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THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
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 shows 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
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City U1 suuw-wmtc icuw cvci
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
ia describe Bareback riding*
hurdling, trick, fan y a d men
age riding, aerial ac s, grand
gymnastics, tumbling, vaulting,
leaping,athletic, e into ft.on feats,
juggling, equilibristic pole balan
cing, breaking la Iders 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.
'
HE OET8 A MONEY ORDER,
With the Money He Doesn't Want ts
Spend When Ont with
the Boys.
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“One of the queerest things 1
•rer heard of," said a young man,
who sometimes keeps late hours,
relates the Providence Journal,
“la the action of a friend of mine,
who haa a knack of saving, despite
the fact that sometimes when he
meets a friend he celebrates too
much. He always after he has
had a few drinks and realises that
he will take more before the end
•of the evening, takes an account of
wtock, as you may say. He finds
■a corner somewhere and there
figures up toe amount oi casn on
hand. Then be starts for the post
office.
“When he gets there he bays s
money order, payable to himself,
for an amount equal to the great*
er part of the sum Lc has on hand.
This done, he mails the order to
himself, and then, certain of sav
ing that much of his money, at
least, through the evening, he
starts out to resume the joyous oc
cupation of enjoying himself. It
ta a great soheme, and one I never
heard of anyone else using. It
works very well, indeed, with him.
I have seen men give a part of
their money to a bartender to take
eare of for them, but this scheme
of 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,
»ow.*
A Good Sal*.
"Jones has sold all of his manu
scripts and decided to stop writing."
"I should think selling them all would
be an incentive te him te write more."
"But he sold thsm to the Junkman.*
—Brooklyn Ufa _
T* Keep Lemons.
Lemons will keep for a long time 0
placed on a shelf in a cool, dry place and
covered with glass tumblers.
Bakins Powder Blsenlt.
To be Just perfect, baking powdw
biscuit should begin to rise the ialn<
at* the pan Is la the area.
FORTUNE Iff PORPOISES.
0mmy of tko Wklfo Cctieeaaa Fro
tueal tko Golf of St. Uwreact,
on at Art Vaalookle.
American, tourists crossing the 8t
Lawrence from the mouth of the Sague
nay can almost always enjoy thetsdghtof
a number of porpoises disporting them
selves upon the water in the neighbor
hood of Tadoussac, says the New York
Sum The great white cetaceans appeal
like shapeless masses of blubber as theif
arched backs show from time to tlm«
above the surface. They are doubtless
attracted to the mouth of the Saguenay
by the large number of salmon which en
ter the river throughout the season.
A large Industry Is expected soon to
spring up in various parts of the Gulf ol
St. Lawrence In connection with the
hunting of porpoisea. It hae already
been attempted upon a small scale, but
the difficulty of capturing any great
aumber of the animals has stood in the
way of success Now the difficulty has
been overcome through the observations
and experiments of Campbell McNab, a
Canadian hunter, who has spent many
years In the study of these animals.
The adult porpoise of the St Lawrence
and the North Atlantic ocean is from
12 to 18 feet in length. It somewhat re
sembles a dolphin in Bhape, with large
dorsal fln and a mouth armed with many
strong and sharp teeth. Each porpoise
is believed to eat from one to three bar
rels of fish a day, so that It is difficult
to estimate the frightful ravages which
they make among the salmon, the her
ring and the. cod. They are largely gre
garious, though they often hunt theif
prey in couples. Mr. McNab has often
peered over the edge of an overhanging
rock to watch them catch salmon fit the
mouth of a stream and sometimes a long
distance up a river, when, they follow
their prey. They chase a eaMon Into e
■hallhw and then two annrohoh It from
either side. The salmon appeal's an
Able to move, ns If paralysed with fear.
If he attempts! to rush from one of his
pursuers , he falls Into the. open mouth of
the other.
The porpoise Is equally expert In fish*
Ing for the slippery eel. Mr. McNab
opened one of these animals the other
day and found more than 40 eels In Its
stomach. To prevent their wriggling,
and to aid digestion, the porpoise cracks
the skull of the eel between its teeth be
fore swallowing It.
