KnGUIUE
I RIVER RISING
Iter Still Lacks Two Feet of
Kigh Water Mark a! Last
■ “ Year.
B • Amdl 17.—The L’
Bio-uille river at Marianna has
W, rising at an increased rate
K Dast 36 hours, the gauge at
Kick last night reading 45.5,
ftse of four inches during the
|t 12 hours. Those who pre
led a stage here of less than
It of the 1912 mark, are now
lined to the belief that it will
fall very short of that rec
lowever, it lacks two feet ana
Ben inches of the high water
Brk of last year and those fa
Bjar with the river situation
Bnot anticipate a stage in ex
I of 1912.
It is reported that there is con
lerable current passing from
B gt, Francis across the coun
I above the mouth of the L’
Iguille river, going >directly
lo the Mississippi, which
luld indicate that this is to
lie extent prolonging the rise
■ Helena.
lupplies were forwarded to
| by river for upper St. Fran
river points, me steamer
m Lee of the Lee line will be
> Memphis packet from that
y tomorrow due to arrive in j
rianna Saturday morning.
Bank Cashier Changes.
Walnut Ridge, April 17—C. B.
lite, who has been assistant
ihier of the First National
nk of this city for nine years,
idered his resignation to ac
>t the position of cashier of
■ Central Lumber Company of
indard, La. The directors of
i First National met yester
y and elected Adolph Sloan to
! vacancy.
Mr. Sloan is a brotheer to Clay ;
an. He was for 15 years the !
ihier of the Lawrence County I
nk of this city, but for three!
irs has not been in the bank-'
business.
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Were There Floods A Century
I Ago.
1 When the red man roamed the
hills and valleys of the country
was he troubled with disastrous
floods?
Some insist that life was. while
others claim to the contrary.
There is some justification for
both points of view. That floods
have been growing worst and
worse with each ensuing year
leads one to believe that there
must be a cause for this and
that, perhaps, one hundred years
ago there were no floods- Oth
ers insist that in the early days
of the continent’s history the In
dians built mounds and camped
on the mounds during the flood
season. There is a chain of old
Indian mounds which begin in
the upper Ohio valley and follow ,
the course of the valley to its ,
junction with the Mississippi,
Qllov. Qnrl tVl0r»r»0 nr\r\
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tinues far south. ,
These mounds were used for I
other purposes. Some were bur- j
ial grounds. In others have been
found stored implements of war
and domestic usefulness
If there were floods in the val- i
ley.at this distant time there is ,
the logical conclusion that these j
artificial reservations were used i
as places of refuge until the wa- i
ters subsided.
Spring freshets there must,
Have been along the Ohio and j
Mississippi rivers. Their tribu- j
taries must necessarily have i
overflowed their banks at times, j
but it would be difficult, practi- j
cally impossible, in fact, to find
any definite record of such floods
as we have had during the past
two years. The real floods along
the great watershed are of more
recent origin. They date back
to the time when the lumber
companies began their wholesale
destruction of the forests. BeT
fore that period there was no
appalling loss of life and proper
ty on the rare occasions when
tHe Ohio and Mississippi left
their banks, for the freshets
were moderated by the great re
taining reservoirs of the forests.
—Commercial-Appeal.
The Victim of Drugs.
The pitiful case of little Mary
Flynn, who lies between life and
death at the City Hospital, a
helpless drug fiend, is one that is
exciting general sympathy.
That a little child less than
six years of age has become so
addicted to the use of morphine
that to withhold the drug means
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Phone 58
J. R. Loftin, Jr.
f
certain ckjh is deplorable.
A juvenile neurotic, a storm
tossed little soul nearing info
cility through the careie.-.u -
°f an inhuman mother, i- a sub
ject well calculated to arou
sympathy.
I is not the fault of Mar;
FI; a that she is what she i
Sh- does not know the cause o;
her present condition. Since she
was a year old her mo; her has
fed her on morphine, until she is
now a helpless victim, who
moans for the unknown powder
which brings her rest and sleep.
Just what to say of a mother
who, knowing full well the fatal
power ot the insidious drug, and
yet deliberately forces it upon
her own child, it is difficult to
determine. The poor woman
was no doubt half-crazed her
self. When the habit is once
formed the victim is helpless to
resist. However honest a man
or woman mm* be, they will
stoop to any level, they will com
mit any crime, they will yield to
any temptation in order to se
cure the drug.
The mother of Mary Flynn
Has for years been addicted to
rporphine- She has passed be
yond the pale of redemption.
She has given up the struggle
and has yielded entirely to the
influence of morphine.
What vacrarv r.f iior rli
ed mind induced her to transmit
the habit to her helpless child,
it is impossible to say. It seems
that, fully realizing the horror
of the habit, the fatality of the
drug itself, she would have
through mother instinct shield
ed her baby from its fearful in
fluence.
But drug fiends are not nat
ural men and women. They live
in a world of dreams and half
the time do not realize what
they are doing.
In “John Cave,” that weird
but fascinating story of W. B.
Trites, which has so thoroughly
aroused the English literary
world, there is just such a type
vividly depicted as the mother
of Mary Flynn. Prudence was
not a mother, however, and she
had no little life to ruin. But
the inevitable ruin which comes
to every one addicted to the use
of drugs is pitilessly told, and
here we have an instance of it
before our very eyes.
