RAILROAD TIME CARD.
ST. 1*. I. M. * 3. RAILWAY.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 72, Local freight. 12:10 p. n,
No. 2. 2:05 a. m.
No. 4... ... 10:40 .am
No. 12. 9:02 p. m
No. 6. 10:46 p. m
No. 18...'. 11:14 p.m.
No. 20. 12:48 p. m
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 78, Local Freight. 7:00 a. m.
No. 17. 4:00 a. m
No. 6. 4:45 a. m
No. 11... 6:45 a. m
No. 8. 4:66 p. m.
No. 1.10:45 p. m
No. 7.11:31 a. m.
BATESVILLE BRANCH.
Passenger Leaves. 7:05 a. it
Mixed “ . 11:45 a. m.
PaasengerlArrives. 7:40 p. m.
Mixed M . 10:16 a. m.
ROCK ISLAND SYSTEM.
Pa^qnger Arrives. 1:40 p. m.
Passenger Departs. 3:15 p. m.
Local Freight Departs. 6;3° a. m
On Tlieeday, Thursday and Saturday
THE INDEPENDENT
I ERCY H. VANDYKE,
Publisher and Editor.
NEWPORT, - - ARKANSAS.
ADDITIONAL LOCAL.
L. S. McCain will spend Sun
day in Newport.
Judge L. D. Smith was a New
port visitor from Tuckerman
Friday.
Mrs. Thomas DeWitt and chil
dren of Little Rock were here
Friday night going up the Bates
ville road.
Dn«,Ln/\ PunincA emonf
day in the city the guest of Miss ]
Minnie Ross, leaving Saturday
for her home at Kenyon.
Representative Keel wired Ike
Goldman Saturday morning of
the passage of the five-wire-fence
law for that part of Jackson
county west of Cache river.
Bell & Maynard have opened
a neat restaurant in the rear
of the Grand Central Hotel, the
dining room of the old Planters’
House, to be known as “The
^Little Gem.” Same cooks, the
best of everything to eat and
good service will continue to up
hold the reputation of “The Lit
——"'fie Gem” as a first-class regular
and short order eating house. 87
The new road from Des Arc to
DeVall’s Bluff is a little rough
and soft in places, but the Rock
Island officials are fully aware of
the fact, consequently they run
very slowly and cautiously, and
will at once put a work train on
this line and keep it there until
it is built up for the heavy traffic
that will come this way as soon
as the link is filled to Leslie. —
Searcy Citizen.
Wednesday as Mrs. McQuay
was hauling a few bolts from
which pickets for fencing were
to be manufactured, says a Sedg
wick correspondent, lightning
struck the horse she was driving
- aqd Jailed him instantly, and the
horse fell upon Mrs. McQuay.
jdmost crushing the life out of
her. The lady of course was so
shocked by the concussion of the
stroke that she retained no mem
ory of the occasion, and it was
only by mere accident that she
was noticed in time to be saved.
STHE CHURCHES J
ST. PAUL’S CHURCH.
Divine services for Palm Sun
day. Morning prayer, the litany
and sermon at 11. Evening
prayer and sermon at 4:30. Sun
day school at 9:4 >. At the lodge
room. Geo. B. Norton, rector.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Sunday school at 9:30 a. m.
Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:45
p. m. The public is cordially in
vited. H. M. Long, pastor.
METHODIST CHURCH.
A cordial invitation is extended
to all visitors as well as members
to attend the preaching services
at the Methodist church Sunday
by the pastor, M. B. Umsted.
Sunday school at 9:30, but let all
children who can come at 9 to
* practice for the Easter music.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
ter of Third and Walnut
streets, next door to the Creigh
ton. Sunday school at 9:30 a.
m. Preaching services at 11 a.
m. and 7:45 p. m. You are cor
dially invited to attend all our
services. T. F. Richardson, pas
tor.
