequently come
before him for decisions. He
has stood free from all political
entanglements and performed
his duty as he saw it, for he is a
young man of courage as well as
conservative good sense. His
record is conspicuously clean
and praiseworthy and if a candi
date again, ought to receive the
commendation of his people and
especially of that section of the
state from which he hails.
What a Governor Receives.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. 5.—From
an admirer in Texas, Gov. J. M.
Futrell has received a necklace
made from watermelon seeds.
The chain is joined with each
seed to make a link, and how the
seeds were cut into a link and
then joined is a mystery. Jt is
supposed they were cut when
wet, and the place thus opened
to admit the end of the next
seed, closed in the drying pro
cess, but there is nothing tc
show that the seeds have beer
cut at all.
The governor has also receiv
ed a rather unique petition for si
pardon, but that will be left loi
his successor to pass upon. II
was a photograph of Shirkry
Beach, a girl three years of age
with the inscription at the bot
tom :
“She wants her papa.”
Gov. Futrell has had no op
portunity to look up the prisor
records to see who her father is
or his penitentiary record, bul
has recommended some action b>
Gov. George W. Hays, who was
a caller on Governor Futrel
Monday afternoon, arranging
for his inauguration.
! Every Minute
A Vacation
j i*
Drop the worry about where
!to go—Colorado is the place.
And the way to go is
Via the
Missouri Pacific |
T" ’ Highway to the Heights
* \
litacui; ir..vcl—superb scenery all ' ;
'' the way—comfort—courtesy—ser
jH viee. “Our own*’ dining car service ||
—delicious meals a la carte. D-*
(i. F. COFFIN, Agent.
Newport, Ark.
Breaking the New*.
: x ---cnfhs after the Assam line bad
V. ■ .• i-.u down au earthquake hap
‘ ’ii! tangled up the tracks, com
One native station master.
W uv St? Platforms had been swallowed
the earth and whose tracks had
- ’ into n switchback railway
I hfs chief: “Sir. act of Qod oo
woi.U ucre, piaa**\ airanga."
ftcAD A HALF HOUR A DA>
How a Housew.ie W’ h Intelligence
Kept Herself From Drifting Into
a Dull, Old Woman.
A woman who has brought up a big
family on a small income, yet has
managed to keep mentally alert, says
It Is due to a Half-Hour club
Thin club has as its fixed rule that
half an hour each day must be spent
in solid reading. There was a leeway
of 24 hours, after that there was a
fine of five cents each day for fail
ure to get through the prescribed
reading.
Twice a month the club meets for
discussion of the reading done and to
collect Ones of delinquents and spar
them on to fresh effort.
The woman who told of this elab
•ays: “No one know* what It has
meant to me. When yon are the one
woman In a family of boys, hara a
bushel basket of stockings to darn
weekly, six children to sew for, le»
sons to be heard, It is a big tempta
tion to stop reading entirely or to
fritter spare minutes on novels. That
half hour a day of solid reading has
kept me up with the times, has rested
my body and stimulated my brain,
and, best of all, it has kept me from
drifting Into a dull old woman, of
whom my sons might love, but would
pity for her Ignorance.
Especially If you live In a small
town Is such a club of importance. It
Is easy to stagnate, unless a conscious
effort is made. The winter season Is
the time to start such a club among
yours neighbors. Do not be content
with planning a half-hour reading
daily for yourself. You will never hold
to It without the stimulus of com
panionship and the broadening Inter
i est of the fortnightly meetings.
I _
WHEN PINS WERE VALUABLE
In Years Gone By, the Humble Houso
hold Utensil Was Given Much
Consideration.
The custom of making presents or
Now Yea's day is now practically ob>
■olete among English speaking peo
pie, the day of gift giving now being
Christmas. When pins were first in
vented and brought Into use about
the beginning of the sixteenth cen
tury they were a New Year's Tift very
acceptable to ladles, and money glvaa
for the purchase of them was called
“pin money.” This expression has
since been extended to money settled
by a husband on his marriage for ths
private expenses of his wife. Pins
made of metal. In their present form,
were in use some time before the yeai
1543. It was during the reign ol
Henry VII. that ‘‘an acte for the tms
making of pynnes” was made In
which it was enacted that the pries
should not exceed 6 shillings 8 pence
a thousand. Pins had previously
been made of box wood, bone and slV
ver for the richer classes. Those
nsed by the common folks were mads
of common wood and were, in fact
skewers.
