THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NI WPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
ONE-WAY RATES.
Every day from Sept. 15 to
Oct 15, 1904, the Union Pacific
will sell one-way colonists tickets
at the following rates, from Mis
souri river terminals, Council
Bluffs to Kansas City:
$20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake
City.
$20.00 to Butte, Anaconda and
Helena.
$22.50 to Spokane and Wenat
chee, Wash.
$25.00 to Everett, Fairhaven,
Whatcom, Vancouver, and Vic
toria, via Huntington and Spo
kane.
$25.00 to Portland and Astoria;
or to Tacoma and Seattle, via
Huntington and Portland or via
Huntington and Spokane.
$25.00 to Ashland,^Roseburg,
Eugene, Albany and Salem via
Portland.
$25.00 to San Francisco, Los
Angeles, San DiegoJ and many
other California points.
From Chicago and St. Louis
proportionately low.rates are in
effect by lines connecting with
the Union Paciffc to all above
points.
For full informationlcall on ori
address J. H. Lothrop,
903 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo.S
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COACH EXCURSIONS TO ST.
LOUIS, MO., VIA THE IRON
MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Coach Excursion tickets will be
on sale daily—September 14th to
September 30th inclusive. Rate
$5.60 round trip; childen under
12 and over 5 years of age $4.00,
returri limit on these tickets
seven davs from date of sale.
Thos. H. Reamey, Agent.
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HE GETS A MONEY ORDER.
With the Honey He Doesn’t What te
Spend When Oat with
the Boys.
“One of the queerest things 1
over heard of,” said a young man,
who sometimes keeps late hours,
relates the Providence Journal,
•ts the action of a friend of mine,
who has a knack of saving, despite
the fact that sometimes when he
meets a friend he aelebrates too
tnueh. He always, after he hae|
had a few drinks and realises that
he will take more before the end
of the e vening, takes an account of ■
stock, as you may say. He finds
a corner somewhere and then
figures up the amount of cash on
hand. Then he starts for the poet
office.
"When he gets there he buys a
money order, payable to himself, i
for an amount equal to the great*
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This done, he mails the order to
himself, and then, certain of sav
ing that much of his money, at
least, through the evening, be
(•tarts out to resume the joyous oo
«vpatlon of enjoying himself. It
is a greut scheme, and one I never
beard of anyone else using. It
works very well, Indeed, with him.
I have seen men ve a part of
their money to a bartender to take
care of for them, but this scheme
pf buying a money order for your
self beats that. And you can get
A money order at the Providence
post office any hour of the night,
pew."
Ui Tln-lr Idols.
V,_ur. a temple, the Chi
cover ir.i eves of the idols,
j . -,;tr : ’• > iVV-.s m:n not br.
, . > e i.' i of the dLfopit«t
WASH BLUE,
Costs io cents and equals 20 cents
worth of any other kind o! bluing,'
Won’t Spill or* Break
Can’t Spot Clothes^
DIRECTIONS FOR USE! _
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THE CATCHING OF CRABS.
Some Facta About the Chesapeake
Soft-Shell aud His Captors—
A Summer Industry.
The Chesapeake soft-shell crmb
Is a delicacy and a luxury in every
market between the Atlantic and
Denver; and he grows more and
more popular as season follows
season.
The season of the soft-shell crab
is from the early days of May to
the late days of September, and
its chief or best cultivated and
most patroniaed habitat is the
shallow and warm nooks, sounds
and Inlets of Chesapeake bay.
Here It swarms like ants in a hill,
like bees in a posy garden, like
prairie dogs in a rodent town.
Jersey waters produce some crabs;
but the Chesapeake crabbers
supply the market; and they make
money by doing it.
The crabbing fleet numbers per
haps 1,500 boats — little crafts
they are, usually with a tiny cabin;
manned by two or more men. Not
less than 500 of these boats sail
from the little village of Crisfield,
Md., alone.
The crabs are caught by trailing
along the bottom of the shallow
waters, through the sea grass and
sea weed, a light cage of iron, a
sort of skeleton and coop, called
by the crabbers a drag. It Is
drawn up frequently; empty but
seldom. The take is from 200
erabs a day at the opening of the
season to 1,000 crabs a day in mid
season, to each boat worked by
fwn mpn '
The crabs are graded by size,
crated and shipped to market.
Hard-shall .crabs are taken to
the “crab yard,” where they are
detained imprisoned in frames,
and examined daily to see if they
have shed their hard shells. Such
as have are taken out and packed
for transportation to market.
The captive may shed his shell io
a day or two or he may wear it
for a month.
NEW USE OF PHONOGRAPH.
British Cabinet Minister Dictates to
the Machine and the “Records”
▲re Sent to His Clerks.
Since his accession to cab
inet rank Mr. Graham Murray has
made a still greater use of the
phonograph for the conduct of his
correspondence as secretary of
state for Scotland than he did
during the period when he acted
as lord advocate in the same de
partment, says the London
Graphic. Some five or six dozen
“records” are now constantly in
use, and to these the minister dic
tates the replies to his numerous
letters, together with a mass of
other detail work connected with
the office over which he presides.
