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t Agent Rock Island Lines
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MONKEYS PROVE
MEDICAL THEORY
Open Air Treatment By Gentry
Brothers Saves Simians
From Ravages of
White Plague.
In the evolution oL' mod
and surgery the masters th v.
professions have resorted to the
use of the lower animals in nuk
ing tests by which the hum a
family profits. The rabbit ,.nd
the guinea pig are the lower ani
mals in which the heart action is
closest to that ol the human i,<■
in g.
The monkey tribe, however, is
the family in which the action
of the lungs is closest to that of
man. Monkeys are particularly
subject to pulmonary tubereulo
sis, or in plain language, con
sumption. Among monkeys the
deadly white plague reaps its (,»]]
almost without resistance.
Several years ago the medical
world evolved the theory that
open air was the surest prevent
ative for tuberculosis of the
lungs. This scientific disclosure;
was quickly caught up by the
Gentry Brothers, proprietors
and owners of Gentry Brothers'
All New Feature Shows. To
them it meant much.
Conducting a trained animal
exhibition, that has arisen to the
apex ot lame, (.entry Brothers
used monkeys. The loss among
the simians from tuberculosis
was appalling. When the fres!
air treatment was expounded.
Gentry Brothers decided upon
drastic moves. They decreed
that monkeys for all time should
live in the open air
Following this decision came a
most remarkable demon
of how nature provides for her
own. Nature soon provided the
simians, destined to open air ir,
a northern winter, with heavier
coats of hair. These coats were
heavier than any ever before
seen on monkeys. The monkeys
were left in open air all the year,
their only protection being a dry
goods box. Since then Gentry
Brothers have lost but two mon
keys, whereas twenty-five was
the usual toll of the plague in
winter.
The monkeys, strangely
enough, welcome their new mode
of living. All summer they are
left in unconfined spaces. In
winter they are offered only
enough protection to break the
wintry winds- The result is that
the simians are acclimated, there
is no tuberculosis among them,
and the only troupe of year
round open air monkeys in the
world are with Gentry Brothers
All New Feature Shows which
will be in this city Saturday,
September 20. (Adv.)
HAPPY WOMEN
Plenty c«f Them In Newport, and
Good Reasons For It.
Wouldn’t any woman bp happy,
After years of backache suf
fering,
Days of misery, nights of un
rest,
The distress of urinary trou
bles,
When she finds freedom.
Many readers will profit by the
following:
Mrs- E. M. Baker, W. Pleasant
St., Searcy, Ark., says: “Kid
ney trouble fastened itself upon
me in a mysterious way and T
ran down so rapidly that I was
in bad shape before I realized it.
I had backache and dizzy spells.
The kidney secretions were also
disordered and my joints swell
ed. When I was fortunate to
learn of Doan’s Kidney Pills, I
got a box and used them, ihev
soon gave me relief. I willingly
confirm my former endorsement
of this remedy.”
For sale by all dealers. Price
50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, New York, sole agents
for the United States. ^
Remember the name—Doan’s
—and take no other. (Adv.)
Mutual Relations and Interests
of the Bell System and the Public
1 or li: !>y the United
hi pureha se of
■!| ■ Hi' uoperties in the
a well as the pending
1 onii'im'c ('iinimi. sion
1 ation, have caused
Without taking up
i!. ;. the merits of
has eemed to
io > :iti generally what
u oin policy and purpose in
the conduct of our business.
f< and, or thought we had,
ho c into . i-, were best served
i when he public iutei ests wore best
served; and we believe that such sue
I ■ a we have had has been he
ron o . o' I,-, mess has been eondiict
■ i'd on these lines.
We !.)• 1 that our company has
I an interest as vital as that of the
: i'uMi" i piopcr administration
!1 •' o' dee!rical comrnu
: nit-'i iiic i !n success ;in<l prosperi
i b"'ity nl oin t'ompany depend upon
a solution of these problems whieh
shall be sound from both the stand
inf of i lit’ company and I he public
; which if serves.
