THE INDEPEND
TERCY H.VANDYKE
Publisher and Editor
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
IFor Representative,
JOHN H. KEEL.
s County Judge,
E. L. BOYCE.
CircultSClerk,
J. D. NEAL.
County Clerk,
GEO. A. LOCKARD.
Sheriff,
H. S. SIMMONS.
Treasurer.
DR. F. G. SMITH.
'Assessor,
R. L. CONDITT.
Surveyor,
W. A. BOWMAN.
Coroner,
F. J. |HARRISON.
Constable—Union Township.
W. H. CAROUTHERS.
Justioe'of the Peace.
GUY SMITH.
FORESTJDILLARD.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
We are authorized to announce |thel candidacy
of H. M. Woodard of Elgin for Justice of the
Peace of Bird township.
LINCOLN CHARGED
, WITH FORGERY.
Young Assistant Ticket Agent
Leaves Texarkana Under
Criminal Charges.
Texarkana, Aug. 11.—A war
rant was issued by Justice Hig
ginbotam this afternoon against
J. E. Lincoln on a charge of
obtaining money under false
pretenses. Lincoln came here a
few weeks ago from Frankfort,
Mo., and for a short time acted
as assistant ticket agent for the
Iron Mountaih and Texas Pacific
at the Union depot.
It is alleged that he uttered
several worthless checks and got
the money on them before leav
ing. One of the alleged victims
is E. C. Durham, the ticket
agent, and it was he who swore
out the warrant against Lincoln.
The accused is a man about 23,
of good address and business
capacity. He is known to have
left here yesterday, checking his
baggage for St. Louis. Every
effort wi]l be made to apprehend
him. * _
“-^NEWPORT WON IN A WALK.
/ 9^he second game of ball be
tween Newport and Weldon was
a very one-sided affair Thursday
afternoon, Newport batting out
enough runs on the start to in
sure an easy victory. The visit
ors scored five runs in the fifth
inning, however, and the final
score stood 18 to 5 in favor of
Newport.
Thomas Henry umpired a very
satisfactory game, one of the
features of which was the three
bagger of “Charles Denby of
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in two men on bases.
Bach and Richardson consti
tuted Newport’s battery, while
for Weldon, Glover and Dameron
opened the game, to be suc
ceeded by Clark and May and
later another battery.
n& . MIDGET BRUBAKER MARRIED,
tildin. -
S EllfHalle<t Man *“ tb# WoP,i Marries
• Tall Yosni Woman la
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on sale j^hBrubaker, better known a*
he Iron MO"»gp. * midget weighing 4fc
the round--- 31 *e8r8 ”ld- -n -taudin^ 34
tne rounu WM wedded to Mis.
eeJ}, ^ p Wickle, of Shamokin, Pa., at
I- .land, N. Y. Brubaker ia .aid to
*~~the smallest man in the world.
--- While traveling with the Wallace
■eet ’ |ireua he visited Shamokin. Miss
i 5* Wiekle attended the .how and fell in
love with the dwarf. With him it
was a case of love at first sight. Miss
Wiekle is 18 years old, stands 5 feet
Bappoo-’O Inches, and weighs 150 pounds. The
^Jspocnfur v^ny was performed in Taylor
^Kro cp:nrs. beHch was crowded with specta
|Hpn vreil and Witness the novel wedding, by
^B Do notleorge C. Smith. The bride was
^Hsrlth tnCeed in white satin.
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EgHfm Ve AC H E RST1X ST IT U TE.
rut* cnk*-ereby given that a
■BKx>iiiBg water ^ute will be held
l|sj||jBcool, add onc-ki.Newport on W ed
aod OI,e'half cdav and Friday,
■Pnf" n'l If. V.m. The
one cupful directors to close
«»BBSM2fr v1 c!ovfteachers to attend.
J. L). NeaL
HOHHBB.haa bounty Examiiier.
MN PORPOISES.
bite Cetacean* Pr*>
t of St. Lawrence,
/Jtre Valuable.
American tou lists crossing the St.
