THE INDEPENDENT
AUSTIN C. WILKERSON
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Farewell Address of Italy’s Secre
tary of Aviation to the Ameri
can Soldiers.
A modest but very impressing cer
emony took place shortly ago in
Rome, at the General Commissariat
for Aviation. The American soldiers
who were training as pilots at the
Aviation School of Foggia and whose
courses were interrupted owing to the
happy ending of the war, were pass
ing through Rome on their way to
America via- France, and the Hon.
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X!iU}C"lll" V/IHCBO* ucticvciijr ui
tion, desired to receive them in or
^er to wish them bon voyage. The
daring young men assembled in a
large room of the Commissariat, and
the Hon Chiesa addressed them as
follows:
“I am happy and sad at the same
time in seeing you leave us. Happy
because you go back to your own
homes with a halo of triumph, with
the satisfaction that your country has
made victory for right and civiliza
tion sure. Sad, because I am going
to lose you when I was accustomed to
look upon as my adopted sons and
who were bound to us by such ties of
comradeship that seemed they would
never end. You now return to your
great country, to which Italy owes so
much for the help given in this war:
men, money and material. This
brotherly assistance from America,
Italy will never forget, and not you
shall be the last to have a claim to
our gratitude, you who offered your
*""tlarihg youth to defend in the skies
of Italy the cause of justice. Of this
gratitude let the war service ribbon
of our army be the sincere testimony,
the ribbon which the government au
thorizes you to wear. You also, in
returning to your country, should
carry with you a grateful memory of
Italy, who has loved you and has
been proud of you as of her own sons.
“I am too old to hope to see the
fruits of the new times which now
begin; you will see annd you will
gather them. Good bye, bon voyage,
good luck.”
These words, pronounced by the
Hon. Chiesa, with trembling voice,
were received with a long and Bin
cere applause. In leaving them the
Hon. Chiesa shook hands with every
one of the American aviators.
ICE CREAM MAN
SAYS HE THOUGHT
HIS TIME HAD COME.
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^ Could Find No Relief From His Suf
fering—Feels Like New Man
Since Taking Tanlac He Declares.
It is indeed doubtful if there is a
better known or more highly respect
ed man in Knoxville, Tennessee, than
C. M. Smith. "Cal”, as he is known
I to his host of friends, has been prom
inently identified with the ice cream
i manufacturing business in that city
for a number of years, occupying a
! responsible position with the Mono
Ice Cream Company. In relating his
remarkable experience with Tanlac,
j Mr. Smith recently said:
j “About one month ago, I had a se
vere attack of what the doctors de
scribed as acute indigestion, and for
several days I was a very sick man.
Shortly after eating, one day, I be
gan to experience a very full, uncom
fortable feeling in my stomach. I
had never had anything like it before
and I hope I never will again, for
my stomach swelled up so from gas
that I could hardly oregtne. my
hands and feet got cold and clammy
and my pulse weak. I felt like I’d
give anything in this world for one
good deep breath. I started doctor
ing myself, but in spite of the medi
cine I took, I continued to get worse
arid begun to think my time had
come.
“A friend of mine told me about
this Tanlac and I sent and got a bot
tle and started taking it. Well, sir,
you can believe it or not, but I begun
to improve from the very start. By
the end of the week I was all
I straightened out again and now that
| I’ve taken three bottles, I feel like a
‘ new man. I have forgotten all about
! the indigestion and can eat just any
thing I want.
“Tanlac just beats anything I ever
saw. Nearly everybody in my neigh*
j borhood is taking Tanlac and they are
j all praising it.”
Tanlac is sold in Newport by drug
gists. (Adv.)
' Pleurisy pains are located just be
low the short ribs. Lumbago affects
the same region but toward the back.
| BALLARD’S SNOW LINIMENT is
the remedy in either case. If rubbed
in thoroughly it eases pain, relaxes
the muscles and the patient can move
about freely and comfortably. Price
25c, 50c and $1.00 per bottle. Sold by
W. E. Bevens. Ill 4tm 38wtm
Keep your dollars at nome. Trade
in Newport.
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Bargains are what we are V1 Jo ik
ing for and this is your or >r uni
ty to Cet sure enough ban ’ , so
read carefully the followi* h o
items at less than half d> ' .
prices and nothing but v ' \
best goods. j
l Yard wide Bleached Domestics. S -15 ■
39e Percales nice patterns. .15 |
i One lot of our be>t Ginghams worth th
only . .-. -23 I
? Men’s heavy Sweater Coats worth .
only . 1-25
One lot wide Comforts worth $7.50
only . 4.7C §
All $3.50 Comforts .. " 49
Men's heavy work shoes the $5.00 k n 3.4^
Men’s Gun Metal Dress Shoes, blue!
