THE INDEPENDENT
PERCY H. VAN DYKE
Publisher and Editor
Front St, NEWPORT, ARK.
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Mary and Her Little Gown.
Mary had a little gown:
A hobble says the rhyme.
And everywhere that Mary went
Took quite a lengthy time.—
Kansas City Journal.
Mary got another gown
Twas split up on th? side.
And now wherever Mary goes
She lengthens out her stride.
—Fort Smith Times-Record.
Lightning Shocks Several.
Batesville, July 30.—Tuesday
afternoon during the electrical
storm the lightning in Bates
ville was, fierce, and several
were shocked. The home of
Burton Arnold was struck, but
no damage done to the house ex
cept that the lights were shat
tered. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold
were both slightly shocked
"in_ .1 om uroU *ll_
so shocked by a stroke oi light
ning, but none of them seriously
injured.
Just after the storm, a negro
who had been working on the
sewer pipes on Main street was
shocked by coming in contact
with" a live wire that had blown
down during the storm. He was
knocked to the sidewalk and the
wire only touched the edge of
his hand. He was not seriously
injured.
Additional Local.
Knox mends shoes cheap. Ill
Walnut street. 32dtf
Knox mends shoes cheap.
Ill Walnut street. 32dtf.
Drayage of all kinds handled
promptly. Phone No. 10. —
Chester Robinson. 18dtf.
For Sale Cheap—Stove wood
and kindling.—Muirhead Lum
ber Co. Phone 1610-5R. 20dtf
O’Cedar Mop at Hayden & Co’s
Phone 31. 91d6
For Sale Cheap—Stove wood
and kindling.—Muirhead Lum
ber Co. Phone 1610-5R. 20dtf
For Rent—Two furnished
rooms with board at 222 Laurel
street. 81dtf
We want to repair your
plumbing. We know how and
will be on the job in short notice.
S. J. Blackburn Plumb' ug Co.,
114 Walnut St. 65dtf
Misses Mildred ana Kate
Kearney and Bessie Graham re
turned last night from a visit to
Mrs. Kate Jeroigan at Com
merce. Texas. Miss Lockie Gra
ham, who was also with the par
ty, stopped off at Malvern to vis
it her grandmother. The chil
dren were met at Texarkana by
Bradley Graham and son. Jim
mie, who returned with them.
Come in and figure with us
before letting that plumbing
contract. We can interest you
in quality, price and work, be
mre and see us.—S. J. Black
burn Plumbing Co., 114 Walnut
St. 65dtf.
Come in and figure with us
before letting that plumbing
contract. We can interest you
in quality, price and work, be
sure and see us. S. J. Black
burn Plumbing Co.. 114 Wal
nut street. 65dtf.
Miss Pearl West will leave to
morrow afternoon for San An
tonio, Texas, to spend a few
months with her sister. Mrs.
W. A. Cunningham.
To reduce our large stock of
flour we are going to sell our
very best flour for 75c per sack.
This is our 90c flour. Every
sack fully guaranteed: for cash
on]y.—B- E. Snetser’s Grocery.
98d6t.
§
Try a sack of our best flour,
75c per sack. If not fully satis
fied your money will be cheerful
ly refunded. For cash only at
Snetser’s Grocery. 98d6t
For Rent—3 furnished rooms
for light housekeeping in East
Newport. Apply to Mrs. Lon
Paris, 218 Beech St. 02d6
CHARACTER SHOWS IN BACKS
tonight and Upright Carriage Mean*
Yew Are Determined, Bnergetie
end Reliable.
B year back la straight end upright
roe are eer<eapendlngl; straight to
rear aoadaeL Yea win bald pear bead
up, far pea ere eat afraid to leek the
world u> the Case.
■▼ea when you’re sitting you keel
your back straight. There le aa air ei
wal strength abeut pea—both physical
.tad mental. la short, you hare plenty
of backbone. Yeu are determined, ea
ergetlc and to be relied upon.
U pour back la stooping and round'
Id pon are a creature as weak aa pou
took, pon are prose to lolling abeut
and too lasp or too feeble to take a
front rank la tho battle of llte. Th«
tramp la an excellent example.
If you are a criminal, your back Is
itooped or round, but the scholarly
j voop of the bookworm must not be
i .'onfounded with the foregoing. Thers
, Is a differunce which Is difficult to de
I mrlbe, but It Is readily recognized by
ha close observer.
If you are mean and covetous yout
i ' nek Is narrow and rounded and your
! boulders are high. You are sly—
■jry s)y. You genei-nly have cbe a|r
1 earance of drawing yourBelf up Into
h small a compass as possible. Yon
! re alwaye yourself, so to speak,
ind people should give you the celd
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• IUU1UC* .