Like the eel, the porpoise can liva a
long time out of the water. In fact/ it Is
virtually amphibious. Some time ago
Mr. McNab shot a number of the anl
mals which had been hauled ashore and
bound- together by their tails. After
skinning another lot at some distance
and taking out the blubber, he turned a
few days later to the lot which had been
last shot. Unknown to him one had not
been killed outright As he passed Is
front of it It growled at him “like a dog."
he says, and opened its jaws to snap him.
The porpoises are captured by being
Imprisoned at low tide on the shoals
ever which they have Journeyed when
the tide was high,'In pursuit of thel*
prey. Hitherto the dlfflculty ha* been ta
find any barrier strong enough to retgln
such enormously strong, heavy begits.
and so many of them together as art
sometimes enclosed. Mr. McNab has
made the Interesting discovery that the
enormous nets through which they often
broke are not necessary to hold bad
the brutes, 'they are unable to stand th«
■lightest vibration In the water, and sc
all that the hunter now finds necessary U
to fasten a long thin pole like a fishing
rod to a stake in the month of the
stream, the bay or the estuary wlthls
which It Is desired to retain the por
poises. They remain to be stranded and
killed upon the shallows rather than vem
lure past th« vibrating rod.
This sensitiveness Is believed to have
He seat In the ear of the animal, which
has so small an opening that It might
almost have been made with a pin. Fov
years McNab has held firmly to this
theory, only to be laughed at for his
pains. He has now proved it beyond
pci-adventure, and has reaped the fruit
of his persistence. At one tide the other
day he secured 69 of the animals on the
shoals of the Portneuf river a few miles
below Tadoussac, and next year will
pursue operations there upon a larger
scale. He has secured a nine year lease
tt the shoal rrorn me governmem
has apparently a fortune within easy
reach. The akin and oil from a slngli
porpoise are worth from $30 to $50.
The utmost caution has to be take*
| got to drive the animals away from theli
haunts. If any of the blood or refuse o'.
: iheir dead Is permitted to reach the wa
ter. Mr. McNab declares, they will de
sert the place entirely. This Is the ex
planation he gives of the present absenoe
sf porpoises from the River Ouelle and
ether places on the banks of the St. Law
ranee, where a few years ago many o!
i them wera annually killed. The por
i poise, he says, Is one of the most tntelll
feet animals created.
Unprotected l'ort.
The reputation of a house often de
pends upon the manner of packing ai
1 much as on the merchandise Itself
Qoodt for Manila should be packed wltl
special care. The port Is unprotected
and the sea Is often very rough, mak
ing unloading at such times Impossible
I Transfer is made by natives In smai:
boats from a point two miles distant
These boats are tossed about by tlM
slightest agitation of the water.
No Need for Worry.
Mra Homer—John, If Mrs. Neighbori
gets a new sealskin sack this winter
must have one also.
Homer—Well, don’t worry about it
dear. Neighbors and I formed a protec
tlvve union to-day, and neither of yoi
Is to have one.—Chicago Dally News.
Foreigners In Japan.
A foreigner cannot own land In Japan
although a number of foreigners ma;
organize themselves Into a company, t
be known and registered as a "Judlcla
person,” and this company has all lb
property rights of a aativs cUIms.
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S1ARR1AUE REFORMS.
'
Advocated by University Professot
in Book Recently Issued.
SUM Inclod* State Supervision of All
Contracts and Liberal Divorce
Lows—Evils la the Social
Structure.
State supervision of all marriage
contracts, uniform and liberal divorce
laws, the abolition of the common law
marriage and the education of the
young In sex problems are a few of the
reforms advocated in a new book
about to he Issued at the University
ef Chicago.
The work, In three large volumes,
represents 12 years’ research work on
the part of Dr. Oeorge Elliot Howard,!
former head of the department of his
tory at the University of Nebraska,
and until recently occupying a similar
post ax Leland Stanford, Jr., univer
sity. Prof. Howard Is the moet recent
addition to the staff of the lecture
division at the University of Chicago
"Our present dual system by whlcl
marriages may be solemnized by eith
er civil officers or clergymen, Is not
the ideal plan," says Prof. Howard.
