THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
Front St., NEWPORT, ARK.
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ter.
What Newport Secured.
The Independent of Tuesday,
August 5 published an article of
Mr. W. D. McLain in which the
action of the county judge in al
lowing the council to have the
•expenditure of $2374 of the road
money of District No. Six was
•criticised
In justice to both Judge Coe
and the citizens and taxpayers
of Newport, we feel that a state
ment of the whole facts in this
matter is certainly due. This j
policy upon the part of the coun-,
ty court in allowing the city a|
portion of the road money of i
this district is nothing new. !
Several previous county judges
have willingly accorded the city
a portion of this revenue. Se |
cond and Third, Walnut and Ha-;
zel street, Malcolm Avenue, one ,
block on Front street, all receiv
ed contributions varying from
M $2000 to $2500 from Road Dis
trict No. 6’s funds for the pav
ing of these thoroughfares.
The City of Newport pays
| practically two-thirds of the
■ taxes of Road District No. 6.
1 Why shouldn’t the city receive a
r ' portion of this?
Road District No. G in the an
nual settlement just made re
■ 1 ceived $6,762.42 and of this
amount Judge Coe has turned
over to the council $2674 for the
paving of Front street from
Main to Pine street, which is
the main street of travel used in
reaching the business section
from the ferry and to all t D.■
country trade west of White
river. Newport’s real share of
the road funds of District No. 6
is about $4700, or at least that
is the part contributed by our
■faxes, of which Judge Coe thus
allowed the council the expendi
ture of not quite one-half of the
tax raised from city property.
Newport levies a special
street tax of $6 per year upon
every able-bodied man and the
$12,000 in the city treasury
must meet a great many ave
nues of expense besides street
improvement, just as Jackso'
county must provide for more
than roads from her $40,000 an
nual revenue.
Newport is not asking for ev
erything and half of the road
tax raised upon her propert\
goes to the improvement of the
country roads about the city.
Let us not arouse jealousies un
founded by fact, for we are all i
Citizens of one county and glory j
in It..
And'just as roads in a mate
rial way cement a people in
bringing them closer together,
so will a recognition of our mu
tual obligations and the rights
of the other increase our public
spirit and pride and result in the
growth and development of ’
county and city.
Neglect Most Important.
We make war on typhoid, tu-j
berculosis and kindred diseases
that affect the whole country
and are proving a greater men- J
ace elsewhere than here, yet
what little effort we as a city '
make to rid Newport of malaria, j
the origin and cause of most of
our sickness.
If one were asked, what has
been Newport’s greatest obsta
cle to growth, the writer would
unhesitatingly say “malaria."
Perhaps the malaria of itseli
has done less than half, but the
advertising of the same, the (
dread of others to risk such in
fection of the blood, has un- j
doubtedly done more to prevent
r»ur proper and meet growth and
prosperity than any other con
dition.
We have in mind a small town
in South Carolina, Hartsville by ]
name, that is now attrating na
tional attention because Harts-1
ville’s Board of Health is telling j
her people how to rid the city of |
malaria and spending a portion ,
of the public moneys in her cam
paign against the strongest pub
lic enemy, a bottom or lowland
city has.
The council has sought to for
tify Newport against the spread
of germs of various diseases
through ordinances to provide
and increase proper protective
sanitation precautions in the
dairies, restaurants, bakeries
and all lines of business which
sell foodstuffs:
Far more important than
business, roads, streets, or any
department of a city’s work is
the public health of that com
munity and while extreme pro
visions often prove irritating j
and seem senseless to some, the J
men who have made a study of j
these issues are in a better po-J
sit ion to make the regulations
than we who are less informed
upon such matters.
The female Anopheline mos
quito is known to be the sole
purveyor of malarial germs and
as a city, Newport should make
a more intelligent and per
sistent campaign to remove
tie trouble carrying mosquito,
for who can say that the best
energies, the best muscular de
velopment, the best minds and
highest ambitions are not rob
bed of power and shorn of
strength through the benumb
ing influences of malaria, when
these same elements in citizen
ship would unfettered have con
tributed a larger, better, health
ier and more prosperous city.