I button and worth $6.00 only. "’■98
Men’s Wool Shirts very heavy and • h
.$3.00 only .-. 2.87
Ladies’, Men’s and Children’s Arcti • ’ i * >1 "
| and Gum Boets, also rain Coats.
Everything in the grocery 1 t \ a so i
hav and other feeds. “D > It now” |
and yon will not have t° regret. |
that you waited. j
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LAST WAR TASS
UNjie STATES
ENEMIES ARE CONQUERED, BUT
SOME WEAK ALLIES MU8T
BE SAVED.
STARVATION IN HOLY LAND
Four Million Christian Armenians,
Syrians, Greeks, and Thousands
of Jews, Persecuted By
Turks, in Distress.
The American people have been
asked to give money for the starving
and suffering a good many times
since the great war began, and they
have always responded in a way mat
has made the word “American” one
of the proudest titles on earth.
But there has never been a more
urgent need than that of the dying
multitudes of the old Bible Lands.
Try to imagine 4,000,000 men, women
and children starving in deserts and
old inwalled cities, dying in pesti
lence and plagues in ihe old holy
places of the Near East. Picture this
vast army of sufferers going down In
to the Valley of the Shadow with
none save far-off America to succor
and to help.
That is what is happening at this
very hour in Syria, in Armenia and
the Greco-Turkish parts of the Near
East. What the fanatical Turk car
ried out under the direction of the
cold-hearted Prussians famine, pes
tilence and the black shadow of star
vation are now rapidly completing.
They call Armenia, that lies up to
ward the Russian frontier in Eastern
Turkey, “The Death Valley of the
Near East.” No one knows, no one
will ever know, how many Armenians
were slain by the Turks srace the
great war began.
Millions of helpless people died of
massacre and starvation in this an
cient land. The Armenians were cut
to pieces by Bashi-Bazouks, they
were beaten to death by the thous
ands under the nail-studded clubs of
the Turkish soldiery who cluboed
them to death rather than waste cart
ridges In slaying them. Hundreds of
thousands of the old men, the wom
en and children were driven off in
to the open deserts to die under the
burning sun of Asia. They have dis
appeared utterly. The race Is at the
point of being wiped out.
There are but 4,000,000 of these
persecuted, harassed peoples of Ar
menia and Syria left. They are starv
ing, as no other people in the world
have ever been starved. The Ger
mans thought they were at the Dark
Gates of Hunger when they finally
surrendered. Belgium knows some
thing of real hunger, but in Arme
nia and Syria these stricken people
with death at their shoulders are
fighting for the rotting meat of long
dead animal carcasses, and are sus
taining life on the filthiest garbage
that comes to their hands. They are
literally starving.
The sandy trails of the desert are
lined with the bodies of the starved.
The dead bodies choke the village
streets. There are too few of the liv
ing and they are too weak to bury
their own dead. It Is a Land of
Death, a charnel hohse made by tlie
Turk and the German.
If rhese 4,000,000 people are to be
saved it must he through American
help. If the -100,000 orphaned ehll
| dren in the Holy Lands of Christian
| ity are to live it must be because
! Americans will give enough Ameri
j can dollars to save 1!icm.
It does not take much to do Infinite
j good. The man or the woman who
j gives |5 gives enough to keep the
! breath of life in some poor unfortu
nate for a month. Twelve times $5
will mean life for a year to some
man, woman or child who Is other
wise doomed. Only 17 cents per day
is required to make the difference be
tween lif» and death to some one of
the starving millions of the Near
East.
Other Americans have helped.
American men and women -i>.*iof
workers have been doing their best
there for a long time. Some of them
have given their lives in an effort to
save these people. The Turks and
the Germans were determined to
wipe out these people while the world
was so busy with war that it could
not turn aside to answer tlie piteous
appeals that were coming out of the
fastnesses of the Turkish Empire.
Now that the curtain has been lifted
by the ending of the war, the world
knows that they succeeded all too
well.
Arkansas people are asked to help
save these stricken peoples. The Ar
menian and Syrian Relief Campaign
begins February 3 and continues on*’
week and we will make tilts cam
paign a success.
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The Money Properly Administered.