Are you too straight backed? That
«, do you hold your head so high that
here Is a preposterous (all la Che
mall of your back? Then you are eo
mffed ap with self-esteem that yee
arry your chest out so far It’s ah
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I'M LITTLE, BUT I’LL TRY*
-■ve Child of Section Foreman Save*
Train and t*t Example for
Ait Others.
She was only seven year* old,
iieen Martin, the section foreman's
lughter, as she stood reaching op te
te'epbore at the little town of Alt^
1.. telling the agent at the nearest
cttlon that a rail was broken. Child
l.o, she knew the semaphore signals,
1 come to the track to see the Over
I >1 limited whirl by and had watch
I i. the long finger drop, letting tho
I i aln Into the block.
"I'm pretty little, but I’ll try,” she
old, when the station agent asked her
she could not stop the train that wat
st him, and started out with her
ter of fourteen who had Just appear
1. They ran down the track, stopped
lie train and saved a wreck.
Pretty much every primary school la
•ha city ought, within the next week,
o hear of Eileen’s ‘Tm pretty Iftttat
>ut I’ll try.” The alert attends*
hteh knew the semaphore signal, tho
inlck wit which understood what a
■irokea rail meant, the decision and t*>
tlatlve which alone sought the We
phone, the courage with which ihe and
her elster started up the track, waving
•heir aprons te atop tbs big Overlaad
Limited as It here down upon them—
these are the qualities which through
life bring self-help, for others, tsooess
and happiness.
And she waa only seven years eld,
"pretty little,'* but ready to "try."—
Philadelphia Press
WORKED LONG FOR SUCCESS
Mr*. 8tannard Wrote Steadily tor
Years Before “Bootle’* Baby”
Made Its Hit.
It Is Interesting to recall just now
that the late Mrs. Stannard, other
wise “John Strange Winter,” once de
scribed herself as a woman writer but
*iot a “woman’s rlghter." Yet thers
was certainly no lack of character ox
brain power about the author ol
“Bootle’s Baby/ who was Indeed an
eminently capable woman with a
l cloar, well-balanced Intellect, much
robust common sense, and a great ca
pacity for organleation, which served
her in good stead when she turned
J from literature to commerce.
Struggling author* may b* interest
?d to know that it was only after ten
rears of Incessant work that Mrs
Statxa&rd, who lived to write some
ting like one hundred book*, scored
ler flr»t resi success. And even thll
night not have been achieved but
or a little piece of luck, for "Bootle’s
laby,” the work In Question, had then
>een rejected by sis London publish
es sad cast aside as hopeless. Mrs.
'.tannard’s husband, however, haj*
ened to pick up the manuscript one
ay, read it, liked it, and suggested
hat he should send It to the Graphic.
Irs Stannard answered: “Send it
l nvwhere you like,’’ and no one was
:ore astonished than herself when in
- course the Graphic took it.—
j Vcstminster Garotte
Something Lacking.
McCarthy—“An’ how do ye lolke th*
aew fireless cocker CM hear yeVi
got?” Maloney—“Rotten! Shur*
there's no satisfaction t&kin oS m
'hoes and restin me feet on the edg*
m # thing loike that!"--Judge.
THINK TOO MUCH OF MONF'*
Many Parsons Lane Chance sf Happy
Marriage by exaggerating the
Valut, of Wealth.
Scores of people loss their chance*
of being happily married through mult
I fag an unnecessary obstacle of mon
I ay. The Importance of It Is often ex
aggsrated. Many a mail hesitates to
propose to a girl because of his small
inoome. Very often much misery, mis
understanding, sad tangled lives result
(roaa the silence More unfartuaats
fo*e affairs are the result of what ha*
sot bees said than of spoken words.
When n man has a small, sure In
come, and a prospect of increase,
tkere la no legitimate reason tor hii
■el speaking of kta lose; no reason
for that matter, te present marriage
People are *o desperately afraid
though, of beginning married life in »
rnaU way They fear the sacrifice*
#hlch they will be called upon to make
—o* the criticism to which they wlli
be suojected. Many years of happi
ness are lost. In this way It Is such
s mistake for young people to want to
start marriage (n the state that their
parents are ending it.
To delay marriage until a "eonsfor
i '.able" income Is available is to prow I
, something lacking In the love.—An
I swam.
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Interesting Antiquities.
One of the huge stones of tha
Avebury Druidlcal circle, which !»
much larger and older than Stone
henge. baa fallen owing doubtless to
the effects of weather. Aubrey, who
acted as guide to Charles II. on *
visit to this district in 16S3. declared
that Avebury as far surpassed Stone
henge as a cathedral does a parish
church.