Bacilli for Consumption.
An alleged new bacilli treatmenf
for consumption, an alleged discovery
of a Dr. Friedmann, which has been
widely exploited by a newspaper eyi>
dtcate, is discredited by the Journal
of the American Medical association.
In order to secure curative effects
It is asserted that these living bacilli
derived from some kind of a turtle
must be injected deep Into the bus
elee of the patient. The preparation
of the remedy Is secret "The use of
the fiuld,” eays the Journal, “la prob
ably not without danger. Thera ie
not sufficient warrant for any other
attitude toward Friedmann’s treat
ment of tuberculosis than one of crit
ical neutrality and Judicious skeptl
■ eism."
Newest Pest.
The newest pest In the west and
middle west Is the dog. Not the prai
rie dog. Just the common dog. He la
responsible for the decline in the
sheep raising industry. In many
states In the section of the country
once largely devoted to cattle and
sheep raising, there are more dogs
thnn there are sheep. It take3 thre*
barb wires on top of two feet of woven
: wire to make a fence that will
i keep dogs away from sheep. Kansas
I had 175,000 sheep and 199,000 dogs
I In 1910, according to the secretary of
the Kansas hoard of agriculture.
The usual answer farmers In the
west give to the question, "Why don't
you keep sheep?" Is "We can't keep
dogs from killing them."
Fata Morgana.
The celebrated Fata Morgana, a
presentation of natural “moving pic
tures" ou au immense scale, which It
occasionally seen in the Straits of
Messina, is explained by a scientific
writer as being a mirage, such as fre
quently occurs in various parts of tha
: world. “In fact," he says, “one may
see a mirage any day by looking
through the stratum of air overlying
a hot stove, or adjacent to the side of
a wall heated In the sunshine.” Young
j scientists will be Interested In verify
| 'las this statement
1 r ,
New England's Advantage.
Here is how the spirits of the wlaa
sit in the clouds and mock us. "Even
at the risk of arousing western preju
dice. I maintain that New England
and all broken, hilly, rocky countries
have a decided advantage over re
gions of great fertility, in that human
stupidity and mole-eyed greed can
I never wholly divest them of forests—
that their sterile crags and steep ao>
cllvlties must mainly be left to wooC
Aaesver."—Horace Greeley.
«■ — -
CHARACTER SHOWS W BACKS
Straight and Upright Carrtage Mean*
Yeu Are Determined, Energetic
and Reliable.
If your back la straight and upright
>u are correspondingly straight la
our eonduet Ton will bold your hoad
vip, for you are not afraid to look the
world in the face.
Even when you're sitting you keep
> our back straight. There is aa air ei
eal strength about you—both physical
.ad mental. la short, you have pleat/
of backbone. Teu are determined, eu
argetlc and to be relied upon.
tt your back Is stooping aad rooad
/A you are a creature aa weak aa you
look, you are pro** to lolllag about
aad too las/ or too feeble to take a
front rank la the battle of Ilea The
‘ramp Is an excellent example*.
If you are a criminal, your back la
uooped or round, but the acholarly
• oop of the bookworm must not be
otifounded with the foregoing. There
w a difference which lit difficult to do
• crlbe, but it is readily recognized by
he close observer.
Tf you are mean and covetous yeuf
’.ick is narrow and rounded and your
boulders are high. You are sly—
■’cry sly. You generally have the ap
• ■urance of drawing yourself up Into
small a compass as possible. Yon
■e always yourself, so to speak,
. d people should give you the cold
oulder.
Are you l.oo straight backed? That
do you hold your head so high that
here Is a preposterous fall in the
■mall of your hack’ Then you are so
uffed up with self-es:eeji ti at you
« rrv your chesi out so fa ah
•rrd.
