THE INDEPENDENT |
I ERCY M. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
INTEREST IN JAPANESE
KOREAN AGREEMENT.
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No official representations will
be made by the British in regard
to the Korea-Japanese agree
ment, the text of which was
cabled to the Associated Press
from Tokio last night, but the
authorities are taking a lively in
terest in the extent of the inter
vention of Japan in the affairs of
the hermit kingdom.
Under the Anglo-Japanese al
liance both powers agreed to re
spect the independence and in
tegrity of Korea, and the agree
ment between Japan and Korea
is regarded as an infringement
of Korean independence. But it
had been expected that if Japan
was successful in the] war she
would establish a protectorate
over Korea. The Russian em
bassy pointed out today that at
the beginning of the war the
Russian government declared it
would not regard the acts of
Japan in Korea as binding, and
therefore they would not receive
the recognition of the Russian
government, a fact which, it is
stated in Japanese diplomatic
circles, does not concern Japan.
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HOW A TREETs~MURDER£D,
ta Instance Which Illustrates th
Difficulty- of Destroying .
One.
A gentleman of means living In asuU
urban town tells how his mother onc«
,■ undertook to murder a cherry tree, sayi
the Chicago Chronicle. “I was a boy
at the time,” be said. "The tree stood
on our lawn; It had besn planted by my
father, and he loved It with a parental
affection; but it was an eyesore to my
mother, for she thought it spoiled the
looks of the garden.
“She decided to murder It Eecretly
because she knew that my father would
never consent to its removal. For a
long time ane pondered, asking herself
how she might kill the tree without be
ing detected, and finally she decided
that she would use for her weapon boil
ing water. Accordingly whenever my
father was away she would get a kettle
and, tiptoeing out to the tree with a
guilty look, she would pour boiling
water upon Its roots.
“At first the tree showed no change
under this treatment. After a time,
though, a change began to manifest
itself. My father noticed It.
“ ‘By jore,’ he said, ‘my cherry tree
seems unusuaJly fine and hearty.’
“And this was a fact. The more boil
ing water my mother poured on the
roots the more the tree thrived and
flourished. Finally, to despair, she gavt
up trying to commit her vegetable muf
der.
“A florist, to whom she narrated this
strange story one day, laughed when he
heard it. He said it was no wonder the
tree had gotten along so well. He de
clared that boiling water was often
used on trees, as it killed off the worms
and bugs molesting them.”
The Magnetic North.
The belief in the constancy of the
magnetic compass to the north pole has
not the least foundation In fact. At ev
ery different place on the globe It points
In a different direction, and only one or
two of them are due north. In London,
(or Instance, It points to a place abo«it
17 degrees west of north. Seventy-a^i
years ago It was still further away, be
ing then 24^4 degrees, or a quarter of
the way around to the west. In the year
1580 It pointed 11 degrees east. Then It
began to move north till 1659, when It
pointed due north. But it remained
thus only for a moment, passing around
to Its greatest deflection In 160 year*.
Ygaln it turned In 1820, and is still mov
ing nearer the north. It will not reach
that point for nearly a century and a
half, and so It will go on backward and
tirward forever.—N. Y. Herald.
MAKING PORT ON ONE LEO.
The Disabled Steamer Bulgaria Hr*
seeding Slowly Voder a
Single Propeller.
London, April 20.—The disabled
Homburg-Aniericnn line steamer Bui
garia, from New York, April 6, to
Hamburg, which was reportedhavtn
lost her starboard propeller and fra.*
tured the shaft on April 12 at sea
passed Prawle point, in the English
channel, slowly proceeding under her
port propeller to her destination.
Paluiu for President#
Washington,April 20.—The admini*
vration is informed, through official
channels, that a strong movement i«
getting \n among Cubans to mak*
Tomas Estrada Palma the first presi
<ent of the Cuban republic. The sug
•stion is eminently satisfactory tv
M o...— irovornment.
The Old Thing Won’t Go.
Hewitt—First be sure you're right
then go ahead.
Jewett—You may be aura you're right
nnd not be able to go ahead, If you are
Mi lg —Brooi 1 vi LUa
KXfinl&hCL,'
GREAT INVENTOR AT HOME.
A Visit to Thomas A. Edison—Hsnas
4 and Surroundings Not a Bit
Liks the Man.
To one who knows anything at
all of Edison, the first glimpse of
his house and its surroundings
comes with a shock of surprise,
says Woman’s Home Companion.
Who would have suspected
that this most democratic of men
would have chosen for himself en
vironments so essentially aristo
cratic? He lives in the heart of
a splendid park, patterned after
the English idea of vigorous ex
clusiveness, its gates jealously
guarded by a lodgekeeper.
The interior of the house is in
keeping with the atmosphere of
the park without, quite unlike
Edison. The reception-room was
utterly different from what I ex
pected. The admirably draped
curtains, the tables and chairs ar
ranged wih an eye to artistic ef
fect, were not of Edison’s choos
ing. He cares too little for the
luxuries of life. This was his
wife’s work; it was all so worn
anly.
I heard quick footsteps behind
me, and Edison appeared, greet
ing me cordially and unaffectedly.
He was dressed in the queerest
of costumes—a long blouse that
reached to his heels, evidently of
his own pattern, serviceable and
work-worn.
“Come along into the labora
tory,” he said.
So I followed him through the
dining-room and the “den” into
the laboratory that he has fitted
up for himself in his home.
There I found his little boy, his
shirt-sleeves rolled up, his face
and hands smeared like his
father’s. They had been making
various compounds of which lamp
black was the chief constituent.
“So you work on Sunday, too?”
Edison winked confidentially.
