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THE INDEPENDENT
I ERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher ami Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
EVENTS AT SWIFTON.
Tax Assessor Conditt was on
our streets Friday.
John Gilliam of Newport spent
Sunday in Swifton.
C. C. Nicholson had business
in Newport Tuesday.
Postmaster Davis went to
Newport Wednesday.
Mr. Tom Graham is buying
cotton here this week.
Mrs. Cora Hix is visiting pa
rents and friends here.
Mrs. Sharp, of Jonesboro, is
visiting her son at this place.
Miss Ethel Horn, of Hearts
Ease, entered school here Mon
day.
T. B. Hannon was talking in
surance to our townsmen this
week.
Drummer Patterson, of Searcy,
was interviewing our merchants
Wednesday.
Dr. Toler’s new residence when
complete, will be a nice addition
to our town.
Mr. Barrister, a timber dealer
of Poplar Bluff, spent a few days
in town lately.
Rev. H. H. Hunt of Tucker
man was a pleasant caller at
school Tuesday.
Swifton is an enterprising lit
tle town, and to be convinced,
one has but to observe.
The gin at this place has put
up about 550 bales and has 150
stored away in the seed.
0. L. Baker, of Dota, Inde
pendence county, has just closed
a successful term of school east
of town.
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PRESS COMMENT ON
MCDONALD COMPANY.
“Dixie Land” as played by the
McDonald Company, was one of
the most touching dramas, and
the audience last night was a
large and enthusiastic one, says
T?n1fA« Ifonfunl/v mar.
•cial. It was full of fun and
The old-time darkies of the South
were all there in their inimical
drollery and mirth—Southern
simplicity and ways of long ago.
The scenes and character sketch
es—the acting, songs and all,
was so much a part of the South,
that one was carried back once |
more to the Southern cornfield
and cotton patches. The “masher
woman” had everything her own
way, and Josephus Squashtop
was “it” sure enough. But the;
little soubrette was clear out of
sight in her charming ways of
caprice and sweet cunning. With
the news of the rebellion, the
old gents hysterical pantomime
and the old lady was just awful
in her nervous parade of excite
ment and fear.
GREATEST CIRCUS
OF MODERN TIMES.
Call all the others what you will,
but when all is said and told and
retold, there is but one Grand
Circus which is in every particu
lar and detail the greatest and
grandest of the entire world’s
circuses, and that is the Sells &
Downs’ United sh®ws that are
coming to Newport on Tuesday,
Oct. 27, in all its magnificence,
its unrivaled spendor, its un
equaled numbers and vast pro
portions. Under the greatest
city of snow-white tents ever
erected on any grounds will be
seen fully one hundred—count
them!—fully one hundred and
fifty superior and supreme acts
too numerous to classify, too
many to name, too multiferous
to describe Bareback riding,
hurdling, trick, fan-y and men
age riding, aerial ac's, grand
gymnastics, tumbling, vaulting,
leaping,athletic, contortion feats,
juggling, equilibristic pole balan
cing, breaking ladders and other
acts.
This season Sells & Downs
have secured the famous Ponti
ac Zouaves, the finest drilled sol
diers in the world, and Capt.
Winston’s Wonderful Seals and
Sea Lions. They are trained to
play the banjo, drums and sing
comic songs. In fact, they are
marvelous beyond description.
ARKANSAS MINERALS
WON TWELVE PRIZES.
St. Louis, Mo., October 18. —
The jury of awards has awarded
the following medals to the Ar
kansas mineral exhibits: Baux
ite in mining gulch by Pittsburg
Reduction Company, gold medal;
collective zinc ores, gold medal;
beauxite, silver medal; phosphate
rock, silver medal; Charles F.
Brown’s quartz crystals, bronze
i i n_it_j_ o
meuai, ouutuwcaiciu otcitc vx
Manufacturing Co., of Mena,
Ark., bronze medal on slate;
gold mine model, by Prof. A. H.
Purdue, Fayetteville, Ark.,
bronze medal; “Morning Star
Mining Company, zinc, bronze
medal; John B. Jones and asso
ciates, Little Rock, marble,
bronze medal; Ozark White Lime
Company, Fayetteville, Aik.,
lime, bronze medal; fuller’s
earth, bronze medal; Pfeiffer
Stone Company, Batesville,
building stone, bronze medal.
THE FAST TRAINS.
To California are run over the
Union Pacific. Via Omaha 16
hours quicker to San Francisco
than any other line. No change
of roads, no detours, “the Over
land Route’’ all the way. Be
sure your ticket reads Over the
Union Pacific. Inquire of
J. H. Lothrop, G. A.,
9*03 Olive street,
St. Louis, Mo.
co-eds forego Marriage.
•satisfies HEow That Chances of PnV
lege Women Becoming Wives Art
Rapidly Doereasing.
Over fonr-flftbe of the women gradu
ate! of the University of Chicago are on
the high road to spinsterhood. This la
the startling result of researches con
tacted by Mayo Feeler, who, as general
secretary of the Alumni and Alumnae as
sociations of the institution, has com
oiled statistics of the university and lt«
students In the form of a general register,
covering the first decade of the univer
sity’s history. The figures do not include
the women who have taken higher de
grees. but only those who have completed
the undergraduate courses and who,
therefore, might be expected to be win
some enough to tempt the heart of the
average man.
