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NEWPORT INDEPENDENT^
R. F. Drummond Bdg. Newport,
— on Upper Front Street. Arkansas.
Read the Daily Independent
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ancient military school.
Ulatortr firaMd •* Wkkli Ik* Towns
How of Lowlafwww R«e*W*
Their Trwlalw*. ■
The Louisiana state university and
agricultural and mechanical college is
known as U»« military college of the
south, says tht Baltimore Sun. It Is lo
cated at Baton Kouge. and numbers
among its graduates many men who are
now officers In the regular army. Gen.
W. T. Sherman was the first president
of ths institution befors the civil war,
and. notwttstanding hts espousal of the
northern cause, his memory is still rev
trsd at this scene of hts former labors,
and his life-sis* portrait in oils occupies
n prominent place in the handsome as
sembly ball of the college.
The site of the university is historic
ground. It was for many years a mil
itary post, and the garrisons of France,
England, Spain and the United States
have all at different periods occupied
it. After it was abandoned for military
purposes It was turned over to the state
erf Louisiana for purposes of education.
The original buildings, however, still
i stand, and. with the flag tloating over
them, present a striking and beautiful
| appearance.
Here, In 1779, Calves, the Spanish gov
ernor general of Louisiana, after an en
gagement that lasted for three days, cap
tured the British garrison. The Span
iards were In turn driven out by a party
of Americans, and this n arked the
passing of west Florida from the do
main of Spain, In 1861 the confeder
ates captured the post, ami the next year
a desperate batne, Involving both land
and sea forces, was fought near by.
and the confederate ram Arkansas was
blown up in the view of the land bat
teries.
Many distinguished officers served
here while it was still a military post.
Among those whose names are associ
ated with the place are Wilkinson and
the first Wade Hampton. Winfield Scott
and Zachary Taylor, Grant and Lee and
Stonewall Jackson. McCleltan and Joe
Johnson, Bragg, Rosecrans, Longstreet,
Harney, Thomas and Beauregard, tor
rest and Phil Sheridan. Hardee and
Hood, Hancock and Custer, Admiral
Porter and "Bishop" Gen. Polk. Among
ibe great civilians we recall the names
of Abraham Lincoln. Clay and Calhoun
and Jefferson Davis. There Is hardly
1 a place elsewhere In the h >uth so rich
' in historic associations.
The university is true to its traditions.
The sons of Louisiana are soldiers by ln
i heritance, and while they revert the
cause for which their fathers fought, no
; northern boys are to-day more loyal to
! the flag which is lowered at sunset every
evening to the well-known strains of
i retreat, while on parade of over 3<K) ra
| dets stands on parade at attention,
i Everything about the university Is con
! ducted on military lines, and by means
j of frequent Inspections a proper system
| of discipline is constantly maintained.
j CURIOUS HABITS OF WRITING.
The Scribbling Microbe »ver Leave*
| One After It Gain* *
Lodging.
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“The habit of writing is a curious
1 habit and one which may not be out
| grown,’’ said an old scribbler, In the
New Orleans Times-Demoerat. "It
seems to be born In the blood. It is a
part of the nature of some men to write
things. Early in life they begin to yield
to an inclination to jot things down; to
scribble off a few thoughts at Idle mo
ments, and between times, as It were;
to versify a bit; to philosophize; to put
down maxims and axioms, and to scrawl
a thousand and one little nothings
which appeal to the fancy from time to
time. Once acquire the habit and It la
thine for aye. No amount of change In
life’s course; no upheavals of fortune,
no sudden shifts of fate and destiny; no
nothing that may come with the fleet
ing years will ever once break the mind
from the bent which prompts it to trace
in the queer curling symbols which roll
out from the pencil’s point the little
playful nothings about which the soul
is wont to dream.
"Dainty, delicate children are these
j little vagrants which one Idly scrawls
! Into existence between times. Often
; they are bright, deep, subtle and of the
verities; sometimes iney are morose,
| gloomy, of that sterner stuff which feeds
j the soul of the hungry pessimists; some
| times as light and airy as the very foam
; which bursts laughingly around the
! ankles of Aphrodite; but whether light,
or profound, whether gay or sad, these
j things of mental loaflnj% these little
pet nothings of mental vagabondage,
are sclntillants which cheer and amuse
a fellow as he hurries on from one mile
post to another. Ah, for the habit of
writing! It pays when the bank fails
—pays in the sweet consolation one may
know from close communion with one's
own soul, for man hath not known his
soul until it glare at him in such cheap
| symbols as he may employ in efforts,
always short of weight, to speak itj
weighty sentiments.”
A Tall One.
An American In Paris was one day
looking at the Eiffel tower, when he
was accosted by an enthusiastic Frencb
J man with: “Ah! my friend, that is a
j beautiful tower, and I doubt very much
i whether you have anything to beat it
in America.”
“Wal, stranger,” replied the Amer
1 lean, “I guess it’s good for France, but
1 in America we have a tower so high
that we ha ve to lower the top at night”
“Lower the top at night?” replied the
Frenchman. “For what reason ?”
“Wal, I guess it is just to let the moon
pass, stranger. Good-day.”—London
Tit-Bits. _
In Time to Celebrate.
Physicians in Munich have noted that
a number of patients in the hospitals
suddenly get well when the time comes
for the great event of the year, the fair
i which is called the Octoberfeat.
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