The mother of Mary Flynn is,
possibly to be more pitied than
condemned. It is another of
the human tragedies.—Memphis
Commercial Appeal.
Protect The Southern Forests.
In every Southern state the
forests, next to the soil itself,
are the state’s greatest natural
resources. And in not a single
Southern state are there any
adequate laws for forest protec
tion. Every year the South is
losing literally millions of dol
lars because of forest fires, reck
less cutting, destruction of
young forest growth, and de
forestration of land that should
be allowed to remain in timber.
The supreme folly of continuing
such a state of affairs must be
apparent to any thinking man;
but no action is taken to reme
dy it. Nor will any be taken un
til the farmers of the South re
alize that this loss falls upon
them with particular weight
and until they demand that their
legislators have the business
sense to provide for state pro
tection and, if need be, oversight
by the state, of the forests.
We are wasting one of our
richest heritages with a reck
lessness and a simple-minded
ness almost unbelieveable of
grown-up men. Isn’t it about
time for us to begin to think se
riously about the matter ? —
| The Progressive Farmer.'
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CHICOTCOUNTY
LEVEES HOLD
Entire Northern Portion of The
Countv Is Now l nder
Water.
Lake Viliage, April 17.— The
entire Chicot levee line is hold
ing well and several “boils” that
have appeared in the levee have
disappeared. There has not
been as much seepage a> was ex
pected and workers believe that
if good weather continues there
will be no trouble in holding the
levees. All levees have been
i built up to the highest mark
; the water can reach and sacks
I have been filled with sand for
1 emergency.
1 he entire northeast portion of
Chicot county is under water,
owing to the Amos Bayou gap.
The dirt road from Lake Village
to Luna is flooded and railroad
service may lie discontinued.
Missing Furniture Man Seen.
Special to Independent.
Little Rock, April 18.— A re
port from Russellville has been
received here to the effect that
A. A. Fleming, the missing fur
niture man, who left his home
here April 5 with his three-year
nfrf CirtTl Arpliio uroa uritli
the child in the negro residence
district of Russellville Wednes
day afternoon. He was collect
ing money for rugs that are
said to have been sold from the
Little Rock store, and he and the
child Were positively identified
by published pictures and de
scriptions.
The mother is almost a nerv
ous wreck on account of the
mysterious disappearance, and
is especially anxious as to the
fate of her child Humane offi
cer Rankin took the matter up
with Russellville officers to at
tempt to verify the report. Sev
eral days ago Mrs. Fleming
heard an unconfirmed report
that they had gone to Old Mex
ico
Chickamauga In History.
Special to Independent.
Chattanooga, Tenn., April 18.
—The Tennessee river for a dis
tance of fifty miles above and be
low Chattanooga figured con
spicuously in the early annals of
Tennessee, or rather in the early
history of this section of the
United States.
A number of Indian tribes
fought each other as only the
American Indians could fight,
for possession of this stream.
From these conflicts that lasted
through a long term of years,
there has come down to the
present generation a wealth of
legendary history and well es
tablished facts that do not grow
old by repetition
When the white man penetrat
ed into the wilderness west of
the Virginia and North Caroli
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na mountains, the Tennessee riv
er was his main route of travel.
A number of expeditions by
white men were made into this
territory as early as 17715, but
they either lost their lives in
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the tortuous chantn
multuous waters of
*ee, or were massa
dians.
The stories of all ;9|
tures fill volumes an
of the most thrilling
American history,
book has been written on the
topic and tin- public has read
them with great interest. These
books and stories are a part of
Chatanooga’s history.
THE CHICK AM ACCA INDIAN
From all reliable accounts, the
Chickamauga Indians caused
the white pioneers more trouble
and annoyance than all others
combined in this territory. They
were a worthless, murderous
tribe enlisted under their stand
ard every outcast white man
that came among them and
would promise to unite with the
Indians in their campaigns of
pillage and murder.
The Chickamaugas built a vil
lage at the mouth of the Chick
amauga river, some five miles a
bove the present city of Chat- v
tanooga. They had for a gener
al hiding place, when too close
ly pursued by an enemy, a large
cave on the side of Sand moun
tain, thirty miles below Chat
tanooga. This cavern is known
as Nick-A-Jack cave and is in
plain view from the depot at
Shellmound, Alabama, on the
op tho Maclivillo rhnffun.
ooga & St. Louis railway. A
story founded largely on legend
has it that this cave was given
its present name from the fact
that a runaway negro slave
from North Carolina made it his
hiding place. F^is name was
Jack. The Indians called him
“Nigger Jack,” a 1 finally nam
ed the cave Nick-, lack Cave.
Nick-A-Jack cave ‘ of the
largest caverns in the^ (Cumber
land range. The Indian
as a strong place for the
stolen from the white man, and
for refuge in time of trou/e.
Finally, they built a village near
the cave and fortified it against
any hostile foe. ' -s r ' ®
From the village near the mouth
of Chickamauga river, above
Chattanooga, theseJndians would
glide down the Tennessee in
their canoes, conceal themselves
in the numerous mountain coves
and gorges below the present
site of the city, and pounce upon
'expeditions of white men or
ganized to explore the river.
Whole families of white people
were butchered by these In
dians. Some of the stories of /
their murderous deeds Have no /
parallel in Indian warfare.
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