Following our own best judgment,
; i.’pplemi.. by the best obtainable
1 ail1, is", \ve have endeavored to do
what, would best serve the public in
. - ev po ible our plans
| Is!' e been di closed to the public in
. and v\hat has been done in
j I'arryiii"." them out has been done
| alone ordinary business' lines, with
j 11n expressed approval, authority or
! ci111nt of the municipal and state
i arthoril ies directly interested. Our
j eifort has been not, only to obey the
! lav. bii! 11> avoid everything which
might ven have the appearance of
an attempt at evasion.
Our business methods and policy,
| and practically all the details as to
the transact ion of our business, are
matters of common knowledge and
are. aim im manv ,veai.> nan mvtv.u,
j well known to the government. We
I will willingly furnish the government
additional information which is in
our possession or under our control,
and will cordially co-operate with it
in obtaining such further information
as't may require. Every possible as
sistance will be given by us to the
courts in their efforts to determine
whether our policy is or has been in
imical to the public interest. We de
sire that anything wrong be correct
ed; we will voluntarily rectify any
wrong that may be pointed out to us:
and, so far as it may be determined
tl t our policy or any act under if is
against the public interest, we will
promptly conform to such determina
tion.
We believe that, if each of our ex
changes were made an independent
unit and if each connecting line were
put under separate control, the ef
fect upon the telephone service of the
country would be a condition so in
tolerable that the public would refuse
to submit to it and would immediate
ly require such physical connection
and common control of these various
units as would amalgamate them into
a single system. Physical connection
in the case of telephone of telegraph
does not mean transfer of all messag
es from one line to the other. It
means such a connection as will per
mit one person to have the actual po
session of the particular line of com
munication from one end of it to the
other and this can only be given un
der a common control, and that is
whi t the Bell System is.
In this connection, and for general
information, we will restate the poli
cy which controlled the building up
of the Bell System, and our belief as
to what a telephone system should be,
nlld what are its relations to the pub
lic.
We believe in and were fhe first to
advocate state or government control
and regulation of public utilities; that
this control or regulation should be
bv permanent quasi-judicial bodies,
acting after thorough investigation
and governed by the equities of each
.case and that this control or regu
1 i; .. 1./mori the greatest
efficiency and economy, should not
interfere with management or oper
ation. Wo believe that these bodies
if they are to be permanent, eftcct
tive and of public benefit, should be
thoroughly representative; they
should lie of such character and
should so conduct their investiga
tions and deliberations as to com
mand such respect from both the
public and the corporations that
both will without question accept
their conclusions.
We believe that the public would
in this way get all the advantages
and avoid all the manifest disadvant
ages of public ownership. .
' We believe that centers of business
and population exist for the conveni
ence of the public as a whole, and
that no such center can prosper with
out sufficient and efficient means of
intercourse with other centers and
tributary territories; that such
means can only be afforded by pi os
porous utility and service companies
and that fair rates are essential to
prosperous companies. We do not
believe that any public either desires
or can obtain, nor can .any service
utility furnish permanent, and effi
cient service at less than cost, includ
ing capital charges. We believe that
ultimately the public either directly
or indirectly pays the losses involv
ed in the efforts to furnish such serv
ice at less than its fair cost, either
through the loss of capital involved,
the losses incident to poor service or
the necessary increase in charges re
quired to pay for duplication of cap
ltawe believe that the highest com
mercial value of the telephone serv
ice depends on its completeness—on
the extent and comprehensiveness of
the facilities for intercommunication,
not only between individuals, hut be
tween centers of population; that no
isolated section can be considered in
dependently of any other section or
of the whole; that rates must be so
adjusted as to make it possible to ob
tain the maximum development by
making it possible for every one to
be connected who will add to the val
ue of the system, thus giving the
greatest value to the greatest num
ber; that the inter-dependence of the j
telephone service and the value of I
complete and universal intereommuni- I
cation justify and require some serv
ices partly at the expense of the
whole for thi> benefit of the whole.
We believe that this highst com
mercial value can only be attained
by one system under one common
control and that it cannot be given
by independent systems unless they
are operated under agreements which
result in one common control and one
common interest, in effect making
I them a single system.