Lawrence from lie mouth of the Sague
nay can almost (ways enjoy theisightof
a number of raftolses disporting them
selves uponJoe water in the neighbor
hood of TaJoussac, says the New York
Bun. The great white cetaceans appear
like shapeless masses of blubber as their
arched backs show from time to time
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 !\rge industry is expected soon to
spring up In various parts of the Gulf ol
St. Lawrence in connection with the
hunting of porpoises. It has already
been attempted upon a small scale, but
■ the difficulty of capturing any great
I number 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 Bpent 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 shape, with large
dorsal fin and a mouth armed with many
strong and sharp teeth. Ea<* 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 tne cod. They are largely gre
garious, though they often hunt their
prey in couples. Mr. McNab has often
peered over the edge of an overhanging
rock to watch them catch salmon at the
mouth of a stream and sometimes a long
distance up a river, where they follow
their prey. They chase a salmon into a
■hallow and then two approach It from
either Bide. The salmon appears un
able to move, as if paralyzed with fear.
ir he attempts to rusn irom one oi ms
pursue rs 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 eel? 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 live a
long time out of the water. In fact, it is
virtually amphibious. Some time ago
Mr. McNab shot a number of the ani
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 in
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,
over which they have journeyed when
the tide was high, in pursuit of their
prey. Hitherto the difficulty has been to
find any barrier strong enough to retain
such enormously strong, heavy beasts,
and so many of them together as are
sometimes enclosed. Mr. McNab has
made the interesting discovery that the
enormous nets through which they often
broke are not necessary to hold back
the brutes. They are unable to stand the
lightest vibration in the water, and so
all that the hunter now finds necessary is
to fasten a long thin pole like a nshlng
rod to a stake in the mouth of tha
stream, the bay or the estuary within
which it is desired to retain the por
i poises. They remain to be stranded and
killed upon the shallows rather than ven
ture past the vibrating rod.
This sensitiveness is believed to have
| Its seat in the ear of the animal, which
has so small an opening that it might
1 almost have been made with a pin. For
years McNab has held firmly to this
; theory, only to be laughed at for his
' pains. He has now proved it beyond
1 peradventure, and has reaped the fruit
of his persistence. At one tide tbeotl
ha 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
Of the shoal from the government and
has apparently a fortune within easy
reach. The skin and oil from a single
porpoise are worth from $30 to $50.
The utmost caution has to be taken
eot to drive the animals away from their
haunts. If any of the blood or refuse oi
their dead is permitted to reach the wa
ter. Mr. McNab declares, they will de
aert the place entirely. This Is the ex
planation he gives of the present absence
of porpoises from the River Ouelle and
other places on the banks of the St. Law
rence, where a few years ago many of
them were annually killed. The por
poise, be says, is one of the most lntelll
feot animals created.
Unprotected Vort.
Vha reputation of & house often de
pends upon the manner of packing as
much as on the merchandise Itself.
Goods for Manila should be packed with
special care. The port Is unprotected
and the sea Is often very rough, mak
ing unloading at such times Impossible.
Transfer is made by natives In Email
boats from a point two miles distant.
These boats are tossed about by the
allghtest agitation of the water.
No Need tor Worry.
Mrs. Homer—John, If Mrs. Neighbors
gets a new sealskin sack this winter 1
must have one also.
Homer—Well, don't worry about It,
dear. Neighbors and I formed a protec
tivve union to-day, and neither of you
is to have one.—Chicago Daily News.
Foreigner* In Japan.
A foreigner cannot own land In Japan,
although a number of foreigners may
organize themselves into a company, to
be known and registered' as a “judicial
person,’’ and this company has all tiw
property rights of ft native citlsea.
MARRIAGE REFORMS.
Advocated by University Professor
in Book Recently Issued.
FUm Ineleda State Superrtaliin of Al!
Contracts and Liberal Divorce
Laws—Evils In the Social
Stracture.
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 be Issued at the University
of Chicago.
The work, In three large volumes,
represents 12 years’ research work on
the part of Dr. George Elliot Howard,
former head of the department of his
tory at the University of Nebraska,
and until recently occupying a similar
post at Leland Stanford, Jr., univer
sity. Prof. Howard Is the most recent
addition to the staff of the lecture
division of the University of Chicago.
"Our present dual system by which
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 tde
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
and complex in many of its features.
“Radical reform in the administra
tion of matrimonial legislation Is a
task for future legislators. Every
county should be divided into districts,
for each of which a registrar should
be appointed to license, solemnize and
register all marriages civilly contract
aJ AVamaIv. un/1 Itrtonoo poH stoF on/1
attend all religious celebrations at
marriage.
"The lawmaker cannot reach ■‘the
root of the divorce evil. It Is planted
deeply In the social structure and is
in a great measure 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, render conditions favor
able for the operation of this needed
social reform. We need new education
in the problems of sex and this in
struction should be given to the
young, not prudishly, but frankly, and
perhaps while the child is still in high
school.