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The Day’s Work.
This is the task appointed:
To hold the vision of a final ar
rival at some fitting destination;
to maintain undiminished a
sense of personal worthiness;
to be defeated in each foolish
dream of the younger life, and
so to be disciplined into a larger
vision, made more sure by ad
versity; to be delayed for most
of a life time—and yet to be
lieve in the strength of the hu
man spirit to surmount pain,
outlive sin, and defeat malice
and envy; to believe in the
gradual but all-conquering pow
er of good will; to be saddened
but not embittered; to be beat
en but not conquered. That is
the stern business set before us.
—Collier’s Weekly.
Capitol Plans Not Complete.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, Aug. (?.—Because
Architect Cass Gilbert was un
able to complete the plans for
the completion of the State Cap
itol. there was a short meeting
of the Capitol Commission held
Tuesday. The commission met
for the sole purpose of approv
ing the plans and advertising
for bids, but a telegram from
Architect Gilbert stated he
would not have the plans com
pleted until about Aug. 20, so
the. Commission adjourned to
meet again when the plans have
been forwarded from New York.
fortunes Spent In Trousseaux.
I'no elaborate trousseaux of meuv
>«ls of the smart set "ycuM have mad«
i queen bride of a century ago ope:
her eyes with amazement it is an
ordinary thing for the daughter of a
t lliiouaire on getting her bridal tliv
y ready to order 20 or 30 hats,
‘rimmed with ostrich and other feath
to harmonize with ae many
■ wns. Every gown needs a distinct
wt The equipment of a rich bride
>■« looked on as incomplete if it doet
cot contain at least 31) gowns and
jeh a trousseau doe* ws bm> Ms*
; ild.i will get no more cresses tor r
■ ir When lingerie and little orna
. cues also are taken Into considers
. n, it is plain a young girl in New
V rk’s smart set must spend many
thousands of dollars for her outfit and
Miveral women have spent 180,000 t*
v'-0,000
Walter scorrs dog*
Farrous Author Was Especially Fend
of These ar.d Hi* Other Pet*
at Abbotsford.
One of my pleasant recollections If
that of seeing Sir Walter Scott out oa
a stroll with his dogs; the scene be
ing In the neighborhood of Abbot*
ford. In the summer of 1824, while as
yet the gloom of misfortune had not
elouded the mind of the great mao.
There he was limping gaily along with
his pet companions amid the rural
aeenea which he had tolled to secure
and loved so dearly. i
Scott's fondness for animats haa
perhaps never been sufficiently
acknowledged It was with hint a
kind of second nature, and appears t# ,
have been Implanted whan as a child
he was tent on a visit to the house eC
his grandfather. Robert Scott, at Barn
dyknowe. In the neighborhood of Dry*
burgh Here, amid flocks of sheep and
lambs, talked t* and fondled by shep
herds and ewe milkers, and reveling
wltk collies, he waa Impressed with s |
degree ef affectionate feeling for aab j
mala which lasted through life. At a I
subsequent visit to Sandyknowe, when
Ms grandfather had passed away, and i
the farm operations were administer
ed by “Uncle Thomas," he was pro
vided with a Shetland pony to ride
upon. The pony was little larger (
than many a Newfoundland dog. It :
walked freely Into the house and was
regularly fed from the boy’s hand. He
soon learned to ride the little pony
well, and often alarmed "Aunt Jenny"
by cantering over the rough places In
the neighborhood. Such were the be
ginnings of Scott's Intercourse with
animals. Growing up. there was some
thing extraordinary in hts attachment
to his dogs, his horses, his ponies and
his cats; all of which were treat**} by
him, each In Its own sphere, as *gr—
able companions, and which were *t»
tached to him In turn.—W. Cham
bers.