We believe that rates should be so
adjusted as to afford the company
sufficient revenue to pay such wages
I and compensation as will secure the
most efficient service; to maintain the
i very highest and most advanced
I standards of plant and apparatus, to
'carry on such scientific and ex peri -
mental research and inventions as to
apparatus and methods as to insure
I the highest standards, and to carry
I to reserve and depreciation such a
: mounts as will enable the company al
| any time to replace old plant and
I old methods with new plant and new
I methods as fast as they may lie de
veloped and found to be to the ad
i vantage of the service. We believe
1 that in addition, such fair charges
| should be paid upon the investment
jin plant as will enable the company
! at. any time to obtain money necessa
j ry to provide the plant required to
I meet the continuing demands of the
public; and in order that waste and
duplication of effort may be avoided
and uniformity of purpose and com
mon control be enforced, that there
should he a centralized general ad
ministration in close communication
with and having general authority
over the whole on matters common to
all or matters of e-eneml noliev
We believe that any surplus be
yond that necessary to equalize divi
(lends on a fair basis should be used
by the company for the benefit of (lie
public and should be inalienable for
any other purpose, and should be
either invested in revenue-earning
plant until necessary to substitute
plant which may become inadequate
or obsolete, or should be used to make
the service cheaper or better.
We believe that under proper gov
ernmental control and regulation the
profits from promotion or operation
allowed to be distributed should not
be so large as to warrant or tempt
complete duplication of plant and or
ganization, with its duplication of its
capital charges and its organization,
operating, maintenance and deprecia
tion expenses; and we do not believe
that utilities giving at fair rates an
efficient and sufficiently comprehen
sive universal service should be sub
ject to limited competition, not giving
such service. Competition which ig
nores the obligation to furnish a com
plete and comprehensive service is
not competition, is not for the benefit
of the public in that it does not reach
the whole public interested.
If, therefore, complete duplication,
with its dual exchange connection and
dual bills for service, is a prerequisite
to complete competition, government
control and regulation cannot go
hand and in hand with competition.
We believe that the record of the
Bell System will be accepted by the
public as fully in accord with these
declarations. Consistent adherence
to this policy has given the public of i
the United States the best, most com- j
prehensive and cheapest telephone
service in the world and made the
Bell standards the standards of all
nations.
To remove any possible excuse for
misapprehension on account of the
many misleading statements which
have been circulated as to the over
capitalization and excessive charges
of the Bell System, the following sta
tistics are given. Except where stat
ed, the figures are for the Bell Sys
tem; that is, the American Tele
phone and Telegraph, and its Asso
ciated Companies.
The entire Bell System on June .10,
1913, had outstanding in the hands
of the public obligations (i. e., notes,
open accounts, bonds and shares) to
,v .l..„ „F (1(111 mm
The book value of the total tangi
ble assets, which is considerably less
than their replacement value,
amounted to $9(50,000,000. Many ap
praisals of property included in these
assets have been made, and most ot
them under the direction ol public au~
I thorities. In no case has the value
] ;is it stands on the hooks failed to be
| sustained, and in most cases it has
j been very largely exceeded.
The total dividends and interest
paid during the year 1912 amounted
I t,o only (5.1 per cent on the average ol
i its outstanding obligations, and to
! less than 5 per cent on the average
value of its assets.
I The actual cash which has been
I paid into the treasury of the Ameri
can Telephone and Telegraph Compa
. ny on account of the capital obliga
tions now outstanding amounts to
$22,000,000 more than the par of such
outstanding obligations.
The Associated Companies collect
ed from the public and paid back in
taxes over $10,000,000 during the
year 1912.
The steadily increasing necessities
of the public not only for additional
but for new telephone service can on
ly be met by new construction, involv
ing capital outlay. To meet these de
mands during the six and one-hall
I years from 1907 to June, 1913, inclu
sive, the increase in telephone plant
was as follows: Toll line wire in
creased from 1,4(50,000 miles to 2,242,
000 miles; exchange wire increased
from (5,000,000 miles to 13,000,000;
' the number of exchange stations in
creased from 2,730,000 to 5,200,000;
I the number of stations of independ
ent companies connected with the Bell
I System increased from 343,000 to 2,
(520,000. The number of independent
1 companies connected with the Bell
| System is about 25,000. The number
! of emnloyees in the Bell System, not
including the employees of connected
companies, on December 81, 11)12,
was 1 11,000.