‘TM LfTTLE, BUT l*LL TFTT
’rave Child a* Settle* Eeremaa Sava«
Train and Set Example for
All Cthera.
.Tt? tmrr "wa rsas® «tf,
.DLeea Martin, the section foreman's
iaaghter, as she stood reaching up to
i telephone at the little town of Alt^
:&1„ telling the agent at the nearest
ration that a rail was broken. Child
ike, she knew the semaphore signals,
iad come to the track to see the Over
>nd Limited whirl by and had watch
ed the long Anger drop, letting the
rain Into the block.
"I'm pretty little, but Til try," she
aid, when the station agent asked her
r she could not stop the train that was
ast Mm, and started out with her
i?ter of fourteen who had Just appear
d. They ran down the track, stopped
lie tratn and Baved a wreck.
Pretty much every primary school In
1 city ought, within the next weelfc
n hear of Eileen’s ‘Tm pretty little^
it I’ll try." The alert attention
I hlsh knew the semaphore signal, the
J .Ick wit which understood what a
; .-roken rail meant, the decision had to
j illative which alone sought the tele
1 . hone, the courage with which she an<*
i her sister started up the track, waving
| ‘heir aprons to stop the big Overland
...lulled as it bore down upon them—
these are the qualities which through
j !‘*e bring self-help, for others, success
:uid happiness.
And she was only seven years old
j ’pretty little," but ready to ‘try."—
1 Philadelphia Press
i FORKED LONG FOR SUCCESS
———
Mrs. Btannard Wrote Steadily tot
Years Before “Bootle’s Baby”
Made Its Hit.
It Is Interesting to recall Just nou
I -hat the late Mrs. Stannard. other
wU# “John Strange Winter," once de
! «erlbed herself me a woman writer bu!
! not a "woman's rlghtar." Yet theri
- was certainly no lack of character os
brain power about the author d
Bootle’s Baby," who was Indeed ai
eminently capable woman with ■
lear, well-balanced Intellect, mnch
i robust common sense, and a great ca
| welly for organization, which serred
I ' er in good stead when she turned
| ; rom literature t.o commerce.
Struggling authors may be interest
' ed to know that it was only after ten
' years of incessant work that Mra
Stannard. who lived to write aoipe
•hlng like one hundred books, scored
her first reft! success. And even this
, might not iiavo been achieved but
for a little piece of luck, for “Bootle’s
Baby," the work In question, had then
been rejected by six London publish
ers fti-d cast aside as hopeless. Mrs.
Stannard’s husband, however, bat*
pened to pick up the manuscript one
day, read it, liked It, and suggested
that he should send it to the Graphic.
Urs. Stannard answered: "Send It
anywhere you like,” and no one was
more astonished than berselt when in
due course the Graphic t»ob it.—
H’estirinster Gazette
Friday Dickens’ Lucky Day.
Charles Dickens was not one Of
hose who are superstitious concern
V.s Friday. It was on Friday that
r.sny of the good things cams to Mm,
I uid it was on that day that he enter
1 td upon, paid the price and took po*
I jessiou of Gada Hill, the one thing
10 cherished more than all of his oth
ir possessions. It was Gads Hill that
)e had gazed upon when a wee bit of
» boy, with a hope then giving little
itgns of fruition, that he might live
>o own it some day; and it was Gada
dill whose walls he covered with mlr
ors in almost Oriental magnificence.
-Boston Record.
Something Lacking.
McCarthy—“An’ how do ye lolk^ha
sew fireless cooker 0» hear yft*
got?” Maloney—’Rotten! Shore,
there's no satisfaction takin' off me
«*'oes nnd res’in' me feet on the edge
•u a tiling loik« lut’re.
oOOoaialMO(MWMMWOTijooooc^
jO.!. Hubert j
I SASH, LUMBER, |
p SHINGLES, j!
II DOORS, BRICK. jj
l NEW LUMBER YARD |
j!} Lower End Front Street O
; estimates furnished |
! [ Telephone 278. x
MOOOOeOOOOCraOOOOOOOOOOOOU
Ooooooooooooooooooooooocjoo
I Dr. B. E. Dowell |
DENTIST. I
ROOMS 21 AND 22 g
WISHON BUILDING 0
NEWPORT, ARKANSAS |
CXXX>00000000(XXX>CX5000000i>.