“You see, Mrs. Edison is away. I
can do as I like.”
That brought back to me a story
that I had once heard from a friend
of his—a story of how he works
night after night in his labora
tory, utterly absorbed in his ex
periments. Midnight comes and
goes, the gray dawn creeps in, and
still finds him bending over his
tfl«t.+nhpa sind rptnrtsa until at
last Mrs. Edison appears and
fondly leads him away to sleep.
I looked around the laboratory.
This at least was his room. There
were Bunsen burners, mortars
and pestles, glass rods, watch
crystals, bottles of chemicals
scattered about in bewildering
profusion. I watched him and his
boy while they worked, the boy
listening with rapt attention to
the teachings of his father.
A FORTUNE IN A POTATO.
Tuber Raised by Scotchman and Sold
at High Price—Well-Named
the “Eldorado."
No potato ever gained so much
notoriety as Eldorado, raised by
the famous Scottish raiser Mr. A.
Findlay, of Markinch. The very
name of the variety, says the Gar
dener’s Magazine, was a stroke of
genius, for it is hardly possible
that the raiser, or those who had
the good fortune to secure some
of the first tubers distributed,
could have imagined that in so
short a time it would change
hands at such enormously high
prices.
Mr. George Massey, of Spalding,
was one of the very first to obtain
The stock, and from him Mr. Zach
ariah Gray, a well-known grower
at Everton, Sandy, purchased a
atone weight for £20. This set the
ball rolling, and as Mr. Findlay
resolved not to further distribute
Eldorado until the autumn of
1904, the demand for the small
atock available was doubled and
trebled, and so the prices rose.
Messrs. Dennis, the Covent Gar
den salesmen, and Messrs. I. Poad
& Sons, of York, possessed sup
plies, and the latter firm found a
purchaser of four pounds at £150
per pound. This determined them
to obtain further stock, and so at
the Smithfield club show a mem
ber of his firm found that Mr. Mas
sey had a limited stock for dispos
al and made him an offer of £1,000
for a stone. Mr. Massey refused,
as he wanted £1,500, but eventn
ally the bargain was struck at
£1,400, to the satisfaction of both
parties. Subsequently Mr. Mas
sey sold a relatively small quan
tity for £2,000, so that his original
transaction brought him a veri
handsome return.
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WASH BLUE ^
Costs 10 cents and equals 30 cents
worth of any other kind of bluing.;
Won’t Spill or Break
Can’t Spot Clothes
DIRECTIONS FOR USE:
W??lc»5tldS
around in the Water•
At all wise Grocers.
HE GETS A MONEY ORDER.
With the Money He Doesn’t Want tt
Spend When Out with
the Boys.
“One of the queerest things 1
ever heard of,” said a young man,
who sometimes keeps late hours,
relates the Providence Journal,
“is the action of a friend of mine,
who has a knack of saving, despite '
the fact that sometimes when he'
meets a friend he celebrates too |
much. He always, after he has:
had a few drinks and realises that
he will take more before the end
of the evening, takes an account of
stock, as yon may say. He finds
a corner somewhere and there
figures up the amount of cash on
hand. Then he starts for the post ,
office.
“When he gets there be buys a
money order, payable to himself,
for an amount equal to the great*
er part of the sum he has on hand.!
This done, he mails the order to
himself, and then, certain of sav* |
ing that much of his money, at
least, through the evening, he
starts out to resume the joyous oo !
cupation of eta joying himself. It
Is a great scheme, and one I never j
heard of anyone else using. It ,
works very well, Indeed, with him. ;
I have seen men give a part of;
their money to a bartender to take
care of for them, but this schema
of buying a money order for your*
self beats that. And you can get
a money order at the Providencs
post office any hour of the night,
sow.”
DON’T SNUB THE SPAGHETTI, j
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The One Way to Create Consterna- ,
tlon In a New York Italian
Restaurant.
When a customer enters an Italian
restaurant in New York, he is supposed
to have bestowed himself upon that
particular establishment for the pur
pose of procuring spaghetti, says the
Sun. The experienced patron yields to
the requirements of the restaurant and
enjoys the spaghetti when he gets it,
though there is no positive assurance
in an Italian restaurant at what point
the spaghetti will appear any more than
there is when the cheese or salad will be
served. It Is no unusual thing in an Ital
ian restaurant for a dinner to be begun
with salad, and cheese, grated and served
in a saucer, is generally brought in with
the soup instead of at the end of the re
past
The unsophisticated patron of an Ital
ian restaurant in New York, high or low.
expensive or cheap, celebrated or new.
can In one way only cause surprise, bor
dering on bewilderment, to the conduc
tors, employes and patrons of the es
tablishment alike, and that is by declar
ing with firmness at the proper mo
ment:
"I don’t care for spaghetti. Take It
away.’»
Such a declaration, seldom made and
never repeated in the same restaurant,
has the same effect on the business done
In It that the explosion of a boiler has
on a locomotive. It brings everything
to a full stop. It ends abruptly the pop
ularity of the patron there. He pays hla
score and departs, but not until ht ha*
ton* so Is serenity restored.
An Acorettca.
‘'Well, «ir,’’ said the slangy man. "he
•uade me look like 30 cents.”
"You ought not to complain about that,
for it ia an improvement.”
"What do you mean?"
"Ordinarily you look like a nickel."—
Detroit Free Praaa.
The Peklu Palace Fire.
Pekin, April 21.—The loss by the d*
destruction of the winter palace, bj
fire, in which Gen. Schwartzkotf lost
his life, is estimated at 1,000,000 taela
Count von Wa’.dersee lost everything!
including his paper* and clothing.
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