ORIGIN OF OUR CALENDAR
gtery ef the Year and Ita Day* aa
Now Constituted, Teld
Onoe More.
The Julian year eonstste of
lays and exceeded by 11 minutes 11.91
seconds the solar year ef 366 days I
hours 41 minute# 48 seconds. In con
sequence of this, the equinox In the
sours# of a few centuries fell back con
siderably. la the time ef Julius Caw
mr. It corresponded te Maroh 31,
snd by the sixteenth century It had
retrogarded to March UL It was at
this time that a physician ef Verona
tamed Ghlraldl proposed a plan far
amending the calendar. He died be
fore bo had opportunity te carry It
i ‘forward, but his brother presented It
, te Pope Gregory XIII., whe assembled
fa number of learned men to dlseusa It
' dt was passed upon favorably and
| adopted, and thus was* given te ths
world what has since been known as
, the Gregorian calendar. In 1582 Greg
I try Issued a brief, apolishlng the Julian
( oalendar in all Catholic oo-intrles, and
, Introducing the reformed one.
i I The reform of the Gergortan a »ew
! m tho Julian or old. consisted la
dropping toa days aftor Oetobor 4,
1 1582, so that the 15th was reckoned
I Immediately after the 4th. Bvery «n«
I hundredth year, which, hy tho eld stylo
I was a leap year, was te be a oommea
year, the fourth eentury, divisible by
I tour, accepted; that la. Idl'd was te re
maln s leep year, hut 1T90, ISO# and
1160 were net te be reckoaed ms such
while 300# was to be reckoaed.
Ia this calendar the length of the
■elar year Is taken to he 205 days 6
hours 4d minutes and 12 second* tho
difference between which and the true
length Is immaterial.—The Christina
Herald.
i
Qr«*nwicJi Tima.
' Standard time has been to long In
«se everywhere In the United States
that most people appear to have for
gotten, if they over knew, that It wu
baaed upon the time at Greenwich. The
hour divisions wore so arranged that
New York. or eastern time. Is exactly
five hours behind London; central
ilme is six hours behind London, and
so on. The tendency is evidently al
most universally to accept the Gneen
wich, meridian as the starting point,
and to base all ealoulttlons of tin*
on It Although the United States
maintains Its own observatory at
Washington, and prepare sits own nau
tical data, nevertheless, for all prac
tical purposes Greenwich time and
calculations baaed en Greenwich
time, are universally need In both the
navy and the merchant marine. While
It might reasonably be expected that
there would be some sentiment and
national prejudice against the accep
tance ef Greenwich time as the stan
dard all over the world, the practical
benefits of a universal standard are •
toe obvious to be ignored.
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Keeps for Children.
The opinion Is expressed by men
who have made a study of exercises !
sor health, that it is a pity the skip- 1
rping-rope and hoop have gone out of
fashion for children.
It is suggested they are more excel- ;
lent mediums for the physical develop- ;
ment than bicycles and roller skates.
The fact that small children are al
lowed to have bicyclos, and conse
quently make no use of nature'*
means of progression, Is offered as an
objection to them.
The skipping rope and hoop require 1
them to run and walk. Young chll- !
dreu should be encouraged to do this !
as much as possible, and always with
» springy step. They need to use
fhelr feet and legs and exercise the/
bi-inn these into olav «e l*ui*e-*i><
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Making Mistakes
You are making a mistak e if you are not keeping a bank
account. Depositing your money and paying out by
check will help you to get ahead; shows where your mo
ney goes, that you might save; best receipt possible, and
keeps you from paying bills twice. There are lots of
reasons. Why not start today?
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The Farmers Banh
— of NEWPORT, ARKANSAS ^
“We started_
life t< igether
With the same hope of success, that motorist and I
SAVED his money— I did not. .Now HE lives his old age in u
with automobiles and servants—I am nearly star'lag—"0
world's scrap heap. We had the same chance. t„(
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