“You can be' sure that the money,
whatever is given, will be properly
administered for a people that need
it sorely.” So says former President
Taft, in speaking of the wmik of the
Armenian and Syrian Relief Cam
paign, February 3-19, to raise f30,000,
000.
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ROW THE TURKS
TRIED TO RUIN
LlTTLEAHwEHIA
FAIR LAND RAVAGED BY MOS
LEMS AND MILLIONS OF
CHRISTIANS TORTURED.
AND GERMANY APPROVED
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Tale of World’s Greatest Tragedy
Told in Ambassador Morganthau'e
Official Report Appalls World.
It may not be generally known that
Armenia at heart was an ally^ of the
nations fighting Germany. The Turks
claimed this from the beginning and
the Germans approved the Turkish at
titude. When Enver Pasha and the
others of that red-handed crew at
Constantinople proposed to “settle
the Armenian question” by massacre
ing the entire Armenian natron, Am
bassador Wangenheim and Gen. Li
man von Sanders of the Germany
army, approved the bloody program.
The Turks asserted that the Ar
menians were aiding Russia, and saw
to it that Armenian regiments were
driven to slaughter. This was not
killing them fast enough, so the Ar
menians were disarmed and put to
road building, and the Turkish sol
diery was sent to wipe out the Ar
menian villages, countryside and
city.
“They are traitors to Turkey and
friends of the Allies,” said the Turks,
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VV11CU IXPUUCU UHUUUtJ,
less neutrals protested. It was the
Turks’ long-waited chance, his great
opportunity to wipe out a race he has
hated for a thousand years.
The world was ablaze. France and
England were fighting for their lives
against the friend of the Turks, the
Kaiser of Germany. Now was the
hour to forever stamp out the last of
this hated breed of Christians. On
this helpless nation was loosed all the
hot savagery of the Turkish heart.
They succeeded so well that of all
the millions of Armenians, of Greek
Chritsians, and Syrians in the Otto
man empire, but 4,000,000 were left
alive when the Turks were forced to
surrender. A little more time and the
Moslem would have finished off the
last of his enemies.
These allies of ours are now starv
ing. We must recall that the Turk
himself has said vhat they were our
allies. They must be helped If tnev
are to live. America is being asked
to give $30,000,000 to save their lives.
Arkansas is asked to contribute $150,
000.
It is not much money as “war
drives” go and have gone. Rut ii is
enough. See to it that it is given.
Your town and your county hav« a
quota during the great Armenian and
Syrian Relief Campaign February 3
10. It. is not large and it should be
met if there is any pity for God’s own
unfortunates left in the heart of
America.
These people in the Near East are
dying for help that we can give.
SPLENDID ORGANIZATION
Red Cross Savs Armenian and Syrian
Relief Campaign Is Necessary.
The Question has boon asked why
the Red 'Cross does not, undertake the
relief work in t»*e Near East that is
being done bv the American Commit
tee for A'-menian and Svrian Relief.
Tito Red Cross found (be machin
ery of relief alreadv at work in the
Near East—the millenaries, who
know the peon'-' aim sochk men icu
guages. and all official representa
tives of Ike United States had been
organized by the American Commit
ter for Armenian and Svrian K°lief.
Channels of distribution were well
established. And the Red Cross ask
ed the committee to carry on all re
lief work in the Near East territory.
In order that there he neither dupli
cation nor lost motion.
The campaign to raise $30,000 000
in America begins F<buary 3. The
quota for Arkansas is $150,000 and
the amount asked of Ibis county is
so small that it will likely be raised
on the first day of the campaign.
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INTERESTING GEOGRAPHY
Arkansas Pupils Study Holy LAnd in
Preoaration For Relief Campaign.
Pupils in the public schools of
some ot the largest Arkansas towns
will be given a special half-hour les
son in the geography of the Near
Bast this month. The county superin
! tendents in these counties have en
dorsed the plan and has instructed
the teachers to prepare for the occa
sion and be able to make the lesson
Instructive and entertaining.
The innovation is especially time
ly because of the Armenian and Syr
ian Relief Campaign which will open
February 3 and close February 10.
The nation will raise $30,000,i>00 in
the brief campaign to relieve the dis
tress that prevails in the Holy Lvnd.
where more than 4,000,000 Christians
have been rendered homeless and
helpless by the Turks. . Arkansas has
but $150,000 of this fund to raise, and
Uie quota of each county is small.
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Your Grocery!
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Yours for Getting the Most
and the Best for the Money
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We want every family in this section to
make this grocery store their trading place. You
will at all times find the best quality foods, the
' largest variety and lowest prices for GOOD
GROCERIES, and a hearty welcome every time
you call. We really—and truly, appreciate your **
patronage.
