THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
WONDERFUL
RESOURCES
OF THE WEST.
If you are looking for a home
and want to visit the west you
can do so with very little ex
pense, as the Union Pacific will
sell one way colonist tickets every
day at the following rates from
Missouri river terminals, Coun
cil Bluffs to Kansas City inclu
sive:
UNTIL APRIL 30TH.
$25 to San Francisco, Los An
geles and many other California
points.
$20 to Ogden, Salt Lake City,
Butte, Anaconda and Helena.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wenat
chee.
$25 to Portland, Tacoma, Seat
tle and many other Oregon and
Washington points.
From Chicago and St. Louis
proportionately low rates are in
effect by lines connecting with
the Union Pacific.
The Union Pacific has also ex
tended territory to which round
trip homeseekers’ excursion tick
ets will be sold as follows:
FROM MISSOURI RIVER TERMINALS
To many points in Kansas, Ne
braska and Colorado.
To many points in Wyoming,
Utah, Montana and Idaho.
To many points in Eastern
Oregon and Washington.
One fare plus $2 for the round
trip.
Tickets on sale March 15, April
5 and 19, May 3 and 17, August
2 and 15, September 6 and 20,
October 4 and 18.
For full information call on or
address
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
903 Olive Street,
tmayl St. Louis, Mo.
GAVE HIM A FRIGHT.
Bit When the Explanation Came
Henry Found Out Thinga Were
Not So Bad.
Xie Yfm,O a UUUOUtUL Tiww»i iutv»
Ably impressed her sisters and mother
by his dignified behavior and sensible
conversation. He would probably have
bad the same gratifying effect upon her
father, but as the latter was completely
immersed in business he was at home
Very little of the time. The young man
bAd A dim recollection of being Intro
duced to him once and speaking a word
or so, but since that time had not seen
him at all. However, this didn't bother
jiim much, and his love affair came to a
focus rapidly, says London Tit-Bits.
When he asked the young lady to be
come his wife she referred him to her
father.
‘Til see him to-moirow, dear," he re
plied.
"No, I don’t think you can," she an
swered? “he’s going out of town on a
long business trip to-morrow evening,
and so will not be here when you come.”
“By Jove, then," responded the young
man, “I’ll drop in on him at the office."
The next-day he turned up at the place
Of business of bis idol's father. He
knew he was head of the concern. He
made his way into the office and there
confronted a very busy gentleman in
deed. Asking for a moment of the lat
tei’stime he said:
“I have come to ask you for your
daughter's hand.”
The man addressed stopped, turned
round and looked at him a moment, and
then said:
“I’m sorry to tell you, young man, but
my daughter is to bo married to-mor
row.”
Without waiting for an explanation
the horror-stricken suitor rushed from
the building. He hailed a cab and drove
madly to the young lady’s home.
“What—what does IT all mean?" he
gasped, as soon as he saw her. “Speak!
What does it mean? I have Just seen
your father at his office, and he says that
> ju are to be married to-morrow.”
“Why, Henry," she ejaculated, in a
tone of astonishment, “my father?
Why, he left for the north last nigLt.’
A little further conversation revealed
the fact that Henry had been speaking
to her father's partner.
Catbirds Defeat Blackanake.
▲ writer In the Scientific American
■ays: “I witnessed a pair of catbirds
making a bold defense against a black
snake bent on devouring the contents
of their nest. At first the snake was in
clined to disregard the distressed birds
as they fought to drive it away, but the
blows of their wings and bills became so
annoying that the thief had to seek
refuge in flight On reaching the roots
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GREAT INVENTOR AT HOME.;
▲ Visit to Thomas A. Edison—House
and Surroundings Not a Bit
Like 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 wom
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
wrork-w’orn.
“Come along into the labora
tory,” he said.
So I followed him through the j
dining-room and the “den” into j
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 j
and hands smeared like his
father’s. They had been making J
various compounds of which lamp- j
j black was the chief constituent.
“So you work on Sunday, too?”
Edison winked confidentially. j
“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
test-tubes and retorts, until at
last Mrs. Edison appears and
fondly leads him away to sleep.
I looked around the laboratory.
! Tins at least was ms room, i nere
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. Zacli
ariah Gray, a well-known grower
at Everton, Sandy, purchased a
stone 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
stock 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 eventu
ally the bargain was struck at
£1,400, to the satisfaction of botl^
parties. Subsequently Mr. Mas
WORLD'S FAIR-RATES. |
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
St. Louis, April 30th to Decem
ber 1, 1904. Rate for ten day
excursion ticket will be one fare j
and one-fifth for the round trip.
Tickets*on sale daily April 27th
to November 30, 1904. Rate for
sixty day excursion ticket one
fare and one-third for the round
trip. Tickets on sale April 25th
to Nov. 20th. Rate for season
EXCURSION TICKETS eighty
per cent, of double the standard ;
one way fare for the round trip.
Tickets on sale daily April 15th
to Nov. 15th, Final return limit
Dec 15, 1904.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agt.
CHEAP RATeT
TO CALIFORNIA.
Via the Iron Mountain route,
one way colonist tickets, on sale
March 1st to April 30th, only
$30. For further information
call at Iron Mountain ticket office.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agt.
Found — Brass fixtures for
boiler and engine on road be
tween Newport and Diaz. Owner
may have same upon proper
identification. d6t,
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cost for repairs, to say nothing of
its annoying inefficiency.
Singer Sewing Machines do
good work during a lifetime.
Sold on Installments.
Old Machines taken in exchange
Liberal Discount for Cash.
Oils, Needles, Attachments and
Repairs for all makes of machines.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.
"The Sewing Machine Makers of the World."
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121 Hazel St. , Newport, Ark.
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in California
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for the Round Trip
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