During this same period the num
ber of shareholders of the American
Telegraph and Telephone Company,
not including either the associated or
connected companies, increased from
17,000 to about 54,000. About 47JXIO
shareholders hold less than 100
shares each; 0,500 shareholders hold
from 100 to 1,000 shares each; 247
shareholders hold from 1,000 to 5,000
shares each, while there are only 10
share holders of 5,000 shares or over
in their own right. A majority of the
share holders are women.
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND
TELEGRAPH CO.
THEO N. VAIL, President.
(Advertisement.)
Many Deer and Turkeys.
Mountain Home, Sepl. 15.—
Deer and turkey hunters are be
ginning to Hike advantage of the
open season, and some very good
bags are being killed- Cicero
Martin and Tol Galloway of Mc
Phearson in Baxter county, each
bagged a deer Saturday in the
Leatherwood mountains, on the
south side of White river. Clyde
Johnson of the same place killed
half a dozen fine wild turkeys.
The outlook for game this
year is good as the season was
dry. Quite a few deer are re
ported in the Leatherwoods, and
they will likely increase in num
ber, as there is a big bitter mast
that attracts them. Quail are
plentiful and a good many tur
keys are in the hills.
HELPLESS AS BABY
Down in Mind Unable to Work,
and What Helped Her.
Summit Point, W. Va.—Mis. Anna
Belle Emey, of this place, says: ”1 suf
fered for 15 years with an awful pain in
my right side, caused from womanly
trouble, and doctored lots for it, but with
out success. 1 suffered so very much,
that 1 became down in mind, and as help
less as a baby. I was in the worst kind
of shape. Was unable to do any work.
I began taking Cardui, the womar’s
tonic, and got relief from the very first
dose. By tne time I had taken 12 bot
tles, my health was completely restored,
i am now 48 years years old, but feel as
good as 1 did when only 16.
Cardui certainly saved me from losing
my mind, and I feel it my duty to speak
in its favor. I wish I had some power
over poor, suffering women, and could
make them know the good it would do
them.”
If you suffer from any of the ailments
peculiar to women, it will certainly be
worth your while to give Cardui a trial.
It has been helping weak women for
more than 50 years, and will help you,
too.
Try Cardui. Your druggist sells it
Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladles*
Advisory Dept.. Chattanooga, Tenn., for Special
Instructions on your case and 64-poga book, “Homo
Treatment tor Women," in plain wrapper. N-C. 191
REBUIID LEVEES
SAYS GOVERNOR
Will He His Advice to Mass
Meeting of Land
Owners.
Special to Independent.
Little Hock, Sept. 10.—“I
have not yet formulated ny
line of action with reference to
the proposed St. Francis Levee
District mass meeting which I
have suggested should be called
at Marion, Sept. 30,” said flov.
Hays Monday evening, “I shall
attend the meeting, and shall
endeavor to assist the Board in j
arriving at some definite, under
standing of the course that is to
be pursued in providing relief N
for the people who are entitled*
to the most complete protection
of the levees. “Get busy and
build the levees,” shall be fhy
advice. “The people are entitled
to that.” ^
Governor Hays Monday ad
dressed the following letfter to
each of the twenty-four memr
bers of the Levee Board:
“I have requested Mr. Kil
lough as president of the Board
of Directors of the St. Francis
4
Levee District, to call a meeting
for Sept. 30th at noon at the
town of Marion, for the purpose
j of tryingto bringabout different
conditions in the district and to
arrange, if possible, to get re
lief for the people interested. I
hope you will make it a point to
attend this meeting.
“I am also calling for a meet
ing of the tax-payers at this
same time and place. I expect
to attend this meeting in per
son-”
The governor is requesting
the newspapers in each of the
eight counties of the district to
give the meeting a very liberal
publicity.
The last legislature authoriz
ed the Board to float a bond is
sue of $1,500,000, at 5i/a inter
est, as a maximum, but this has
not been done yet. Just why
the governor is not officially ad
vised.
A La Mode.
“What was the chief food of the
woodchoppers in whose camp you
Bpent your vacation?” “Pork and po
tatoes, served in the form of chops
and chips.”-—Christian Science Mon
itor.
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