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NEWPORT INDEPENDENT
R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the Daily Independent
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FIRST REGULAR MEETING.
The Round Dozen held their
first regular meeting with Mrs.
S. M. Beattie Wednesday after- i
noon and the pleasures of the |
gathering were all that could
have been anticipated by the pro- j
moters of the organization.
Conversation is the chief diver
sion of club meetings, so we are
told, and the new club fell readily j
into the practices of older organi- j
zations. The members are limit
ed to three kinds of refresh
ments, and upon this occasion
they were sandwiches, cheese
straws and coffee, being nicely
served.
Those present were: Mes
dames C. E. Maynard, Wesley
Beard, L. E. Willis, I. D. Price,
J. H. McHugh, T. B. Stewart,
Wm. Mosby, Frank Hess and
John W. Wallace.
WHIST CLUB ENTERTAINED.
Mrs. Gustave Jones was the
charming hostess of the Whist
club Wednesday afternoon at her
home on Beech street. After a
very interesting time at cards,
refreshments of chicken salad,
deviled crabs, pickles, coffee,
crackers and escalloped oysters
were served very daintily by the
hostess.
Miss Annie Martin of Little
Rock was the only invited guest
present, outside of the club
members.
HAD NEVER BEEN KISSED.
Neglected Ten-Yenr-Old Lad Could
Not Remember Kver Having Re
ceived the Tender Care».
I once made a tour of the almshouse*
of the state of New York, describing
them exactly as they were. Every emo
tion that can be awakened by sorrow
was felt during the trip, writes Julius
Chambers in the Reader Magazine. The
most pathetic Incident occurred at the
poorhouse of Essex county, located In
the hills beyond Whallonsburg, near
Lake Champlain. I should say that the
trip was made at the request of a state
commissioner of charities, who desired
that the truth should be told.
After inspecting the wards for the
aged women and insane, I walked across
an open court, deep with mud, to visit
the children’s quarters. While there, a
small, red-faced, red-headed lad attract
ed my notice. I patted him on the
shoulder and asked his name. He gave
it promptly, told me he was ten years
old and that his father and mother
were dead. I felt deeply touched by the
child’s words. Soon after I left the mis
erable shed in which these children were
herded together and started to recross
the yard. I felt a tug at my coat and
found my little friend behind me. His
eyes looked up into mine so pitifully
that I asked:
“What can I do for you, my boy?"
“I want you to kiss me.”
"Certainly: but why?"
“I never was kissed in my life!”
When I came to write that story for
publication I developed its full pathos,
giving the name of the fatherless and
motherless lad. At a result he was
adopted by a wealthy family near Sara
toga; he has been well raised, given a
college education and is to-day heir to a
fortune.
AUTHOR’S ODD EXPERIENCE.
Emerson Hough, Who Wrote “The
Mississippi Babble,’’ Meets De
scendant of Hero of His Boole.
Emerson Hough, who, by his strik
ing characterization of John Law in
“The Mississippi Bubble,” has mads
that picturesque gentleman alive for
all time, was surprised out of his usual
calm by the appearance at his office
door of a dignified and impressive
stranger who announced himself as
John Law. As soon as Mr. Hough real
ized that the vision before him was
corporeal and not the cheating fancy
of his brain, he set out the easy chair
and bade the welcome guest tell him
the story of his life.
John H. Law lives in Chicago and is
the resident manager of a big insur
ance company. He had read "The
Mississippi Bubble” and had called to
pay his respects to the man who had
given the world an honest picture of his
great ancestor. Mr. Hough learned that
the family on coming to this country
settled first in Georgia, that one of its
members was a brigadier general in
the confederate army, and that alter
the war the Laws moved to Cincinnati
where one of the brothers still lives in
a country place which he calls Laurls
ton after the ancestral home in Scot
land.
The author and the descendant rev
eled in the family history for hours,
and when they parted to meet at dinner
the next night Hough said he felt ut
though he had shaken hands with the
hero of his romance and had looked into
the face of the man who for one historic
moment had seen all Europe at his feet
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Pearson’s Magazine appeals to every member of the family. In the words of
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Following are four of the special features for 1904 : * •
WALL STREET METHODS
OF - FINANCE”
By H£AHi) GEOVGE. Jr.
A number of true accounts of some of the Wall
Street “deals” by which the savings of the many
have been sacrificed to satisfy the cravings of the
few. Read these articles and realize the wisdom
of the advice of the I-ate Governor Roswell P.
Flower to a party of his friends to “keep your
money in your pocket.”
MODERN INDIAN WARS
By
cynvs TOWJVSEJfT) BBABy
A brilliant and thrilling history of the hostile
frontier of the past forty years, giving justice to
the public service of such men as Miles, Lawton,
Crook, Forsythe, Custer, Carrington,
McKenzie, Howard, Wheaton, Davis, Sully,
Raker and others;—taking Indian fights out of
the category of boys’ story books and dignifying
them with their proper place in the history of our
nation. A series of six or eight articles.
TOM NAST. CARTOONIST
■By ALBE RT BIGELOW "PAI/If.
Illustrated by the choicest of the world-famou
cartoons of the man who has been described as th*
greatest tnoltier 0/ public opinion ever known.
The biography of Nast is veritably a world's pics
tore of the times when history was warm in th'
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The Overthrow of the Tweed Rlng
Thn Civil War Period—The Horron
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