| THE LEGISLATURE. £
The St. Francis levee bill, a
measure in which four-fifths of
the state has no direct interest,
promises to arouse more bitter
ness and go through a harder at
tack, than any measure of the
session. The Killough bill,which
knocks out the governor’s ap
pointees to this board,after pass
ing the senate, was given a rest
by the house by being laid upon
the table. Speaker Cate favors
the bill and Thursday ruled a
majority vote was all that was
necessary to take up the consid
ation of the measure, and the
house accomplished this by a vote
of 44 to 37. From the decision
of the chair that a suspension of
the rules was not necessary, an
appeal was taken to the house
and Cate was sustained, the vote
being 44 to 37. Unless the anti
Davis men secure further re
sults, the bill which is certain to
be vetoed by the governor, will
never receive the requisite two
thirds in the house.
ooo
TVio aonai-p TVmrsHav nassed.
by a vote of 19 to 12, the house
bill known as the Raney insur
ance bill, which provides the
manner in which mutual fire, life
and tornado insurance companies
may do business in the state. A
guaranty bond of $15,000 is de
manded of all companies before
they may do business in Arkan
sas. While five bills having for
their object the regulating of
mutual insurance companies have
been introduced in the assembly,
this is the only one that has
passed both houses.
ooo
The Beck good roads bill has
received the indorsement of the
Arkansas good roads convention
for the last three years, was post
poned Thursday afternoon until
Monday, in order that the mem
bers might have more time to
thoroughly investigate the meas
ure.
ooo
For the committee on peniten
tiary, Senator Logan introduced
the bill for the support and
maintenance of the state peni
tentiary for the next two years.
It carries an appropriation of
$215,780, and was read twice,
considered in the committee of
the whole and sent to the com
mittee on engrossed bills,
ooo
A bill by Mr. Black of Marion,
to encourage the use of water
nruvpr in t:hp sLit-.p. hv nrovidinc
that any company organized in
the state for the purpose of elec
tric lighting, shall be given, un
der certain conditions, the right
to build dams across streams to
secure motive power, was pass
ed by the house Friday, by a
vote of 42 to 12.
ooo
The senate Friday morning de
feated the Ruff bill from the
house, providing for a county de
pository for Randolph county.
The vote was 22 to 7. Senator
McCall from that district, bitterly
opposed the bill, and for this rea
son the bill was defeated.
Tbfe M«(a«tle North.
Th« belief In the constancy of the
Magnetic compass to the north pole hai
not the least foundation in fact. At evs
*ry different place on the globs it point*
In a different direction, and only one or
two of them are due north. In London,
for Instance, it points to a place aboat
IT degrees west of north. Seventy-**
years ago it was still further away, be
ing then 24VL degrees, or a quarter of
the way around to the west. In the year
1580 it pointed 11 degrees east. Then It
began to move north till 1659, when if
pointed due north. But it remained
thus only for a moment, passing around
to It* greatest deflection In 160 year*
ig*in It turned In 1820, and Is still mov
ing nearer the north. It will not reach
that point for nearly a century and *
Half, and so it wtll g* on backward a*d
larward forever,—*, T, H—M.
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ONLY A RIVER WHITEF1SH.
Story of Man Who Knew Fish Whaa
He Saw Them, Also a Bail
road “Ad.”
William C. Harris, angling ed
itor of Outing, and rightly called
the Izaak Walton of America, is a
man who can come pretty near to
telling exactly what fish you will
find in Blank brook, in Blank
township of Blank county, Idaho,
Texas or Rhode Island. New fish
es and new facts about them, he
loves as a miser loves gold, only
he does not hoard them, but gath
ers them to give out again.
One day Harris chanced to be in
8t. Paul. He was talking with
General Passenger Agent Charley
Pee, who said Harris should go to
Montana to catch grayling in a
stream at that time much adver*
tised.
Harris said there were no gray
ling in the stream. The railroad
man laughed at him as a New
Yorker who pretended to know
more about a certain Montana
river than a man who had fished it.
The dispute waxed warm. Har
ris was due in New York on a
certain day, and by taking the first
train west he could have six hours
on the stream and still keep his en
gagement. Iu 36 ho.prs he was on
the stream witE 1 Td'cal represen
tative of the railroad. He waded
in, mnde one cast, and was fast to
a silvery thing that tore about
mightily like that of a grayling.
It came to the net, and the local
representative of the railroad
fairlv shouted: j
“There, there; it’s a grayling!"
_ . . .« • _as
"racK tms careiuny m muoo,
said Harris. “Send it to your gen
eral passenger agent.” Then he
walked to the telegraph office and
wired that official:
“Am sending one of your gray
ling. It’s an infernal old river
whiteflsh.”