! By All Means
GO SOMEWHERE
This Summer
ThreejChances For
ENJOYMENT
Colorado
THE
North
THE
East
LOW FARES
AND
Excellent Service
Ask for fuli details
Write to
CHAS. B.
SLOAT
Assistant General
' Agent,
I—
1OCOOCOCOOOOOOOOGOOOOOOOOGg
H
i
“Standard" "Narova" Lavatory
The Bathroom That Pleases
is one which completely satisfies
the demand for sanitary security,
durability and beauty of design.
A '^Standard" Modern Bath
room installed by us with a careful
| regard for sanitary efficiency and
! the following out of your instruc*
| dons will please you.
Ask for booklets.
W. R. Whitten
McLain Bldg. Phone 15-1
Xv
---
No. 866
This is a prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA cr CHsLLS & FEVER.
Five or six doses will break -ny .so. r.mi
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will ,WI
return. it acts on the liver better man
Calomel and does nof gripe or sicken. d5e
I”' UNIVERSITY OF ARKANsJl
JgS Offers standard courses in Engineering, Mecharc 9
yp culture, Languages, Sciences, Fine Arts, Educa*: ■
Bfl Science, etc. iJ I
gfl Also short, practical courses in Agriculture and I
BS Arts, open to young men of determination, whose prej ni;„ ^'9
SQ cation has been limited. .Rar? ed6. ■
New building, modern in every particular, hoU5ir., .e jfl
2ft ments of Education and Domestic Science. Just CoinpC^6^ I
sp Next session opens H
SEPTEMBER 17 I
For catalogue and special bulletins giving complex ■
gjj tion, address the office of the ,riIa' I
gg PRESID ENT OF THE UNIVERSITY I
___ . _
1 HENDRIX COLLEGE
jgni The college has strong, well manned academy for the be lit
Noted for high standards of scholarship and for positive Ch^
of students who are not prepared for the college classes,
umes. Well equipped museum and laboratories. Sane atheleticj
IHES try and Europe? Library of 12,500 bound and 10,000 unbound
j^j m private homes. High school graduates received on cerdficata.
[UE faculty of specialists trained at the best Universities of this com
n= able. Board and dormitories under supervision of a professor CI
^ Little Rock. Climate mild.
IHHI Location central and healthful. Conway is only 30 miles fro®
Han! tian influences. Best endowed ($300,000) college in Arkansas t
^ under an expert. Buildings heated by steam. Expenses reason
[UE While the college is primarily for men, young women desiring
^ a strong literary course will find what they want at Hendrix. \
jgi young ladies’ hall under the care of professor and his wife is pm.
[Ucj vided.
pjp Rooms in the hall and dormitories should be engaged at ones,
For information address,
m
|L J- H. REYNOLDS,
Conway, Ark.
C. R. GRAY
PHYSICIAN
AND SURGEON
EARL BUILDING
OFFICE HOURS:
9 a. m. to 11 a. rn.
2 p. m. to 5 p. m.
Office Telephone 207
Stove Woo
Any Size Good Mill Wood
Close Prices on Carloads
$1.00 and S2.00 Loads
Phone 58
West’s Livery Stal
Making Mistakes
You are making a mistake if you are not keeping & bank
account. Depositing your money and paying out bj
check will help you to get ahead; shows where your mo
ney goes, that you might save; best receipt possibe,an
keeps you from paying bills twice. There are o.
reasons. Why not start today?
The Farmers BanH
“We started! Jjpfl
life t< tgetherl
> md I-'b*1' ^ 9
With the same hope of success, that motorist >ir j„|ujutf'B
SAVED his money— I did not. .Now HE lives hi» 0 ‘
; with automobiles and servants—I am nea. . ■
world’s scrap heap. We had the same chance. ^ aecoi^B
| Reader, save while there is yet time. 1 i" ■“ 3 9
here today—a dollar wil be sufficient.
ARKANSAS BANK & THJSI g|
, '.-i:
11