"The fact that four of our states—
New York, Utah, California and Mis
sissippi—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 be
ing able to free America from the
evils of the common law marriage.
‘‘The trouble in a nutshell is that
there is less care exercised in the mat
ing of human beings than there Is in
the breeding of fat stock. By exercis
ing care in contracting unions we shall
solve the so-called ‘divorce problem.’ ”
THE MYSTERY OF MEMORY.
A Postal Clerk’s Wonderful Fent—
No Adequate Scientific Explana
tion of the Wonder.
The newspapers are telling of the re
markable feat of a postal slerk who, in
a eivil service examination, did not
make a single error in properly sorting
42,000 test postal cards, each represent
ing a post office in a certain territory as
signed. This was done at the rate of
S3 1-3 cards a minute. Far more note
worthy is the memory of an expert pi
ano player, who will play an entire sea
son’s concerts without a note of printed
muf before him. His memory is so
perfect t.iat hundreds of thousands of
no ust be at the orderly and instant
disposal of the will. And this is com
bined with a multiplicity of synchronous
recollections of timbre, tempo, expres
■ iV/U, VLV.
The mystery Is at present past the
hinting of any explanation, and this
(act is as beautiful as it is appalling. It
Bhows us, declares American Medicine,
how far we are from any real science of
psychology. Physicians note the
strange thrusting of disease among the
mechanisms of memory, the morbid ef
fects of some neoplasm or injury to parts
of the convolutions of the brain where
by some memories are lost temporarily
or permanently, in part or completely,
while others are unaffected. Even this
leaves us in amazement at the inscruta
ble complexity and methods of the cellu
lar machine.
But through these morbid injuries
we catch tantalizing glimpses which
some day, properly studied and followed
np, may bring some psychologic physi
cian to an unraveling of the mystery.
- Justification.
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
cause.
Danfrer In Second Childhood.
Noah Robey, of Plainfield, N. J.,
who claims to be 132 years old, is
down with the measles. This second
childhood business, says the Chicago
Hecord-Herald, appears to be danger
ous if it is carried too far.
1(0 Time (or Sickness.
When the "four day” Atlantic steam
er comes the voyage across the ocean
will be over before the tourist has had
1 time to recover from his seasickness
tad begin ta enjoy the trijk
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r 1 BREAKFAST ROOMS\
Appropriately furnished prove a con- ■
tinual source of pleasure. If your • I
breakfast is served among cheerful, har- 1
monious surroundings it gives you a I
good start for the day. Bj
DINING ROOM SUITES. I
We have a nice line of Dining Chairs, H
Sideboards, China Closets, Dining I
Tables—in fact, anything in the Fumi- H
ture line. Come and see us. We are H
are ready to show you what we have. H
Newport Builders' SJ H_I
.Time Tells
The Story.
There is a big difference be-,
tween the cost of making a first
class sewing machine, embodying
the best materials and workman
ship, and one which is made in the
cheapest manner. The buyer of
the cheap machine soon pays the
difference of price in the constant
cost for repairs, to say nothing of
its annoying inefficiency.
Singer Sewing Machines do
good work during a lifetime.
Sold on Installments.
Old Machines taken in exchange
Liberal Discount for Cash.
Oils, Needles, Attachments and
Repairs for all makes of machines.
The Singer Manufacturing Co.
"The Sewing Machine Makers of the World.”
FRANK W. LYNN. M’g’r.
121 Hazel St., Newport, Ark.
J. W. Lindley, Pres. L. T. Slayden, V-lVes
BANK OF TUCKE
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CAPITAL STOCK $2f
We are open to the i
which Constitutes sa:
DIRECTORS:
J. W. LINDLEY, L. T. SI
GEO. L. SMITH, ;
J. A. GREENHAW,
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And all users of axle grease
that want the best grease on the
market and that recognize a good
thing 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
and 3 pound tin buckets. For
sale by all up-to-date merchants.
Ask for it and take no substitute.
It is guaranteed to have no equal
for quality on the market.
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Jack Herron
For Granitoid and Stone Walks,
Curbing, all kinds of Brick Work.
Don’t fail to get my figures
before contracting.
My Work Talks For Itself
Parties wanting crushed Lime
Stone Walks apply to me.
S I ; ——
Henry Owen,
Physician, Surgeon
and Oculist.
I Office - - Sells’ Drug Store.
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