These are then forwarded to Lon
don, if he happens to be in Scot
land, and the contents are taken
down by his secretaries in White
hall. This done, the “records” are
scraped off and the cylinders are
once more ready for use. By keep
ing a phonograph both in London
and Scotland the secretary of
state, alone among his colleagues
in Mr. Balfour’s reconstructed
cabinet, is able to give viva-voce
instructions to his department at
a distance of some hundreds of
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nines.
Queer Speculation.
The sermon of a British vicar
charging great immorality in the
pottery towns in Staffordshire has
raused discussion of life in the
potteries. A curious feature is
speculation on the lives of others.
The business of the insurance com
panies fhere is largely directed to
persuading people to insure the
lives of others as a speculation.
Wives are urged to insure their
husbands, and sons and daughters
to take out a policy on their
parents’ lives. For a penny a
week a girl insures her father for
£5. No medical examination is re
quired, and it is simply a gamble
on death. This was amusingly
shown by a recent case. A doctor
in one of the pottery towns was
reported to be dying of cancer.
The rumor was false, and the doc
tor, completely recovered of his
illness, was surprised to learn
that his charwomkc had staked
twopence a wTeeln on hie death.
Before «•£ After.
During courtship a girl thinks
marriage is a haven of rest in
which she witf free from all
worry and car*, \fter marriage
•he has another think coming.—
Chicago Daily News.
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MILK AND HUMAN KINDNESS
The Yield of a Cow Mar Depend Much
L'pon Her Preference for
the Milker.
On the strength of Information d^
rlvdd from the staff of the County Tech
nical college at Chelmsford, England, U
was affirmed the other day that the
amount of milk which a cow yields may
depend very much on her preference foi
the persons with whom she has to deal,
sa' s a London paper. Let her be milked
by a favorite milker, then both Quan
tity and quality are all that can be Uer
slred. On the other hand. If man oi
maid be In disfavor, the cow yields lesi
milk and of poorer quality. There ex
ists. a logical standard of quality—one
which demands that the milk shall con
tain three per cent, of fat and 8.5 per
cent, of the solids, and many a time, It
would seem, the farmer Is subjected to
vexatious prosecutions for no bettef
cause than that the cow does not like th«
milker. Was the reason aesthetic or
moral? If the former, then one could
understand a song once popular—
“Where are you going to, my pretty
maid?” “I’m going a-mllklng, sir, she
said.- And when the gay Lothario whe
put the query became mercenary and
asked, "What Is your fortune, my pretty
maid?” he received for answer: “My
face Is my fortune, sir, she said." If It
were really the pretty milkmaid’s face
that pleased her cows It might Indeed
be a fortune. Alas! the explanation It
much simpler and less sentimental.
Mr. Dymond, F. I. C., and Mr. Bull, ol
the Essex Technical laboratories, made
a rigorous experiment on the farm ol
David Hodge, of Widford Hall, near
Chelmsford, taking four cows, and em
ploying four milkers, named respective
ly Mrs. K., Fred, Joe and Jack—which
need not be taken as the actual names—
and scrupulously registering the re
sults. Omitting the other two, In whose
cases the differences were less marked,
a curve was made of the yields procured
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perfectly regular zigzag for each caw,
rising to the highest or falling to the
lowest precisely as It referred to one or
other of the milkers. Whereas the
favorite was honored with 18.46 pounds
of milk on one morning, his comrade on
the following day got only 15.17 pounds.
And this yield was uniform, but not
with all the animals. With cow No. 1 a
certain difference was shown, No. 2 was
much more capricious, No. 3 was compar
atively and No. 4 absolutely indifferent
In other words, the yield of milk de
pended on the temper of the cow and
apparently on the temper of the milker
When the susceptible animal was
treated with any kind of harshness two
or three pounds were retained in the
udder, and it is precisely these last few
pounds to be drawn that are richest in
tat and solids. Hence the largest sup
plies were also the best in quality. If
the milking were always by the same
person the results would most probably
be fairly constant, but it is quite con
ceivable that an animal might actually
show diminished freedom of yield If
habitually treated roughly. There it
clearly a bovine psychology; there be
cows, like No. 2, highly susceptible to
gentle usage, and others, like No. 4, pos
sessing a philosophic indifference to
Fred and Jack alike. Happy No. 4. It
is to the farmer’s Interest, as Mr. Dy
mond points out, to study these peculiar
ities of temperament. In these days even
cows have nerves.
FAMILY RECOSD BIBLES.
they Are Still lu Demand, Bat Not
Sold to tbe Same Extent m
Formerly.
“Do we still sell the old-fashioned fam
ily Bible, with pages in it for the record
of births, deaths and marriages? Oh,
yes,” said the bookseller, according to
a New York exchange, “hut not so many
of them as we once did.
“There are more Bibles sold now, tak
ing them all together, than ever before,
and the Bible is issued now in an almost
endless variety of forms and styles;
but the demand for it in this particular
form is now, 1 should say, not more than
one-third what it onoe was.