/?. J. Wise Grocer Co.
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NOTICE OF COMMISSIONERS
SALE.
Pursuant to the decretal order of
the Chancery Court of Jackson Coun
ty, Arkansas, made and entered on
the 16th day of January, 1919, in a
cause there pending wherein Guy Us
sery, Nellie M. Ussery and Josephine
Ussery by her guardian, Nellie M.
Ussery are Exparte petitioners, the
undersigned will offer for sale at pub
lic auction to the highest bidder, at
the East Third Street entrance of the
Court House in the City of Newport,
, Arkansas, between the hours for ju
* dicial sales, on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 1919,
the following lands in Jackson Coun
ty, Arkansas, to-wit:
The Southeast quarter of the
Northwest quarter of Section Five
(5); the North half of the North
east quarter and the Northeast quar
ter of the Northwest quarter of Sec
tion Two (2), all in Township Twelve
(12) North Range Two (2) West.
Said sale to be on a credit of three
months; purchaser to give note with
approved security, bearing interest
at the rate of eight per cent, per an
num from date of sale until paid, and
a lien to be retained on said lands to
further secure the payment thereof,
hnt nurchaser may waive time and
Glass of Hot Water
Before Breakfast
a Splendid Habit
Open sluices of the system each
morning and wash away the
poisonous, stagnant matter,
Those of us who are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise;
splitting headache, stuffy from a cold,,
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid
stomach, lame back, can, instead,
both look and feel as fresh as a daisy
always by washing the poisons and
toxins from the body with phosphated
hot water each morning.
We should drink, before breakfast,
a glass of real hot water with a tea
spoonful of limestone phosphate in
it to flush from the stomach, liver,
kidneys and ten yards of bowels the
previous day’s indigestible -waste, sour
bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans
ing, sweetening and purifying the
entire alimentary tract before putting
more food into the stomach.
The action of limestone phosphate
and hot water on an empty stomach
is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans
out all the sour fermentations, gases,
waste and acidity and gives one a -p
splendid appetite for breakfast and
it is said to be but a little while until
the roses begin to appear in the
Cheeks. A quarter pound of limestone
phosphate will cost very little at the
pay cash.
Given this 16th day of January,
1919.
R. W. BANDY,
40w4t Commissioner.
WARNING ORDER.
In the Jackson Chancery Court.
Willie M. Lee, Plaintiff.
vs. No. 3400
John Lee, Defendant.
The defendant, John Lee, is hereby
warned to appear in this Court with
in thirty days and answer the com
plaint of the plaintiff, Willie M. Lee.
Witness my hand and ceal of said
Court, this the 18th day of Decem
ber, 1918.
R. W. Bandy, Clerk.
By J. B. Parrott, Deputy Clerk.
G. A. Hillhouse, Solicitor for the
plaintiff.
Ira J. Mack is hereby appointed at
torney for the .non-resident defend
ant. dl w3
You can get more for your chick
ens, eggs, ducks and geese at W. W.
j Kidd’s than any place in town. Store
1 on Front street near ferry crossing.
40wtf.
drug store, but Is sufficient to maKO
anyone who is bothered with bilious
ness, constipation, stomach trouble or
rheumatism a real enthusiast on the
subjec of internal sanitation. Try
it and you are assured that you will
look better and feel better in every
way shortly.
Heartburn, indigestion or distress
of the stomach is instantly relieved
by HERBINE. It forces the badly
digested food out of the body and re
stores tone in the stomach and bow
els. Price 60c. Sold by W. E. Bev
ens. • 111 4tm. 38wtm.
Surgeons agree that In cases of
[ Cuts, Burns, Bruises and Wounds, the
! FIRST TREATMENT is most irnpor
I tant. WTien an EFFICIENT anti
• septic is applied promptly, there is
| no danger of infection and the wound
begins to heal at once. For use on
! man or beast. BOROZONE is the
I IDEAL ANTISEPTIC and HEAL
j INC AGENT. Buy it now and be
| ready for an emergency. Price 25c,
! 50c, $1.00 and $1.50. Sold by W. E.
| Sevens. Ill 4tm 38wtm
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We sell clothing that is j
backed by a guarantee. j
Our clothing is depend
able. Every week we are !i
addin to our stock of
gent’s furnishings, and >
that we are pleasing the
pub ic is attested that our
line of customers is grow
ing.
Jacobstein Bros.
Tailors
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