THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
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Two Baptist Editor
Preachers.
Texarkana, October 1. — The
Bowie county grand jury, which
has been’M!session two weeks,
adjourned last night. It return
ed five true bills for murder in
the first degree, two against ne
groes and three against white
' men. One of the latter was
Wesley Traylor, city marshal of
Ashdown, who is charged with
killing Tom Jones, an Iron
Mountain train porter, at this
place on the night of September
15. Traylor is in.jail, the court
having refused to grant him
bail. His trial is set for October
12.
The grand jury failed to in
dict Rev. J. B. Cranfill, the noted
Baptist preacher, formerly edit
or of the Texas Baptist Standard,
published at Dallas, who was un
der bond of $1,000 from a justice
of the peace court on a charge
of assault to kill, alleged to have
been committed upon Dr.Hayden,
editor of the Texas Baptist Her
ald, also printed at Dallas, on a
Cotton Belt train, a few miles
out from here on May 12 last.
The case attracted wide attention
by reason of the prominence of
the parties.
UNDER THE TENTS.
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Barnum & Bailey’s circus gave
their last performance for the
season at Springfield, Mo., Sat
urday, and then discharged their
500 employes with sixteen weeks'
wages in their pockets.
Sells Bros. & Forepaugh’s
shows were in Memphis Satur
day and go south from there into
Mississippi towns.
The United States Carnival
Company, which has been occu
pying two blocks of street space
in Poplar Bluff the past week
and giving what'the Citizen calls
an “abbreviated street fair,” go
to Batesville this week. The
Citizen says of the men in charge
of the show that they are law
abiding gentlemen and allow no
lawlessness.
Robert Marshall, a Topeka ne
gro, got judgment in the district
court of Eastern Kansas recently
for $6 against the Sells & Downs
circus. He was the “wild man
of Borneo” in the sideshow for a
rwgsk, and wore long hair and
Jhorpa, growled like a bulldog
and masticated raw meat. He
was discharged because he didn’t
act the part well, and was not
paid for hi? week’s work. His
salary wj»s $1 a day. He sued
for the $6 and the court gave
him judgment.
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Oct 15, 1904, the Union Pacific
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A BIG TREE'S LIFE STORY.
Wonderful Recuperative Rower ef e
Galifornia Roreet Giant—Record
In Its Binge.
A letter by William Russel
Dudley to Senator O. H. Platt, ac
cording to the Detroit Free
Press, says:
A remarkable recuperative
power following an injury was
found after examination of the
Sequoias of the Converse basin.
She effects of certain tremendous
forest fires occurring centuries
•go are registered in the trunks
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•ompletely concealed by subse
quent healthy growth. Among
• number of similar eases the
■lost instructive record of these
undent forest fires was observed
hr a tree of moderate sise—about
lb feet in diameter—6 feet from
the ground. It was 270 feet in
hfight and 2,171 years old.
This tree when foiled had an
euormoos surface burn on one
aide 80 feet in height and occn
***** 18 feet of the eircumfer
•nee of the tree; this was found
tio have ben due to a fire occurring
% A. D. 1797. The tree when
•Ut, in 1900, had already occupied
itself for 103 years in its efforts
to repair this injury, its method
being the ingrowing of the new
tissue from each margin of the
great black wound. When the
tree was cut the records of three
♦her fires were revealed. The his
tory of the tree was as follows:
271 B, C. it began its existence.
The first year of the Christian
era it was about four feet in di
ameter above the base.
254 A. D., at 616 years of age,
occurred a burning on the trunk
three feet wide. One hundred
and flvs years were occupied in
•evering this wound with new
tissue. For 1,196 years no fur
thsr injuries were registered.
1441 A. D., at 1,712 years of
■fife, the tree was burned a see
ofad time In two long grooves one
and two feet wide, respectively.
Each had its own system of re
pair.
One hundred and thirty-nipe
years of growth followed, includ
ing the time occupied by covering
the wounds.
1080 A. D., at 1,851 years ol
age, occurred another fire, caus
ing a burn on the trunk two feet
wide, which took 56 years to cov
er with new tissue.
Two hundred and seventeen
years of growth followed this
burn.
1797 A. D., when the tree was
2,068 years old, a tremendous
ire attacked it, burning the great
scar 18 feet wide.
One hundred and three years,
between 1797 and 1900, had en
abled the tree to rednce the ex
paaed area of the burn to a boot
If (Isot la width.
of Presidents.
Washington was 67 when he
died; John Adams 90, Jefferson
83, Madison 85, Monroe 73, John
Quincy Adams 80, Jackson 78.
Van Buren 79, William Henry
Harrison 68, Tyler 72, Polk 63
Taylor 65, Fillmore 74, Pierce 64,
Buchanan 77, Lincoln 66, Johnson,
66, Grant 63, Hayes 70, Garfield
49, Arthur 66, Benjamin Harrison
<7 and McKinley 68.
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daily via the Iron Mountain route.
$9.55 for the round trip; return
limit fifteen days from date of I
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GREAT INVENTOR AT HOME.
A Visit to Thomas A. Edison—Houm
and Surroundings Not a Bit
Lika the Nan.
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 wonld 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,
j He was dressed in the queerest
of costumes—a long blouse that
reached to his heels, evidently of
his own pattern, serviceable and
work-worn.
“Come along into the labora
tory,” he said.
So I followed him through the
dining-room and the “den” into
the laboratory that he has fitted
op lor uimseu iu ui» uurne.
There I found his little boy, his
shirt-sleeves rolled up, his face
and hands smeared like his
father’s. They had been making
various compounds of which lamp
black was the chief constituent.
| “So you work on Sunday, too?"
Edison winked confidentially.
| “You see, Mrs. Edison is away. I
; ean 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
i test-tubes and retorts, until at
last Mrs. Edison appears and
fondly leads him away to sleep.
I looked around the laboratory.
This at least was his room. There
; were Bunsen burners, mortars
and pestles, glass rods, watch
crystals, bottles of chemicals
I 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 Said
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
{inces.
Mr. George Massey, of Spalding,
was one of the very first to obtain
the stock, and from him Mr. Zach
ariah Gray, a well-known grower
at Everton, Sandy, purchased h
etone 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, bnt eventu
ally the bargain was struck at
£1,400, to the satisfaction of both
parties. Subsequently Mr. Mas
sey sold a relatively small quan
tity for £2,000, so that his original
transaction brought him a very
handsome return.
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