“Still, we keep these record Bibles to
day in a dozen styles, ranging in pries
from five dollars to $20. The blank rec
ord pages, these often illuminated, are
bound in between the two Testaments, i
“in some of these Bibles there is a
blank presentation page upon which
may be written the name of the person
to whom the Bible is presented, with j
the name of the giver; and in some of
them is contained a blank marriage cer>
tifieate; and in some there are bound in
with the pages for the record of births,
deaths and marriages, pages for the rec- j
ord of temperance pledges.
“These Bibles are more likely to be
bought nowadays by country people, and
it might be by people ot the German race
and by Irish Protestants; ail likely to be
substantial people of comfortable
means; conservative people who cling
still to time-honored customs.
“So, while the old-time family record
Bible, with pages for the record of
births, deaths and marriages, has gone
somewhat out of fashion, and Is not sold
to the extent to which it once was, yet
it is still sold, and the demand for it is
still considerable."
A Health Indicator.
Mrs. Nexdoor—How is old Mr. Money
baggs this morning?
Mrs. Sharpeye—I haven’t heard; but
I noticed that Dr. Bigfee looked very
gloomy when he left the Moneybagga
residence a little while ago.
“Ah, then the dear old gentleman is
getting well.”—N. Y. Weekly.
One Difference,
"Do you know,” he went on, glibly
after the parlor clock had struck 11;
“do you know that a man Is like a watch
because he is known by his works?”
”1 know he is not like a watch,” the '
.^marked with a yawn, "for when he la ■
wound up he doesn’t seem to go.”—Yoa
fcw Statesman.
Appropriately furnished prove a con- 1
tinual source of pleasure. If your 1
breakfast is served among cheerful, har- ft
monious surroundings it gives you a .1.,
good start for the day. 1
DINING ROOM SUITES. L
We„have a nice line of Dining Chairs, ^MP
Sideboards, China Closets, Dining ^ \
Tables—in fact, anything in the Furni
ture line. Come and see us. We are j
are ready to show you what we have. j
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Builders’ S"2jy Hardware
SINGER
SEWING MACHINES
At Bargain Prices.
We Suit Payments
to Your Income
You may test our machines
before purchase and they will
be delivered to your home.
Guaranteed to be a simpler,
stronger and more durable
machine than any other.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.
FRANK W. LYNN, Mgr.
M. A. UMSTED, Ass’t. Mgr.
121 Hazel Street, Newport Ark
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LONG
DISTANCE
TELEPHONE
places you in direct and
instant communica
tion with all important
towns in Texas and
Arkansas and many
other states. Its use
will often save you a
fatiguing journey.
TRY ROUND TRIP TALK.
The SouthwesternTelegraph
and Telephone Co.
LIVERYMEN
FARMERS
DRAYMEN
And all users of axle grease
that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
;hing when shown its merits, we
recommend our Golden and Cas
tor Oil brands of Axle Grease.
It is put up in 1 pound tin boxes
md 3 pound tin buckets. For
sale by all up-to-date merchants,
^.sk for it and take no substitute.
It is guaranteed to have no equal
for quality on the market.
WATERS=P4ERCE
OIL COMPANY.
J.M. Robinson,
M. D., Oph. D.
Eye, Ear, Nose,
Throat and Longs.
NEWPORT, ARK.
TO THE FAIR.
Tickets on sale to St. Louis I
iaily via the Iron Mountain route.
j>9.55 for the round trip; return
imit fifteen days from date of
sale. T. H. Reamey, Agt.
J. W. Lindley, Pres. L. T. Slayden, V-Pres. E. V. Holt, Cashier
BANK OF TUCKERMAN
CAPITAL STOCK $20,000.00.
We are open to the public for all business
which constitutes safe & reliable Ranking
DIRECTORS:
J. W. LINDLEY, L. T. SLAYDEN, D. C. DOWELL,
GEO. L. SMITH, W. E. TALLEY,
J.-A. GREENHAW, L. D. SMITH.
COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY, j. v...
Your Patronage is Solicited.
Tuckerman, - - Arkansas
Low Rates from Memphis.
ROUND TRIP, $15.00. 1
To Amarillo, Quanah, Vernon, Fort Worth, Dallas,
San Angelo, San Antonio, Colorado, Galveston,
Houston and other Texas points. Also to all
points in Oklahoma and Indian Territory, except
where one fare plus $2.00 makes less.
Tickets on sale Sept. 13th and 27th.
ROUND TRIP, ONE FARE PLUS $2.00.
To all points in Texas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory. Tickets on sale First and Third Tuesday of
each month.
$6.00 one way to all points in Oklahoma and Indian Territory.
$8.50 one way to many Texas points, including Amarillo, Dal
hart, Colorado, San Angelo, Kerrville, San Antonio,
Galveston, Beaumont and points east.
$11.00 one way to many points in New Mexico, tickets on sale,
Sept 20 and Oct. 4th and 18th.
-SSto CALIFORNIA
Other Pacific Coast points in proportion.
Tickets on sale at Memphis Sept. 15th to Oct. 15th, inclusive.
For full information write
J. N. CORNATZAR,
^ _General Agent, Memphis, Tenn. ^
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