"It is too complex and is an obstacle
in the way of the development of an
effective system of matrimonial legis
lation. It Is awkward and thoroughly
illogical to intrust the execution of the
laws to two classes of persons; one
civil officers created by the state, the
other completely beyond such control.
The license system is also uncertain
end complex In many of its features.
“Radical reform In the administra
tion of matrimonial legislation is e
task for future legislators. Every
county should be divided Into districts,
for each of which a registrar should
be appointed to license, solemnize ana
I register all marriages civilly contract
ed therein and to license, register and
attend all religious celebrations ol
marriage.
"The lawmaker cannot reach the
root of the divorce evil. It is planted
i deeply in the social structure and is
j in a great measurs due to false senti
ment regarding -marriage and the fam
ily, a sentiment which can only be
removed by more rational education.
Carefully drawn and uniform statutes
can, however, rdnder conditions favor
able for the operation of this needed
•octal reform. We need new education
[ In the problems of sex and this in
i structlon should be given to the
young, not prudishly, but frankly, and
perhaps while the child is still in high
ichool.
“The fact that four of our states—
New York, Utah, California and Mis
•Nssippi—have liberated themselves
by Statutory enactments from the
common law marriage within the past
ten years Is of vast social import and
( from it reformers may take courage.
, in such legislation lies our hope of he
j -ng able to free America from the
♦vila of the common law marriage,
“The trouble in a nutshell is that
there is less care exercised in the mat*
i Ing of human beings than there is in
j the breeding of fat stock. By exercis
ing care in contracting unions we shall
| solve the so-called ‘divorce problem.' “
I the mystery of memory.
4 Postal Clerk’s Wonderful Feat
go Adequate Scientific Explana
tion of the Wonder.
The newspapers are telling of the re
markable feat of a postal elerk who, la
1 ft civil service examination, did not
make a single error in properly sorting
' 12,000 test postal cards, each represent
ing a post oflics In a certain territory a*-,
■igned. This was done at the rate of
13 1-3 cards a minute. Far more note
worthy ie the memory of an expert pi
ano player, who will play an entire sea
ion’s concerts without a note of printed
siuelc before him. Hie memory la eo
perfect that hundreds of thousands of
notes must be at the orderly and instant
i disposal of the will. And this Is com
bined with a multiplicity of synchronous
recollections of timbre, tempo, expres
sion, etc.
The mystery is at present paBt the
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UIUUU5 VI mtxj VA^/inuitMVU!
fact is as beautiful as It is appalling. It
•bows us, declares American Medicine,
how far we are from any real science of
psychology. Physicians note the
strange thrusting of disease among the
mechanlams of memory, the morbid ef
fects of some neoplgsm or injury to parts
of the convolutions of the brain where
by some memories art lost temporarily
or permanently. In part or completely,
while others are unaffected. Even this
I leaves us in amazement at the lnscruta
ble complexity and methods of the telln
lar machine.
But through these morbid Injuries
we catch tantalizing glimpses which
some day, properly studied and followed
np, may bring some psychologic physi
elan to an unraveling of the mystery.
_
Jnfc ttflcatton.
To the minds of the majority of the
! country Jersey Justice was strangely
blinded when it punished the Newark
woman who threw pieces of coal at an
organ grinder for persisting in playing
worn-out ragtime tunes, remarks the
Baltimore American. Unless, indeed,
; for the waste of good coal In a bad
, j cause. __
Danner In Second Childhood,
Noah Robey, of Plainfield, N. J.
, who claims to be 132 years old, is
down with the measles. This second
i childhood business, says the Chicago
Hbcord-Herald, appears to be danger
ous if it is carried too far.
Ho Time for Stclcneaa.
When the "four day” Atlantic steam
! «r comes the voyage across the ocean
will be over before the tourist has had
' time to 1 soever from his seasickness
sad begia U snjoy tbs trig
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