The rampart and fosse enclose
nearly 30 acres, but of the original
COO stones there are now only It
standing, the number in 1722 being
44. In addition to the circle Avebury
possesses an Interesting church dab
tag from before the Conquest and an
Elizabethan manor house, while a
mile away is Stlbury hall, the largest
artificial mound tn Europe, being 131
feet high and having a hue which
•overs five acre*.
Sm-.
Temperatures of Volcano*^
Scientists have recently secured an
accurate measurement of the temper
ature of boiling lava In a crater. The
Experiment was a very dangerous one.
and It was considered a triumph of
precaution no lives were sacrificed In
making the test.
The crater of KUlauea In Hawaii
was selected for examination. The
work progressed very slowly. For a
long time It was Impossible to obtain
results, but after several thermome
ters had been destroyed a pyrometer
was substituted to advantage. The
temperature recorded was 1,010 de
grees centigrade, which is the sanst
as 1..85C degrees Fahrenheit. Iron !r
still unmelted at this heat, hut gc-d,
sliver and copper become a molten
mass at a lower temperature—Har
per’s Weekly.
Practically Immune.
Curacoa, the most important of the
>itch West Indies, Is without fire to
turance and a fire department, though
{he Island has a population of over
59,000. The buildings In the town are
all of atone, hence this happy eom
flltion of affairs. Recently the first
sawmill was Installed, being furnished
by an American firm. "It Is hoped£
•ays a consular report, "that this m| ■
•ot Increase the erection at Wb4M|
buildings and necessitate InsWMif
uUl s fire department" _
flee, Lev* a s k.«en.
Love temporarily obscures the *las*
*f vanity. To be accurate. It takes th
qulcksilver off tbe back and turns It
into a window pane through which w«
are able to see far beyond the per
sona! reflection to which It was ones
dedicated exclusively Therefore, any
real love, since It widens th-» horizon
line of the lover, {3 an infinite soon,
whether he wins or loses the object
ot his heart.
Friday Dickens’ Lucky Day,
Charles Dickens was not one Ot
hose who are superstitious concern
!,g Friday. It was on Friday that
hany of the good things came to him,
uid it was on that day that he enter
td upon, paid the price and took poa
jessiou of Gads HILL the one thing
ae cherished more than all of his oth
jr possessions. It was Gads Hill that
)e had gazed upon when a wee bit ot
i boy, with a hope then giving little
ilgn* ot fruition, that he might live
>o own it some day; and It was Gads
SOI whose walls he covered with min
or* in almost Oriental magnlfloeno*
-Beaton Record._
Treatment ef Wet Shoes.
If you get caught In the rain wit#
a good pair of shoes on, remove IMiS
ss soon as you enter the house, and
If you do not possess a pair-of trees,
■tuff them tight and hard with tissue
paper, squeezing it well Into shape.
! Wipe off all the mud with a'soft 'rag.
i Place the shoes in a draught, soles
upward, and let them dry slowly. Gin
ao accouiit put them to dry by the
fire.
Never forget to place your shoes on
trees or to stuff them with *»ap«-r whea
they are not In wear.
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Ready to Be Surprised.
“So fur,” said Brother Dickey
I “though 1 had my ear ter de grout)’
t rer ketch de kmalles’ eoun’, I aln'*
| fieerd no footsteps er Mister Chris'
i caae cornin' my way, ar.‘ I reckon he’1
; jwlne ter take me by surprise by gl»
in’ me a whole haa*!”
Of Mrs. Cbappll, of Five Years’
Standing, Relieved by Cardui.
Ml Airy, N. C — Mrs. Sarah M. Chao
pell of this town, says: ‘‘I suffered for
five years with womanly troubles, also
stomach troubles, and my punishment
was more than any one could tell.
I tried most every kind of medicine,
but none did me any good.
I read one day about Cardui, the wo
man’s tonic, nd I decided to try it. .1
had not taken out about six bottles until
I was almost cured. It did me more
good than all the other medicines I had
tried, put together.
My friends began asking me why I
looked so well, and I tola them about
Cardui. Several are now taking it.”
Do you, lady reader, suffer from any
of the ailments due to womanly trouble,
such as headache, backache, sideache,
sleeplessness, and that everlastingly tired
feeling?
If so, let us urge you to give Cardui a
trial. We feel confident it will help you,
just as it has a million other women in
the past half century.
Begin taking Cardui to-day. You
won’t regret it. All druggists.
Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies'
Advisory Deot.. Chattanooga, Term., for Special
Instructions on your case and 64-page book, ‘ Home
Treatment for Women,” in piain wrapper. N.C. 124
For Neuralgia, nothing is
hotter than
Dr. Miles'
Anti-Pain Pills
Used by thousands
for a generation
Those who have suffered from
neuralgic pains need not be told
how necessary it is to secure re
lief. The easiest way out of
neuralgia is to use L)r. Miles
Anti-Pain Pills. They have re
lieved sufferers for so many
years that t' .-y have become a
household necessity.
“I have taken Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain
Pills for five years and they are the
only thing that does me any good.
They have relieved neuralgia in my
head in fifteen : a i an VS. I have also
taken them for rheumatism, head
acho, pains ?y by- ast. toothache,
earache and pains in the bowels and
limbs. I b vo four: 1 nothing to
equal them ; r.d they are all that is
cla i m ed for 11 m.' ’
j \v. SETV*E. Blue Springs, Mo.
At ah drugeysts—25 t’oses 25 cents.
Mover sold in bulk. i
MILES ?.!EC'CAL CO.. Elkhart, Ind.
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Assessment Notice.
The assessment of local im
provement No. One—Bridge Im
provement No. One of the City
of Newport, Arkansas— was
filed in my office on the 14th day
of July, 1913, and the same is
now subject to inspection.
B. J. GRAHAM,
Clerk of the City of Newport,
Arkansas.
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Standard" “Narovg” Lavatory
The Bathroom That Pleases
is one which completely satisfies
the demand for sanitary security,
durability and beauty of design.
A Standard" Modern Bath
room installed by us with a careful
regard for sanitary efficiency and
! the following out of your instruc
tions will please you.
Ask for booklets.
W. R. Whitten
vIcLain Bldg. Phone 154
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This is a prt\-n.-tnc-u prepared c=: eci
or MALi;: ?E.
five or six dcses • cv
i if taken then as a ior.ic u.-. _*r \
! return. it acts on the liver better :!:nn
■ Calomel and does no* gripe or sicken. 25:
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I UNIVERSITY OF ARKAf21
Offers standard courses in Engineering,
culture, Languages, Sciences, Fine Arts pj"1II:! Ak^H
S ’ tc
Also short, practical courses in Agriculture a
Arts, open to young men of determination, whose*". ^
cation has been limited. 1
New building, modern in every particular, ho --
ments of Education and Domestic Science. Just (T‘r‘R
Next session opens ‘
SEPTEMBER 17 ■
For catalogue and special bulletins giving c.ln, fl
tion, address the office of the "
PRESID ENT OF THE
!? HENDRIX COLLEGE 1
|Hf=j Noted for high standards of scholarship and for posits n|
^ tian influences. Best endowed ($300,000) college in AriH
jy=i faculty of specialists trained at the best Universities of thjjZH
j ^ try and Europe ? Library of 12,500 bound and 10,000 h^Jm
an3 umes. Well equipped museum and laboratories. Sana , ■
^ under an expert Buildings heated by steam. Expenses Zj
| [ycj able. Board and dormitories under supervision of a prof
! [UP in private homes. High school graduates received on cerriL*
i ^ Location central and healthful. Conway i= or.ly 30
bnl Little Rock. Climate mild.
The college has strong, well manned academy for t),e, 1
jypj of students who are not prepared for the college classes. J
While the college is primarily for men, young women deJ
“J a strong literary course will find what they wrant at Hendrix!
young ladies’ hall under the care of professor and his wife is J
Rooms in the hall and dormitories should be engaged at J
For information address, 1
J. H. REYNOLDS,
jUcj Conway, Ait
^ ^ ^ !ani ^
C. R. GRAY
PHYSICIAN
AND SURGEON
EARL BUILDING
OFFICE HOURS:
9 a. m. to 11 a. m.
2 p. m. to 5 p. m.
Office Telephone 207
Stove W
Any Size Good Mill
Close Prices on Ca
$1.00 and S2.00
Phone 58
West’s Livery St
Making Mistakes W
You are making a mistak e if you are not keeping a baiX
account. Depositing your money and paying out b|B
check will help you to get ahead; shows where your moB
ney goes, that you might save; best receipt possible,dB
keeps you from paying bills twice. There are lotsi^B
reasons. Why not start today? B
The Farmers Banhl
of NEWPORT^RKANSA^^^B
1*1
isthe|besf|jnaii
to make in lifel
The dollar mark is the on ly mark that is recognized in®
| lands. Money rules the world. You can be oneoft*|
rulers if you open a bank account. Only the habit <rf*J
ing secures this dollar mark—the mark of the "
! most successful men. I
j ARKANSAS BANK & TRUST Qj