Then he took the train for New
York and kept his engagement.
A MAN AND HIS SHOES.
The Thicker the Sole* He Wears the
Larger the City from Which
He Hails.
“You can almost tell tron
what country a man comes by tha
weight of his shoes,” said J. W.
Davy, of Chicago, who represents
a shoe company, to a Milwaukee
Sentinel reporter. “You might
not believe it,” he continued, “but
the thicker the soles of his shoes
the larger the city from whieb he
comes. In New York it is almost;
a fad, and the soles of the shoes
there are exceedingly heavy, j
They are almost as heavy in Chica^
go. Men there wear shoes to pro
teot their feet. They have not
time enough, it seems, to bother
with rubbers. So they make one
pair of shoes do the work for ail
kinds of weather. Here in Mil- j
waukee and in other cities of this;
size, I notice, the men wear li#ht
shoes and rubbers. 1 supposej
they have time enough to wear the
overshoes. Up in the country I
find that in many places leather!
boots are not worn at all for sew
eral of the winter months. They
wear heavy socks and then put
rubber overshoes over these.”
German “Sunday Schools.1'
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1LI CiU^lUUU VUC Ui ajuuviM.j
school” has a definite meaning,
and is exclusively used to denots
a place of religious teaching. In
Germany, however, the race fo»
commercial supremacy has led t«
the establishment of Sunday
schools at which mechanics are
given practical instruction in
their trades. There is, for exam
ple, a school for masons, at which
the students, many of them me
chanics who work during the
week, spend several hours on Sun
day morning in learning the high
er branches of their craft. Sim
ilarly there are Sunday schools foe
tailors, ironmongers, bookbind
ers, and followers of other trades
—even barbers and blacksmiths.
Gold in New South Wales.
Preliminary returns issued by
the department of mines, New
gouth Wales, show a big increase
in the gold production of that
state for 1903, as compared w;th
the output for 1902. The yield for
1903 is valued at £1,080,029, which
represents an 'uerease of £395,059
sve" the total of the previous year.
The Adjutant.
The adjutant, or marabout, is
a tall bird of India, about six feet
high. The wings expanded meas*
jre about 15 feet from tip to tip.
! It readily swallows a cat or a hays
who!*
1SF2L1 _-—■-.
When Things Don't
Look Right,
Objects dance before your
eyes, the letters on your
paper become blurred,
It May Be That You Need
Glasses.
Dr. A. J. Frank, the
expert optician, will exam
ine your eyes free. If you
need glasses he will fur
nish the right kind, prop
erly fitted and adjusted.
Dr. A. J. FRANK,
Expert Optician.
Office, 306 It!. Front street, up
stairs, next Dr. A. Kellett.
Office Hours—10 to 12 a. m.,
4 to 6 p. m., except Sunday.
Call Central (3 rings) for Dr.
A. J. Frank. If inconvenient to
come, kindly let him know and
he will call on you.
A DO YOU
Contemplate
a Journey,
With its attendant risks, and
which involves absence from
your home and neglect of your
business? In nine cases out of
ten the necessity for this can be
obviated by the use of the
Long Distance Telephone
The SouthwestemTelegraph
and Telephone Co.
DR. CHAS. E. CARROLL
Dentist
Gives special attention to
Crown and Bridge Work,
And correction of Irregularities
of the Teeth.
Office Watson Bldg. Phone, 63.
Newport, - Arkansas»
REAL ESTATE.
List your Property
For Quick Sales
With me. I guaran
tee best results.
R. W. BANDY,
CHASTAIN BUILDING.
DR. IRA H. ERWIN
EYE, EAR, NOSE
AND THROAT..
OFFICE-8 and 9
Wishon Building
NEWPORT, ARK.
Jack Jones
The Crack Barber, keeps
a neat and busy little
shop. Upper end of Front
street. Expert tonsorial
ists. Easy shaves and
the best haircuts. Our
work pleases.
“Come on, ye stubby beards.”
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sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents.
Patents taken through Munn it Co. receive
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OFFICE OVER MOSBY’S.
NEWPORT, - - ARK. |
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FARMERS
DRAYMEN
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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OIL COMPANY.