The register contains the names ol
698 women who have received bachelor
degrees from 1893 to 1902 Inclusive. The
fate of these coeds Is shown by the fol
lowing percentage table:
Srcentage women married.. [J
rcentage women teachere..,.
rcentage women "at homer.II
An examination of the table for each
class shows that the chances of the ex
co-eds for becoming wives are steadily
growing less. The first class that gradu
ated In 1893 contained three women and
all of them married. The next claat had
nine feminine members and not one of
them has yet entered the bonds of matri
mony. The class of 1896 has a higher
percentage and then comes the class of
1896 with a marriage percentage of 3S
among Its women members. Prom that
time there hae been a steady decrease. Of
fee 126 women graduated In 1901 hot elr
as* cent, are married.
Tht Klondike Cleee-11>.
Seattle, 'Vas-h., April 21.—James H
Ardoru, of one of the mining com
ponies of Dawson, hna arrived here
on his way to England. He aaye that
the clean-up this year in the l)aw»oa
camp will, from a conservative esti
mate, amount to $30,000,000, making
it the biggest output in the history oi
the Klondike.
Naney Htuki l.lm-ulu Soxaial.
Richmond, lud., April 21. -In the
construction of the baae of the tuou
ument to Nancy Hanks Lin- .u. at
her grave in Spencer county, a part
of the vault in which the remain* o!
Vbraham Lincoln rested in the ol«J
monument, at Springfield, 111., will M
sac A.
WAS WASHINGTON’S STAFF.
Interesting History of Cane Onos
Owned by lather of His
Country.
One of the things that passed
through the Baltimore fire un
scathed was a cane once owned by
George Washington and now the
property of Maj. H. H. Raleigh.
The cane reposed during the fire
in the vault of the Merchants'
Credit and Collection Bureau at
Liberty and German streets, says
the N«. v York Bun.
“In Gen. Washington’s will,”
said Maj. Raleigh, “two canes are
mentioned. One was bequeathed
to Robert Washington, of Chop
tank, Va., who gave it to Robert
Thompson, a relative.
“Later it passed to Miss Kittle
Thompson, a sister of Robe-t
Thompson, and finally Peter Gia
son Washington of New York,
who was assistant secretary of the
treasury under Guthrie, was the
owner of the stick.
“Peter Grason Washington be*
queathed the cane to the oldest
male heir of Gen. George Wash
ington who was living at the time
of his death. The late Mrs. Ra
leigh was a granddaughter of a
Mrs. McPherson, of Washington,
D. 0., who before her marriage
was a Miss Washington. After
some contention it was proved
that Mrs. Raleigh’s brother,
whose family name was Edwards,
was the person entitled to the pos
session of the cane. I purchased
the relic for rar wife, and when
she died it became my property."
Although described as a cane,
the relic is really a staff. It Is of
bamboo, about four and a half
feet long and just such a stick ns
Washington might have used in
tramping over his broad acres in
Mount Vernon. The Washington
coat-of-arms adorns its gold head,
and it is encircled with a gold band,
upon which is inscribed:
“Willed to Robert Washington
and by him to descend to Peter
Grason Washington, of New
York”
As soon as the embers had
cooled, Maj. Raleigh hastened to
the vault and was much relieved
to find after the cane had been re
moved from the chamois skin caw
that it had not been scorched.
SHARK AS A MESSENGER.
Larried Newspaper to Sydney Outdi»
t&ncing Steamer Conveying Im
portant Item of News.
The story of the discovery ol
human bones and bangles in th<
interior of the crocodile captured
at Fort Johnson, Rhodesia,
brings to mind another story
which may appositely be recalled
at the present juncture. Everyi
body has heard of “Mrs. Macquar
tie’s chair,” as they call the east
ern point of Farm Cove, in Sydney
harbor. There, says the St,
Jkmes’ Gazette, it was that a poor
emigrant, in pre-cable days, killed
and towed ashore a shark, cut him
up, and found a London newspa
per in the internals. In the paper
was the announcement of the war
Kafnrann Vr>a n/>o onH
The shark had outdistanced the
steamer by which the mail was
coming, and here the discoverer
had the fact to himself. He gavs
his information to a wealthy wooi
dealer, who bought all the sea
son’s clip at 9d. per pound, ami j
sold at 3s. after the news of the
war had arrived by the ordinary j
channel. He Cleatbd, it is said,
four millions Sterling by the deal.
The man Vho killed the shark and
extracted the news of price—#ell,
he received a battered bilk hit
and a five shilling piece and Ulbh*
strained liberty as to the disposal
of the Bhark.
Forgot the Chimney.
A short time ago a public cer*
mony was to be carried out a1
Landshut, an important town in
Lower Bavaria. A new public
school was to be formally opened,
and all Landshut quivered with
pleasurable anticipation. Unfor^
tunatelv the festivities bad to be
put off at the last moment. The
school could not be opened. No
scholar could take his seat upon
the brand new forms. The land
was in the grip of winter, and the
architect had forgotten to provide
a single chimney throughout the
building. _
Buttsr.
Butter has been found by T. I.
Thorpe to be influenced by cli
mate, fodder, breed of cow, period
of lactation and idiosyncrasy of
the individual cost.
STOVES! STOVES!! R
If yoa are looking for a Stove, don’t
fail to see oar
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It Keeps Fire Longer,
Gives More Heat,
Barns Less Fael,
Than any stove made.
We have almost any kind of a stove
yoa are looking for. See oar stoves and
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We Suit Payments
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You may test our machines
before purchase and they will
be delivered to your home,
'juaranteed to be a simpler,
stronger and more durable
machine than any other.
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